September 11 attacks of 2001

Civil liberties advocates and legal scholars say the case is part of a pattern since the September 11 attacks of 2001 in which paid informants are sent to mosques where they aid and encourage disgruntled Muslim men in criminal pursuits.” We’re concerned that it was the actions of the FBI informant that really led to the alleged plot," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Police on May 20 arrested four men who they said worked with an undercover informant for a year and were caught on video leaving what they believed were live bombs outside a pair of synagogues in the Bronx borough of New York. The men then planned to shoot down military aircraft with a guided surface-to-air missile that, like the explosives, was deactivated and provided by the informant, authorities said. The suspects -- James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen -- are charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and face up to life in prison if convicted.

ITT Education was off 8 percent at $108.03, DeVry Inc was off 5 percent at $50.77, while Apollo Group was down nearly 2 percent at $74.43.Obama's budget proposal for fiscal 2010, which begins on October 1, forecasts a huge deficit of $1.75 trillion and sets ambitious goals for reforming healthcare, stabilizing the economy and raising taxes on the wealthy. The student loan proposal does not set a clear timetable for phasing out the Federal Family Education Loan Program, or FFELP, the foundation of student lending for decades.”

Investors may have to await release of a more comprehensive budget document in late March or early April for more detail," said Charles Gabriel, a managing director at Washington-based consultants Capital Alpha Partners. But the proposal brings to a head years of criticism that the FFELP is too expensive, provides lenders with excessive subsidies, and ties higher education funding too closely to the unpredictable ups and downs of Wall Street.