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In November of last year, 24-year-old Yassine Ouassif, a Moroccan-born legal U.S. resident, was given an ultimatum by the FBI: become a federal informant within his Muslim community in San Francisco, or else. According to the July 11 Wall Street Journal, FBI counterterrorism agent Daniel Fliflet told Ouassif that if the young Moroccan refused to become an informant, "I will work hard to deport you to Morocco as soon as possible."
"I want to tell you something important," continued Special Agent Fliflet. "America is just like a bus, and you have a choice to make: Either you board the bus or you leave."
Ouassif won a green card in a State Department lottery in 2001. Last September he flew back to Morocco to visit family. For no apparent reason apart from the FBI's desire to blackmail him into becoming an informant, Ouassif's name was put on a "no-fly list." As a result, an airliner he boarded in Paris ...