Blog Entry 10

Men and women are not born to be terrorists. They become terrorists through the actions they see displayed all around the world, or through observational learning. Many people assume terrorists have always been the "bad guy", which 9 times out of 10 is not true. Something happens in ones' life to where all they can think of is destruction or killing. But in the end, it is the person that decides to be the terrorist.

A man by the name of Rezwan Ferdaus was arrested Thursday, November 1st, 2012, for admitting to planning to blow up the Pentagon and the United States Capitol using remote-controlled planes laden with explosives. "Government prosecutors said Mr. Ferdaus had worked with undercover agents to obtain materials to equip F-86 drone aircraft with C-4 explosives and conducted surveillance in Washington, developing plans to detonate them there. He also devised and built detonation mechanisms for improvised explosive devices that would allow cellphones to trigger an explosion, they said. Mr. Ferdaus gave 12 of the devices to F.B.I. agents who he believed were members of Al Qaeda, prosecutors said." 

Mr.Ferdaus has had a fine life. His family lives in the upscale suburban side of Boston. He speaks proper English and went to Northeastern University in Boston to study physics. He is a normal human man. But when one thing goes wrong, everything changes. His family wants to blame his work with explosives and terrorism on mental illness and government entrapment. But truly only one thing/person is to blame. Mr.Ferdaus himself. "Prosecutors said Mr. Ferdaus was given dozens of opportunities to back out of the plot, took his own initiative to develop the cellphone detonators and had looked into illegally obtaining weapons before he was ever contacted by the agents. “He’s a person who decided that he wanted to become a terrorist,” Jack Pirozzolo, first assistant United States attorney, said after the hearing." 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/us/rezwan-ferdaus-of-massachusetts-gets-17-years-in-terrorist-plot.html?ref=terrorism


Date: 11/02/12
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