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‘Honest to God, It Was Never My Intention to Help Those Idiots for What They Do in the Name of Islam’

That’s what Ahmad Wais Afzali, who was convicted of lying to police and informing would-be terrorist Najibullah Zazi that he was being monitored, had to say about his role in the foiled Queens terror plot. He claims he was just trying to keep a handful of men he’d known since they were boys out of trouble. “I’m standing in front of you as a convicted felon, a lying imam, which is a physical, emotional and spiritual burden far greater than any sentence you could impose,” he told a judge yesterday. [NYT]

‘Honest to God, It Was Never My Intention to Help Those Idiots for What They Do in the Name of Islam’