Police recruited undercover informants to befriend and spy on Arab American communities

Evidence

Sade is upset. He recently found out that his close friend of almost four years was an undercover police detective sent to spy on him, his friends, and his community. Even the guy’s name, Kamil Pasha, was fake, which particularly irked the twenty-four-year-old Palestinian American. After appearing as a surprise witness at a recent terrorism trial in Brooklyn, Pasha vanished. That’s when Sade discovered the truth. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 35

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader Post-9/11 surveillance literature and to Sade’s ‘We’re the new blacks’ line that follows - the NYPD’s Muslim surveillance programs later documented by the AP.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the mechanisms and scale of NYPD undercover operations in Muslim communities post-9/11, later reported on extensively.