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https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi+entrapped+muslim+teenage...

Cursory research will produce the following links:

https://theintercept.com/2023/06/15/fbi-undercover-isis-teen...

>Critics say the FBI is running a sting operation across America, targeting – to a large extent – the Muslim community by luring people into fake terror plots.

https://www.cair.com/blog/fbi-entrapment-harms-vulnerable-mu...

>Every day was the same for Khalil Abu Rayyan, 21, a depressed pizza delivery man from Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Working for a pizzeria in Detroit, he’d drive late nights on desolate inner city streets...

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/aby-rayyan-fbi-t...

>“We are tremendously pleased that our clients are on their way home -- even if it’s fourteen years too late,” said Amith R. Gupta, part of a group of lawyers representing Payen and the Willamses, who are not related. Gupta in his statement described the three as destitute men “entrapped for their race, religion, and working-class backgrounds by a government looking to spread fear of Muslims and justify bloated budgets.”

https://apnews.com/article/newburgh-four-terrorism-sting-fbi...

parent palmfacehn 2 years ago

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