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user-inactivated  ·  2608 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kellyanne Conway cites non-existent 'massacre' defending ban

    There's a fact at the core of things: Two men, who were legally in the United States from Iraq, were arrested in Bowling Green and convicted of terrorism. This was due to functional and involved leg-work by the FBI and it's a happy ending.

Serious question, isn't this one of those instances where the FBI coerced people who originally didn't have the means or the desires to commit a crime so they could pad their record? If so, that kind of colors the whole situation a bit differently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO





kleinbl00  ·  2608 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Serious question, isn't this one of those instances where the FBI coerced people who originally didn't have the means or the desires to commit a crime so they could pad their record?

Absolutely positively not. You're thinking of the Liberty City Seven.

    An intelligence tip initially led the FBI to Waad Ramadan Alwan, 32, in 2009. The Iraqi had claimed to be a refugee who faced persecution back home -- a story that shattered when the FBI found his fingerprints on a cordless phone base that U.S. soldiers dug up in a gravel pile south of Bayji, Iraq on Sept. 1, 2005. The phone base had been wired to unexploded bombs buried in a nearby road.

    An ABC News investigation of the flawed U.S. refugee screening system, which was overhauled two years ago, showed that Alwan was mistakenly allowed into the U.S. and resettled in the leafy southern town of Bowling Green, Kentucky, a city of 60,000 which is home to Western Kentucky University and near the Army's Fort Knox and Fort Campbell. Alwan and another Iraqi refugee, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 26, were resettled in Bowling Green even though both had been detained during the war by Iraqi authorities, according to federal prosecutors.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131