Ex- FBI informant involved in shooting, rollover - El Paso Times
The man who allegedly tried to run down an El Paso police officer on Thursday reportedly infiltrated terror cells for the FBI and had claimed on a national television interview that the 9/11 terror attacks could have been prevented.
Assaad, a Catholic native of Lebanon who pretended to be an Islamic extremist, told ABC News that he began working as an undercover informant in FBI stings in the U.S. and overseas in 1996.
Assaad claimed that he met 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta at a small mosque in the Miami area but that his FBI handlers were more interested in stings on wannabe terrorists than following those who turned out to be in al-Qaida.
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