When the FBI tries to recruit a non-US-citizen as an informant, it first offers positive inducements; but if those don't persuade per, they may start harassment of per, even per friends too. The put Aswad Khan on the no-fly list, then put his friends on it too; this terrorized everyone who knew him, so they broke off contact and left him isolated.

This behavior is what I would have expected from the KGB. It hurts that my country is guilty of it. The secrecy and arbitrariness of the no-fly list must be eliminated.

I foresee that Khan will be compelled to turn, for friendship and business, to Pakistanis that are hostile to the US. The FBI has left him no other way to go. His friends must feel resentment to the US also.