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03/31/2012 7:15:00 PM
FBI designs sting operations all year long. 90 out of 100, are designed for entrapment, to the perfection!.... Bravo to the LA field Office though, From my experience, they make their goal of 100 out of 100!
It doesn't matter what race or religion you are, for these people, it's about what makes them look good!... They spend crap load of money and the results don't look good on the paper, it's a big F..!
So they try to make themselves look better by targeting a group of people who are under the "spotlight"!!!
Guess what!... Muslims and Middle easterns are the "IT" thing for the media these days, therefore, targeted by FBI more often!....
They figure if they stop couple of terrorist attacks, and put couple of couple these "Muslims" in prison, they will be loved a little more!...Now the sad part is that most of these targets don't exist!... It's entrapment all the way.
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03/31/2012 7:09:00 PM
Just when you think you are doing the right thing. Sometimes all that looks right, is all wrong!... We trust the authorities and won't question their practices...Worst mistake I have ever made in my life!.. Complete trust in Government and then move on to do the "Right Thing"
Who do we go to when the very root of our problem, is caused by our protector?!...Talk about being in a corner....
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OC local 08/20/2011 7:32:00 AM
Aaron, if you read the story, he's a great con artist, who has been professionally trained by numerous government agencies, including the FBI. He conned lots of people. He may be watching your sister or mom or girlfriend, too, because he lives in your neighborhood.
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RACINGREED0606@ATT.NET 03/01/2011 4:26:00 AM
I WIS I COULD BE THERE ON HIS JUDGEMENT DAY. BURN IN HELL
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RACINGREED06@ATT.NET 03/01/2011 4:24:00 AM
THIS GUY S REALLY BAD FOR EVERYTHING HE DOES, EVERYTHING HE IS, bELIEVE ME i HAVE DELT WITH HIM. HI IS THE LOWEST OF LOW.
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RACINGREED06@ATT.NET 03/01/2011 4:21:00 AM
HE IS A SCAM ARTIST THAT TAKES MONEY FROM STRUGLING MOTHERS. HE WILL BURN IN HELL . CARMA WILL GET HIM IN THE END, HE WILL PAY FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE..
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Robtgoodman 02/27/2011 5:09:00 AM
When is this damn liar and thief going to be locked up! I saw him taken away in handcuffs in court for his cheating. He extorted money from me, and he is still at it, hurting others.
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Robtgoodman 02/27/2011 5:03:00 AM
I was not only conned by this asswipe, but threatened to give him money. Monteilh should not be trusted by anybody, including and especially, the FBI!
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Laura 06/14/2009 4:23:00 PM
I sure would like to know what Craig is doing with all the money he is making on his latest con. Would love to get the money owed to me after he and his wife took my family for a ride. Craig knew exactly what he was doing and had a specific plan in mind for us. What he didn't bank on was that we were on to him, and his wife,Sonya, too. These two are a team. They planned this whole "coming out" story. They wanted to look "legit" by having the nice little Irvine house and nice little Irvine family. They were renting a room in my house, for which they never paid a dime to us. Imagine how I felt when I came home for lunch one day to find every major news van in front of my home, and this con holding a press conference in my living room. I took us several months to get these two out of my house. I finally went and filed a restraining order. All I can say is, Craig and Sonya, you better start paying up to all these people you have ripped off...because if we all get together ...... you can rest assured, any money you have "supposedly" coming from the FBI, or where ever, is going to the long list of people you have wronged. Since you were a "Pastor" you should know that what you give will be returned to you 10 fold!
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OC 06/09/2009 12:38:00 PM
Hey Aaron, you obviously did not read the story. The women did not buy narcotics. They were not attempting to do so, and never saw any drugs. If this guy can con the FBI, he is a good con artist. He's a career criminal who has been lying and stealing his entire life.
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Gabriel 06/06/2009 6:21:00 AM
Most of these comments by "Muslims" on this article are completely fake, probably written by Craig himself. may God guide or get rid of that guy.
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Ricky 05/23/2009 3:36:00 AM
Has an informant ever revealed himself before like this? You gotta admit. Gutsy move. You can call it stupid if you want. But gutsy.
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Nicco 05/23/2009 1:52:00 AM
Hey, the feds used this guys recorded evidence at Niazi's bail hearing. So he obviously did some good for the government.
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Dwayne 05/22/2009 11:13:00 PM
Hey, I heard the informant Craig Monteilh last night on KFI-640-AM. Sounds like he knows what he's talking about. I even saw the interview on television. Good stuff. My question is what happened with him and the FBI? We've never seen this type of scenerio before. At least I haven't.
