Maidhc 'O Cathail: 'FBI manufactures terrorist plots'

'O Cathail says the FBI even "paid informants, often people with criminal records, to entrap innocent members of the Muslim community".

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(TEHRAN / OSAKA Press TV) - Middle East Analyst and Salem-News.com writer, Maidhc 'O Cathail, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation has had to "manufacture terrorist plots" in order "to justify all the money being spent on Homeland Security".

Maidhc 'O Cathail told Press TV's U.S. Desk on Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security considers "all American Muslims as potential terrorist suspects".

The investigative journalist said that the FBI even "paid informants, often people with criminal records, to entrap innocent members of the Muslim community".

'O Cathail believes that in order to indoctrinate law enforcement officials with necessary anti-Muslim stereotypes against law-abiding American Muslims, Homeland Security has even resorted to employing "so-called terrorism experts like Walid Shoebat".

It was also revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paid a notorious Islamophobe $5,000 for a recent appearance at a conference sponsored by the South Dakota Department of Public Safety (DPS).

'O Cathail said that the department of Homeland Security was set up almost immediately after 9/11 after Senator Joe Lieberman, one of Israel's staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill introduced a bill to establish it on October 11, exactly one month after the September eleven attacks.

Activist Naomi Klein says "before 9/11, homeland security barely existed as an industry. By the end of this year, Israeli exports in the sector will reach $1.2 billion - an increase of 20 percent."

Catch the video on Press TV with Maidhc here: http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/185007.html