Holder denies entrapment of Muslim suspects
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defended the FBI's recent
undercover investigation of an Oregon Muslim terror suspect, saying that
Muslim critics who think it was a case of "entrapment" are wrong.
"Those
who characterize the FBI's activities in this case as 'entrapment'
simply do not have their facts straight—or do not have a full
understanding of the law," Holder said December 10 at the annual dinner
of Muslim Advocates, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group.
Holder
was referring to the arrest November 26 of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who
is charged with plotting to blow up a van full of explosives outside a
crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland.
