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Aftermath of the Boston Bombings: The FBI, Canada and the Politics of Terror\n\u201cIn terrorism stings, it\u2019s really only the FBI that\u2019s making it possible for people who otherwise couldn\u2019t acquire weapons, who couldn\u2019t build a bomb to move forward in an act of terrorism like we\u2019re seeing in these sting operations. So, it\u2019s really the FBI that\u2019s making the crime possible in a way that they aren\u2019t with traditional drug stings even though it\u2019s very much the same type of tactic that they\u2019re using today.\u201d\n\n-Trevor Aaronson\n\n\u201cAt different points of time in history non-Anglo and Francophone Canadians and including Francophones during the independence movement in Quebec were terrorists\u2026 everybody\u2019s been interned. Every group has been interned or labeled treasonous when it was convenient to do so.\u201d\n\n- Rocco Galati\n\nSpeculation and skepticism percolates through the World Wide Web with regard to the official narrative of the Boston Bombings.\n\nOn the day of the attacks, the FBI was placed in charge of the official investigation. [1]\n\nTo date, critical questions about the FBI\u2019s role in these and other terrorist plots have yet to be addressed.\n\nAs documented on Global Research, the FBI has been caught deliberately lying about their actions and activities. [2]\n\nThoroughly documented, the FBI has been pivotal in the manufacture of several terrorist plots in the US. [3]\n\nTrevor Aaronson\u2019s pioneering work on the subject of FBI involvement in infiltrating and entrapping terrorist suspects made the cover of Mother Jones magazine in 2011 and became listed as one of the top 25 most censored stories of 2011-2012 by the media democracy organization Project Censored. This history is critical background in any sober analysis of the incident.\n\nIn Canada, the Conservative government invoked the Boston attacks to rush through legislation resurrecting previously sunsetted anti-terrorism provisions of preventative arrest and secret investigative hearings. By an amazing coincidence,\xa0 the same week the Canadian Parliament was debating the new anti-terrorism bill, the RCMP announced the arrest of two individuals implicated in a plot to attack a Via Rail passenger train. [4]\n\nThe RCMP said little about the evidence of their guilt though they helpfully volunteered the perpetrator\u2019s links with Al Qaeda in Iran. Considering the enmity being expressed toward Iran by the US and Canada among other Western Countries, this tidbit interestingly parallels the innuendo of Iraq\u2019s alleged links to terrorism in the lead up to the 2003 Iraq War.\n\nIn an effort to deconstruct the propaganda around the War on Terrorism\u2019s biggest PR boost in years, the Global Research News Hour delves into the Boston Bombings and its aftermath.\n\nIn this week\u2019s show,\xa0Trevor Aaronson, author of \u201cThe Terror Factory: Inside the FBI\u2019s Manufactured War on Terrorism\u201d examines the agency\u2019s role of deliberately creating the plots they then disrupt. Aaronson\u2019s analysis speaks to the FBI\u2019s focus on marginalized individuals at the expense of real dangers.\n\nThen, Canadian Constitutional Lawyer\xa0Rocco Galati trashes the recently passed Combating Terrorism Act as a completely unnecessary threat to civil liberties with consequences that go beyond Islamic extremism.\n\nFinally, Global Research\u2019s\xa0Julie L\xe9vesque provides a much needed overview of the Boston Bombings legend and the critical questions the mainstream media should be asking but is not.