There's no dispute that a 19-year-old Muslim college student tried to
set off a car bomb at Portland's 2010 Christmas tree lighting ceremony,
but how he reached that point is the crux of a trial that began in
federal court this week.
A jury of seven men and nine women will decide whether this was a case of the U.S. government preventing the radicalization of a young Somali-American man, or was instead the FBI's coercion of an impressionable, hotheaded braggart into a plan he was otherwise incapable of carrying out.
Mohamed Mohamud's attorneys began to build their case during opening statements Friday, arguing that he was the victim of a sophisticated manipulation by undercover FBI agents.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130111/us-oregon-car-bomb-plot/?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=politics
A jury of seven men and nine women will decide whether this was a case of the U.S. government preventing the radicalization of a young Somali-American man, or was instead the FBI's coercion of an impressionable, hotheaded braggart into a plan he was otherwise incapable of carrying out.
Mohamed Mohamud's attorneys began to build their case during opening statements Friday, arguing that he was the victim of a sophisticated manipulation by undercover FBI agents.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130111/us-oregon-car-bomb-plot/?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=politics
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