Posted on 08/05/2004 7:51:22 AM PDT by Don Simmons
Federal Agents Raid Mosque in Albany
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. The men have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam, which has been linked to Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network, according to law enforcement officials. The State Department has declared the group a foreign terrorist organization. A block of downtown Albany 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 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 and local pizzeria owner, were arrested early Thursday morning at their homes. 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; no missile ever was exchanged. The two men are accused of agreeing to help launder money to pay for the missile.
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Riiiiiight…….
One thing you can bet on -- under a kerry administration, this kind of progress would not be made -- a socialist liberal would never allow our jack-booted thugs in the FBI to tromp on the civil rights of these poor, oppressed Muslims.
Indeed!
With all these terrorists cells..oops, I mean mosques, operating freely under the guise of religion it makes it even more essential that we do NOT let that happen.
I lived within a few blocks away from that mosque, when I went to SUNY Albany. There's a ton of college bars over there.
Maybe they wanted the missile to go deer hunting with Kerry crawling on their bellies.
I read it as "Nest of Snakes."
Shut off their Saudi money supply....
oops...too many politicans on the dole there...
The Saudis plan on buying us all off with promises of cheaper oil....that should shut up the Wahabist oppositon...
And allow them to continue their invasion USA and 'islamo-forming' American culture (such that is left)
imo
In the news here?
O.K., send Lyndie England up there to interrogate 'em. But, I'm sure that John Kerry and Howard Dean will question the "timing" of this raid; it's just for political purposes.
....ok, ok....I'm at work and can't read everything.
Mine's better anyway. :-)
This "mosque" needs to be vaporized forthwith.
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