U.S. Muslim group probed for terrorist ties

Washington Times ^ | 02/14/02 | Stve Miller and Jery Spencer

[RaceBannon]

Federal authorities have "ratcheted up" an investigation into suspicions of money-laundering, weapons violations, and other aiding and abetting of terrorist groups by a militant sect of black Muslims that is operating out of rural communes throughout the United States.

The investigation is based on surveillance of activities between a Muslim settlement in southern Virginia and a suspected Middle Eastern terrorist leader.

[RaceBannon]

Is this our next Islamic Attack? Coming from American Citizens? Imagine the race riots this will cause!!

[RaceBannon]

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[2Trievers]

Unbelieveable!

[callisto]

The investigation is based on surveillance of activities between a Muslim settlement in southern Virginia and a suspected Middle Eastern terrorist leader.

Another interesting angle to kep an eye on just north of our border.

[Constitution Day]

On a recent flight, I had the chance to read an extensive article about al-Fuqra in National Review.
I will post the article if it is listed on their website.

-CD

[Tai_Chung]

U.S. Muslim group probed for terrorist ties

It's treason.....let's call it what it is.

[Howlin]

I saw that yesterday!!! Road trip? :-) (But I cannot imagine the people in those counties putting up with that, honestly. Those are the counties that took ALL the white children out of public schools when they were integrated.......and Lunenburg County? Good grief, the Klan runs that place!)

[Constitution Day]

A Junior al Qaeda . . .
. . . Right here at home: Meet al Fuqra.

By John J. Miller, NR national political reporter
January 31, 2001, 9:05 a.m.

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Pakistani authorities have arrested Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani on charges related to the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who went missing more than a week ago while attempting to interview Gilani for a story about shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Pearl's captors have threatened to murder their hostage today if the United States does not release Pakistani prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

ilani is the head of an international organization known as al Fuqra. The group was recently banned in Pakistan, but it also has an extensive network in the United States. NR's John J. Miller wrote about al Fuqra for the December 31 edition of the magazine, reprinted below.

There are a lot of Baptist churches along rural Virginia's Route 615, just south of Appomattox-"where America reunited," as the county welcome sign puts it-but there's only one Sheikh Gilani Lane. A gate and a guardhouse prevent the public from driving very far down it. What lies beyond, however, isn't a closed-off community of rich retirees. Instead, it's a trailer-park compound of black Muslims, or "The Muslims of America," according to a green billboard by the entrance, where an armed guard keeps a wary eye on the main road's traffic.

Until recently, this was the home of Vicente Rafael Pierre, a 44-year-old Brooklyn native with a shadowy past and a dim future. He may never see this home again. Shortly after September 11, federal agents snared him in their roundup of crime suspects who have links to terrorist outfits. Nobody has accused Pierre of any direct connection to the atrocities in New York or elsewhere-he and his wife, Traci Upshur, were taken in on unrelated gun charges and convicted of them on November 30. Yet authorities have detailed Pierre's extensive ties to al Fuqra, a violent group of black Muslims whose members have been implicated in at least 17 bombings and 12 murders over the past twenty years. Pierre's Virginia compound, near the tiny crossroads hamlet of Red House, is believed to serve as an al Fuqra base. Pierre's story is compelling in its own right - anybody connected to al Fuqra is also connected to killers, bombers, and arsonists. During Pierre's detention hearing in October, Thomas P. Gallagher of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms said he and his colleagues were worried about the possibility of "another Waco situation" developing in rural Virginia. More unsettling is the potential for al Fuqra to wreak mayhem beyond its remote compound.

Remainder of article can be found here - CD

[gaspar]

Al Fuqra was very active in and around Detroit in the early 1990s, and in 1995 a study was circulated at a meeting of terrorist experts held in Chicago, which called it the most dangerous movement in America.

American law enforcement then seemed to back off because being 'politically correct' counted for a lot in the FBI. Al Fuqra members spread out through the country and began to work with other Muslim "aid" agencies, at least 55 of which were known to be sending money to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Albania and even the Philippines.

Steve Emerson and Yossef Bodansky have spent nearly a decade trying to warn the administration and the American people of the danger that Bin Ladin and the Muslim fundamentalists posed, and time after time the Clintonites deliberately downplayed their discoveries. It's sa but true, the American people will never understand how much damage the Clinton administration did to America.

[FR_addict]

Most blacks are Christians and do not identify with the Moslems. There has been a renewed patriotism in black communitites.

We should be looking at the religion, not the race. Daniel Pipes has said the new American history text books are describing Jihad as "self improvement." Our children are being taught outright lies about this religion.

[callisto]

Great background article, CD. Thanks for posting it to the thread. These guys appear to have been very busy in the past and their pattern of behavior (i.e. using the system against us, blatant hatred, profiling military and power installations, etc...)certainly fits the profile of the 9/11 terrorists.

An incident in 1989 demonstrated the group's calculated ruthlessness and also introduced Pierre to federal agents. Police on a search warrant raided a Colorado Springs storage locker registered to Pierre's father-in-law, who is also an al Fuqra member. Inside they found information on a scam Pierre and others were running against Colorado's workers' compensation fund; they had defrauded the state of some $355,000 over several years. The locker's other contents were more alarming: ten handguns and silencers, 30 pounds of explosives, and target-practice silhouettes pierced with bullet holes and labeled "FBI Antiterrorist Team" and "Zionist Pig" (in Pierre's handwriting, according to Gallagher). Police also found information on local military installations and electrical power lines, plus "attack plans" against various targets. One of the targets, a moderate imam, was stabbed to death four months later.

[AmericanInTokyo]

regarding 'race riots' there are not a few African Americans I know that would take up arms against the Southern Virginia islamic militants, to protect the US, if it came to that.....

[mondonico]

Exactly right.

[RaceBannon]

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY LINKS TO ARTICLES OF ARABS TAKING PICTURES OF DAMS, BLDS, CHEMICAL PLANTS, ETC?

[Clovis_Skeptic]

This is great news.

The Fresno Bee, that covers this Gateway Charter School area, has no mention of this investigation. Which is par for the course. All they are running re this school is the protest by the children who continue to attend these schools.

[Fireone]

Not only are they terrorists on our soil, we're funding them!! Who is responsible for giving this group and others like it millions of our dollars? I think we need some quick answers and action. Even if it means implicating those gov't employees responsible for funneling this money to them when they're known terrorists. Set up the gallows and get busy!!

[jrlc]

More to file under the "Islam is a Peaceful Religion" category. Let's cut the PC rhetoric. Fundamental Islam is a threat to civilization and should be eliminated from the face of the earth. What do it's "clerics" preach? Boy-buggering, that seems common throughout the Fundamental Islamic world. Women-hating, consistent with boy-buggering. Anti-American violence and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction. May the Allah of Fundamental Islam retreat into the trash of a history filled with tragic false "gods" who led to famine, disease, war and violence. Any religion that preaches hate is no religion at all. These "mullahs" are like cancer cells. Cancer cells have no free speech rights. The only rational approach with cancer cells is to eliminate them as quickly and as completely as possible. Let all mosques be suspect until we see a responsible strain of Islam that is willing to behave like a religion capable of preaching love.

[vooch]

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