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To catch a terrorist:
The FBI hunts for the enemy within
By Petra Bartosiewicz
Petra Bartosiewicz also wrote “The Intelligence Factory: How
America makes its enemies disappear” for Harper’s Magazine.
To fear and dehumanize alien Others, to ruthlessly hunt them down,
is truly American.—Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, This Violent Empire
In June 2008, I attended a meeting in Albany organized by the FBI
and designed to quell the growing fury over the arrest and
prosecution of two local Muslim immigrants, Yassin Aref and
Mohammed Hossain. The previous year Aref and Hossain, both leaders
at a local mosque, had been sentenced to fifteen years in federal
prison in connection with their role in a terrorism scheme that
the press had dubbed the Albany “missile plot.” According to the
FBI complaint, the pair had agreed to “make money through jihad”
by laundering the proceeds from the sale of a shoulder-launched
missile that a Pakistani militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed,
intended to use to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat in New York
City. Yet in announcing the arrest of Aref and Hossain, the FBI
allowed that their crimes were “not real” and that the public had
never actually been in jeopardy. The plot had been a sting
operation wherein the FBI concocted the assassination plan and
furnished the weapon. Though much of the evidence against the two
men remained classified, it was unclear that either man even knew
he was involved in a terrorist plot.
full: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/08/0083545
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