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Defense Emerges in Bomb Plot: Entrapment by Denis C. Theriault
IS IT REALLY a terrorist plot if no one was ever in danger and the men you're plotting with-the handlers giving you cash, driving you around, and even building your bomb-are all (whoops!) government agents?
The US Attorneys' Offi ce thinks so. For months, FBI agents did all that and more for Mohamed Osman Mohamud, letting him think he was helping to plan a devastating attack on Pioneer Courthouse Square. And then on Friday, November 26, the night of the planned attack, those same handlers turned around and arrested him on a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
But Mohamud's attorneys? They're calling the sting-with its rent money, its bomb-making expertise, and its steady guidance-something...