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OK - now in Taliban support trial of Hossain, Day 3, cooperating witness Suhail is on cross examination innercitypress.com/sdnytrial3tali… Inner City Press is not being allowed to see but can hear and will live tweet, thread below

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Federal Defender Dalack: This is a message from Delowar [Hossain] to me, on the day he met you in the mosque in The Bronx?
Long interpretation. FD asks to show it to jurors.
Suhair: This is the 2nd mosque.
FD Dalack: Let me take a step back. Based on your direct

AUSA: Objection. Misstates the testimony.
Judge Stein: What day was it? Was it the first day you met the defendant? April 20, 2018?
Suhail: I believe it was a different day.
FD Dalack: You went to the mosque looking for someone at the request of the FBI, correct?

Suhail: Yes.
FD Dalack: And that the first time you met Delowar, correct?
Suhail: We met at the first mosque. Then he sent me the address of the 2d mosque.
FD Dalack: He texted you, correct?
Suhail: No.

[It's like, Who's on the first
mosque?]
Judge Stein: Approximately how many days between when you met him and Gov Ex 505 on the screen?
Suhail: Perhaps uh, two weeks, three weeks, a little more or less.

Suhail: Three week or more. Maybe less.
FD Dalack: The Arabic there says El Yom, which means today, right?
Judge Stein: It says today?
AUSA: Mr Dalack can't translate Arabic for us.
Judge Stein: Just circle the areas.

Suhail: It is possible I took a snap shot of this message to send it over to the FBI, like they asked.
FD Dalack: Do you know how iMessage works?
Suhali: What's iMessage?
FD Dalack: It's the application we're looking at.
AUSA: Objection.

FD Dalack: So this invites you to the mosque on Ward Avenue in The Bronx, right?
AUSA: Objection.
Judge Stein: I'll allow it.
Interpreter: Could the court reporter read the question back?
FD Dalack: Look at what I've circled

FD Dalack: Wasn't this the time of Friday prayers?
Suhail: Could be.
FD: What number did you text from?
Suhail: Later on the provided me another phone, just to text with him. Not use personal phone. Use work phone, they tell me.
FD: 9916 was your personal phone

Judge Stein: Look away from the document. Is your recollection refreshed?
Suhial: No.
FD Dalack: OK.
Judge Stein: Take the exhibit down.

FD Dalack: He wanted you to wake him from a nap when you got to the mosque?
AUSA: Objection.
Judge Stein: How much longer?
FD: Several hours.

FD Dalack: You goal was to find him when you got the mosque, right, and wake him?
Suhail: Yes.
FD Dallack: You told the FBI about it?
Suhail: Yes.
FD: But they didn't pay you?
Suhail: Not for this.

FD: You called Delowar on May 17, 2018, right?
Suhail: Maybe.
FD: You wanted info for the FBI?
[It's 5:03] Stories later on InnerCityPress.com & reon.com/MatthewRussell… - next, though, vlog describing the scene