FBI informants actively instigate the terror plots they are paid to foil

Evidence

The FBI and major police departments still interact with Muslim groups by enrolling informants and employing them as agents provocateurs, creating cases that can then be successfully “solved.” Under the current incentives of the security regime, it is likely that the application of state Islamophobia will continue, with race being a continuing factor. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 47 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

An FBI informant named Shahed Hussain, posing as a wealthy Pakistani businessman, lured four men from Newburgh, New York, into a plot to bomb two synagogues. Hussain was responsible for creating the plot, for overseeing the surveillance of the synagogues, and for providing fake weapons to the men. All four men were African Americans from impoverished backgrounds. One had a mental illness. Another had a brother in desperate need of a liver transplant. Hussain preyed on their vulnerabilities and used financial incentives to convince the four to join his plot. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 569 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The FBI and major police departments still interact with Muslim groups by enrolling informants and employing them as agents provocateurs, creating cases that can then be successfully “solved.” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 47 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-terror operations disproportionately net poor Black men incited by paid informants — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 588; Government informants originated the terrorist plans used to convict defendants — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 586; The FBI manufactured terror plots to justify its counterterrorism spending — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 586 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• FBI informants manufactured terror plots that would not otherwise have occurred #corroborates (1.00) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 473
• Undercover informants generate the very terrorism cases they then help solve. #corroborates (1.00) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 47
• FBI informants fabricated and drove the entire Newburgh terror plot #corroborates (1.00)
• FBI informants exploit poverty and grief to entrap vulnerable men into fake plots #corroborates (1.00)
• FBI manufactured flimsy terrorist plots to parade as investigative successes #corroborates (1.00)
• FBI informants recruit vulnerable poor men into terror plots with money and fake weapons. #corroborates (1.00) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 569
• FBI informants manufactured terror plots targeting marginalized Muslim converts #corroborates (1.00)
• Informant enrollment manufactures the very terror cases the state claims to solve #corroborates (1.00) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 47