Ahmed Chebli's biggest error seems to have been to agree to meet FBI without having his lawyer present. CAIR (https://www.cair.com/know_your_rights/your-rights-

Ahmed Chebli's biggest error seems to have been to agree to meet FBI without having his lawyer present. CAIR (https://www.cair.com/know_your_rights/your-rights-with-law-enforcement/ https://www.cair.com/know_your_rights/your-rights-with-law-e...) has long been warning people in the Muslim community to never talk to FBI without legal representation and in fact gives free representation in such cases. Ahmed's case is relatively mild. There have been numerous instances of people in the Muslim community entrapped by the FBI into committing "crimes", and subsequently sentenced to long prison terms, where the perpetrator was often a person of low intelligence, just to show that the war on terror was producing results.