Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists
Trevor Aaronson: Bagaimana sebenarnya strategi FBI ini sedang mencetak teroris di Amerika
An investigative journalist who reports on the FBI’s misuse of informants in counterterrorism operations, Trevor Aaronson asks the question: Is the United States catching terrorists or creating them? Full bio
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for more terrorism plots
terhadap plot terorisme di AS
think about the FBI.
gunning down bad guys like John Dillinger,
menembaki penjahat seperti John Dillinger,
crooked elected officials.
has consumed the FBI.
telah menggerogoti FBI.
3.3 billion dollars
menghabiskan USD 3,3 miliar
terorisme domestik.
combined for organized crime,
pada kejahatan terorganisir,
criminal activity.
kejahatan tradisional lainnya.
the case files
tuntutan terorisme di Amerika,
the United States,
the conclusion that the FBI
than it is at catching terrorists.
daripada menangkapnya.
penyerangan teroris sungguhan di Amerika,
terrorist attacks in the United States.
bombings in 2013,
Boston Marathon di 2013,
a man named Faisal Shahzad
bernama Faisal Shahzad
to Times Square.
telah membual
of terrorism plots.
puluhan plot terorisme.
more than 175 people
menangkap lebih dari 175 orang
conterterrorism stings.
perlawanan terorisme yang agresif.
led by an informant,
dipimpin oleh seorang informan,
economically desperate people
dan putus asa secara ekonomi
sekarang kita sebut teroris.
FBI diberikan maklumat:
di tanah Amerika.
teroris sebelum mereka menyerang.
before they struck.
of more than 15,000 informants nationwide,
15.000 jaringan informan di penjuru negeri
might be dangerous.
yang mungkin berbahaya.
USD 100.000 atau lebih
100,000 dollars or more
they bring to the FBI.
yang mereka bawa ke FBI.
mostly criminals and con men
pelanggar hukum dan penipu
in the United States,
berbagai komunitas di Amerika,
seperti Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif
Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif
gasoline and attempting suicide.
menghirup bensin dan percobaan bunuh diri.
reality and fantasy.
kenyataan dan khayalan.
recruiting station outside Seattle
stasiun perekrutan militer di luar Seattle
of course, by the FBI.
tentu saja, oleh FBI.
for his work on the case.
who had fled Pakistan on murder charges
dari Pakistan karena tuduhan pembunuhan
synagogues in the Bronx.
plot pengeboman sinagoga di Bronx.
with a history of mental problems.
dengan catatan masalah kejiwaan.
him 250,000 dollars
menawarkannya USD 250.000
menerbitkan kisah baru saya
published my new story
involving Sami Osmakac,
di Tampa yang melibatkan Sami Osmakac,
near Tampa, Florida.
di sekitar Tampa, Florida.
schizoaffective disorder.
international terrorist groups.
ke kelompok teroris internasional.
handed him money,
memberinya sejumlah uang,
agen yang menyamar sebagai teroris,
posing as a terrorist,
to bomb an Irish bar.
plot pengeboman bar Irlandia.
yaitu yang wajahnya diburamkan --
with his face blurred --
with his recording equipment on.
dengan dipasangi alat perekam.
they were doing was farcical.
apa yang mereka lakukan itu lucu.
to hear about these conversations.
Anda mendengar percakapan ini.
di bawah perintah penjagaan
them under a protective order
from doing something like this.
melakukan sesuatu seperti ini.
teroris mereka yang selanjutnya
a pot to piss in."
yang super miskin."
plin-plan, skenario mimpi di siang bolong.
a pipe dream scenario.
semua yang ia butuhkan.
everything he needed.
they gave him an AK-47,
mereka memberinya senjata AK-47,
martyrdom video,
membuat video kesyahidan
memberinya uang untuk naik taksi
him money for a taxi cab
they wanted him to go.
ke mana pun yang mereka mau.
he wanted a Hollywood ending.
ia ingin akhir seperti film Hollywood.
membawa apa yang ia kira adalah bom mobil,
to deliver what he thought
sentenced to 40 years in prison.
dan dijatuhi hukuman 40 tahun penjara.
yang disebut-sebut teroris,
175 so-called terrorists,
Hollywood endings.
akhir seperti film Hollywood.
menyebutnya Perang terhadap Teror.
the War on Terror.
