Imam Salahuddin Muhammad thought it peculiar when Shahed Hussain appeared at his mosque in Newburgh, New York. Hussain’s expensive cars seemed out of place in the low-income city of about 40,000 people in the Hudson Valley, 60 miles north of Manhattan. “This guy said women should not be heard, not be seen. I thought that was strange,” Muhammad said. Muhammad should have trusted his instincts. Hussain was an FBI informant sent to surveil and entrap followers at the Newburgh mosque. With the FBI’s resources, Hussain manufactured an ambitious “terrorist” plot to fire a Stinger missile at U.S. military planes and plant car bombs. He entrapped four Black Muslim men, inducing the men with the prospect of free vacations, expensive cars and $250,000 in cash. The four men were stuck in extreme poverty, and one suffered from severe mental-health issues. No actual weapons were acquired, let alone used. Yet in 2011, all four were sentenced to 25 years in prison. Hussain walked free. CONTINUE READING
 

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