Do you think Cheney requested the FBI to make the bust in NYC ?

Informant who ensnared Bronx terror suspects avoided by nearly everyone else at Newburgh mosque

The informant who ensnared the four Bronx terror suspects was the guy nearly everyone else at their Newburgh mosque had the common sense to avoid. Driving a silver Hummer or black Mercedes-Benz, Shahed (Malik) Hussain arrived at the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque Friday mornings and stayed for hours...trying to chat up those who seemed to be down on their luck. He offered meals, jobs and advice on how to get rich.

...He was friendly. Too friendly. And that's what made everyone nervous. "We would go to the person after he talked to them, and tell them to stay away," worshiper Shafeeq Abdulwaly, 39, said. "He would ask what you thought about what's going on in Pakistan and Afghanistan...Then, I guess he'd talk about jihad and fighting."

...Imam Salahuddin Muhammad said he believes Hussain lured Cromitie and his co-defendants - David Williams, Onta Williams and LaGuerre Payen - into a plot they couldn't have carried out on their own. "None of these men had money for this," Muhammad said. "Who paid for this? The informant. The informant was buying these . The informant is the one who drove these guys around."

Onta Williams' uncle, Richard Williams, said he never thought much of Hussain, whom he recently saw smoking marijuana on his nephew's front porch...