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Based on an F.B.I. sting, prosecutors were accusing Tarik Shah of agreeing with an undercover F.B.I. informer to train Qaeda fighters in hand-to-hand combat. But the government did not claim that Mr. Shah had met or had contact with any terrorist operative. Victor L. Hou said that the confidential source, whom the defense has identified as Mr. Alanssi, first identified Mr. Farhane to the F.B.I. in the weeks after 9/11 as having radical views of Islam. Based on an F.B.I. sting, prosecutors were accusing Mr. Shah of agreeing with an undercover F.B.I. informer to train Qaeda fighters in 'hand-to-hand combat'. But the government did not claim that Mr. Shah had met or had contacted with any terrorist operative. Mr. Hou wrote that Mr. Farhane, after he was arrested Oct. 26, told investigators that he had introduced Mr. Shah to the informer to help him send money to jihadists overseas. The prosecutors also cast new light yesterday on the role of the government informer, a Yemeni named Mohamed Alanssi, who set himself on fire in front of the White House in November 2004, apparently to protest his handling by F.B.I. agents. 