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While police
in Watertown, Massachusetts closed in on the boat
in which 19-year-old terrorist suspect Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev had concealed himself, FBI investigators in Chicago
were snapping handcuffs on 18-year-old Abdella
Ahmed Tounisi as he attempted to board an airplane bound for
Istanbul. He intended to travel to Syria to fight on behalf an Islamic
rebel group that seeks to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

There is reason
to believe that the FBI had advance knowledge of the Boston Marathon
bombing plot. On the other hand, we know that Tounisi was a pure
product of the FBI’s terrorist factory: He was the latest in a long
procession of socially alienated teenage Muslim males who have been
lured into an
FBI-orchestrated plot by the Bureau’s roving
troupe of “terrorism
facilitators.” 

What makes
the terrorism charges against Tounisi more remarkable is the fact
that he is accused of seeking to enlist in the service of a terrorist
group that is presently receiving material aid from Washington.

Tounisi had
been targeted by the FBI last fall after a friend named Abdel Daoud
was snared in one of the Bureau’s prefabricated terror plots.

The indictment
against Daoud claims that he had “attempted, without lawful
authority, to use a weapon of mass destruction” – in this case,
a car bomb – in a terrorist attack against a Chicago-area nightclub.
In familiar fashion, the Bureau’s informant/provocateurs sketched
out the plot and provided the targeted patsy with all of the material
necessities – including the dummy bomb. 

Daoud
playedhis scripted role to perfection – that is, he expressed
entirely justifiable outrage over the U.S. Government’s relentless
campaign to kill Muslims overseas, while allowing himself to be
seduced by agents of that same malevolent government into committing
a proseuctable act.

The affidavit
filed by the FBI claimed that in a conversation with an informant
Doud said he wanted the bombing to “send the message that the
United States should `stop abusing people overseas.'” Like
millions of Americans who see Muslims as an undifferentiated mass
of hostility, Daoud reportedly saw Americans as anti-Muslim automatons,
rather than as “regular people.”

“They’re
like – more like robots, even the decent, nice people, most people
in this country,” Daoud reportedly told the FBI provocateur.
From Daoud’s perspective, this applied even to those who “hate
the president” (who, let it not be forgotten, is killing Muslim
civilians through drone strikes practically every day) and who opposed
“the two wars.” This is because most Americans are still
“for the war on terrorism,” insisted Daoud.

As the FBI
carefully reeled in Daoud, it made a play for Tounisi as well, but
he was savvy enough to suspect that the operation was a law enforcement
sting. Rather than using what influence it had to encourage this
wayward young man onto the path of probity, the Bureau redoubled
its effort to entice him into a prosecutable act: It set up a website
intended to recruit fighters for the Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusrah
(JAN), which used to be called al Qaeda in Iraq.

After finding
the website, Tounisi made contact with a purported recruiter for
the group, who was yet another of the FBI’s seemingly inexhaustible
supply of terrorism facilitators. It was the FBI’s asset who made
arrangements for Tounisi to travel to Syria, by way of Turkey, to
join the U.S.-supported terrorist group. 

The FBI, whose
chief occupation since 2002 has been the manufacture of ersatz terrorism
plots, induced Tounisi into an act described
as providing “material aid” to a foreign terrorist group.
If he is convicted, he will be found guilty of carrying out the
Obama administration’s official policy without official permission.
He is not the only American presently facing the prospect of imprisonment
on this charge. The
administration has filed felony charges against a US Army Veteran
from Arizona named Eric Harroun, who traveled to Syria to join
the fight against Assad. 

Harroun, who
used his Facebook page to describe his role in the conflict, is
charged with using a weapon of mass destruction – namely, a rocket-propelled
grenade launcher – while fighting on behalf of JAN. 

JAN is the
dominant element of the rebel “coalition” being supported
by the US and NATO in its insurgency against the admittedly loathsome
regime of Bashar al-Assad. JAN has demonstrated its worthiness as
a recipient of taxpayer-extracted material support by carrying out
undisguised acts of terrorism against civilians. Of particular interest
in light of the Boston bombing is the
growing role played by Chechen jihadists in the U.S.-backed
JAN. Chechen Jidhadists were accused of carrying
out the recent abduction of two Syrian Orthodox Bishops earlier
this week.

As with Tousnisi,
Harroun is accused of giving “material support” to a foreign
terrorist group; as in the case of Daoud, he is charged with using
a “weapon of mass destruction” – a rocket-propelled grenade
launcher – “without legal authority.” 

The relevant
section of Title 18 of the US Code specifies that the term “weapon
of mass destruction” applies to the
following “destructive devices”: “[A]ny incendiary, explosive,
or poison gas — bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge
of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary
charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or … any type of
weapon (other than a shotgun or a shotgun shell which the Attorney
General finds is generally recognized as particularly suitable for
sporting purposes) by whatever name known which will, or which may
be readily converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an
explosive or other propellant, and which has any barrel with a bore
of more than one-half inch in diameter….”

