FBI Arrests DC Muslim After Another Phony ‘Terror Plot’ -- News from Antiwar.com

FBI Arrests DC Muslim After Another Phony ‘Terror Plot’ -- News from Antiwar.com

FBI Arrests DC Muslim After Another Phony ‘Terror Plot’

FBI Agents Pretended to Be al-Qaeda, Made Fake Suicide Vest

by Jason Ditz, February 17, 2012

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The FBI has uncovered another FBI-created terrorist plot in the DC Area today, this time ending with the arrest of an unnamed Moroccan-American in his 30′s, apparently the only non-FBI agent in the entire scheme.

The FBI says the operation was a “lengthy and extensive” one, and their agents pretended to be members of al-Qaeda, furnishing the arrested man with a phony suicide vest they had created and told him to attack Capitol Hill with it.

After receiving the FBI-created non-explosive vest, the man went to a local mosque to pray, and was arrested shortly thereafter on Constitution Avenue, not far from the Capitol building.

The FBI insisted that Congressmen were never in any danger from the manufactured plot, assuring everyone that it was “all very controlled.” Arrests in such “attacks” are fairly common. The FBI approaching someone, usually after an offhand comment made on Facebook, and then giving them fake explosives before arresting them, seems to be standard operating procedure.