Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists
تريفور أرونسون: كيف تخلق استراتيجية مكتب التحقيقات الفدرالي الإرهابيين داخل الولايات المتحدة؟
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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المؤمرات الإرهابية
for more terrorism plots
think about the FBI.
الفدرالي FBI (م ت ف) هكذا
gunning down bad guys like John Dillinger,
يطلقون الرصاص على الأشرار مثل جون دلينجر
crooked elected officials.
المعوجين
has consumed the FBI.
التحقيقات الفدرالي.
3.3 billion dollars
combined for organized crime,
شاملة الجريمة المنظمة
criminal activity.
الإجرامية الاعتيادية
the case files
the United States,
داخل الولايات المتحدة
the conclusion that the FBI
than it is at catching terrorists.
في القبض على الإرهابيين
terrorist attacks in the United States.
في الولايات المتحدة
bombings in 2013,
a man named Faisal Shahzad
فيصل شاهزاد
to Times Square.
تايمز سكوير
of terrorism plots.
more than 175 people
أكثر من 175 شخصا
conterterrorism stings.
لمواجهة الإرهاب
led by an informant,
economically desperate people
before they struck.
قبل أن يضربوا
of more than 15,000 informants nationwide,
15000 مخبر على الصعيد الوطني
might be dangerous.
قد يكون خطيراً
100,000 dollars or more
they bring to the FBI.
mostly criminals and con men
المجرمين والمخادعين
in the United States,
في الولايات المتحدة،
Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif
أبو خالد عبد اللطيف
gasoline and attempting suicide.
البنزين ومحاولة الانتحار.
reality and fantasy.
الواقع والخيال
recruiting station outside Seattle
خارج سياتل
of course, by the FBI.
for his work on the case.
لعمله على هذه القضية
who had fled Pakistan on murder charges
بتهمة القتل
synagogues in the Bronx.
المعابد اليهودية في برونكس
with a history of mental problems.
تاريخ من المشاكل العقلية
him 250,000 dollars
published my new story
قصتي الجديدة
involving Sami Osmakac,
سامي أوسماكاش
near Tampa, Florida.
schizoaffective disorder.
international terrorist groups.
handed him money,
وظيفة، وسلمه المال
posing as a terrorist,
تظاهر بأنه إرهابي
to bomb an Irish bar.
لتفجير حانة ايرلندية
with his face blurred --
with his recording equipment on.
بمعدات تسجيل له
they were doing was farcical.
كانوا يفعلون كان مهزلة
to hear about these conversations.
عن هذه المحادثات
them under a protective order
from doing something like this.
من فعل شيئ كهذا
a pot to piss in."
a pipe dream scenario.
من الأوهام
everything he needed.
they gave him an AK-47,
أعطوه رشاش كلاشنكوف
martyrdom video,
استشهادي
him money for a taxi cab
they wanted him to go.
أرادوا منه أن يذهب
he wanted a Hollywood ending.
نهاية هوليودية
to deliver what he thought
اعتقد أنها
sentenced to 40 years in prison.
175 so-called terrorists,
Hollywood endings.
the War on Terror.
على الإرهاب
carefully choreographed production
محبوكة بعناية
pretty strong accusations,
Investigative Reporting Program
برنامج التحقيقات الصحفية
of all terrorism prosecutions
the first decade after 9/11.
to find out whether
لمعرفة ما إذا كان
to international terrorist groups,
الإرهاب الدولي
played the role of an agent provocateur
to our database.
and we'd go back and check
وسوف نعود ونتحقق
of our findings.
in a magazine article
like CBS and NPR,
findings are wrong."
come forward and said,
with those findings."
by groups like Human Rights Watch
جماعات مثل هيومن رايتس ووتش
these types of sting operations.
العمليات الإستباقية
really responded
not catching terrorists
mentally ill people
in these types of sting operations.
من الضربات
investigative journalism website,
الجديد لصحافة التحقيقات
and why there.
the most logical place for this
منطقية لهذا
really leveraging the fact that
transcripts of these
that a federal judge had sealed
قاضيا فدراليا أغلقها
that their release
أن الإفراج عنهم
the U.S. government's
was set up to protect journalists
الصحفيين
very sensitive matters like this.
which was just published today,
والتي نشرت اليوم فقط
was set up in this FBI sting
ضربة "م ت ف" الاستباقية
highlight the things that they said,
على الأمور التي قالوا
to put money in Sami Osmakac's hands,
سامي أوسماكاش
from the undercover agent.
عميل سري
was that he paid for these weapons,
how the FBI orchestrated
"م ت ف" تدبر
mentally ill and broke
pay for weapons
in a conspiracy for.
ISIS suspects in Brooklyn,
لداعش في بروكلين
be headed to Syria,
or examples of more of the same?
النموذج
what's come out in the court file,
ما يخرج في ملف المحكمة،
example of the same.
على ما قلنا
have moved from flavor to flavor.
انتقلت من نكهة إلى نكهة
تنظيم القاعدة
is the current flavor.
هي النكهة الحالية
is that the three men that were charged
غير أن الرجال الثلاثة الذين اتهموا
of the FBI informant,
them with the travel documents
وثائق السفر
in that particular case,
had found out
جواز سفره
and had hid his passport.
في المطار
showed up at the airport,
بالانضمام إلى الدولة الإسلامية
be interested in joining the Islamic State
الولايات المتحدة
States government should be looking at
حتى الآن
in violence here.
the evidence that's so far come out,
it possible for these guys
في المكان الأول
تريفور: شكرا لكم
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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