How Many So-Called Terrorists are Really Just Assholes to Blame Things On?

[SoDesuKa]

I don't know anything about this Shahzad guy, but he comes along just as interest in the War on Terror is flagging. I wonder if some agency has an inventory of these chumps, just waiting to nudge them at an opportune time.

The so-called "Newburgh Four" had no interest in terrorism until some Homeland Security freelancer happened by. The freelancer held chicken dinners and doled out lots of cash. The "terrorists" dutifully expressed a commitment to jihad, but that seems to have been to keep the cash and chicken coming. Investigators found no such jihadist inclination outside of trying to please this government agent. At the present time, the judge is presently weighing a motion for dismissal based on entrapment.



The "Fort Dix Six" were pizza delivery guys who got together on weekends to act out their self-image as desperadoes. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, then an unknown United States Attorney, found out about them and used their arrest to launch his political career. Faced with life sentences, the pizza guys pled guilty to conspiracy. Time Magazine did an expose of the dirty tricks the prosecution used to extort the guilty plea - including documents that handwriting experts denounced as forgeries.


U.S. Atty. Chris Christie basks in the Fort Dix Six publicity
The "Christmas bomber" seems to have been a sap. Even Moussaoui, the so-called 20th attacker, seems to have taken the blame because he was available to take the blame.

[MadMaddie]

1. I believe they shouldn't be elevated to the title of "terrorist"

I think it gives them too much credit. They are criminal thugs who create chaos and fear.

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[EFerrari]

3. Yes.

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[dkf]

5. Would you say this if he had the right fertilizer and managed to blow up the damned thing?

Yeah he is a screwup. But that is our lucky break. Be grateful no one got hurt. I'm impressed that we found the guy and just in time