Anyway, here's what came out in the trial today:

An FBI informant repeatedly pushed a terror suspect to attend an Al-Qaida camp while he was in Pakistan, at one point yelling at him in a telephone conversation: "Be a man -- do something!"

His [the informant's] attorney, Wazhma Mojaddidi, has previously said the government paid Khan [the informant] $250,000 since it recruited him shortly after the 2001 terror attacks. He was working at a fast-food restaurant in Bend, Ore., at the time. Khan, 32, emigrated from Pakistan as a teenager and was awarded U.S. citizenship after he became an informant, according to previous testimony.

He struck up a friendship with Hayat shortly after arriving in Lodi in May 2002 as part of an FBI effort to infiltrate the area's Pakistani community.

My inclination, based just on what I've read in the paper, is to think Hayat is innocent. But imagine, if you will, that he was a person who, thanks to the efforts of this agent provacateur, not only did attend a terrorist training camp, but then subsequently slipped into Afghanistan and set off a bomb which killed U.S. troops (this didn't happen, of course, I'm just posing a hypothetical here). This is the kind of dangerous game the U.S. government routinely plays. And it's something to keep in mind when you read, for example, about the bombing of the Golden Mosque of Samarra.

Back here, if you, like many of my readers, are an activist, beware the agent provacateur, the person who is always egging you on to "attack the cops" or engage in other illegal activities (and I'm not talking here about civil disobedience or the like). Chances are at least reasonable they're a cop themselves, or a least a paid informant, doing their best not only to entrap you personally, but to destroy the organization you're part of. Don't let them succeed in their evil game.