FBI Spies and Paid Informants Infiltrated U.S. Mosques

[G_j]

guess I missed this story..

http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/news-fbi-spies-and-paid-informants-infiltrated-us-mosques

FBI Spies and Paid Informants Infiltrated U.S. Mosques
By Muslim Public Affairs Council , Making Muslims Part of the Solution - February 26, 2009

Use of Paid Informants to Infiltrate U.S. Mosques Undermines Outreach Efforts

WASHINGTON -- The revelation yesterday that the FBI used paid informants and agent provocateurs in U.S. mosques who have participated in law enforcement outreach efforts undermines the decade-long relationship that American Muslims built with law enforcement. This news sends a devastating message to community leaders and imams who have worked diligently to foster greater understanding between law enforcement and their communities.

The case of Ahmadullah Niazi in Tustin, CA brings to light evidence of an all too familiar trend in law enforcement activity within the American Muslim community.

In 2007, Niazi reported suspicious behavior by a new Muslim convert in his mosque, who he said was talking about jihad and suggested planning a terrorist attack in conversations with others at the Islamic Center of Irvine. He and a mosque official filed a report with the Los Angeles field office of the FBI. The FBI then told mosque officials that they were investigating the matter, and the mosque successfully got a three-year restraining order against the individual.

Niazi reported that FBI officials later contacted him to ask him to be a paid informant. When he refused, he said they threatened to make his life "a living hell." Niazi was arrested last week on charges related to lying on his immigration documents and was released yesterday on $500,000 bail.

Imagine the shock of mosque members yesterday, when FBI Special Agent Thomas J. Ropel III testified that the convert reported by Niazi was actually an FBI informant who had infiltrated several mosques in Orange County.

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[ReliantJ]

1. Can't say I'm surprised