Contrived Christmas Tree Terror Plot to Stampede Portland into Accepting FBI Takeover

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 17, 2011

Residents of Portland, Oregon, recently attended a forum on the question of whether the city should rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. The city withdrew its task force membership five years ago after the Justice Department turned down a city request for oversight over the JTTF.

The would-be Christmas tree bomber, Mohamed Osman Mohamud.

The decision followed revelations in 2002 that the FBI and the Portland Police kept thousands of “red squad” style police files on political activists. Since 1981, Oregon law has barred police surveillance of political groups in the absence of criminal activity.

“Both the FBI and the Portland Police Bureau have a 70-year history of carrying out surveillance on thousands of innocent individuals and organizations because of their political, religious or social activities – or because of their race or national origin – rather than because there was evidence of criminal activity,” PortlandInsight reported prior to the forum.

In November, Portland was in the news when Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up a Christmas tree in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square. It soon was revealed that the FBI had provided a fake bomb, van, and cell phone (to be used as a detonator) in the incident.

Stephen Sady, assistant federal public defender, said the arrest of the 19-year-old native of Somalia “was obviously timed for maximum impact and maximum publicity.” Sady said the FBI had groomed the defendant and there was “potential for entrapment.”

It can now be said it was also used to stampede Portland into accepting the presence of the FBI and its Joint Terrorism Task Force.

The FBI is notorious for recruiting clueless patsies in bogus terrorism cases. Over the last few years, dozens of such cases have provided the government with a diet of propaganda fodder in the fake war on manufactured terror.

In December, the FBI set-up Antonio Martinez, a recent Muslim convert, by providing him with a fake car bomb. In September, America’s preeminent political police force entrapped Sami Samir Hassoun in a contrived bomb plot in the Wrigleyville area of Chicago. Once again, the FBI provided a fake bomb. In October, four men were convicted in a plot to blow up synagogues in New York. The hapless victims cooperated with an informer working for the FBI who posed as a terrorist and supplied the men with inert bombs and Stinger missile tubes. In November, the FBI entrapped Farooque Ahmed in a bomb plot invented by the FBI who sent out informers posing as al-Qaeda members.

There are numerous such cases going back decades. The most famous case involves the FBI plot to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993. The FBI allowed a bomb plot to go forward and the explosion killed six people and injured more than a thousand.

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We Are Change Portland mentioned the first World Trade Center bombing during the forum with city officials and the FBI (see video below).

An op-ed published in The Oregonian last week argues in favor of a resumption of FBI JTTF activities in Portland. The obviously staged Christmas tree terror plot was mentioned: “The averted attack during Portland’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony has touched off a debate about the city’s decision, six years ago, to withdraw from the task force. That withdrawal was, clearly, unwise.”

The FBI orchestrated event was cooked up not only as yet another sideshow in the never-ending war against manufactured terror, but also as a stunt to frighten the people of Portland into accepting the presence of the FBI.

If the FBI is allowed back into Portland, the city’s residents can expect the agency – acting as America’s political police force – to resume its effort to attack the establishment’s political enemies.

The FBI does not exist to combat kidnappers and bank robbers, as advertised. It exists to neutralize and destroy all political opposition, as its former director, J. Edgar Hoover, so famously said when COINTELPRO was rolled out fifty years ago.

Friends, Defense Say Teenage Portland Patsy Set-up by FBI

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
November 30, 2010

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the Portland, Oregon, teenager was groomed and talked into a plot to detonate what he thought were six 55-gallon drums of explosives in a van, according to friends and the young man’s defense.

Outside the courtroom, a man who has played basketball with Mohamud said the teenager wouldn’t have gotten involved in the plot without encouragement from the FBI, the Associated Press reports. “If you talk with someone enough, they’ll be convinced they need to do something,” said 20-year-old Muhahid El-Naser. Inside the courthouse, public defender Stephen Sady was making similar arguments as he entered a not guilty plea on behalf of Mohamud.

Federal prosecutors, led by Obama’s top cop Eric Holder, insist Mohamud was a willing participant, had dismissed talk of backing out, and reveled in the prospect of killing Portlanders as they gathered to celebrate the lighting of a public Christmas tree. Holder defended the FBI sting, saying that once the undercover operation began, Mohamud “chose at every step to continue” with the plot cooked up by the FBI.

