Egyptian Was Fort Dix Six informant

The man who infiltrated the Fort Dix Six terror group has been identified:

The paid informant who infiltrated a group of men accused of plotting an armed attack on Fort Dix was convicted of federal bank fraud in 2001 and sentenced to six months in prison.

Mahmoud A. Omar pleaded guilty just weeks after his arrest and agreed to testify against the ringleader of a counterfeit-check-cashing scheme who recruited him.

Omar, an Egyptian national who said he entered the United States illegally through Mexico, was released from prison in February 2002, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Although he was married to an American woman, he would have been eligible for deportation at that time. How Omar then became an informant in one of the biggest cases of so-called homegrown terrorism isn't known.

Omar was identified during a hearing in federal court Tuesday by Michael Huff, one of the attorneys for the Fort Dix defendants. It was the first time either of the two paid FBI informants in the case had been mentioned.

Deportation or stopping terror attack against our soldiers, I think we made a good choice keeping this guy around.