Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 23, 2010

Lebanese-born U.S. resident Sami Samir Hassoun was arrested nearly Chicago?s Wrigley Field on September 19. The supposed would-be bomber had a device that was actually a harmless dummy provided to him by two FBI undercover agents.

For more than a year, Hassoun had been manipulated by a paid federal informant into planning a terrorist attack. In recorded conversations the young man ? who, as the FBI admits, was not an Islamic radical, or even religious ? described various pranks involving phony explosives. But he repeatedly emphasized that he wasn?t willing to kill or injure anybody. That attitude gradually changed under the tutelage of his federal handlers.

Hassoun?s attorney insists, plausibly, that the 21-year-old was a bit player in a plot scripted and directed by the FBI.

In related news, FBI informant Shahed Hussain recently admitted under oath that the FBI sent him to a Pakistani terrorist training camp in December 2009.

Is the FBI in the business of fighting terrorism, or facilitating it?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.