[ April 25, 2024 ]
Let me ask Atlas readers a logical question. What, if anything, could or would ever prompt you to plot to attack a Via Rail passenger train; to cause the death of “up to 100,000 people” by contaminating the air or water; to provide financial support and weapons to anti-government fighters in Syria, and to recruit other terrorists in North America?
Because this is the defense of Muslims caught before they could go jihad. Over and and over we hear that the FBI "lured" them.
Supporters of Ahmed Abassi, a Tunisian man allegedly linked to a foiled Canadian terror plot, say an undercover FBI agent posing as an Egyptian businessman provided money, advice and the promise of a job if Abassi would come to the U.S. His zabiba (above) is indicative of his devout religiosity.
"Undercover FBI agent ‘lured’ Tunisian student, allegedly linked to foiled terror plot, to U.S., supporters say" The Star, May 27, 2013 (thanks to Lookmann)
Story continues below advertisementAhmed Abassi, a 26-year-old Laval University student, was allegedly in regular contact with the agent, who secretly recorded them discussing a plot to attack a Via Rail passenger train.
MONTREAL—Supporters of Ahmed Abassi, a Tunisian man allegedly linked to a foiled Canadian terror plot, say an undercover FBI agent posing as an Egyptian businessman provided money, advice and the promise of a job if Abassi would come to the United States.
U.S. court documents have already revealed that an undercover agent played a crucial role in the arrest of Abassi, a 26-year-old student at Quebec’s Laval University.Abassi was allegedly in regular contact with the agent, who secretly recorded them discussing a plot to attack a Via Rail passenger train; to cause the death of “up to 100,000 people” by contaminating the air or water; to provide financial support and weapons to anti-government fighters in Syria, and how to recruit other terrorists in North America.
But a Facebook page set up days after his arrest on immigration charges was announced says the FBI agent actually lured Abassi to New York, and to his eventual arrest, after his Canadian student visa was cancelled.
That unexplained immigration problem prevented Abassi from returning home with his new wife to their apartment in Quebec City and from continuing his studies.
The detailed account of the months leading up to Abassi’s arrest on April 22 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport — which includes a video interview with Abassi’s sister — make two notable claims.
First, that American law enforcement agents may have enticed a suspected terrorist to enter the U.S. in order to further an investigation. Second, that an undercover FBI agent may have been operating on Canadian soil as part of that probe.
The two countries have a mutual legal assistance treaty that lets forces in either Canada or the U.S. pursue an investigation across the border as long as they are under the host country’s command. Authorities on both sides of the border have already acknowledged their close co-operation in the probe.
The Facebook page claiming Abassi’s innocence contains intimate wedding photographs, an up-to-date copy of the engineering student’s resumé and postings of support by people identifying themselves as relatives and friends. It also contains https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tuyD7l7fQUE#!, speaking in Arabic to the news outlet Zoom Tunisia about her brother’s case. In the interview, she reiterates the details of the written account, including those about the Egyptian businessman.
The case summary, which is posted in Arabic, English and French said the “tension and anxiety” over the cancellation of Abassi’s Canadian student visa was compounded by a serious car accident that left a brother in a Tunisian hospital. That stress, it said, was partially relieved by the promises made a mysterious Egyptian entrepreneur in New York whom Abassi knew as Thamer Al-Nouri.
According to the Facebook case summary, Abassi first met Al-Nouri in August 2012 through Chiheb Esseghaier, a Montreal engineering student and alleged co-conspirator who was also arrested April 22 along with Toronto man Raed Jaser. Both are charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts in Canada.
Abassi and Al-Nouri met again a few weeks later, once more in Quebec, when the Egyptian arrived on a purported house-hunting tour. But their relationship appears to have blossomed when Abassi found himself stranded in Tunisia in late January.
The Facebook account claims Al-Nouri sent money to help Abassi’s convalescing brother and then suggested he come to the United States to be closer to his wife. Al-Nouri also promised him a job and a lawyer to deal with the Canadian visa problem, and he took care of the U.S. work visa application, the account claims.
Abassi was reluctant but was later convinced to accept the offer after Al-Nouri persuaded the man’s wife and mother that this was the best option for him.
“Faced with no clear response from the Canadian Embassy in Tunis about his visa file, he was forced to accept the proposition to travel to the United States,” the summary said.
A spokesperson with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York would not comment on the claims made on the Facebook page. Sabrina Shroff, Abassi’s American lawyer, also would not comment. The Toronto Star’s requests for interviews with Abassi’s sister, his wife and the administrator of the Facebook page were either turned down or ignored.
Court documents corroborate some details of the Facebook summary, including the cover story that the agent was a businessman. After Abassi entered the U.S. in March 2013, they discussed visa requirements that would allow him to remain there, “purportedly in order to work for the (agent’s) U.S.-based company,” court documents state.
Upon his arrest, Abassi claimed to be working for the undercover agent’s company.
U.S. court documents say Abassi admitted to police under questioning that “he may have radicalized” Esseghaier, the accused Montreal plotter, as well as “discussed plots to poison a water system and to derail a passenger train.”