seperti Sami Osmakac
dalam produksi yang ditata hati-hati
carefully choreographed production
pretty strong accusations,
tudingan yang cukup kuat,
di 2010 waktu saya mendapat penghargaan
Investigative Reporting Program
di U.C. Berkeley,
mengumpulkan basis data
of all terrorism prosecutions
selama satu dekade sejak 11 September.
the first decade after 9/11.
untuk mencari tahu apakah
to find out whether
to international terrorist groups,
ke kelompok teroris internasional,
played the role of an agent provocateur
sebagai agen provokator
cara-cara dan kesempatan.
to our database.
untuk menanggapinya.
and we'd go back and check
dan kami akan memeriksanya kembali
satupun penemuan kami.
of our findings.
in a magazine article
artikel majalah kemudian di buku saya,
di tempat seperti CBS dan NPR,
like CBS and NPR,
findings are wrong."
Trevor Aaronson salah."
come forward and said,
with those findings."
oleh kelompok seperti Human Rights Watch
by groups like Human Rights Watch
these types of sting operations.
operasi penyusupan seperti ini.
really responded
benar-benar menanggapi tuntutan ini
not catching terrorists
penangkapan teroris sungguhan
mentally ill people
penangkapan orang sakit jiwa
in these types of sting operations.
pada operasi penyusupan semacam ini.
investigative journalism website,
situs jurnalisme investigasi baru,
and why there.
dan mengapa dipasang di sana.
the most logical place for this
tempat yang paling logis untuk ini
really leveraging the fact that
mengangkat fakta bahwa
transcripts of these
membocorkan kepada saya
yang telah disegel oleh hakim federal
that a federal judge had sealed
that their release
bahwa penyebarannya
the U.S. government's
pemerintah Amerika secara permanen
dibuat untuk melindungi para jurnalis
was set up to protect journalists
very sensitive matters like this.
dengan topik sensitif semacam ini.
which was just published today,
yang baru dipublikasikan hari ini,
was set up in this FBI sting
yang dijebak pada penyusupan FBI
hal-hal yang mereka katakan, seperti
highlight the things that they said,
to put money in Sami Osmakac's hands,
ke tangan Sami Osmakac,
membeli senjata dari agen penyamaran.
from the undercover agent.
was that he paid for these weapons,
ia membayar senjata-senjata ini,
how the FBI orchestrated
bagaimana FBI mengatur
mentally ill and broke
sakit jiwa dan bangkrut
pay for weapons
mendakwanya atas konspirasi.
in a conspiracy for.
ISIS suspects in Brooklyn,
yang berpotensi ISI di Brooklyn,
be headed to Syria,
kemungkinan akan bertolak ke Syria,
or examples of more of the same?
atau contoh yang kurang lebih sama?
dari berkas pengadilan,
what's come out in the court file,
example of the same.
contoh lain yang serupa.
have moved from flavor to flavor.
telah berubah-ubah.
is the current flavor.
adalah 'citarasa' terkini.
adalah bahwa tiga pria yang didakwa
is that the three men that were charged
of the FBI informant,
them with the travel documents
membantu mereka dengan dokumen perjalanan
in that particular case,
had found out
telah menyadari
and had hid his passport.
dan menyembunyikan paspornya.
di bandara, ia akan pergi ke suatu tempat
showed up at the airport,
bergabung dengan ISIS di Amerika,
be interested in joining the Islamic State
yang pemerintah Amerika harus cari
States government should be looking at
pada kekerasan di sini.
dengan bukti yang ada sejauh ini,
in violence here.
the evidence that's so far come out,
FBI yang memungkinkan
sesuai rencana, pergi ke Syria
it possible for these guys
merencanakan apa-apa awalnya.
TA: Terima kasih.
to that in the first place.
TA: Thank you.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Trevor Aaronson - JournalistAn investigative journalist who reports on the FBI’s misuse of informants in counterterrorism operations, Trevor Aaronson asks the question: Is the United States catching terrorists or creating them?
Why you should listen
Trevor Aaronson is the executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism. In 2014 he reported and produced "Informants," a one-hour documentary for Al Jazeera Media Network about the FBI’s counterterrorism program. In 2015 he published "To Catch the Devil" with Foreign Policy and "The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist" with The Intercept, both about his work on the FBI's counterterrorism methods.
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