Craig Monteilh

Suit Claims FBI Told Mosque Informant To Get Dirt On Sex Lives, Drug Use Of Worshipers

Ryan J. Reilly and Melissa Jeltsen | February 24, 2011, 10:57AM

Craig Monteilh

The FBI allegedly told an informant who infiltrated a California mosque to dig up dirt on the immigration status, sexual activities, business problems and drug use of members of the community. A discrimination lawsuit filed against the Bureau this week charges that they hoped to use the information to convince those members to become FBI informants.

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Ahmadullah Sais Niazi

CAIR: Feds Charged Muslim Man After He Refused To Cooperate

Eric Lach | December 8, 2010, 8:49AM

A group of men gather in prayer during the first day of Ramadan at the Masjid An-Noor Mosque.

On Monday, we told you about Craig Monteilh, the rogue FBI informant so enthusiastic about finding terrorists in a California mosque that community members reported him to the FBI. Monteilh went public and sued the FBI after the fiasco, and, more recently, terror-related charges were dropped against mosque member Ahmadullah Sais Niazi, who was indicted apparently in large part because of information supplied by Monteilh.

But there's another twist. Niazi claims he was charged only after refusing to become an informer himself.

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Craig Monteilh

WaPo: Concerned California Muslims Reported FBI Plant To The FBI

Eric Lach | December 6, 2010, 3:45PM

A group of men gather in prayer during the first day of Ramadan at the Masjid An-Noor Mosque.

Questions about entrapment have dogged counter-terrorism cases for some time, most recently in the case of the Oregon man charged with trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony. Now, from The Washington Post, comes the story of Craig Monteilh, a self-proclaimed FBI informant who was so aggressive in his quest to find potential terrorists at a California mosque that the community got a restraining order against him.

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