Reports last week suggested that the Newburgh four — the men arrested Wednesday for plotting to bomb two New York synagogues — perhaps weren’t the swiftest ships in her majesty’s fleet. But over the weekend, people close to the four came forward to describe how the government informant at the center of the case against them — the man known to the suspects as Maqsood — aggressively courted the men before luring them into an imagined jihad.
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