Holder and the Justice Department are pushing the absurd case and defending Mohamud’s entrapment because the government needs a steady stream of homegrown patsies and impressionable teenagers to argue for increasing the size and scope of the homeland police state.

On Sunday, a fire destroyed part of the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis, Oregon. Mohamed Osman Mohamud had attended the mosque. FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele in Portland said the arson fire seemed to be an attempt “to interfere with the civil rights of the members of the church to freely worship,” according to the UPI.

Anti-Muslim sentiment has increased exponentially since September 11, 2001, when we were told Islamic bad guys in remote caves planned and executed an attack on America.

FBI stopped Portland bomb suspect from taking job before sting

Though it's a controversial assertion, observers often point to a link between acts of terrorism and poverty.

In the case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the 19-year-old arrested Friday for allegedly trying to blow up an Oregon Christmas tree lighting ceremony, the FBI itself may have created that link.

According to the New York Times, the FBI placed Mohamud on a terror watch list, making it impossible for the young man to fly to Alaska to take a summer job. It was only after Mohamud was blocked from taking the job in June of this year that the FBI -- which had been monitoring him since 2009 -- made contact with the suspect...

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FBI apparently set up US teen blamed for fake car bomb

Boy told undercover agents he could get a gun because he's a "rapper"; authored article containing "jihad" workout tips

An Somali-born, American teenager was apparently set up by federal law enforcement officials who posed as radical Islamic fighters and lured the young man into a plot he believed would lead him to detonate a car bomb at an Oregon Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

The bomb, provided by FBI agents, was "inert" and did not pose a threat to public safety, according to the US Attorney's Office in Oregon.

Oddly enough, Arthur Balizan, an FBI agent in Oregon, contradicted the US Attorney's Office, suggesting that the threat posed by 19-year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud "was very real."

Except: "[At] every turn," he explained, "we denied him the ability to actually carry out the attack."

The story rings devastatingly familiar when stacked next to the tale of Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a Jordanian man arrested in 2009, at age 19, for allegedly planning to detonate a car bomb in a Dallas skyscraper.

Each boy was led down the path to imagined violence by federal agents, with authorities ultimately providing fake bombs in both cases. Smadi and Mohamud, officials claim, expressed a desire to engage in terrorist attacks before agents began luring them in...

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The FBI Has a History of Creating Terrorists, to Terrorize Americans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS-sek3Dl_Q

RevolutionNewsDotUS | November 27, 2010

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ Why do we allow the Feds to not only create terrorists, but use them to scare us?

Then they parade the so-called terrorists all over the news, claiming they foiled a plot that the Feds actually created themselves... and the media praises them? And congress gives them more funding?

They choose to use troubled teens as patsies and for their own benefit ...rather than help them!

1993 WTC Bombing, Christmas Underwear Bomber, NY Bomber, Dallas Bomber, etc.. etc... etc

X-MAS TREE BOMBER: Teen Charged, FBI Stings Terrorist Bomb Plot In Oregon at Christmas Lighting... The Christmas Tree Bomber... what a fucking joke... what's next, the New Year's Eve Anal Apple Bomber? Then the Easter Egg Sack Bomber?

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Corvallis, Oregon is accused of trying to set a van off with a mock bomb remote given to him by the FBI during a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon over the weekend.

On Friday, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, was arrested after authorities derived a plan after placing him under surveillance. The 19 year-old is stated to have been planning for more than a year to harm both adults and children in a huge gathering.

According to reports, Mohamud had been under surveillance and it was identified that coded email had been transferred between Mohamud and an associate who hadn't been indicted in the Pakistan's Northwest Frontier region who then referred Mohamud to another associate. In addition to the email transfers, Mohamud allegedly was also planning to prepare himself for a violent jihad when he visited Pakistan.

Meanwhile, an undercover FBI approached Mohamud and informed him of a plan to set-off a Christmas bombing, which Mohamud accepted a white van that he thought contained 55-gallon drums with detonation cords and plastic caps. What Mohamed Osman Mohamud didn't know at the time that none of it was real except for the white van.

Mohamed is reported to have parked that van near the event and attempted to set off the explosion through the device that was given to him by the FBI agent, but it was a dud and nothing happened.

