Entrapment perfected: the many ways we’ve failed to see the Newburgh Four through the lens of racial (in)justice http://www.cageprisoners.com/our-work/opinion-editorial/item/1319-entrapment-perfected-the-many-ways-we’ve-failed-to-see-the-newburgh-four-through-the-lens-of-racial-injustice

- When I heard about this case, I became obsessed - I couldn’t stop talking about it. I wondered why at first, but then I realized: it exemplifies the extent to which the War on Terror – its tactics, its imagery, and its language – is embedded in the racist history of the United States. The Newburgh Four were an invented threat of strategic audacity. Their case could garner legitimacy, and make us fearful, because the FBI knew how to design a "terrorist menace" that not only invoked Islamophobia, but also a much broader arsenal of racist ideologies and signifiers...

[Dossier on FBI entrapment in “war on terror” http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/dossier-on-fbi-entrapment-in-war-on-terror/