A couple more for the 'FBI manufactures terrorists' archive:
FBI agents posing as ISIS members began chatting online with Humzah Mashkoor when he was 16 years old. He was arrested weeks after his 18th birthday.
theintercept.com
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A man convicted in 2010 of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues, a Jewish community center and shoot down military planes, was ordered to be released from prison by a judge who said the defendant was part of a group manipulated by the FBI.
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Judge McMahon said that Cromitie was a small-time "grifter" who was broke and unemployed when he was enlisted in the FBI-driven plot and provided fake bombs to plant in exchange for $250,000 in the "jihadist mission." Cromitie enlisted the other three men to serve as lookouts, according to the judge.
"The three men were recruited so that Cromitie could conspire with someone," the judge said. "The real lead conspirator was the United States. .... The F.B.I. invented the conspiracy; identified the targets; manufactured the ordnance."