A federal judge is likely to question the confessed would-be bomber of a downtown Dallas skyscraper about a letter he wrote claiming the FBI entrapped him.
Hosam "Sam" Smadi, whose sentencing in federal court is today, could face decades in prison. The 20-year-old Jordanian told the judge in May that he knowingly plotted to blow up the Fountain Place building using what turned out to be a fake device after he was caught in an FBI sting.
But he wrote in a letter to The Dallas Morning News that "I would never do this if the intelligence didn't wash my brain."
In his letter, written in halting English, Smadi says he was led astray. "They implant in my mind to commit crime design by them to take my life from me," he wrote. "Everything was design like al Qaeda because the failure of the intelligence to get Osama bin Laden...
Jordanian arrested in US was manipulated by FBI - father
JordanTimes.com
...The press release said that Hosam Smadi was discovered by the FBI “espousing a desire to commit significant acts of violence. Smadi stood out because of his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the US”.
According to the press release, on July 21, 2009, Smadi made contact with an undercover FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda operative. In late August, while meeting with one of the undercover agents in Dallas, Smadi discussed the logistics and timing of the bombing, stating that he would have preferred to carry out the attack on “September 11”, but decided to wait until after the month of Ramadan, which ended on September 20.
The offence of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction carries, upon conviction, a maximum statutory sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to US law, the press release said.
Maher Smadi, however, accused the FBI of “entrapping” his son, provoking him to follow through on actions he would not have taken without the encouragement of the undercover agents.
“Instead of encouraging my son to become a terrorist, the FBI should have focused on changing his thoughts and putting him on the right track again. All they did was to add a new name to the list of terrorists,” he said...
[Full Article][Webmaster - Here it is...the same template over and over again... This is the way the Feds always do it...they locate a vulnerable target, follow them and then provocateur them into trying to commit some act of violence. Fortunately, this time they did not let it go through with a live bomb like the FBI did in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Yes, that's right...The FBI Allowed the 1993 WTC Bombing to Happen. Always remember, if anyone tries to induce or encourage you to commit acts of violence, or make statements espousing those intentions...they are probably a Federal agent or informant trying to provocateur you.]
