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The issue here isn't whether Mohamed Osman Mohamud did anything illegal. Clearly, attempting to blow up a tree lighting ceremony is illegal, and I have no doubt he will be held accountable.
The issue for me is whether it is an effective antiterrorism strategy for the FBI to be going out and actively recruiting emotionally unstable kids into terrorist plots and then arresting them.
There is no shortage of emotionally unstable children in the US, especially in the subset of US citizens that were born in Somalia. The fact that a large organization with extralegal privileges can convince a fucked up kid to do something stupid doesn't in and of itself make us safer. It's low hanging fruit.
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