Al-Qaida Looked at Oil Tankers As Terror Targets

Al-Qaida Looked at Oil Tankers As Terror Targets

The terror group al-Qaida last summer considered hijacking and detonating oil tankers abroad in non-Muslim seas to provoke an "extreme economic crisis" in the West, according to documents seized from Osama bin Laden's compound. (May 20)

FBI creating police state

FBI creating police state


Entrapment has become a favorite tool for the FBI; just recently the FBI successfully thwarted a terrorist bombing in Portland, OR, after following the suspect for over a year. However, as these entrapments continue to take place it seems that the US government is simply making up these threats. Former Reagan Administration aide Paul Craig Roberts points out this is all a part of the US government attempting to create a police state to control its citizens.

FBI creates crime, prosecutes innocent

FBI creates crime, prosecutes innocent


The United States government is prosecuting suspected terrorists on the basis of their intentions, not actions. The government calls it pre-emptive prosecution and many argue the FBI is using entrapment techniques to prosecute innocent people. Criminal defense attorney Martin Stolar says that by entrapping these people the US government is politically and criminally wrong!

US terror: Homegrown entrapment

US terror: Homegrown entrapment


Lawyer Lynne Stewart was arrested by the FBI in 2002 for a press release she wrote for her client, Sheik Abdel Omar Rahman. This came after Stewart signed an agreement to keep information related to Rahman's case from the media. The Justice Department is pushing to have her serve 30 years in prison