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Interesting article by Jackie Cohen..

“Gathering evidence on Facebook has become standard legal practice, so a social sting operation was bound to happen. That’s how the Federal Bureau of Investigation caught a would-be terrorist in Baltimore.

An FBI informer made the initial contact with 21-year-old Antonio Martinez after he posted publicly on Facebook about his desire for jihad earlier this fall, according to AFP.

AFP cited a prepared statement by the U.S. Justice Department:

An affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint alleges that on September 29, 2010, Martinez publicly posted on his Facebook account a statement calling for violence to stop the oppression of Muslims, and that on Oct. 1, 2010, he publicly posted a message stating that he hates any person who opposes Allah and his prophet.”

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