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The suspected Boston Marathon bomber’s defense lawyers claim in federal court documents that the older brother Tamerlan was solicited by the government to be an informant on the Chechen and Muslim community. This possibility was considered by many in the alternative media soon after the attacks took place. Professor Peter Dale Scott wrote on June 23, that it was a “strong possiblity” that Tamerlan was, “perhaps recruited by the FBI” and coerced “into a dangerous career as an informant.”
Many researchers, including myself, brought up the fact that there is a well established history of the government using entrapment to facilitate terror plots with the help of informants. The New York Times reported on several “lethal terrorist plots” which were “facilitated by the F.B.I, whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists…”