{"id":22425,"date":"2012-10-29T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=22425"},"modified":"2012-10-25T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:11:22","slug":"nypd-informant-says-he-was-paid-to-bait-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/10\/nypd-informant-says-he-was-paid-to-bait-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Police Department Informant Says He Was Paid to &#8216;Bait&#8217; Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage spy for the New York Police Department says he was under orders <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/informant-nypd-paid-me-bait-muslims\" >to &#8220;create and capture&#8221; terrorist suspects<\/a> by\u00a0befriending\u00a0fellow\u00a0Muslims\u00a0and &#8220;baiting&#8221; them with talk about jihad. Shamiur Rahman tells Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press that he earned as much as $1,000 a month by\u00a0surveilling\u00a0mosques and Islamic study groups, taking pictures and collecting names of innocent\u00a0people. The 19-year-old was born in Queens to Bengali parents and said he was recruited from jail after a series of minor drug arrests.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nypd-informant-says-paid-bait-muslims-160440231.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 news.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He earned as much as $1,000 a month by surveilling mosques and Islamic study groups, taking pictures and collecting names of innocent people. The 19-year-old was born in Queens to Bengali parents and said he was recruited from jail after a series of minor drug arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}