The sentencing of the Newburgh 4 will take place on June 29th! We need to make some noise!!! Please come and support the families of the Newburgh 4 in a series of events leading up to the sentencing of these four men!

As many of you know, the entrapment case of the Newburgh 4 reveals the extent to which the government can and has gone in order to manufacture crimes that sustain and reinforce the 'threat' of 'terrorists.' In the Newburgh 4 case, the government implanted informants in the community with the express purpose of inciting and enlisting men to carry out government manufactured 'terrorist' plots--plots that would later be 'foiled' by the government as well. 

According to "Targeted and Entrapped," a recently released report by the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice (CHR&GJ) at NYU, the horror of the Newburgh 4 case can be located in these four findings: 

1) That: the involvement of informants took place without any "previous evidence to suggest that the defendants were planning to commit violent acts before the FBI or NYPD intervened"

2) That: "The government informants not only held themselves out to be Muslims but focused their incitement on Muslims." The focus on the targeting of Muslims is most evident in the government informant's insistence that ALL of the men enlisted in the 'plot' be Muslim. 

3) That: "The government's informants aggressively pushed ideas about the violent jihad and even encouraged the defendants to believe that it was their duty to take action against the United States." The government even "provided defendants with- or encouraged the defendants to acquire- material evidence, such as weaponry....which would later be used to convict them"

4) That: "the government relied on the defendants’ vulnerabilities—poverty and youth, for example—in its inducement methods."

Although the defendants were convicted last October, the NB4 case has brought to the fore several important issues, including the question of government misconduct, racial and religious discrimination and several due process rights issues including the right to a fair trial. Please see CHR&GJ's report, Targeted and Entrapped, for further details about this and other cases involving informants and entrapment, at: http://www.chrgj.org/proje cts/docs/targetedandentrap ped.pdf