The FBI and the Portland police arrested him after he was told by the undercover agent to get out of the car to improve the signal.

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Somoli-born Teen Arrested: Another Provocateured Patsy Entrapped by the FBI

[Webmaster - Following their standard operating template of radicalizing and directing "wannabe jihadists", the FBI (False Bombing Instigators) uses another teenage dupe to make the public think we are in danger from "terrorists" everywhere and that we need "Big Brother/Sister Federal Government" to protect us. At least the FBI didn't let the terrorist bombing go forward real-time like they did in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. See the following link: The FBI Allowed the 1993 WTC Bombing to Happen]


Clueless Patsy Set-up by FBI in Christmas Tree Bombing Plot

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
November 27, 2010

They not only hate us for our freedom, but also for our Christmas trees – or at least that’s what the FBI and cops in Oregon would have you believe.

They not only hate us for our freedom, but also for our Christmas trees.

“The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon,” The Oregonian reports. “A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it.”

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, had a little help from the FBI. “The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.”

In a repeat of a now familiar pattern, the FBI told Mohamud they were building the bomb. They went so far as to travel to a remote spot in Lincoln County, Oregon, where a bomb concealed in a backpack was detonated as a trial run for the upcoming Christmas tree attack. The FBI eagerly assisted their clueless mark when he decided to shoot a video explaining his half-witted act.

Mohamud and the FBI operative agreed to meet in Portland where Mohamud allegedly told the FBI operative that he had written articles that were published in Jihad Recollections, an online magazine that advocated holy war against American infidels and assorted Christmas revelers.

Mr. Mohmud’s mentally disturbed fantasy fueled by the FBI is reminiscent of the Christmas Day non-bombing attributed to Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who it is said planned to take down an airliner over Detroit in spectacular fashion by igniting his underwear.

According to the FBI affidavit, Mohamud’s absurd bomb plot began in August 2009 when he contacted by email an unknown associate overseas said to be involved in terrorist activities. In December 2009, while the mysterious associate was in a frontier province of Pakistan, Mohamud and the associate discussed the possibility of Mohamud traveling to Pakistan to participate in violent jihad.

Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI, is notorious for creating and running jihad terrorists groups under the supervision of the CIA. In late 2009, General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the general director of the ISI, presented CIA boss Leon E. Panetta with “some highly classified and irrefutable evidence” that the mega-snoop agency is involved in creating and running supposed terror groups in Pakistan. “The proof about instances of covert US support to some hardened militant outfits and terrorist activities they carried out over the past few weeks and months were presented to Panetta,” writes Zahid Malik for the Pakistan Observer.

The CIA effort to construct a Muslim terrorist archetype emerged following the Soviet-Afghan war, a multi-billion dollar effort that was part of a CIA covert agenda initiated during the Carter administration by then national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The CIA operative Osama bin Laden, aka Tim Osman, would serve as a model for all Islamic terrorists and demented suicide bombers to come. It is interesting to note that Mr. Mohamud’s middle name is Osman.

Mohamud was clueless right up until the moment he pressed a button on his cell phone. He thought this would blow up the Portland Christmas tree and kill infidels, but instead it brought in the cops. “Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar!’ – Arabic for ‘God is great!’ — Mohamud tried to kick agents and police after he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors,” reports the Independent Online.

“Mohamud, a naturalized US citizen living in Corvallis, was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. A court appearance was set for Monday. Few details were available about him late Friday.”

“The threat was very real,” said Arthur Balizan, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon. “Our investigation shows that Mohamud was absolutely committed to carrying out an attack on a very grand scale.”

There is no shortage of psycho nut cases absolutely committed to maiming and killing large numbers of people. Very few of them, however, are particularly useful for a government determined to keep the terrorist swindle going for as long as possible. The Global War On Terror mill needs a constant stream of patsies and dim wits to keep the charade in motion.

It takes a special kind of patsy. One capable of actually deluding himself into believing there are jihadists in Pakistan who believe blowing up a Christmas tree makes logistical sense in the war against the Great Satan. One stupid enough to believe FBI agents are Islamic terrorists and the chimera known as al-Qaeda is actually a global terror organization and not a ruse named after a Mujahideen database.

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