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Pakistan complains about US sting

London Guardian | August 10 2004

Pakistan has protested to the US about an FBI sting operation involving a fake plot to kill Pakistan's UN ambassador, describing it yesterday as a "mind-boggling" and dangerous mission.

The FBI set up the sting to try to snare Muhammed Hossain, the founder of a mosque in Albany, New York, and its prayer leader, Yassin Aref, after surveillance beginning about a year ago.

The operation involved money laundering, a shoulder-fired missile and the fake plot.

An FBI informant in the case told Hossain and Aref he was working with an Islamist extremist group in Pakistan and said the missile would be used to assassinate the envoy.

Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman, Masood Khan, said the plan could have endangered the envoy's life.

"It is mind-boggling why they could not use the name of an American functionary," he told reporters. "We hope that the US will realise its mistake and give instructions for rectifying this faulty methodology."

Aref and Hossain were arrested after raids this month on houses and the Masjid As-Salaam mosque. US authorities said the arrests were not related to the newly raised threat of attacks on financial buildings in New York, Washington and New Jersey.

"At one level this is a bizarre story, at another quite dangerous," Mr Khan said.

Pakistan is a key ally of the US in its "war on terror", and has handed over hundreds of al-Qaida suspects and Taliban supporters to Washington since September 11 2001.