From CNN
He railed against the United States. And then he helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
These were not the actions of a terrorist, but of a paid FBI informant who helped bring down an alleged plot by six Muslim men to massacre U.S. soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix.
The informant's role raises questions of whether the government crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not have otherwise followed. (Watch how the suspects' trip to a video store led to the arrest )
It is an argument -- entrapment -- that has been made in other terrorism cases, and one that has failed miserably in this post-September 11 era. It could resurface today when six Muslim men suspected of plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix appear in federal court Friday morning for a bail hearing.
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