Umer Hayat is charged with lying about activities in Pakistan.
Posted on 08/27/2005 12:45:00 PM PDT by SmithL
In the days after federal agents arrested five residents of Lodi in a terror investigation in June, a clean-cut young man who had befriended the suspects and had spent nights at their homes vanished.
He hasn't been seen in town since, and now members of Lodi's Muslim community suspect they know why: The man, who called himself Nasim Khan, was a government mole, they believe, an informer whose surreptitious tape recordings of one of the suspects are at the heart of the federal probe.
Community members said Khan, who is in his early 30s, sometimes spoke of "jihad" in what they now believe was an attempt to get others to express radical sentiments.
In his three years in Lodi, Khan -- who spoke fluent Pashto, Urdu and English -- forged deep ties in the Muslim community. He once lived in one of two apartments that overlook Lodi's mosque, helped set up a Web site for a Muslim school that was forming in the area and took the teenage son of one of the suspects to ride roller-coasters at Paramount's Great America in Santa Clara.
"He got me -- he convinced me he was an average guy," said a 23-year- old member of the Lodi mosque, who like many other members spoke on condition that he not be identified because he is afraid of drawing FBI scrutiny. "I was thinking he was just somebody who was interested in religion."
Federal prosecutors last week revealed they had a "cooperating witness" in Lodi. Without naming him, they said he had recorded scores of conversations with Hamid Hayat, a 22-year-old man accused of lying...
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Nah! It was another (successful) plot by Karl Rove!
Man, this guy is so talented!!
If he was an informer, he spent three years building his cover. Of course he could have turned later after he decided these guys were dangerous. It would be expected that they would launch this type of defense anyway. Its called discrediting the witness.
The article shows the difficulty in getting inside these cells. I wonder how much of his story was checked out before they befriended him?
"He got me -- he convinced me he was an average guy," said a 23-year- old member of the Lodi Bowling League, who like many other members spoke on condition that he not be identified because he is afraid of drawing Al Quieda scrutiny. "I was thinking he was just somebody who was interested in Bowling, who knew he was a fanatic Muslim
intent on sending us all to hell."
'Twas a TROLL!
Why do we continue to allow people like this to reside in the U.S.A.? Are we not at war? Shouldn't we enact the Sedition Act, get moving and deportas many of these Mohammedans out of our country as possible? Soon, like yesterday, before the next attack..which is inevitable? Why the wait?
At least yours is pretty enough to stay in Lodi.
Isn't that second picture Kenny Loggins?
I thought Nasim was a girl's name. Anyway, he didn't have to be planted; he could have just changed his mind about jihad.
He hasn't been seen in town since, and now members of Lodi's Muslim community suspect they know why: The man, who called himself Nasim Khan, was a government mole, they believe, an informer whose surreptitious tape recordings of one of the suspects are at the heart of the federal probe.
And this is a problem how?
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