As usual: "terrorist" schemes that you read about originate with an FBI informant

"The men, Patrick Nayyar of Flushing and Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland, agreed to sell guns, ammunition, vehicles, bullet-resistant vests and night vision goggles to a man who represented himself as a member of Hezbollah but was an F.B.I. informant, officials said." They seek kooks and crooks to entrap them, it seems to me.