The thing about this is, if someone came up to me and said, Hey, let’s bomb a synagogue, I just wouldn’t go for it. Ever. Under any circumstances. No matter how much I got “badgered.”
War Is Deceit Update: “Synagogue Bomb Suspects: The Feds Put Us Up to It!,” by Jonathan Dienst and Hasani Gittens for the NBC New York, March 19 (thanks to all sent this in):
Defense attorneys say an alleged plot to bomb New York synagogues was hatched and directed by a federal informant.
Lawyers for four men from Newburgh have filed a motion to dismiss the terror indictment against them.
They said the informant badgered the defendants until they got involved in the plot.
They said the informant chose the targets, supplied fake bombs for the synagogues and a fake missile to shoot down planes. The motion said he also offered to pay the defendants, who attorneys alleged weren’t inclined toward any crime until the informant began recruiting them.
“The government well knew that their case had been a government-inspired creation from day one and that the defendants had not been independently seeking weapons or targets,” the motion said….