• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    Does anybody else think this was an FBI setup? The timing? The failed detonation?

    Balat’s attorney, Mehdi Essmidi, told NBC News on Monday that Balat has “complicated stuff going on” and suggested that his client did not know Kayumi prior to Saturday. “They’re strangers to each other,” he said.

    While authorities have not detailed how the teenagers knew each other, the two grew up roughly 4 miles apart in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

    There have been soooo many similar cases. Fedz entrapping troubled kids. They wait until they’re 18 to put them in cages. Really gross.

    https://thehill.com/video/fbi-agents-groomed-autistic-16-yr-old-to-join-isis-in-entrapment-scheme-then-arrested-him-report/9325143/

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      It’s really hard for me to say. On one hand, the ingredients are there. On the other, the FBI is incredibly inept these days especially, to make such a conspiracy seem hard almost too hard for the FBI to pull off.

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      Kayumi lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania, on a street lined with 4,000-square-foot brick homes, and manicured lawns. His parents emigrated from Afghanistan and became U.S. citizens in 2004 and 2009, according to CBS News.

      There’s the tell.