Can you say "entrapment" boys and girls?
No legal or moral principle is too sacred when it comes to keeping Bushco in power. And no federal agency is too important to national security to be used as a political prop when Dubya deems it necessary to protect his ass. The arrest of the "Sears Tower Bombers," which never passed the smell test, is now being outed as a blatant political ploy timed to influence the Senate debate on Iraq withdrawal. Surprised? Don't tell me you thought the timing of the arrest and its announcement were mere concidence...
There are no coincidences... only the illusion of coincidence.Standing in an empty Miami warehouse on May 24 with a man he believed had ties to Osama bin Laden, a dejected Narseal Batiste talked of the setbacks to their terrorist plot and then uttered the words that helped put him in a federal prison cell.Technorati Tags: Bushco, Dubya, Sears Tower, terror, FBI, set up, dirty trick
"I want to fight some jihad," he allegedly said. "That's all I live for."
What Batiste did not know was that the bin Laden representative was really an FBI informant. The warehouse in which they were meeting had been rented and wired for sound and video by bureau agents, who were monitoring his every word.
Within a month, Batiste, 32, and six of his compatriots were arrested and charged with conspiracy to aid a terrorist organization and bomb a federal building. On June 23, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales held a news conference to announce the destruction of a terrorist cell inside the United States, hailing "our commitment to preventing terrorism through energetic law enforcement efforts aimed at detecting and thwarting terrorist acts."
But court records released since then suggest that what Gonzales described as a "deadly plot" was virtually the pipe dream of a few men with almost no ability to pull it off on their own. The suspects have raised questions in court about the FBI informants' role in keeping the plan alive.
The plot featured self-proclaimed militant religious leaders who referred to themselves as kings, talked of establishing their own nation inside the United States, called their headquarters an embassy and discussed plans to train their recruits to use bows and arrows. One of their quixotic notions was to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower.
