by Jack
Another would be jihadist is caught in an FBI sting operation. He called himself Muhammad Hussain (his real name was Antonio Martinez) and he was 21 years old, a naturalized citizen from Mexico.
His commitment to jihad caused strain in his family, the documents show. The FBI informant reported listening to Martinez during a long conversation with his mother. “She wants me to be like everybody else, being in school, working,” Martinez told the informant. “My wife understands. I told her I want to fight jihad. She said she doesn’t want to stop me.”
Martinez’s Facebook page identifies his wife as Naimah Ismail-Hussain, who describes herself as a student and employee at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
The criminal complaint against Mr. Martinez says that an FBI informant spotted disturbing postings on his Facebook page in September and struck up an association
with him. The complaint alleges that Mr. Martinez said he wanted to harm military personnel and had targeted the Catonsville recruiting station. The informant went on to have a string of recorded conversations with the suspect over the next several weeks. During one of the conversations he praised praised Nidal Hassan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, and discussed obtaining weapons and shooting up military installations, records show. (Terrorist’s target shown at right)
The transcripts included in the complaint come across as a number of angry rants and revenge fantasies that he could wage a one-man war against the entire U.S. military. The FBI says Mr. Martinez had elaborate plans to climb into the recruiting center from the roof and, after killing all inside and making his escape, to set up a clandestine camp in the woods where he could make his last stand. The transcripts say that he joked about blowing up Andrews Air Force Base and killing all American soldiers he saw anywhere.
US Criminal Complaint Antonio Martinez aka Muhammad Hussain; On November 3rd, 2010 law enforcement agents saw Antonio Martinez aka Muhammad Hussain at a public location in Woodlawn Maryland accessing the internet. Antonio Martinez aka Muhammad Hussain was viewing the “Revolution Muslim Website” and watching a video of Osama bin-Laden, Iraq car bombings and jihad in Afghanistan.
On November 3rd, 2010 the Revolution Muslim Website in New York City had posted and article, “Radical Revolution Muslim (RM) website has praised the stabbing of the MP Stephen Timms and published a list of other MPs who voted for the war in Iraq, along with details of where to buy a knife. In a statement published this week the website praised Roshonara Choudhry, who tried to stab Mr Timms to death during a constituency surgery in Beckton, East London.
RM…”We ask Allah to keep her safe and secure, to hasten her release and to reward this heroine immensely,” it said. “We ask Allah for her action to inspire Muslims to raise the knife of jihad against those who voted for the countless rapes, murders, pillages, and torture of Muslim civilians as a direct consequence of their vote.” The statement added: “If you want to track an MP, you can find out their personal website after typing their name in this website. “In their personal website, you can usually find the time and location of their surgeries where you can encounter them in person.” The site then lists the 139 Conservative MPs that voted for the war and the 244 Labour MPs. Provided by Bill Warner Sarasota private investigator.
And now this final thought from an article in the Baltimore Sun, “Some will no doubt use these attempted attacks to reinforce their prejudice against Islam. But ultimately, it is the nation’s Muslims who have the greatest power to protect us from homegrown terrorists. As much as we rely on the daring of the FBI to keep us safe, we may owe the most to peace-loving Muslims who will not tolerate the radicals in their midst.” end.
Nobody is yet saying the Oregon bomber and the Baltimore bomber were the first to spot and eventually turned in by people of the Muslim faith, but there is a strong implication they were.
AP reports that this guy nearly aborted his jihadist activities when he heard about the kid in Oregon but decided to go ahead with his plans:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20101208/US.Recruiting.Center.Bomb.Plot/
Then theres the mysterious case in Escondido.
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13635073
A house is being burned to the ground today that was so filled with explosive materials that officials determined the only safe way to rid the area of danger was to burn the place down! Some of the materials included chemicals used by Middle Eastern suicide bombers. The article states investigators are still trying to figure out a motive. The guy was out of work so Id say they can guess the motive…but the source of the materials complicates the situation. Was he mad enough to urn against the US…or his former employer?
Should the FBI be involved in these stings? Absolutely! It’s a “connect the dots” maneuver that could have stopped 911.
Another interesting point:
Reported by NPR. Gee, will anyone accuse National Public Radio of being racist for reporting this?
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/09/131916271/officials-worry-about-some-latino-converts-to-islam
Tina as sure as we breath there are some extremely liberal nut jobs foaming at the mouth bemoaning how the FBI entrapped another poor kid.
I suppose one could think the FBI may have blundered and entrapped someone one time, but as the cases start building up any thinking lib would have to realize the odds say these are righteous busts. Only the crackpot liberals and far rightwing zealots could still think ‘entrapment.”
The FBI are legal experts with the finest attorneys available to them and many of the agents are attorneys and this is a big deal to them. These are high profile busts and their reputation is on the line. It makes no sense to think they would repeatedly blunder into entrapment.
After a certain time the idea of entrapment is a real stretch even for a wacky lib or Bircher.
A person is ‘entrapped’ when he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement officers or their agents to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit; and the law as a matter of policy forbids conviction in such a case.
However, there is no entrapment where a person is ready and willing to break the law and the Government agents merely provide what appears to be a favorable opportunity for the person to commit the crime. For example, it is not entrapment for a Government agent to pretend to be someone else and to offer, either directly or through an informer or other decoy, to engage in an unlawful transaction with the person. So, a person would not be a victim of entrapment if the person was ready, willing and able to commit the crime charged in the indictment whenever opportunity was afforded, and that Government officers or their agents did no more than offer an opportunity.
On the other hand, if the evidence leaves a reasonable doubt whether the person had any intent to commit the crime except for inducement or persuasion on the part of some Government officer or agent, then the person is not guilty.
In slightly different words: Even though someone may have [sold drugs], as charged by the government, if it was the result of entrapment then he is not guilty. Government agents entrapped him if three things occurred:
– First, the idea for committing the crime came from the government agents and not from the person accused of the crime.
– Second, the government agents then persuaded or talked the person into committing the crime. Simply giving him the opportunity to commit the crime is not the same as persuading him to commit the crime.
– And third, the person was not ready and willing to commit the crime before the government agents spoke with him.
On the issue of entrapment the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not entrapped by government agents.
I’ll bet his wife is walking scared at this point and she sure should be. She didn’t try to stop him. Based on what the suspect has said it appears she knew what he was going to do and she did not even in the meekest way try to talk to talk him out of it. That’s a crime in itself, she is aiding and abetting in a felony. She had a duty to act once she knew he was about to kill people. So she must have felt what he was doing was right and worth the risk, what else could you rationally think?
Another tactic you will notice about these sting cases is that law enforcement will give the suspect many chances to decline and back out. They will keep asking him, “are you sure you want to go through with this?” They do that because they know some sleazy defense attorney is going to try to raise the entrapment defense. Does anyone know of an entrapment defense that actually persuaded the jury?
Soaps, I can’t recall any cases from the news that were found to be entrapment nor can I recall any from my own personal experience working narcotics. You did many sting operations, did any of your cases ever get dismissed for entrapment?