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well whatever people are realy stupid its a fact and the government may seem smart but theyre just people too or robots cheyney oh yeah he's and aliean android I just know it!

Oh! That explains it. If you want t know what's going on, without all the fear mongering, I suggest you look for an online European news paper. In absence of that, try http://www.japantoday.com. If you gotten it from any source other than American newspapers, you would know that these so-called "terrorists" were really entrapped, that the arrest was not justified and that those guys couldn't have blown up a bottle of club soda if they had access to a paint shaker.

True, true. It's just that those people couldn't EVEN have done that. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together could have blown up that building before the FBI could have known anything. They weren't good people, mind you, but they were NO terrorists.

Conspiring to commit a major criminal act is a crime Katsu, regardless of competence. It doesn't matter wether they could do what they intended but rather that they would if given the opportunity.
The truth is these men had murder in their hearts so don't you dare try to garner sympathy for these people who had pipe dreams of killing thousands of innocent people. mad

It is very hard to find actual physical evidence of anyone hiring someone. If he did hire them, and there is enough proof that he did so, then yes. The informant should. However, this country bases all of its guilty verdicts behind the idea of "beyond the shadow of a doubt". Not all judges and jurrors follow this idea, but they are expected to. The more severe the case, the more and less likely of that occuring.

Adding to my previous post:

It is also a possibility that the nation is currently witholding prosecution of the informant because they had been helpful at another time, or they think he might be. In the case that he is helpful in the future, they want him/her to be happy and willing to share the information. If not, then they will likely be picked at a later date, accused, and sent for trial.

it still sounds like they were going to act... they just didn't pay enough attention with whom they were dealing.

i wouldn't necessarily say entrapment... though it is close. The informant did not trick them into doing anything, merely made them think they had support.

Look closer. He made those kids pledge an oath of allegiance to Al-Qaeda. I doubt they would have acted; they had no real connection to Al-Qaeda, they had no access to any kind of explosives and they don't know how to make them. It was really nothing more than smoke, much less anything to worry about.