When Osman Barre took the stand during his son Mohamed Mohamud’s trial he had one simple message: The FBI brainwashed my son.

Barre said that his son was suffering an identity crisis during the time that he was talking to the FBI and that federal agents brainwashed him into carrying out a terrorist plot against the United States.

According to Oregon Live, Barre, who was the first to take the stand after the prosecution put their case to rest, said that his son was having trouble adopting to American life. Mohamud also had trouble, according to his father, dealing with his parents divorce.

When the 17-year-old tried to leave the country Barre called the FBI. The teenager was found in Portland, Oregon and his parents took his passport away.

Barre said that the FBI agents, acting as terrorist contacts, later contacted his son and persuaded him to attack the United States. Boston.com reports that federal agents set up a sting where they presented Mohamud with a bomb. Mohamud was later arrested when he tried to detonate the bomb (which was fake) at a tree lighting ceremony in Portland.

Mohamud’s lawyers argued today that the teenager would have never committed an act of terrorism if the FBI didn’t push him to commit the crime.

When Barre was cross-examined about his comments he told prosecutor Ethan D. Knight: ”Can I tell you the FBI brainwashed my son?”

‘FBI Brainwashed My Son’ Says Terrorist Suspect’s Father is a post from: The Inquisitr

The terrorism suspect known as ‘White Widow,’ Samantha Lewthwaite, is believed to be recruiting and training women in Eastern Africa to become all female terror squads.

The British Press dubbed 28-year-old Irish-born Lewthwaite the ‘White Widow’ because she is the widow of Germaine Lindsay, the suicide bomber that blew up a subway train in London as part of the coordinated 7/7 terror attack (in reference to the fact that they occurred on July 7, 2005) killing himself and 26 other people.

An international manhunt for the ‘White Widow’ Lewthwaite began last December when she fled Mombasa, Kenya’s main coast city, with her three children after authorities suspected her of being part of a planned Islamist terrorist attack to use chemical bombs on Western tourist targets. The Daily Mail reports she is also the prime suspect for a grenade attack that killed 3 people in a Kenyan bar where tourists were watching the Euro 2012 match between England and Italy.

According to the Belfast Telegraph, an anonymous blog entry on a website used by the Muslim Youth Centre (a radical Kenyan pro-jihadi movement) supports intelligence gathered by authorities that she is training all-female terror squads:

‘White Widow’ May Be Recruiting For All-Female Terror Squads In Somalia is a post from: The Inquisitr