What an a**hole.
"Ashland terror suspect to plead guilty; Rezwan Ferdaus to serve 17 years, faces fine" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff, July 10, 2012
The Ashland man who allegedly hatched a home-grown terrorism plot to fly explosive-
laden, remote-controlled airplanes into national landmarks in Washington, D.C., has agreed to plead guilty, according to a deal filed Tuesday in US District Court in Boston.
What an in-your-face, limited ass-cheek hangout the intelligence asset known as an AmeriKan newspaper just gave us.
Related: Ashland terror suspect Rezwan Ferdaus ordered held without bail
Ashland man pleads not guilty to terrorism charges
And now he is pleading guilty?
Was it the torture or threats to his family?
Rezwan Ferdaus’s lawyers and prosecutors would not comment beyond the plea deal. Initially, his lawyers argued that he was a young, mentally ill man who was prodded by a government informant into going along with the act.
Yes, ONCE AGAIN we have the FASCIST BUREAU of INSTIGATION creating a PATSY!
But terrorism specialists have said defendants in similar cases have received tough punishments when it is shown that they not only agreed to a terrorism plot, but also led the planning, and identified targets.
That is to keep people from talking to them.
“There’s a scale in how terrorism cases go, and he seems to have taken the lead” in planning the crime, said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, who studies terrorism cases and convictions....
The arrest of Ferdaus in September 2011, just after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was one of the most significant alleged active terrorist plots the area has seen in recent time.
What ABSOLUTE SCRIPTED BULLS***!!
For the record, folks, I no longer believe what I saw on my TV. Whatever hit those buildings -- if anything did -- it wasn't airplanes.
He was described by friends as a former peaceful musician, who quoted Ghandi, but who grew angry as he became more devoted to his religion. His fellow Mosque members in Roxbury said they asked him to leave for expressing extreme views of his religion.
Yeah, let's LUMP IN OCCUPY and GANDHI into the "terrorist" mix.
Dear readers, EVEN GANDHI would be OUTRAGED by this BLATANT PROPAGANDA!
"Without a paper – a journal of some kind– you cannot unite a community. You belong to a very important profession." -- Mahatma Gandhi
That was a LONG TIME AGO, before you-know-who took total control of the media.
The current parallel to what Gandhi was saying would be BLOGS!!
Prosecutors said Ferdaus was “a ticking time bomb.” A graduate of Northeastern University, with a physics degree, Ferdaus was accused of plotting to send remote-controlled airplanes loaded with 24 pounds of C-4 explosives into the Pentagon and the US Capitol.
So he would know that the collapse of the towers was CONTRARY to the IMMUTABLE LAWS of PHYSICS if the cause were jet fuel fires as the government claims.
He was arrested after undercover agents, posing as Al Qaeda members, delivered the explosives and weapons to him at a Framingham storage facility he had rented.
Oh, excuse me, readers. I always have to hit the toilet when I see that term.
US authorities said a confidential informant alerted them to Ferdaus because of some of the things he was saying in support of Al Qaeda....
Look like I'm going to be in there a while.
Ferdaus also received support from civil rights groups after it was disclosed that he suffered a mental illness and that the FBI knew of it. At one of his initial proceedings, a family member could be heard pleading with him to take his medication.
Oh, so he was REAL EASY to MANEUVER, wasn't he?
Greenberg said such cases show the need to properly assess the allegations of terrorism, particularly when the use of a government informant is involved. She said there is a fine line between using an informant to glean information and prodding someone into taking action.
“The real issue that comes to light is how do we understand informant cases when it comes to people who are mentally ill, who have been diagnosed as mentally ill,” she said.
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Also see: FBI Thinks Frame-Ups Are Funny
Assholes.
Oh, no, I'm having a FLASHBACK:
"FBI intercepts its own terrorist plot against US Capitol, Pentagon" Saturday, October 01, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Truth be told, the biggest terrorist threat that Americans currently face does not originate from al-Qaeda. In a shocking revelation that essentially confirms the US government's involvement in funding, promoting, and even initiating terrorism, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was recently exposed for intercepting what can only be considered its own terrorist plot to send drone bombs into the US Capitol and the Pentagon.
Prison Planet cites a BBC News report about Rezwan Ferdaus, the 26-year-old US citizen that had apparently told undercover FBI agents at one point that he was interested in organizing terrorist attacks against the US. However, Ferdaus did not have the means to actually carry out any sort of attack -- it was, by all accounts, simply an idea without much possibility of ever becoming a reality.
But in order to maintain a high level of fear and paranoia amongst Americans about terrorists running loose on US soil and planning attacks, the FBI took advantage of this "opportunity" by approaching Ferdaus under cover, and supplying him with the tools he needed to stage his attacks. The US government supplied Ferdaus with grenades, machine guns, C-4 explosives, and even a remote-controlled, bomb-equipped drone plane to fly into buildings.
In their dealings with Ferdaus, undercover FBI agents essentially posed as fellow terrorists, and encouraged Ferdaus to commit acts of terrorism. They also told him morbid stories about the weapons they gave him, including that they had successfully killed US soldiers in Iraq -- the agents knew, of course, that this was exactly what Ferdaus wanted to hear, and that it would prompt him to move forward with the attacks.
It is a classic case of malicious entrapment on behalf of the US government, whose fear-mongering agenda is now clearly apparent for the world to see. And in reality, the FBI agents in this case are just as "guilty" as Ferdaus, if not more so, in plotting a terrorist attack. But the two parties received far different treatment for their actions.
Ferdaus, of course, was arrested and could face a combined total of 35 years in prison for allegedly "providing support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization," and for "attempting to destroy national defense premises," even though he never actually committed any crime.
The FBI agents, on the other hand, who were the ones that actually supplied the weapons to perform the attacks and enabled them to take place, are considered by some to be the heroes.
If Ferdaus is to be charged as a potential terrorist, then the FBI agents who conspired with him deserve the same treatment. These agents are not only guilty of the same two charges that Ferdaus faces, but they are also guilty of inciting undue fear and panic amongst the populace in order to perpetuate the never-ending foreign wars that continue to take place under the guise of fighting terrorism.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/boston-...
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