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A series of recent speeches shows why Dawud Walid may be the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) most irresponsible official. Walid, executive director of CAIR's Michigan chapter, long has criticized FBI actions without offering any proof. Now he's ratcheting up that criticism with some clearly false claims. According to the CAIR representative:
- The FBI has recruited more extremists than al-Qaida.
- The FBI was "just like" the "perpetrator" in recent terror plots.
- The use of FBI informants is ethically comparable to Jim Crow laws and the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II.
- The FBI "gave" a plot to the suspect in a recent terror case (A court affidavit shows the suspect picked his own target and date).
Walid's remarks followed recent arrests made in a plot to bomb a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore., and a plot to attack a military recruiting center in Catonsville, Md. In both cases, suspects thought they were detonating bombs to kill Americans that turned out to be inert explosives provided by undercover FBI agents.