At last we have an inside story from a young American Muslim on how the New York City police recruited, paid, and used him to spy on various domestic and foreign Muslim students. He also had some minor drug infractions which the police took care of in exchange for his cooperation.
A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press.
Shamiur Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bangladeshi descent who has now denounced his work as an informant, said police told him to embrace a strategy called "create and capture."