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(回答先: ミサイルおとり捜査、FBIインフォーマントは犯罪者【１９９３WTC爆破事件デジャビュ】 投稿者 FakeTerrorWatcher 日時 2004 年 8 月 07 日 19:18:54)
US Terror Ruse Aimed At Manufacturing Muslim "Terrorists"
http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=12690&list=/home.php&
Aug 06, 2004
Source: boston.com
The FBI arrested two leaders of an upstate New York mosque early yesterday after a yearlong sting operation, accusing the men of participating in a scheme to launder money they believed came from the sale of a shoulder-fired missile to Islamist terrorists.
In fact, it was a ruse. The missile was owned by the FBI, the terrorists who were putatively planning to blow up a plane carrying the Pakistani ambassador did not exist, and the leader of the conspiracy was actually an informant working with the government to reduce his sentence for a felony conviction related to document fraud.
Deputy Attorney General James Comey said the arrests were not related to the recent warning that Al Qaeda may be planning to bomb financial institutions, which prompted the Homeland Security Department to raise the color-coded alert level for terror threats to orange, or "high" risk. Comey emphasized that the case's significance should not be exaggerated.
"This is not the case of the century," Comey said. "I don't want it misread by the media or anybody else as some sort of breathless announcement of a disrupting of a terrorist plot."
But he said he hoped the arrests would dampen the enthusiasm of anyone thinking of supporting a terrorist cause.
"This case is important because we hope it will send a disrupting message to those out there who might be plotting to harm people in this country, around the world," Comey said. "Anyone engaging in terrorist planning would be very wise to consider whether their accomplice is not really one of our guys."
The Justice Department identified the men as Yassin Aref, a 34-year-old imam at the Masjid As-Salam mosque in Albany, and Mohammed Mosharref Hossain, a 49-year-old founder of the mosque who owns a pizzeria and several rental properties in the city.
Federal authorities first became interested in Hossain in July 2003, when he allegedly paid the informant $75 for help in fraudulently obtaining a driver's permit for Hossain's brother.
The informant served as the brother's translator during the exam, covertly supplying the correct answers, the criminal complaint stated.
A relationship grew between Hossain and the informant, who apparently owned another business in Albany, it said. They discussed religion, politics, and types of jihad.
"Hossain stated, amongst other things, that there were multiple types of jihad, including an inner jihad and an outer, violent jihad, but that now was not the time for violent jihad," the complaint said.
But by December he was willing to participate in a deal proposed by the informant to launder money from arms sales to Islamist fighters in New York City.
As FBI cameras and microphones secretly recorded the event, the informant showed Hossain a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile and said he provided such weapons to "mujahideen brothers" in New York.
The informant proposed giving Hossain the proceeds from one such sale, $50,000 in cash. Hossain allegedly agreed to launder that money by making it seem as though it had come from one of his rental properties, repaying the informant over time with small checks from his businesses and keeping $5,000 for himself.
Hossain allegedly brought Aref into the conspiracy to witness the transactions.
During a meeting with the two men, the informant said he was working with Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistani Islamist group that is on the State Department's list of designated terrorist organizations.
The informant later allegedly told the defendants that the missile would be used to shoot down a plane carrying the Pakistani ambassador to punish President Pervez Musharraf for supporting non-Muslim forces in the fight against terrorism.
During the course of the investigation, the FBI said, the informant gave the defendants $40,000 in cash that was represented to be proceeds of the missile importation, and received $25,000 in checks payable to the informant's business.
The government did not disclose why it chose yesterday to arrest the two. The complaint accuses each with concealing material support for terrorism and participating in a money laundering conspiracy. They could face 70 years in prison and a $750,000 fine.
Police reportedly sealed off the streets surrounding the mosque late Wednesday or early yesterday and arrested both of the men at their homes. Rashid Abdul Haqq Hamzah, a mosque trustee, told the Associated Press yesterday that the two men had nothing to do with terrorism.
"He's a peaceful man that teaches us about Islam," Hamzah said of the imam
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