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Don't let yourself get set up.
Kashif
05/29/02 at 10:30:52
assalaamu alaikum

This is an article and a comment i received in an e-mail. I've posted it here because i think its important for Muslims, especially young brothers to be aware of this trap.

Kashif
Wa Salaam

PS I've done some editing to hide names and an organisation.

> as-Salaam alaykum,
>
> The following is what I am afraid of. Silly action taken by youth provoked
> by a gov't informant. These two youth were set up from the beginning by an
> informant who I am sure spoke all "pro-jihad" (and probably pro-[name-withheld]) in
> order to set these guys up. And now the only place these youth will be
> spending their time now will be jail. This is the danger I see from some
of
> the people on [snip], and the zealous youth need to be warned against this
> extremism...
>
> --------------->
>
>
> Gov't: Pair Planned S.Florida Attacks
>
> The Associated Press
> Wednesday, May 29, 2002; 3:01 AM
>
> FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –– Two Muslim men plotted with a US government
> informant to bomb electrical transformers, a National Guard armory and
Jews
> in South Florida, hoping to start a Holy War, government documents allege.
>
> Pakistani immigrants Imran Mandhai, 19, and Shueyb Mossa Jokhan, 24, were
> ordered held without bail Tuesday after U.S. Magistrate Lurana Snow
reviewed
> transcripts of conversations they had with an informant in March and April
> 2001.
>
> Snow rejected arguments by Mandhai's and Jokhan's attorneys that they were
> bumbling amateurs whose militant fantasies were inflamed by the government
> informant, identified only as Mohammad.
>
> "The fact that they themselves didn't have the capacity to construct the
> bombs ... may be the only reason they did not succeed in wreaking havoc on
> the community," Snow said.
>
> The pair is charged with conspiracy to damage and destroy property by
means
> of fire and explosives. Mandhai is also charged with soliciting Jokhan to
> commit a crime of violence. They face up to 20 years in prison.
NS


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