[Peace-discuss] What goes around comes around

[David Green]

https://louisproyect.org/2018/10/09/shahed-hussain-the-fbi-sting-artist-who-has-the-blood-of-20-limousine-passengers-on-his-hands/

I had already noticed in the NYT article the reference to the FBI Sting
collaborator; but the NYT says it in passing, without elaboration.

Whereas Louis Proyect is all over this in an appropriate way (see link
above).

Here is the NYT excerpt:

"Arnie Cornett, the manager at the hotel, identified the owner as “Malik”
and said he lived in Dubai. Mr. Hussain, the informant, went by Malik
<https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/nyregion/11plot.html?module=inline>
when he helped the F.B.I. infiltrate a mosque in Albany.

Lincoln Prosser, who lives at the hotel with her husband and three
children, said she had not seen any limousines parked outside. But when she
lived there between 2013 and 2015, she said, she noticed a few limousines
parked there, some of which appeared to be broken down.

Mr. Hussain, the man whose name seems to be associated with the limousine
company, posed as a wealthy Muslim radical and was the central prosecution
witness in a 2004 federal sting
<https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/nyregion/23informant.html?module=inline>
focusing on a pizzeria owner and an imam at an Albany mosque. Six years
later, Mr. Hussain, who posed as a terrorist
<https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/nyregion/28plot.html?module=inline>,
played a key role in the government’s case in a plot to blow up two
synagogues in the Bronx.

He became an F.B.I. informant
<https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/shahed-hussain-fbi-informant/>
after being charged in 2002 with a scheme that involved taking money to
illegally help people in the Albany area get driver’s licenses."
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