FBI paid informant in Bronx synagogue bomb plot $97K, who provided terror suspects wi

Brown Bomber

No? ...The FBI are terrorists?

BY Robert Gearty
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, August 25th 2010, 5:24 PM

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Suspect Laguerre Payen in a courtroom sketch from 2009.




The jury in the Bronx synagogue bomb plot case was told Wednesday that the informant who provided the four suspects with phony bombs and missiles was paid $97,000 by the FBI.


The FBI gave Pakistani immigrant Shahed Hussain $44,000 for expenses and $53,000 for "his services" over a three-year period, agent Robert Fuller said.


Fuller, the first prosecution witness in the trial that started Tuesday, showed the jury one of the unexploded bombs the would-be terrorists planned to use to blow up one of two Riverdale synagogues.


Defense lawyers contend that without the informant - who they say entrapped the suspects - their bumbling clients would never have tried to blow up two synagogues in Riverdale and shoot down missiles.


James Cromitie, 44, and co-defendants David Williams, 29, Onta Williams, 34, and Laguerre Payen, 28, were caught in May 2009.


Hussain met them at an upstate mosque, where he was sent by the feds. The trial continues today in Manhattan Federal Court. The four suspects face life in prison if convicted.

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alastair

What sort of terrorism would the FBI create with unusable bombs/missiles?

Brown Bomber

alastair wrote: »

What sort of terrorism would the FBI create with unusable bombs/missiles?

Eh, this kind of terrorism.



And this kind...

Mahatma coat

wasnt it rumored that MI5/6 were doing the same thing in the North, 'handlers' pushing their 'assets' further and further, eggin them on and providing material support.

Duiske

alastair wrote: »

What sort of terrorism would the FBI create with unusable bombs/missiles?

There was a similar story that came out during the trial of the 1993 WTC bombers. It was CBS news who broke the story, only for it, as usual, never to be mentioned again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Salem

thecommander

Duiske wrote: »

It was CBS news who broke the story, only for it, as usual, never to be mentioned again.

Most things that are on the news aren't mentioned again. Wouldn't be news if they did.

Duiske

thecommander wrote: »

Most things that are on the news aren't mentioned again. Wouldn't be news if they did.

Pretty big story to just drop like a hot potato.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1Y6cGRXEs