NEWBURGH – The last of four black Muslim men who were sent to federal prison for allegedly plotting to shoot down military planes at the Stewart Air National Guard Base and blow up Jewish institutions in the Bronx in 2010 were not terrorists as the federal government had alleged. That assessment comes from Imam Dr. Salahuddin Muhammad, the spiritual leader who took up their cause when they were arrested in Newburgh.
The last of the four men is being released from federal prison after a judge said they were dupped by a bad government informant.
The imam said he knew from the start that the men had been set up by the feds.
“The government radicalized. They were guys on the block smoking marijuana, drinking beer and shooting the breeze and they had their terrible informant come in and promise these guys so much and they got caught up in that situation,” he told Mid-Hudson News.
The imam said the four were “stupid enough to go for that.”
He said no amount of money they were promised is worth taking a life.
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