New York Kennedy Airport Conspiracy

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THE INFORMANT IN THE NEW YORK TERROR PLOT

Earlier this month (June 07) the federal government indicted four

men one from Trinidad, another from Tobago, and the other two from

Guyana in a terror plot that targeted New Yorks John F. Kennedy

International Airport. Labeled homegrown terrorists, the four men were

introduced to the American public with sensational media fanfare and

boogaboo warnings from federal law enforcement officials.

After the media hysteria subsided and federal investigators had

embarrassingly answered hundreds of questions, it was realized that these

terrorists did not have a bomb, no material means to make a bomb, and

lacked any organizational ability to carry out the terror plot. It must be

conceded that the four men had the desire to inflict incomprehensible terroron the United States but had absolutely no means to put that desire into

action.

The question that immediately arose was how the FBI became aware

of the plot. The Bureau responded that it had an informant on the inside

that made the case for the agency. In virtually all of the homegrown

terror plots uncovered by the FBI since September 11, 2001, an

informant was secreted into the conspiracy.

But the question that the maintain media has neglected to ask is where

that first kernel of information about the New York terror plot or any otherplot came from?

The media has recently reported that the informant was a convicted

felon willing to cooperate with the FBI to secure a sentence reduction on a

narcotics and racketeering conviction. He was released from federal custody,

provided substantial financial assistance from the FBI, given a false life, and

instructed to start attending a Brooklyn mosque.

The scenario reveals several significant points. First, the informant

was known by the FBI. Perhaps the agency had prior dealings with him.

Second, he had some Islamic religious exposure. The FBI is not going to

infiltrate a Muslim mosque with an African-American evangelicalworshipper.

This signals that the FBI is actively recruiting informants from the

ranks of Muslim inmates incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and

probably larger state penal facilities. These inmates are known in the prison

community for their anti-system sentiment and political views. Most have


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earned their prison credits fighting the American judicial and political

system.

But at the core of their being many are criminals before they are

Muslims. They understand the street culture more than they do Islam

and the street culture is not known for maintaining criminal allegiances.

Gangsta rap can promote all the kill the snitch campaigns it wants but the

bottom line is that when the FBI walks into a prison with a get out of jail

free pass with lucrative financial rewards attached to it, the need to be a

snitch will always prevail over any stand up, stay strong notions of

criminal loyalty.

The New York terror plot informant snatched up the get out of jail

free pass and, with his Islamic prison training, began attending the

Brooklyn mosque where he met Russell Defreitas, the alleged leader and

mastermind of the terror plot. Talking the anti-system rhetoric he had so

masterfully picked up in prison, the informant quickly had Defreitasbelieving that the informant had been sent by Allah to fulfill his desire to

inflict more damage on American than was done by the 9/11 attacks.

But why the Brooklyn mosque?

Does the FBI have a secret program of recruiting prison informants,

wiring them for sound, and sending them into Muslim mosques to see what

kind of information they can either uncover about terror plots or entice

unwitting participants into a fabricated plot?

Or, did the FBI have specific information about Defreitas?

Has the FBI with the unlimited and secret powers of the Patriot Act

compiled as list of persons suspected of being potential terrorists or who

may have ties to terrorists groups?

It is clear that the FBI had enough information about Defreitas and his

cronies that the agency wanted to know more. So the agency placed the

informant in Defreitas midst to gather information.

Many civil libertarians and criminal justice professionals have an

innate distaste for the use of informants whom they refer to as

jailhouse snitches. Indeed, there have been significant instances where

jailhouse snitches have fabricated cases against criminal defendants, some of

whom were later declared innocent.But in the majority of cases the opportunistic jailhouse snitch simply

takes advantage of the loose lips of criminal defendants, especially in

capital cases. These defendants get arrested for a high-profile murder and

some cant wait to boast about their criminal exploits. Thats what inmates

do on a jail tier they read newspapers, cheap action thrillers, and brag

about whores and scores. The jailhouse snitch is always in the middle of


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this social waterhole, trying to elicit and weigh the value of information

being dispensed for community consumption.

Regardless if it is the Mob or terrorists conspirators, the FBI

understands that these underground people are going to talk. They have to. It

takes three people to make a conspiracy two to make a witness. John

Gotti had to talk just as Russell Defreitas had to talk. It not only measured

and reinforced their own personal sense of importance but it was the only

way they could achieve their criminal objectives. All the FBI had to do was

recruit informants to bring both of these men down.

Of course, it is difficult sometimes to infiltrate well-organized

international terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. Intelligence agencies really do

not have the time, or means, to recruit and place informants in these groups.

They simply target and capture as many members as they can, relying upon

torture to extract valuable information about activities of the group.

But which is the worse evil: surveillance or torture?The FBI utilizes all sorts of secret surveillance activities to gather

information about potential terrorists. In the process, the agency had

admitted that it has trampled upon individual privacy rights of law-abiding

citizens to secure this information. Covert governmental surveillance

inevitably destroys individual privacy. Some people are initially willing to

give up their privacy interests to protect the group but a right relinquished

is a right lost.

While the CIA and other intelligence agencies prefer covert

surveillance to gather information, these agencies have become increasingly

attracted to torture as the preferred information-gathering method. More

often than not, these agencies out-source these torture tasks to private

contractors or rogue governments to protect their non-involvement

defense.

The aftermath of 9/11 has certainly created the brave new world

prison informant recruiting, spying eyes in the private lives of the law-

abiding, suspension of habeas corpus, indefinite confinement of unlawful

enemy combatants, the sacrifice of protections of due process of law, and

the systematic infliction of cruel and unusual punishment in secret prisons.

It will one day be said that the first casualty in the war on terror wasdemocracy.

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