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Aaron 05/22/2009 10:20:00 PM
What kind of stupid women would give a guy over $150,000? Either he's a great con artist or they're really dumb. And cops charged him with ripping them off on a drug deal? Are they serious? He did prison time for that? Did cops arrest those women for attempting to purchase illegal narcotics? I don't think so. Great justice system. No wonder this informant came out the way he did.
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howie 05/22/2009 8:49:00 PM
how did the fbi find this guy?
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George S. 05/22/2009 5:51:00 AM
Yes, I saw in the news those Muslim men arrested for terror related charges. They will continue to attack our way of life. As this informant said, "Islam is a threat to our national security."
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zuffar 05/22/2009 12:27:00 AM
this informant is in the l.a. times, oc register, sgv tribune, kfi radio, almost every paper throughout this country and the middle east. i even saw him on koce (pbs). whats next for this guy. dateline? 20/20? 60 minutes? cnn? a movie? a book? what a ride he's having. i heard at friday prayers last week he's making a lot of money.
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Harold 05/21/2009 7:57:00 PM
*4 people were arrested yesterday in New York on terrorism charges for attemting to detonate a bomb at a Temple and shoot down military planes with stinger missles*
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Sairah 05/21/2009 4:13:00 PM
steiberg - you wouldn't happen to be a zionist would you?
Original comments I must say (douche).
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Robert Steiberg 05/21/2009 10:13:00 AM
Those people are all terrorists. The average American does not know the mind of a Muslim. As long as the American military is present in the Middle East these psychos and fanatics will try to wage jihad against the United States. They are planning and plotting attacks against this country. And they're planning and plotting in the mosques. The FBI had the right idea by planting an informant in those Orange County mosques. Kudos to the FBI. And I also agree with the informant that Islam is a threat to the national security of the United States.
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faduz 05/21/2009 8:09:00 AM
farouk al-aziz (the informant) was supposed to be another hamza yusef, suhaib webb, or yusuf estes. there were imams pointing him in that direction. i remember him at the masjid in irvine. everyone including me loved this guy. he turned out to be an fbi informant. they betrayed us. this hurt will never go away. he was in our masjids.
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ali 05/21/2009 6:58:00 AM
i really hate to admit it, but their plan did work. farouk (craig monteilh) was actually recruited by jihadists. i know for a fact because i witnessed it. i witnessed craig being recruited by the egyptian muslim brotherhood. he was also recruited by al-qaeda (niazi and his people). somali mujahideen recruited him. as well as hezbollah. farouk was all over orange county. that informant shook up the islamic community. he turned it upside down. no one trusts anyone anymore. really. it will never be the same again. the fbi accomplished a lot because monteilh was everywhere. this guy was speaking arabic. memorizing quran. memorizing hadith. this guy was highly trained. as much as we hate to admit it no one even myself ever suspected him. he was that good. we just don't want to admit it. he was good. he fooled us all.
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Connie S. 05/21/2009 4:44:00 AM
I think intelligent citizens know what is going on at mosques. I for one am glad the FBI hired a competent informant to gather evidence against these criminals. Obviously through all these comments these terrorists hate the informant because the method worked. I say good job FBI. And good job informant.
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salim 05/21/2009 1:31:00 AM
we shouldn't be putting the names out in public like that. monteilh is the enemy. remember that!
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Walid 05/21/2009 12:23:00 AM
I think the FBI knew what they were doing. This con man was in every masjid. And the "Who's Who" taught this guy Quran. Just read the names: Sadullah Khan, Yassir Fazaga, Muhammad ibn Faqi, Mustafa Kamil, Ahmad Sakr, Mohammed Elsisy, Mohammed Abdel-Rahim, Yusef Estes. Just to name a few. He even had an appointment with Suhaib Webb. Yeah, the feds knew what they were doing.
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Mohammed 05/20/2009 10:38:00 PM
Brother Hassan in his comment on May 2nd tells the informant to watch his back because he is an apostate Muslim. This is true. But the informant knows this since he knows the Holy Quran. He better watch his back.
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amir 05/20/2009 7:45:00 PM
i remember that guy at the masjid.
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shaheed 05/20/2009 9:01:00 AM
i don't care what anybody says, he's an apostate muslim.
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Ali Rahman 05/20/2009 8:52:00 AM
This whole saga has gotten way out of hand. FBI, Islamic Community, and the Informant. This will become a movie. A book. I know several brothers who knew and spoke daily to this informant. Surah 2, Aya 217. This is for Craig Monteilh, aka Farouk al-Aziz.
