Peloni: Faith between national institutions and the public have been badly damaged, and the following report is just one instance of such betrayals by the institutions which have been intended to serve and secure the people. The consequence is that it would seem that rather than presuming that the FBI was not involve in such a tragedy as unfolded in New Orleans, that we must wait for greater clarity and substantial evidence indicating that this event was not some form of false flag. The impossible decision to refuse to recognize the reality that this was a terrorist attack from the beginning of the investigation certainly did little to lend credulity to anything which the FBI might subsequently report later.
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Many people are suggesting that the New Orleans jihad massacre was aided and abetted, or even concocted, by the feds in order to stir up unrest as Trump prepares to return to the presidency, or to create a pretext for some other action. Some of those who are making suggestions of this kind, such as Candace Owens, just want to find some plausible way to blame Jews, or to claim that it’s all in the service of trying to get the U.S. involved in a war in the Middle East on behalf of Israel. Those types, including Owens herself, tend to downplay or deny outright the reality of Islamic jihad, preferring to see virtually all the workings of the wide world as the puppet show of the all-powerful and ever-unseen Zionists.
No one really knows for sure, except the conspirators, if there are any, whether or not the feds are involved. And jihad is real, as the news out of Africa, Asia and Europe shows daily. Still, the question must be asked: would the feds really aid and abet a jihad terror attack? Have they really become that corrupt and compromised? And the answer is: yes. Of course they would, and yes, they’re that corrupt. The evidence for this fact lies in their behavior at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest that Pamela Geller and I organized in May, 2015.
The Daily Beast wrote in August 2016 about how this undercover FBI agent encouraged the jihadis. The Beast’s Katie Zavadski wrote: “Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. ‘Tear up Texas,’ the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday.”
This was not entrapment. Simpson and Soofi were determined jihadis who had scouted out other targets. Simpson, along with Soofi and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who supplied weapons to the pair and helped them train, sought information about pipe bombs and plotted to attack the Super Bowl, and planned to go to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS), long before anyone told him to “tear up Texas.”
But what was the FBI’s game in telling them to do that? Why didn’t they have a phalanx of agents in place, ready to stop the attack? Or did they want the attack to succeed, so that Barack Obama’s vow that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” would be vividly illustrated, and intimidate any other Americans who might be contemplating defending the freedom of speech into silence?
We twice asked the FBI for an investigation into this matter. They ignored us, of course.
“FLASHBACK: 10 Years Before New Orleans Terror Attack, FBI Agent Told Another Islamist To ‘Tear Up Texas,’” by Brianna Lyman, The Federalist, January 2, 2025:
Radical Islamist terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed his truck through a crowd in New Orleans in the wee hours of the New Year, murdering 15 and injuring dozens. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is now leading the investigation — the same agency in which an agent once encouraged a radical Islamist terrorist to “tear up Texas.”
In 2015, local Texas police thwarted what would have been a massive terrorist attack in Garland, Texas. The saga began when the Islamic State recruited Erick Jamal Hendricks, a North Carolina man, who later befriended an undercover FBI agent. Hendricks connected the FBI agent to radical Islamist terrorist Elton Simpson.
During initial discussions between Simpson and the undercover FBI agent — who has never been named in government documents — the agent told Simpson to “tear up Texas” after Simpson made the agent aware of an alleged blasphemous Muhammad cartoon contest to be held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, according to The Dallas Morning News.
On May 3, 2015, just before the cartoon contest was to end, Simpson and Madir Hamid Soofi jumped out of a vehicle equipped with multiple rifles and handguns. Simpson and Soofi immediately fired dozens of rounds at the building but were shot and killed by local police and SWAT officers. The local police “prevented a massacre,” according to CBS News.
The FBI agent was present at the attack and later told Hendricks — who was not present at the attack — that he was Hendricks’ “eyes” that day, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Trenton Roberts, a lawyer for security guard Bruce Joiner (who was injured in the attack), reportedly said he was “convinced that there is much more to this story than the FBI has admitted.”…
Oh yeah. No doubt about that.
Jan 4, 2025
https://www.memri.org/jttm/islamic-state-isis-spokesman-instructs-muslims-renew-lone-wolf-attacks-us-europe-support-gaza
Both agent provocateur operations and false flag operations are infamous abuses of state power . But they are not the same thing.
What Robert Spencer is recounting here are agent provacateur oprations, not false flag operations. He should have made a distinction between them, but did not.
Police agents acting as provacateurs in order to entrap a suspected terrorist ow would-be terrorist into revealing his intention to committ terroist acts, with the police agents able tot estify as witnesses to the alleged conspirator incriminating statement, is an infiltration operation aimed at taking control of a potential terrorist or terrorists before they can strike. It is not a “false flag operation.”
A false flag operation is one in which an organization, usually a police or military organization, carries out an attack wearing the uniforms or other identification of the army or organization that they are planning to attack and destroy, in order to make it look like their victims are the aggressors. A”Classic” example of a false flag operations were the Nazis” fake attack on a German radio station , carried out by Polish prisoners under the command of the SS, in an attempt (not very successful) to blame Poland for the Nazi invasion of their country.
Another “classic” false flag operation was the Japanese army’s attack on Chinese soldiers on the Marco Polo bridge, north of Beijing, which at the time was the demaraction line between the Japanese and Chinese forces. The Chinese dressed up in Chinese uniforms and pretended to attack their own Japanese soldiers (although they inflicted few if any casualties on the Japanese comrades). The Japanese forces used this fake Chinese attack as a pretext to invade China in force over the next two years (1937-39).
Agent provocateur operations may result in innocent people being seduced by law enforcement agents into committing crimes. False flag operations may result in world wars.