Source: GreeneWaveTopher Morrison
On Friday, 29-year-old Morroccan, Amine El Khalifi was arrested
purportedly on his way to the U.S. Capitol dawning classic terror chic –
suicide vest and automatic weapon. The explosives and gun, however,
were merely innocuous props in a sting operation staged by the FBI after
a nearly yearlong surveillance and investigation of Mr. Khalifi.
While many are surely applauding the gumshoe tactics of America’s
favorite bureau saving us once again from would-be terrorists it is
evident to many others like Toni Cartalucci of Land Destroyer Report in a sterling analysis harkening even as far back as the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing:
“That this is but the latest in a string of national terror plots carried out from start to finish by the FBI, who has made a business of approaching likely candidates and grooming them to carry out terror attacks.”
Testifying to this suspicion is what is immediately lacking in the
original report by the Associated Press, namely the nexus through which
FBI members first contacted Mr. Khalifi. Local police were reportedly
tipped off by Frank Dynda, Mr. Khalifi’s former landlord in Arlington,
VA, on the suspicion that Khalifi was making bombs, but law enforcement
told Mr. Dynda to leave him alone and there is no indication that the
FBI was notified.
There is, however, mention of the infamous Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic
Center in Falls Church, VA. According to the AP its imam “Johari
Abdul-Malik…along with other Muslim leaders meets regularly with the
FBI.” Considering the federal government has had a long relationship
with Al-Hijrah, this makes sense.
From January 2001 to April of 2002, influential Al-Qaeda member and
recently assassinated American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki used to preside
as imam at the Falls Church mosque while also according to Fox News as a “lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.”
While the FBI, according to the AP, assuaged imam Abdul-Malik that Khalifi was “not a regular [my emphasis] at [his] mosque” it is interesting that two of the alleged Sept. 11 hijackers worshipped there as did the Fort Hood terrorist, Maj. Nidal Hasan.
Time and time again it looks as though the “lengthy and extensive
operation” the likes of which lead to the arrest of Mr. Khalifi are in
fact calculating entrapments designed to aggrandize law enforcement.
Under traditional law entrapment is illegal, however as Fox 19’s Ben
Swann suggests, it is now called the War on Terror justified under
legislation like the PATRIOT Act.
Ed Meese of the Heritage Foundation in a recent GOP primary debate
attempted to proffer reasons to restrict American liberty, claiming that
because of the PATRIOT Act the government has been able to “thwart” 42
attempted terrorist attacks. Ben Swann gives him as well as those
Republican candidates a much needed Reality Check:
3 hours prior to this post Forbes reports in comic mimicry “FBI Thwarts Suicide Bombing Attack Against US Capitol.” Thwarts? Really?
Had the FBI done their real job and followed the law as originally
conceived they would have arrested Amine El Khalifi for residing in the
U.S. illegally since his visa expired almost 13 years ago in 1999 rather
than set up a painstaking and elaborate con to glorify their brand of
“counterterrorism.” Similarly, the attacks of Sept. 11 may have been
stopped had the 4 terrorists with expired visas been dully deported.
