Khan's focus was the two imams at the Lodi mosque, Mohammed Adil Khan and Shabbir Ahmed, whom the government believed had come to Lodi to establish a radical madrassa and shuttle prospective holy warriors between Lodi and Pakistan . His surveillance of the imams failed to turn up evidence the government felt would lead to "a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt," but his recorded conversations with Hamid revealed tendencies that the government felt showed a dangerous anti-American sentiment.