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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Thanks MM, that's what I was making sure I understood from your post.
Just to clarify, if they pose as arms/drug/assassination dealers and they got approached it would be clear in your book? Or it's still not effective use to see that maybe if he was shopping it never could have been picked up on any radar whatsoever?
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If they had infiltrated a group he was in and allowed him to come to them then, yes, I think that is different. That's clearly not what happened here and if that tactic had been used in other non-Muslim terrorism scenarios - the FBI putting a weapon, even an inactive one, into the hands of a young man - I don't think it's a stretch to suppose that the public reaction might be different.
I'm not sure what you're asking in your second question, but he was already on their radar and he had made no moves to actually do anything until the FBI became involved. Which brings up the issue of effective use of resources. Is it effective to frame someone who has been watched for years who makes no move to commit a crime on their own?