Perhaps a sting?
Reader comment on item: New Frontiers in Counterterrorism Incompetence

Submitted by Sabba Hillel (United States), Dec 27, 2007 at 15:18

Perhaps the invitation was a ruse to get the terrorist onto the US emabassy grounds so that he could be arrested. One reads of similar stings being carried out here in the United States. Often the criminals fall for the ruse.

Some criminals were sent a notification of having won a lottery ticket, when they presented their I.D. to collect the money, they were arrested.

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