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...Administration (DEA) and the author of a 2007 book, Informants and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy and Practice. But out of necessity, informants are now foot soldiers in the government's fight against terrorism. The FBI has nowhere near enough agents who can pass as young Muslim extremists. "They need informants. Two FBI agents from Duluth are not going to make it," says Jenkins of Rand. So agents delegate the job to laypeople with strong and sometimes perverse incentives. "The only way to find out what's going on inside rather closed or private communities...
...with the men from the Circuit City video, and he did his job persistently if not always gracefully. In early 2006, Omar first visited a grocery store in southern New Jersey owned by Ibrahim Shnewer. The Shnewer family had immigrated to the U.S. from Jordan. Like Omar, they were Muslim. They were polite to Omar, who seemed needy for companionship and sometimes for money, according to members of the Shnewer and Duka families. He was a car dealer and a mechanic in his late 30s, and he claimed to have been a member of the Egyptian military. (Efforts to reach...
...gravest consequence may be the long-term one: if the rumors of entrapment become so corrosive that no one in the Muslim-American community feels safe talking to the FBI, then the government has lost its best potential ally. While reporting this story, I met with a couple who had helped found the Sunni mosque attended by the Duka brothers. The couple had immigrated from India decades ago. We sat in their upscale suburban home and talked about the Dukas, whom they didn't know very well, and their fears. They were convinced that their phones were being tapped. They...
...continue to swirl on the ground in states like Iowa and South Carolina; earlier this year, an eight-page document titled "Mormons in Contemporary American Society: A Politically Dangerous Religion?" that referred to the founder of the Latter Day Saints as a "gold-digger" and compared him to the Muslim prophet Muhammed was mailed to conservative activists in South Carolina...
...have to campaign while under house arrest; and Sharif himself has been barred from running for Prime Minister. Rumors abound of electoral rigging, ballot stuffing and vote-buying. Given the fraught campaigning atmosphere, candidates are struggling to get the public's attention. Highly publicized discussions between Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party about a controversial call for a cross-party election boycott substitute for any kind of formalized debate. Boycotting the elections could destabilize the country, but many candidates fear that participating will legitimize the decision by Musharraf...