The Boston Bombings in Context: How the FBI Fosters, Funds and Equips American Terrorists
The Boston Marathon bombing has
provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades
of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with
Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on
American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and
equipped by one organization: the FBI.
People around the world watched in
horror this week as explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston
Marathon, turning a day of sportsmanship and celebration into one of
shock, grief and outrage. As with all such events, the desire to
discover who was behind this cowardly act has driven many into a
speculative frenzy. And, in a sad reminder of the indoctrination that
the Western world has been under for over a decade now in the mythical
“war of terror,” it did not take long at all before the collective
finger of the mob was pointed squarely in the direction of Muslim
terrorists.
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Within hours of the blast, fear spread
throughout the international Muslim community that the bombing would be
connected to an Islamist extremist. A Libyan Twitter user touched a
nerve—and received thousands of retweets and worldwide media coverage—by
tweeting “Please don’t be a ‘Muslim.’” The backlash began shortly thereafter, with the New York Post falsely implying
that a Saudi national was being questioned for his possible role in the
attack. The next day, a plane departing Boston Logan Airport returned
to the gate and two passengers were forcibly removed because they had been overheard speaking Arabic before takeoff.
As data continues to pour in regarding
the bombing and who may be behind it, it is instructive to take a moment
to step back and consider this knee-jerk tendency to conclude that this
is the work of Islamic radicals. In the minds of millions of Americans,
bombs targeting innocents on US soil are inextricably linked with the
image of the bearded, turban-wearing boogeyman that has become the
shorthand for evil in this age of terror.
This association is not only incorrect,
it is dangerously incorrect because it signally fails to identify the
one unifying thread between all of the recent terror plots in the US.
Lurking behind the shadowy armies of would-be jihadis in the popular
imagination is the sober reality that every single major terror bust in
the United States since 9/11 has sourced back to the same group, a
single entity that has in every single case funded, equipped and even
incited the would-be terrorists into action: the FBI.
In 2005, federal prosecutors charged
Michael Reynolds, a 47 year old drifter living with his elderly mother,
of attempting to wage jihad on the US by blowing up fuel facilities. In
reality, his plan for jihad was little more than a series of
conversations he had on a Yahoo! Chat room with a US judge posing as a
militant. He was arrested after agreeing to meet with an FBI informant
who had promised him $40,000 for his cause, and two months later the FBI
quietly announced he was likely mentally ill. He was eventually convicted and is curently serving 25 years in jail.
In 2007 the so-called “Fort Dix Six”
were nabbed in a much-hyped FBI terror bust after allegedly hatching a
plan to attack a US military base and kill the soldiers there. At the
time, a 26-page indictment revealed
that the group had “no rigorous military training” and “did not appear
close to being able to pull off an attack.” The next year it was revealed that the FBI informant who had infiltrated the group had in fact offered to organize the members and lead the plot itself.
In 2009 the Newburgh Four were arrested
for an alleged plot to blow up synagogues and shoot down military
airplanes in Newburgh, New York. The group was a ragtag bunch of poor
black men, at least one of whom was mentally unstable and stored his own
urine in jars around his apartment. The group’s fifth member, Shahad
Hussein, turned out to be an FBI informant
who had promised the members hundreds of thousands of dollars to carry
out the plot. In sentencing the defendants, Federal Judge Colleen
McMahon said:
“[The government]
created acts of terrorism out of [the defendant's] fantasies of bravado
and bigotry, and then made those fantasies come true. The government did
not have to infiltrate and foil some nefarious plot – there was no
nefarious plot to foil.”
In November 2010 the FBI busted the
so-called Portland Christmas Tree Bomber, who was allegedly attempting
to bomb the lighting ceremony at Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square.
“The threat was very real,” the FBI intoned
at the time. “Our investigation shows that Mohamud was absolutely
committed to carrying out an attack on a very grand scale.” The alleged
bomber, Arthur Balizan, turned out
to be a teenager who bragged to undercover agents that he could get a
gun because he was a “rapper” and wrote an article on workout tips for
jihadis.
In 2011 the FBI arrested
a man that they themselves had supplied with a remote controlled plane
and C4 explosives in a harebrained attempt to bomb the Pentagon. In 2012
they busted another would-be jihadi that they again had supplied with a fake gun and suicide vest. Also in 2012 the FBI busted
a group of five “anarchists” who were allegedly going to bomb a bridge
in the Cleveland area, although it was quietly admitted that the FBI
informant who had infiltrated the group had in fact initiated the
contact with them and been present at the meetings where they developed
the plan to blow up the bridge.
One of the most ridiculous examples
of this pattern dates back to 2006, when the DOJ attempted to make it
seem as if they had just nabbed a group of dangerous jihadis who were
preparing a full ground war against the United States.
The picture that is painted by these
facts is as overwhelming as it is difficult for much of the public to
comprehend. The conclusion, nevertheless, is incontrovertible: that
without the FBI, many of the so-called “terrorist cells” that have been
hatching their inept, bumbling schemes against the United States for
decades might never have existed at all.
Despite what many would believe, this conclusion is not even controversial. Rather, it has been backed up time and again by evidence in the official record and multiply attested to by FBI insiders and whistleblowers themselves.
Given all of this damning history and
insider whistleblowing, it is vital that the Western public break out of
their media-induced programming and question the core assumptions of
the war on terror paradigm that we have been programmed with for decades
now. If there is to be speculation at all over events like these, and
if there is any group that has to present a thoroughgoing case for why
it is NOT responsible for this atrocity, surely it is the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. Having been at the heart of so many terror plots in
the past, both the hilariously inept and the chillingly successful, how
could the public refuse to even interrogate the organization that has
the most to answer for?
The simple fact of the matter is that
the history of the modern age of terrorism has proven time and again
that the FBI is the prime suspect in any terrorist atrocity that takes
place on American soil. Let us all keep this in mind as the details of
the investigations into this (and all other) American terrorist
incidents begins to emerge.
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