Torres
I don't exist. I'm a spook. They called me to do an assignment in Pittsburgh. Whatever the case may be, if they want me to do surveillance, I'm gonna do it, you know? I need the money. I need the money. I mean, these are just -- These are all targets that's in suspected areas. For some reason, they got a big population of Muslims that come from the various countries over there to come to school here -- Moroccans, Somalis, Iranians, Saudis. And then they all go back to where they come from. I don't have no feelings for them. You making Islam look bad, you got to go.
Cellphone vibrates
Torres
They want to make a big bust.
Camera shutter clicks
Torres
And they want to bust this guy and whoever else is his associates regarding that. Just gave me his picture and told me, "Look, this is the POI."
Woman
What is POI?
Torres
Person of interest. His name is Khalifah. He wasn't Muslim all the time. He was a thug. Always fighting with the police. He did time. He's walking around looking like the Taliban.
al-Akili
My name is Khalifah al-Akili, and I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Speaks native language
al-Akili
"The belly of the beast."
Torres
His whole concept is about the government. He don't like the government. He doesn't really go out and speak in public about that. He does it on Facebook.
Cellphone vibrates
Torres
Even though this guy's a Muslim, I'm Muslim, but that's -- that's as far as it go. He and I has nothing in common at all. Music-wise, politics, culture -- none of it.
al-Akili
My name is Khalifah al-Akili from Pittsburgh. In 1991, I accepted Islam, took Shahada.
Woman
What was the religion that you were born into?
al-Akili
Well...
Chuckles
al-Akili
We're all born Muslim, but I was raised Protestant. Shariff left me alone in his truck, and when he did that, there was a letter sitting on the dashboard from the welfare office. So I picked it up and I snapped a picture of it, 'cause I knew he was FBI. Wanted to know who this guy was. And his real name is Saeed S. Torres.
Torres
It's like my third time. "You can no longer message..."
Mutters
Torres
"...learn more." So he said, "All right, you can no longer." So that means he don't want to correspond with me. Watch this. I'm gonna call these
bleep
Torres
and let them know. Yo, J. I don't know what's going on. He done blocked me from the knife. He knew that was me. All right. Okay. All right, later. I told him, I said, "I'm not here to entrap nobody." They're trying to make me force this dude into saying something to support terrorism. I said, "The dude is not a
bleep
Torres
terrorist, man. He's not even a pseudo-terrorist. He's nothing but an oxymoron." I said, "And what y'all been doing for the last three years? Y'all ain't seen nothing. If y'all ain't seen nothing, what y'all expect me to see?"
al-Akili
I haven't done anything to anybody.
Man
Get that squared away.
al-Akili
Muhammad said, "Beware of the supplication of the person who is unjustly treated." This is wrong. I haven't done anything to anyone. Can you please try to get ahold of someone to help my wife, please? Please, man.
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