In this conversation from June 18, 2008, Daniel Patrick Boyd expresses frustration over the delays co-defendant Hysen Sherifi faces in securing a new passport. The bureaucracy is preventing them from practicing Islam, Boyd says, so "you have to make jihad on them." In testimony during an August 4 bond hearing, FBI agent Michael Sutton testified that this was a reference to immigration officials.

Transcript:

Hysen Sherifi:

"Oh, I didn't tell you. Allah is testing me, I have to be more patient. One guy told me, my application is still Charlotte, so it'll be another month before they send it here.

Daniel Boyd:

"I told you that. I told you before. They're going to do this again and again and again. What kind of passport do you have now?"

Sherifi:

"Travel document."

Boyd:

"How about that, huh? We are free human beings to be Muslims, but somehow we are given these travel documents. We can't travel without them."

Sherifi:

"Well, we could before, when it was Shariah. We could go anywhere."

Boyd:

"And non-Muslims, they could come to a Muslim country, no problem. Now, does that mean that they're not letting us practice Islam?"

Sherifi:

"Yeah."

Boyd:

"Then this means you have to make jihad on them."

Sherifi:

"No excuses. (Pause). Insha'allah."

Boyd:

"It's ma shallah. Allah commanded."

Sherifi:

"(Arabic word)."

Boyd:

"Hmm. And the bullets."