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jamaal 05/20/2009 7:49:00 AM
i have seen for myself and hear from others that this guy brazenly walks around orange county without a care in the world. i've seen him in stores, coffee houses, gas stations and jogging in irvine. he thinks we're weak. this guy fears nothing. he violates the sanctity of our mosques (about 10 or more) and just goes about his every day life. he gets the restraining order vacated. he's doing all these interviews and says on the air hussam ayloush and cair have ties to terror organizations. then he said islam is a threat to national security. this guy does and says whatever he wants. well, here's something to think of: he's an apostate muslim. you know what that means. someone should let him know that.
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Nabil 05/20/2009 7:03:00 AM
You should have kicked him ..........hard.
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Bishid Ahmed 05/20/2009 6:40:00 AM
I saw that con man at Nordstroms in the Spectrum. He was buying 2 Armani suits. $2,200 per suit. Tailor made. I followed him. He was with some hot chick. I should have kicked him in the balls.
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Ibrahim al-Mustafa 05/20/2009 6:04:00 AM
The Ummah needs to stop volunteering information. This sight is monitored by the people Craig Monteilh works for. I've read the articles and saw the footage of KOCE-TV. Craig directly calls Islam a threat to America's national security. We shouldn't be ashamed to speak about or believe in jihad. I'm not ashamed. What pisses me off is this guy managed to infiltrate our sacred places of worship and record us on behalf of the U.S. government. He infiltrated 10 mosques. This is an outrage. And no one is doing anything only complaining. I heard there is a fatwa out on Craig. Good! He deserves it. What is CAIR doing? Come on.
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Asim 05/20/2009 5:27:00 AM
I'm glad you wrote what you did Abu Omar. That took courage. I too remember Farouk. But I remember him at the masjid in Garden Grove. There were about 20 brothers in a discussion about jihad. They talked about training camps in Yemen. This Craig guy participated in the conversation, but Ahmad Niazi and Mohammed El-sisy were the obvious leaders. A guy named Ashruf kept on saying muslims should strike the U.S. militarily. Craig just agreed. We didn't know he was an FBI informant. I hope that conversation wasn't recorded.
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Abu Omar 05/20/2009 5:11:00 AM
In depth story. I knew Craig at the Irvine masjid. And this may sound strange but I personally witnessed Sheikh Sadullah and other Imams teaching him about jihad. He was very close to Ahmad Niazi.
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Khalid 05/07/2009 7:48:00 AM
Shame that he is an apostate, apostates are damned to eternal hell.
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Ted B. Kissell 05/06/2009 11:35:00 PM
Commenters:
Gabriel's first comment seems to have disappeared because of a technical glitch. It's still in our system and should reappear within the next hour or so, but Gabriel, feel free to re-post it if you don't want to wait that long.
Thanks for pointing out that it was missing.
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Ted B. Kissell 05/06/2009 11:35:00 PM
Ah, there it is...
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Umar Mailhes 05/06/2009 4:46:00 PM
Why was the post of another brother in the area deleted? This makes no sense. He said nothing AntiAmerican or against anyone who isn't Muslim. It makes no sense.
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Gabriel 05/06/2009 4:39:00 PM
why was my comment removed? I believe that is a violation of my first amendment rights. I Was just speaking the truth. I am the only Muslim from OC who commented here and has seen the guy, shouldnt my comment be of some value?
enraged,
-Gabriel
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Gabriel 05/06/2009 4:34:00 PM
Why was my comment removed? I feel this is a barring of my first amendment rights.
thanks,
Gabriel
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Gabriel 05/06/2009 2:59:00 PM
Hi. I am a Muslim who has seen that individual at the Irvine Masjid. The man is a clown, con-man, and a liar. He completely lies about almost everything. No Muslim in Orange county would think about making a bomb. The moment I read that, the moment I knew that this guy has some alterior agenda and completely fabricates things to get attention (or money, id ont know)
Muslims loading mosque with barrels? Any Muslim from OC reading that knows that is the largets bunch of nonsense. Muslims load mosque kitchens etc. with many things, but not bombs LOL
This loser needs to be arrested, seriously,
-Gabriel, age 20
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Brian C. Hoff 05/04/2009 1:19:00 AM
I believe that the FBI is than out of control criminal org that needed to be disband. They refuse to arrest president Bush when the house impeach him in 2008 not doing they job.
