"Informant is central to bomb plot case" by Tom Hays, Associated Press | August 23, 2010
NEW YORK — Four Muslim men charged with trying to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down military planes will be reunited at their trial with someone who was in on the plot every step of the way: a wire-wearing FBI informant named Shaheed Hussain.
Also see: FBI Frame-Ups Past and Present
The government credits Hussain with rooting out radical Muslims at a mosque in Newburgh, a small town north of New York.
More like instigating them.
The defense has sought to portray him as a “fraudster’’ who lured down-and-out dupes into a phony scheme by offering them a pile of cash.
Hussain’s credibility will be tested as the government’s star witness at the trial, which is set to begin with opening statements this week in federal court in Manhattan.
James Cromitie, Onta Williams, David Williams, and Laguerre Payen have pleaded not guilty to charges that they engaged in a conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to acquire and use antiaircraft missiles to kill US officers and employees. They face possible life prison terms if convicted.
Authorities last year called the case a “chilling plot’’ involving “extremely violent men’’ who represented a dire homegrown terrorism threat. But the government also acknowledges that the men — targets of an elaborate, tightly scripted sting involving fake weapons, 100 officers, and a spy plane — had no ties to actual terrorists....
Then THROW THIS ONE out of COURT!
Another FBI SET UP for MIND MANIPULATION purposes, Americans!!
The case began in June 2008, when Hussain struck up a conversation with Cromitie, whom he met by chance in the parking lot of the Newburgh mosque.
Hussain was posing as a wealthy representative of a Pakistani terrorist organization. He drove a BMW and other luxury vehicles provided by the FBI to maintain his cover. Cromitie was a convicted drug dealer working odd jobs.
Isn't that a GREAT USE of YOUR TAX DOLLARS?
Prosecutors allege that within minutes of meeting Hussain, Cromitie told him, “I want to do something to America.’’
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"Jury hears terror suspect rant on audiotape" by Associated Press | August 31, 2010
NEW YORK — A man accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues and shoot down military planes ranted against Jews and mused about “taking down’’ targets in the United States, according to audiotapes played yesterday at his federal trial.
The tapes were secretly recorded by a paid informant testifying against James Cromitie and three other men who were arrested in 2009 on their way to the synagogues.
Related: FBI paid informant in Bronx synagogue bomb plot $97K
I hope it was WORTH IT, taxpayers!
The informant, Shahed Hussain, met Cromitie in 2008 after being sent by the FBI to infiltrate a Newburgh, N.Y., mosque. While wearing a wire, he later taped conversations they had during meals at restaurants and in meetings at his home.
“Muslims want to take the US down,’’ Cromitie says on one tape played for the jury. “Believe me, we can do it with our regular Muslims here.’’
Cromitie also bemoans American military ventures in the Middle East. “What do we do to make it stop?’’ he says....
Yeah, if you bemoan the wars and want them to stop you MUST BE a TERRORIST!!
FLASHBACKS:
"Four men accused in Bronx synagogue bomb plot too dopey to turn on explosive device: lawyer"
by Alison Gendar, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER | June 21st 2010
Four men accused of plotting to bomb a Bronx synagogue were so clueless they did not even know how to turn the device on, lawyers said in federal court Monday.
"The tapes were incredible," defense lawyer Suzanne Brody said after a bail hearing in federal court in White Plains.
"In it you hear the informant ask [alleged ringleader James] Cromitie, 'So, did you turn it on?' "'Turn what on? The switch, did you turn it on?' "'No, was I supposed to?," Brody said.
Defense lawyers argued at the hearing that the accused terrorists posed no real danger but were instead set up by a government informant who supplied them with cash, instructions and - unbenownst to them - fake bombs.
The dopey defendants were set to go on trial last week until an FBI memo surfaced that could help their case.
The internal memo informed authorities at Stewart Air Force Base in Newburgh, N.Y., not to be alarmed if they saw Cromitie sneaking around because he was harmless...
Can you say SET-UP, Americans?!!!
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Strange how the Globe makes NO MENTION of the DELAYS and OTHER STRANGE THINGS, huh?!
by Carl Strock | Schenectady Gazette | June 22, 2010
We are in the middle of another manufactured-terrorism case, this one in Newburgh, and it was going very smoothly until last week, when the presiding federal judge postponed the scheduled trial indefinitely....
They were recruited into a fake terrorist plot by the same wretch who a few years ago duped two Albany Muslims into an exchange of checks for cash that could be sold to a jury as money-laundering in support of terrorism.
The FBI is still working him. I had thought such efforts to create terrorists in order to arrest them was an artifact of the Bush administration, which seemed unable to distinguish between real enemies and imaginary, but I was wrong. Here we are with a new, supposedly more enlightened, president and it’s still going on....
A swell way for the government to protect us, no? Bribe some low-life ex-cons to participate in a fake plot and then arrest them on charges of terrorism and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction....
I shouldn’t be so hard on him, maybe. He’s trying to save his skin. It’s the FBI that writes the script and puts him to work acting it, and it’s U.S. attorneys who prosecute these cases.
How dangerous would this Cromitie character have been in Newburgh without Shahed “Maqsood” Hussain to egg him on?
Apparently not very. The FBI agent running the operation, Robert Fuller (who also ran the celebrated Fort Dix operation), wrote to officials at Stewart Airport alerting them that Cromitie would be out there scouting for a possible attack site but assured them he would pose no danger without Hussain.
It was the revelation of a memo referring to that letter that prompted Judge Colleen McMahon last week to call a halt to the proceedings until the FBI produces all materials that might tend to exculpate the defendants, as the law requires.
She also noted that “the Government has retreated from its original position that the defendants had any connections to any international terrorist organization.”
At this point the legal-minded reader might be asking, isn’t the inducing of criminal activity forbidden? Isn’t it called entrapment, and isn’t it grounds for acquittal?
To which your legal correspondent answers, yes, it’s forbidden, yes, it’s called entrapment, and yes, it’s grounds for acquittal — except in cases of alleged Muslim terrorism, and then all rules are suspended. Not as a matter of law, of course, but as a practical matter....
If a government agent cajoles an ordinary citizen into a robbing a bank who had never robbed a bank before nor shown any inclination to rob a bank, that citizen has a sturdy defense and can expect to be exonerated.
But if a government agent cajoles a Muslim man into participating in a terrorist plot, no matter how far-fetched, and no matter how little inclination the Muslim man had previously shown for such activity, that Muslim man is dead meat.
I wait to see if things turn out any differently in Newburgh. And I also wait to see what Shahed Hussain’s next assignment will be....
Related:
"Synagogue vandalized with racist graffiti
Police are investigating racist graffiti spray painted on a Warwick synagogue. The graffiti were discovered by a neighbor on the exterior of Temple Am David Thursday. Cantor Richard Perlman called the act of vandalism “cowardly and frightening.’’ There are no suspects, but police found a can of spray paint near the scene and are looking at surveillance video. Police Chief Stephen McCartney said that if the vandalism is determined to be a hate crime, the perpetrator could face stiffer penalties (AP)."
So which good Jewish boys carried out this false flag hoax, huh?
Related: Hate Crime Hoaxes Appearing All Across America
Yeah, and I never saw another word in the Globe, either.
Also see: Sunday Globe Insults: Jews Were Tory Traitors
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