Lawyer says suspect in Oregon bomb plot was entrapped

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Lawyer says suspect in Oregon bomb plot was entrapped

By Teresa Carson
PORTLAND, Oregon | Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:03pm EST

(Reuters) - An attorney for a Somali-born man charged with trying to blow up a crowd of people at a Christmas tree-lighting event in Oregon told a court on Friday his client was a hard-partying college student manipulated by FBI agents posing as Islamist militants.

But a prosecutor told jurors during opening statements in the federal trial of Mohamed Osman Mohamud that he acted on his own volition in what he thought was a plan for a mass killing.

Mohamud, a former Oregon State University student and a naturalized U.S. citizen who was 19 when he was arrested, faces life in prison if convicted on a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a plot to blow up the 2010 Christmas tree-lighting festivities at a plaza in Portland.

An FBI affidavit filed in the case said Mohamud was taken into custody after he tried to use a cell phone to trigger what he believed was a car bomb but was actually a harmless device supplied by agents posing as operatives for Islamist extremists.

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[bemildred]

1. I thought that was obvious.

So much quicker and easier than going out finding terrorists in the wild.

[Dimon]

2. FBI was trying to say similar lies about me for working on my prosthetic legs

I was tortured for almost 3 years by the FBI and their friends only because 85 years old man, Roland Sibens(chicago) convinced them that I am a terrorist. I was tortured for working on my prosthetic legs in the basement. I done absolutely nothing illegal or wrong. They thought that in theory it is possible to hide bomb in them. They saw an opportunity to get famous, so they were trying to torture me till I sign their insane story. They tortured me using more than 100 different torturing methods and trust to me waterboarding is not how they torture nowadays.