 John
Mueller, who holds the Woody Hayes Chair on National Security
Studies at Ohio State University, points
out that under federal statutes dealing with WMDs “not only
is a hand grenade a weapon of mass destruction … so is a maliciously
designed child’s rocket even if it doesn’t have a warhead. On the
other hand, although a missile-propelled firecracker would be considered
a weapon of mass destruction if its designers had wanted to think
of it as a weapon, it would not be so considered if it had previously
been designed for use as a weapon and then redesigned for pyrotechnic
use or if it was surplus and had been sold, loaned, or given to
you (under certain circumstances) by the Secretary of the Army.” 

The WMD designation
would likewise apply to “all artillery, and virtually every muzzle-loading
military long arm for that matter,” continues Schneider. 

For the Regime
and its acolytes, “terrorism” is committed when private
individuals, singly or in groups, emulate the criminal violence
of the State without receiving official permission. That principle
was explained – with admirable candor – by Bill Clinton during an
interview published in the
December 2009 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Clinton
defined terrorism as “killing and robbery and coercion by people
who do not have state authority and go beyond national borders.”
(Emphasis added.)

By reverse-engineering
this definition we learn that “killing and robbery and coercion”
carried out with “state authority” isn’t terrorism;
it’s public policy. We can also infer that the “war on terror” is
not meant to bring an end to such violence, but rather intended
to eliminate challenges to the State’s monopoly on criminal violence.

Accordingly,
an act of politically motivated armed violence carried out by “non-state
actors” can be described as an act of WMD-involved terrorism
if it is carried out without what the Regime calls “legal authority.”
On the other hand, exactly the same acts can be consecrated as “official
policy” when they are committed by “non-state actors”
who operated on behalf of the Regime. 

Three days
before the Boston Marathon Bombing, the foreign policy establishment
celebrated
the opening of the Washington office of the National Council of
Resistance in Iran. This is the political front group for the
so-called People’s Mujahadeen (or MeK), a Washington-backed Islamo-terrorist
group that has carried out bombings and assassinations
in Iran during the past decade. During the 1970s, the group staged
several terrorist attacks that left U.S. citizens wounded or dead.
It was part of the revolutionary coalition that brought Khomeni
to power in 1979, but was forced to flee to Iraq following a purge.
During the ten-year Iran-Iraq war, the MeK carried out attacks against
Iran on behalf of Saddam Hussein’s regime. 

Created in
1965 as part of a Soviet-sponsored international terrorist network
that waged wars of “national liberation” throughout the developing
world, the MeK was listed as a terrorist organization from 1997
until last September, when it
was removed from the State Department’s terrorism roster following
a high-pressure campaign that included scores of prominent elected
officials and veterans of the National Security “community.”

Several members
of Congress, including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike
Rogers (R-Michigan), received
significant cash donations from MeK’s supporters as part of the
de-listing campaign. Other paid supporters of the MeK included
Newt Gingrich, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former Attorney
General Michael Mukasey (who supervised prosecution of federal “material
support” cases on much flimsier evidence), retired General
Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
retired General James Jones, former
National Security Adviser to Barack Obama. 

Every U.S.
official who lobbied on behalf of the MeK committed the federal
offense of providing “material support” to a listed terrorist
group. Under the Anwar al-Awlaki precedent, each of them was liable
to summary execution by drone strike. Indeed, under the Abdel al-Awlaki
codicil to that precedent, each of their children was likewise a
fair target for a drone strike because
of what White House mouthpiece Robert Gibbs would describe as the
lethal irresponsibility of their parents.

As with the
JAN in Syria, the Iranian MeK is considered a valuable asset in
Washington’s program to foment warfare throughout the Middle East
– by providing luridly unreliable but politically useful “intelligence”
about the Iranian nuclear program, and carrying out assassinations
and other acts of officially sanctioned terrorism within the country.
One measure of the MeK’s value to the Regime is found in the fact
that the office for the group’s political front group is located
less than one hundred yards from the White House.

According
to press accounts, Dzhokar Tsarnaev (communicating through a
dense haze of painkillers and other pharmaceuticals) admitted to
planting the Boston Marathon bombs and told investigators that he
and his brother — like Tounisi, Daoud, and dozens of other young
men their age who had been shepherded into FBI-orchestrated false
flag operations – were aggrieved over the U.S. government’s unremitting
state terrorism against Muslim populations abroad.

The fact that
the FBI had previous contact with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as well as
“multiple”
warnings about his potential involvement in terrorism, would
suggest culpable incompetence on the part of the Bureau – if it
weren’t for the fact that the bombing so perfectly fits the template
from which scores of FBI-directed plots have been struck. This,
when coupled with the fact that authorities
were conducting a bombing “drill” on the day of the marathon,
suggests that something other than official incompetence is involved.

If the Boston
Marathon bombing plot was a
case of “lone wolf” terrorism rather than an episode
of Homeland Security Theater that went off-script, it would be an
anomaly – albeit a fortunate one for those who presume to rule us,
given that they profit from the bloody misfortune of the population
they supposedly protect.

April
26, 2013

William
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