The Masjid As-Salam mosqe in downtown Albany, N.Y., is seen Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004. Federal agents and Albany police raided the mosque Wednesday night, Aug. 4. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)
Posted on 08/05/2004 6:18:03 AM PDT by Lady GOP
ALBANY, N.Y. — Federal agents and Albany police raided a Muslim mosque overnight Wednesday and arrested two men for helping someone they thought was a terrorist, a law enforcement official confirmed to FOX News on Thursday.
A block of downtown Albany (search) was sealed off with armed officers for several hours after the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agents executed search warrants at the Masjid As-Salam mosque (search) and two Albany-area residences, officials said.
Yassin Muhhiddin Aref, 34, the Imam of the mosque, and Mohammed Mosharref Hoosain, the 49-year-old founder of the mosque, were arrested early Thursday morning. They are accused of reaching out to someone they thought was a terrorist trying to get a shoulder-fired missile to down planes in the United States.
FOX News learned from a law enforcement official, however, that that person was not a terrorist, and actually it was all a sting operation. The two men are accused of agreeing to help launder money to pay for the missile.
The men have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam (search), which has been linked to Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network, two federal law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
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"The men have ties to a [terror] group called Ansar al-Islam "
This is the same group that had a training base on northern Iraq before the war.
The article should note that it is a terror group, not just a group. What a singing group?
For God's sake lock em up and then get them out of here!
Two down but how many more to go? Oh well chalk one up for the good guys!
This should have gone unreported. Now this sting will be harder to use.
Interesting.
Religion of Peace Alert!!!
good find miss!
"Federal agents and Albany police raided a Muslim mosque..."
If you're going to get rid of an infestation, you have to get rid of the nest. A mosque isn't a holy place, it's a nest. So, I guess RAID is appropriate.
They will just accue Bush of lying if some of this stuff isnt reported.
I know. But covert activities need to be covert.
Well they were caught but there is always a chance someone will be doing something and not get caught.
Solution: Place panties over their heads and hang their @$$ from a light post in front of the mosque. Let them rot there.
It is time to get very serious with these perps.
And Jerold Nadler is on Fox still proclaiming the suspect timing of the terror alert...
The Masjid As-Salam mosqe in downtown Albany, N.Y., is seen Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004. Federal agents and Albany police raided the mosque Wednesday night, Aug. 4. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)
Jabba the hut
Reporting *LIVE* from Albany. The governor is headed up to the Capitol to give a news conference later this morning.
Two sides to every coin. I like covert myself. Probably the Cold War Warrior in me.
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