Suspect in pro-Isis plot called mentally ill 'panhandler' who was 'manipulated'

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Suspect in pro-Isis plot called mentally ill 'panhandler' who was 'manipulated'

Associated Press in Rochester, New York
Saturday 2 January 2016 15.22 GMT

An ex-convict arrested in a plot to carry out a pro-Islamic State attack at a bar on New Year’s Eve is a panhandler who had been asked to leave in the past, the bar’s owner said. The man’s family said he had a long history of mental problems.

Federal authorities have said Emanuel Lutchman, 25, sought to prove he was worthy of joining Isis by leading an attack in Rochester with a machete and knives that were provided by an FBI informant.

After authorities announced his arrest on Thursday, Lutchman’s father and mother described a man who had had psychiatric troubles since childhood, had recently stabbed himself in a suicide attempt and, they said, would not have conducted the attack on his own.

“The boy is impressionable,” his father, Omar Lutchman, told NBC News. “First he was a Blood, then he was a Crip, then he became a Muslim. He’s easily manipulated.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/02/new-york-rochester-pro-isis-plot-emanuel-lutchman

[99th_Monkey]

1. "...with a machete and knives that were provided by an FBI informant" <--says it all

Find someone who's already marginalized, desperate, pissed-off and unstable, then
push them over the edge & give them weaponry to become a "threat to society"... and
waa-laa, now we have a 'terrorist'.

It's shit like that makes me highly cynical and skeptical about the 'war on terrah' being anything
other than a con-game to keep the arms dealers profitable and to rob citizens of their civil rights
and liberties.

[abelenkpe]

2. +1000

[mwrguy]

3. entrapment designed to whip up islamophobia