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dixiegrrrrl

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Sat May 21, 2016, 11:02 PM May 2016

Make It Look Like It's ISIS': A Fake Bomb, a Would-Be Terrorist, and an FBI Sting in Miami

This raises interesting questions..chief of which is...why is the FBI continously trying to make patsies into terrorists then charging them?



The FBI says it caught a terrorist trying to blow up a synagogue on the outskirts of Miami.

But the FBI supplied the bomb.

The device was fake, part of an undercover FBI sting operation that, like hundreds of controversial investigations before it, used an undercover informant to target an alleged terrorist.

In the Miami case, federal authorities accuse 40-year-old James Medina of planning to bomb the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center north of the city.

Apart from the fact that the FBI supplied Medina with the weapon that he intended to use against the Jewish center, rights activists and legal experts are troubled by the facts presented by the FBI and Justice Department. Their concern includes instances where the informant, or "confidential human source" in bureau parlance, offered to assist Medina in attacking the center, and even suggested that he link the attack to the Islamic State.
https://news.vice.com/article/isis-fake-bomb-terrorist-fbi-sting-miami-synagogue?utm_source=vicenewsfb&utm_medium=vicenewsfbuk
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