Make them join al-Qaeda then bust them. Job security . . .

Tapes: FBI informer pushed suspect into al-Qaida camp

03/01/2006 12:00 AM PST Associated Press
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3556334

SACRAMENTO - An FBI informant repeatedly pushed a terror suspect to attend an al-Qaida camp while he was in Pakistan, at one point yelling at him in a telephone conversation: "Be a man - do something!"

The suspect, 23-year-old Hamid Hayat, is charged with lying to federal investigators about attending the camp and is standing trial in U.S. District Court. Transcripts of secretly recorded telephone conversations between Hayat and the informant were read to jurors Tuesday.

In one conversation, Hayat seemed to be procrastinating after he said he planned to attend a religious school, and then a terrorist training camp, when he was visiting Pakistan in 2003. The government informant, Naseem Khan, berated Hayat as lazy and said he was "wasting time," according to the transcripts.

Khan even threatened to fly to Pakistan and force Hayat into a religious school run by Hayat's grandfather. Hayat later told FBI interrogators that students from the school often went to terror training camps.

"You told me, 'I'm going to a camp. I'll do this, I'll do that,"' Khan said in a conversation recorded in July 2003, several months after Hayat arrived in Pakistan. "You're sitting idle. You're wasting time.


"Be a man - do something!" :mad: