Terror susps get an OK to unmask cop

TWO ALLEGED terrorist wanna-bes who got their hands on publicly available pictures of an undercover NYPD officer can now use the images to help build their defense, a Brooklyn federal judge decided Wednesday.

Judge Sterling Johnson refused to make lawyers for Queens women Asia Siddiqui, 33, and Noelle Velentzas, 29, close their eyes to the existence of the images.

According to court papers, the defense wants to show the photos to an investigator and leadership at New York mosques, asking that the clerics post the photos and invite anyone who met the agent to speak with the lawyers.

The duo were nabbed in April 2015, accused of supporting violent jihad and planning to “make history” with a bombing attack.

They could now be planning an entrapment defense, say prosecutors.

On Wednesday, the government wanted Johnson to rethink an earlier ruling in which he said he couldn’t “unscramble a scrambled egg.”

Even still, Johnson — an NYPD officer doing narcotics work decades ago and later the city’s special narcotics prosecutor — said he was deeply concerned the officer's identity has become public.

In the same decision, Johnson said he’d let the undercover agent take the stand in traditional Muslim dress that covers a woman’s face.

But the judge wouldn’t budge on his ruling about the pictures.

The defense is restricted about what discovery material it can disclose to third parties when it comes to information they get from the government.

But the rub came on what the defense could or couldn’t do with information it developed itself.

In October 2015, Gothamist.com and the Huffington Post ran stories about the undercover cop, but they didn't post pictures or use her real name.

The defense used the articles and other public information to figure out the officer’s identity and other facts about her.

Prosecutors insisted there weren’t any public pictures of the undercover officer. Facebook immediately took down a picture of her in April 2015 at the request of police, and wedding photos were also removed, they said.

But the defense said it still could find the images. It noted a Daily Beast article from January that didn’t include pictures — and then added it drummed up photos with a quick online search.

On Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Solomon looked at images brought in by the defense. He said he’s met with the officer but couldn’t “say for sure” it was the same person he was looking at in the photos.

He asked Johnson for time to investigate, but the judge said there wasn’t any need.

“If it is the undercover, I made a decision,” he said.

One of Siddiqui’s lawyers, Linda Moreno, declined to talk to the Daily News about investigative steps beyond what’s been said in court.

“However, we are gratified by the court’s ruling that we are able to investigate our case fully,” she added.