On Thursday, a federal judge accused the FBI of inventing a conspiracy and ordered the release of three of the men known as the Newburgh Four who have spent the past 14 years locked up.
On May 20th, 2009, four African American men from the city of Newburgh, New York, were arrested outside a synagogue in the Bronx. Known as the Newburgh Four, they made national headlines as stark examples of “homegrown terror.”Prosecutors describe the suspects as extremely violent men who embraced every opportunity for terrorism.More than a year after their arrest, the Newburgh Four are now facing trial in Manhattan for conspiracy to use of weapons of mass destruction and anti-aircraft missiles.
We’re joined now by two lawyers who are part of the Coalition for Civil Freedoms, which was founded in 2010 to challenge preemptive prosecution and the post-9/11 targeting, surveillance and criminalization of Muslim communities. Kathy Manley is legal director for the Coalition for Civil Freedoms, and Stephen Downs is the chair of the coalition’s board of directors, former chief attorney for the Commission on Judicial Conduct in New York state.
What simply happened was that the government sent down their key man, Shahed Hussain, who had entrapped people up in Albany, and had nothing better to do with him, so they sent him down to hang out in a mosque in Newburgh. And the mosque very quickly caught onto him, that he was a phony and a government informant, and they kicked him out. So he went out into the parking lot and began to talk to anybody he could find: “So, let’s do jihad. Let’s get involved. I’m incredibly rich.
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