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Article posted: 10/23/2012 11:06 AM

Informant: NYPD paid me to ‘bait’ Muslims

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Shamiur Rahman, left, a 19-year-old American of Bengali descent who has now denounced his work, was a paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying bad 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.

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