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15 Comments
10 years ago
Great question, Pamela.
It is like a pedophile excusing himself saying that FBI lured him to attempt to abuse a child.
Put the terrorists and pedophiles behind he bars.
10 years ago
Umm, why is it always Muslims that they “lure”?
10 years ago
Maybe somebody gave him a very tasty sandwich and he later learned it may have contained bacon. That, and a picture of his wife without burqua made him go bonkers and plan to kill half the city.
These people are such simpletons… do they really think anybody would believe such infantile crap? Come on, these guys come from the Middle East – where lying is an age-old art and people still actually believe in witchcraft and other superstitions. Where they actually believe, for example, that Israel sends “trained sharks” to scare away tourists and remote-controlled pigeons.
Pathetic. Even their lies are pathetic. The most pathetic however are the apologists that defend this vermin.
10 years ago
As a libertarian I generally do not support the police usin entrapment for minor drug buys and prostitution and the like. But if some clown wants to KILL people, and just not one or two but hundreds and thousands, he and his associates need entrapped and exterminated.
10 years ago
Pamela asked this:
Let me ask Atlas readers a logical question. What, if anything, could or would ever prompt you to plot to attack a Via Rail passenger train; to cause the death of “up to 100,000 people” by contaminating the air or water; to provide financial support and weapons to anti-government fighters in Syria, and to recruit other terrorists in North America?
“Ohh..” (speaking as if I were the Muslim I’m not, I answer to the above), “perhaps, the Book of Allah. That, of course, hand in hand—clarified—by and with the Sunnah of our Prophet (may Allah bless and give him peace), as well as the words thus consensus of the men of knowledge, thus the science of tafsir, sirat, which of course all explain Kitab Allah.”
“Yes, indeed, as a believer, that could—if I were inclined for the killing class of jihad—definitely do as you say—“prompt me to ….”
10 years ago
They always have excuses and seem incapable of telling the truth. But no amount of lies and taqiyya can change the fact he wanted to murder 100,000 people.
Question: How does one get “entrapped” in such a vile and sadistic scheme?
Answer: Lock him up and throw away the key, before he hurts someone.
10 years ago
This guy’s got the typical self-lobotomization bruise of a Muslim fanatic. Did the FBI also make him bang his head on the floor five times a day until his brains fell out?
Sounds like a radical all on his own.
10 years ago
Entrapment might be a valid defense if a guy is enticed by an attractive police woman. But entrapped into killing people? No way!
10 years ago
His beard outline looks like testicles. Not a coincidence. Metrosexual lacks balls of his own. Eat balls and suck on man meat. Closet gay should come out.
10 years ago
Let’s be clear,I don’t like or trust the FBI. We all know that the FBI had enough credible intelligence on the Boston bombers to stop them. The FBI should have been tailing the Boston Bombers 24/7. To say that the FBI in merely incompetant is being way too kind. Nonetheless, you cannot entice decent, law abiding citizens to murder, or to commit acts of terrorism. It simply cannot be done.
10 years ago
He’s real disgusting~no regard for life whatsoever. The FBI, really? Tired of these damn people…if you don’t like it here, then don’t come! Your burqas and mosques are a real eye sore. If you’ve got this much energy then join a yoga program. Do us a favor and leave us alone. Keep tempting the west to go to war, and you’ll see what’s gonna happen to your sorry asses.
A 23 Year-Old Jew Assaulted in New York:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168385#.UaSLAWgvSHI
10 years ago
Thank you for saying that is a “Logical” question, I have asked myself that one and now I feel confirmed that my thoughts are at least somewhat logical. Just what is so enticing about mass murder of innocent civilians?
10 years ago
Those Muslims who in their wicked scheming about that train were engaging in the militant jihadism of Islam. For example the Quran teaches in Sura 47 “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads until you make a greater slaughter among them…” A train disaster can make a greater “slaughter among them” the a sword can. Islam is a death cult if their ever was one.
10 years ago
It really doesn’t matter what they say. It’s all lies and stupidity from the get go. What is important is that these people be identified and prevented from killing people.
10 years ago
Boston FBI didnt do their job because they did not like whom gave them the info as meant ditching their star informant Thomas Aaron Clark nephew of Rt. Sgt. Major Tim Strong who served on Alec Station w/ ex-CIA officer Scheuer. The corruption at Boston FBI & NH field office is horrendous. This family along w/ ambassador Taylor relatives & need to be charged for war crimes from Ken Frazier, Susan Frazier to Robert Nilram and be charged for obstruction, rape, kidnapping all of them! Ben Fitzgerald, Michelle Wenstrom, Lenorah Boehm, Peter McGrath, Heather Worthington, Brenda Strong Clark, Paul Clark, Diana Luna, Star Covey, Kara Perry-they all are involved in blocking this to some extent. Victims sue Merck Pharmaceuticals they knew the Tsnaerav brothers-as they regularly hire Tom to rape & enslave women and steal kids drug them & indoctrinate them at Lewistown Church of Christ in PA (elders are Penn State officials)….
