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Ex-NYPD Informant Blasts Anti-Muslim Spy Program

HeadlineOct 24, 2012

A 19-year-old man of Bangladeshi descent has admitted he was used as an informant by the New York City Police Department to spy on mosques and bait Muslims into saying inflammatory things. Shamiur Rahman says he also spied on the Muslim Student Association at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the annual convention of the Islamic Circle of North America and Muslim American Society. Rahman became an informant after he was arrested multiple times for marijuana. During his time as an informant, he said, he never witnessed any criminal activity or saw anybody do anything wrong.

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