Entrapment nets recruit poor desperate men for fake plots

Evidence

An FBI informant named Shahed Hussain, posing as a wealthy Pakistani businessman, lured four men from Newburgh, New York, into a plot to bomb two synagogues. Hussain was responsible for creating the plot, for overseeing the surveillance of the synagogues, and for providing fake weapons to the men. All four men were African Americans from impoverished backgrounds. One had a mental illness. Another had a brother in desperate need of a liver transplant. Hussain preyed on their vulnerabilities and used financial incentives to convince the four to join his plot. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 569 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Poverty and desperation make entrapment targets vulnerable to paid informants — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 587; FBI informants exploit poverty and grief to entrap vulnerable men into fake plots; FBI informants recruit vulnerable poor men into terror plots with money and fake weapons. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 569

Broader Connections

• FBI informants exploit poverty and grief to entrap vulnerable men into fake plots #expands (0.95)
• FBI informants recruit vulnerable poor men into terror plots with money and fake weapons. #corroborates (0.90) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 569