Posted on 05/27/2004 9:39:31 AM PDT by wjersey
The FBI, IRS and INS were all involved in this morning's raid. The Counter-Terrorism Task Force raided a home and a mosque in Northeast Philadelphia on Wakeling Street.
It happened at the home of 45-year-old Muhammad Gurab and his family. He is an Egyptian national who came to the U.S. 4 years ago and started a mosque.
The man's wife, Meriem Moumen, tells Action News they were on their way to drop their daughter off at school when the police pulled up behind them with the lights flashing and demanded that the family get out of the car.
She tells Action News that the agents brought them back to their home and the mosque and searched through both buildings. Agents kept asking them where the guns and weapons were, she said, and where they get their money.
Sources tell Action News that the investigation does revolve around possible ties to terrorism, but the U.S. Attorneys Office says they can not yet comment on what happened in Northeast Philadelphia.
No charges have been officially filed, but the imam has been taken into custody for questioning about possible terror connections.
Action News has learned there were similar raids in other parts of the city. Tune in to Action New tonight starting at 5pm for the very latest.
send him back to eqypt.
Cool, hopefully there will be more such raids very soon.
This was bound to happen sooner or later - how can we tell the good guys from the bad?
O NO raided a holy shrine.
In the holy city of Philadelphia!
Whatever the facts are in this case, Egypt has been behind much of the Arab nationalism and terrorism of the past sixty years. It is the place where ancient Muslim fanaticism has allied itself with modern totalitarian ideologies such as Nazism and Communism.
Why are we giving Egypt $2 billion a year in foreign aid while their government sponsors police raids against Coptic Christians and trains small children to hate Jews and Americans?
I was struck by Ashcroft's use of the phrase "clear and present danger" yesterday. Made me wonder if the whole point of the news conference was to invoke that standard and then use it as a basis for a series of upcoming raids. Too coincidental that they raided this mosque the same day that Abu Hamza was seized in the UK.
LOL. I hear Reuters is taking applications...
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
interesting FYI ping...but wish we had more details.
Re#10 Good observation. Methinks too that there has been a whole lot of evidence gathering in the meanwhile as well making now the time to strike. Godspeed to our law enforcement....
Algore promptly called for the resignation of the State of Pennsylvania.
The way we handled it before:
ALIEN ORDER REMOVAL OFFICES SET UP
More articles of this sort:
"clear and present danger"
Tom Clancy strikes again.
A mosque of the religion of peace? how can this be?
Egypt is the home of the Islamic Brotherhood, granddaddy of islamist terror networks around the world.
Stay tuned.
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