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Charles 05/03/2009 4:53:00 PM
Gee, Hassan, I wonder if you read the part where it said he "pretended" to convert. Also, uttering words does not mean anything. It is what is in your heart that matters. If he just uttered the words of shahada without having any intent in his heart and soul, then his "conversion" is false. It really doesn't seem that complicated.
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Ltpar 05/03/2009 1:07:00 AM
Working Criminal cases is a difficult and thankless job at best. Most law enforcement people do not have the appearance or cultural background to handle many complex investigations. With this in mind, if you want to discover and prosecute drug dealers you look where they hang out and use informants who live in that environment. The same applies to gangs, corrupt politicians, white collar crime and yes, even terrorism. There is no racial, ethnic or gender profiling, just good old fashioned investigative work. In most terrorism investigations it is even more difficult because of the tightly knit, closed culture of the potential suspects, whether they be domestic or foreign born. Yes, there are ongoing investigations involving American extremist groups, but you hear no hue and cry about profiling of these people. From a foreign terrorist approach, the vast majority of attacks both at home and abroad have been by radical Islamic groups. When tasked with locating and disabling latent terrorist cells in the United states, and they do exist, the FBI doesn't look at the Elks Club, American Legion or the YMCA. Rarely, if ever are random investigations conducted of a Muslim Mosque, without specific information to indicate that suspicious activity is happening there. In the investigation in question, the informant was a person of questionable character, but not untypical of the types of people used. The challenge in such a case is for the law enforcement agent to closely moniter, supervise and direct the actions of the informant. Since the FBI is a highly professional and competent organization, I am confident that the informant was supervised properly. It is interesting to note, that enough information was obtained for the U.S. Attorney to get an indictment. Of course, a common tactic of all criminal defendants is to allege; entrapment, false evidence or in this case religious profiling. I strongly suggest that people avoid a rush to judgement and let it unfold in court. A jury will then decide if the FBI did their job, whether the informant is credible and if the person arrested is guilty of a crime. Let's give the system a chance.
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Hassan 05/02/2009 11:58:00 PM
abooismail from pittsburgh....just to correct your ignorance, quoted from the article:
"After converting to Islam�or pretending to�in a public ceremony at the mosque, Monteilh began regularly attending prayers there in August 2006."
So if he said the shahada, the one-line statement of faith that marks the single requirement for converting to Islam "Ash-hadu an la ilaha ill Allah. Wa ash-hadu ana Muhammad ar-rasullallah" (�There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet�) - then he's officially a Muslim. If now he says he isn't - then he's an apostate as far as Islam's concerned.
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abooismail 05/02/2009 11:03:00 PM
Hassan in Detroit....just to correct your ignorance, this creep never became a Muslim, therefore, he did not apostate.
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abooismail 05/02/2009 10:59:00 PM
A patriot and a dirt-ball. 'How to build trust with the feds 101'.
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Hassan 05/02/2009 8:11:00 PM
Just because Monteilh is a clown, does not mean that these potential bad actors shouldn't be monitored. Underreported is that the Ft. Dix Six, which had a somewhat shady undercover informant, just got stiff, life + 38 yr sentences for plotting attacks.
Interesting that the radiological tests were inconclusive - highlights the direction the intelligence community is afraid that the Islamofascists want to take the war they started.
As far as religious/racial profiling, and Karin Friedemann comments about synagogues, well if Jews were flying planes into buildings in the US to murder US citizens in the name of Judaism, and had as central religious tenet that they must convert, subjugate, or kill non-Jews, then yes synagogues (or any religious sect that espoused such beliefs) should be monitored.
Oh, and Craig Monteilh, since you are most likely considered an apostate, the Koran places a death sentence on you - so you better watch your back.
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Billy Bobb 05/02/2009 4:46:00 PM
Thanks, "Karin".
Please see a professional, you're crying out for help.
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rah 05/02/2009 3:10:00 AM
It is a high time we changed our Criminal Justice System and get back to having a regular Justice system. A Criminal Justice System which turn innocents into criminals and criminals into innocents is a system we don't need.
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Amina 05/02/2009 2:20:00 AM
Religious profiling of ANY faith group is unacceptable -- and this story helps show that it's useless as well.
This is an extraordinary article, presenting a complex situation in a clear manner. Kudos to the journalist for writing such a comprehensive piece -- he clearly did his research.
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Karin Friedemann 05/02/2009 12:30:00 AM
If the FBI wants to track down some REAL terrorists, they need to start hanging out at the synagogues, not mosques.
