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Lodi Pakistani community secretly taped for three years
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer

Friday, August 5, 2005


(08-05) 15:08 PDT SACRAMENTO, (AP) --


Federal officials disclosed Friday that they secretly tape-recorded members of Lodi's Pakistani community for nearly three years before bringing terror-related charges against a father and son and seeking to deport two Islamic religious leaders.


Fifty tapes in Urdu and Pashto were turned over this week to lawyers for Hamid Hayat, 22, and his father, Umer Hayat, 47.


The son is charged with lying to the FBI about attending a terrorism camp in Pakistan last year and in 2003. His father is charged with lying when he denied his son had attended such camps. The FBI said the elder Hayat later admitted to flying his son to Pakistan and paying for the camp.


The tapes are a fraction of recordings made by an informant or undercover investigator starting in August 2002, prosecutors and defense attorneys said during a hearing on whether a trial could be held as scheduled Aug. 23.

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