FBI informant in "Newburgh 4" terror frame-up caught in perjury... Attorneys for four men charged with plotting to bomb two Jewish synagogues in New York City are currently cross-examining an FBI informant in federal district court in Manhattan, threatening to expose one of the most transparent government efforts at entrapping Muslims in a series of highly publicized "terror" trials in recent years.

James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams (no relation to David) and Laguerre Payen are accused of conspiring to bomb the Riverdale Temple and the nearby Riverdale Jewish Center in the borough of the Bronx and to shoot down Air National Guard planes at Stewart International Airport in upstate New York with a heat-seeking missile.

The four were arrested on May 20, 2009 in a sting operation involving agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) among other law-enforcement agencies, as they attempted to place fake bombs at the synagogues in the Bronx.

The government informant, Shahed Hussain recruited them at a Mosque in Newburgh, New York, which he was sent to infiltrate in 2008. Over the next ten months he recorded hundreds of hours of audio- and videotapes, which, the government alleges, show that Cromitie had planned the bombings.

Newburgh is a small city of 28,000 about 60 miles north of New York City with a pre-recession poverty rate of 22 percent. In May, a massive operation of over 300 police officers and federal agents rounded up over 80 alleged gang members in the city.

The four defendants in the terrorism trial all come form impoverished backgrounds, and have done various amounts of time in jail, where some ostensibly converted to Islam. Cromitie, the so-called ringleader of the group is a high-school dropout without a stable source of income. Another defendant, Lauguare Payan, had a deportation order stayed because he was judged to be mentally ill, and, according to his cousin, may not even be able to read.

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FBI: Bureau of Frame-Ups, Bullying, and Intimidation:

by William Norman Grigg

"We're going to make this much more difficult for you if you don't cooperate."

This stereotypically thuggish threat issued from a stereotypical thug named Vincent, an FBI agent who was among a half-dozen Feds and local police who descended on the Santa Clara home of 20-year-old Yasir Afifi earlier this month. A few days before that visit, Afifi had discovered a government-issue GPS tracking device attached to his car during an oil change.

A few days later, one of Afifi's friends posted a photo of the unit (an Orion Guardian ST820 tracking device, which is sold exclusively to law enforcement agencies) to an on-line file-sharing site. This sent the Stasi scurrying to Afifi's home to reclaim the surveillance gear it had surreptitiously planted on his car. They also took the opportunity to bully and brow-beat the college student, whom they had pestered several months before following an anonymous tip that the natural-born U.S. citizen was a "threat to national security."

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