Much of the discovery in the case originated from recordings between Abassi and an undercover agent who spoke Arabic.
The smuggling operation was halted after Navy investigators planted an undercover agent.
An undercover agent had posed as an associate of the Pakistan contact and met Mr Mohamud to discuss the plan, the court papers said.
He was directed to Preacely, who told the undercover agent that if he had inquired earlier during the tax season Preacely would have hired him.
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Under some circumstances, the disclosure of an undercover agent's identity can be a federal crime, though that specific offense was never alleged in this case.
According to prosecutors, an undercover FBI agent met with Asch April 15 to conduct surveillance of a kidnap target, who unbeknownst to Asch was an undercover female agent.
The source later introduced Martinez to a man he described as his "Afghani brother" to assist in the plot, but the man was actually an FBI undercover agent.
The charges against Zimmerman, who was accused of pushing an undercover agent, were later dropped after he entered a pretrial diversion program and completed an anger management class.
Using a cell phone, Nafis then tried to detonate what turned out to be a fake bomb that had been assembled with bogus explosives provided by the undercover agent.
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For six years, he worked as an undercover agent using the name Donnie Brasco and managed to infiltrate one of the five big New York crime families - the Bonannos.
An angry Wilson accused administration officials of deliberately leaking his wife's identity as a CIA operative and ending her career as an undercover agent to retaliate against him for his public criticism.
They range from a love story starring a Hollywood actor, to a home grown tale of music triumphing over adversity, and from an IRA undercover agent intrigue to a Londonderry-based story of youthful angst.
One source became a paid undercover agent for the DEA starting in July and told Oumar Issa that he represented FARC and wanted to secure passage of cocaine through North Africa, the U.S. government claims.
After a little public witness intimidation on Facebook, Camp contacted a potential buyer in New York for the University of Central Missouri identities, not realizing that the purported identity thief was actually an undercover agent.
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Abassi allegedly discussed with the undercover officer his plans to obtain immigration documents fraudulently so he could stay in the United States and engage in terrorism, and his plan included a claim that he was working for a company owned by the undercover agent.
In April last year David Turpin, a member of Washington State University's track squad who was attending the school on a partial scholarship, was arrested and charged with a felony violation of Washington's gambling laws after an undercover agent witnessed him hosting games of Texas Hold 'Em in his apartment and taking 10% of the pots as his fee.
Murtha was caught on tape being offered a bribe by an undercover FBI agent posing as an Arab businessman.
Prosecutors said Abassi told an undercover FBI agent that Esseghaier's plans were good but the time was not right.
An undercover FBI agent had been in contact with Nafis for some time, and had rendered the bomb useless.
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He was arrested at his apartment by an undercover FBI agent--before he was able to sell any of the stock.
Based on the complaint and indictment, much of the evidence was gathered by a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent.
He came to the US in March and kept contact with an undercover FBI agent before his 22 April arrest, they said.
What Mr. Abassi didn't know was that one of his associates, privy to the details of his plan, was an undercover FBI agent.
Karl Rove, President George Bush's chief strategist, is fighting accusations that he leaked the name of Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent (see Rove profile).
"What neither of them counted on was that Richard was an undercover FBI agent, " prosecutor Brian Jacobs told a jury on Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan.
Exposing an undercover CIA agent's identity can be a felony.
Abassi met regularly with an undercover FBI agent and met with another Tunisian citizen who later was arrested in Canada in the plot to derail the train, they said.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby goes on, we are learning more and more about special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation, which was prompted by the leak that Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA agent.
As members heard testimony yesterday regarding the shield law, a reporter sits in a federal jail for refusing to reveal her sources about who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent.
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