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was offering us…We were always lying to him and he was always lying tous.”It is illegal for the government to entrap people who have noinclination to engage in criminal activity. And in this case, the courtspermitted the government to ignore prohibitions against entrapment and toliterally buy the convictions it wanted. The government is supposed to stopcrime, not create it, yet as part of its preemptive prosecution program itregularly employs Muslim criminals like Maqsood to entrap innocentMuslims in activities it can claim are criminal.References:Graham Rayman, “FBI Agent on Synagogue Case Has Questionable Record,”Village Voice blogs, May 21, 2009,http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2009/05/index.php?page=11Graham Rayman, “Were the Newburgh 4 Really Out to Blow Up Synagogues?A Defendant Finally Speaks Out.”, Village Voice, March 2, 2011,http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-03-02/news/were-the-newburgh-4-really-out-toblow-up-synagogues/Gordon Corera, “Have U.S. anti-terror tactics strayed into entrapment?”, BBC,September 2011, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9584637.stmPaul Harris, “Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI ‘entrapment’questioned,” The Guardian, November 16, 2011,http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plotsPaul Harris, “Newburgh Four: poor, black, and jailed under FBI ‘entrapment’tactics,” The Guardian, December 12, 2011,http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/12/newburgh-four-fbi-entrapment-terrorNiazi, Ahmadulla. In 2007, Niazi reported to the FBI the suspiciousbehavior of a new Muslim convert, Craig Monteilh, at his mosque inIrvine, California. Monteilh was talking about jihad and trying to get othersat the mosque to join in planning for terrorist attacks. The FBI said thatthey would investigate the matter, and the mosque obtained a courtinjunction to keep Monteilh away from the mosque.B-32