You always have to be a little careful about these "entrapment" cases where the feds pose as terrorists in order to trick someone to carry out a criminal act. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the courts give the authorities a little more leeway in this regard when it comes to terrorist cases.And the kid who was arrested for trying to blow up the Portland, Oregon tree lighting ceremony seems to have been deadly serious in his intent. He had been in contact with terrorists overseas and wrote articles for a web site advocating jihad. Thankfully, the FBI had been tracking him after he expressed a desire to go to Pakistan and become "operational."The feds then wormed their way into the communications network: Mohamud and the FBI operative agreed to meet in Portland a month later. Mohamud allegedly told the FBI operative that he had written articles that were published in Jihad Recollections, an online magazine that advocated holy war.Mohamud also indicated he intended to...(Read Full Post)