Posted on 11/19/2004 11:41:54 AM PST by conservativecorner
From the Seattle Times, with thanks to EPG:
Federal counter-terrorism agents swept down on homes and businesses in Seattle yesterday, conducting searches and charging 13 men with gun, immigration and bank-fraud violations.... None of the men targeted in the raids is accused under terrorism statutes. However, the federal charges unsealed yesterday allege the ringleader of the bank-fraud case told a paid FBI informant that his "whole Muslim crew" was involved in stealing money because "you can't go to war broke."
According to the complaint, the purported ringleader, a drug felon named Karim Abdullah Assalaam, told an acquaintance that the money obtained through the fraud "goes to help our Muslim brothers and sisters. ... It goes to the cause, not like it goes to me and you."
However, the complaint alleges that his half-brother, Attawwaab Muhammad Fard, who is also charged, used some of the money to buy a used Lexus. "There was a lot of jihad talk," said one highly placed federal law-enforcement official familiar with the case. "But most of the money went into their pockets."...
Several gun-related cases also sprang from the investigation. Assalaam and four other men were charged as felons possessing firearms, including several handguns, two shotguns and an AK-47 assault rifle.
In one instance, federal agents had reported "unusual activity" at a shooting range in Renton involving one of the men apparently teaching a group of individuals how to shoot.
In a related case in King County Superior Court, prosecutors in October filed assault and extortion charges against some individuals associated with an Islamic religious school run out of a South Seattle barbershop. The school was "training children ... in Anti American rhetoric," and "how to shoot and fight the Americans," according to court documents.
The owner of a restaurant downstairs from the Crescent Cuts barbershop on Rainier Avenue South told police that he had been asked to participate in the bank-fraud scheme. When he refused, he said, he was assaulted by a group of individuals and beaten with a meat tenderizer.
He described the school in court documents as "an anti-American training ground for Muslims."
Based on the images in the news last night, most if not all of these men looked like Black Muslim-types, not Middle Eastern men.
Why not???
They nail them on whatever they can make stick. It doesn't look like they were very effective as jihadists, but if the Feds can prove fraud, let them go for it -- tie them up legally, hopefully remove them from circulation for a while and send a message to their "community."
Except that they will export this crap to the blacks in prison.
Check this out.
Yep, I expect alot more uber-liberals will actively support the terrorists. I hope the Justice Dept. smacks 'em hard.
Michael Moore will likely showcase this school in Fooieheight 911-2...what noble work they're doing and how the fascist government is harrassing them. Afterall, they have a shared cause.
It sounds like they were, unfortunately. But wasn't there one who was from the Sudan or some other similar place in Muslim Africa (not the ME)? I may have gotten this confused with something else, though. Muslim terrorists of all colors and backgrounds just seem to be popping up all over, unfortunately.
I think the last name,"Fard",for one of them would point toward home grown Black Muslims,also.
From what I've read, jhihadists training to aim and shoot properly is indeed a very "unusual activity"
Where's the INS? More scrutiny required by Homeland Security.
BTTT
Boy, those kids are gonna be awfully surprised when they grow up and find that, unlike targets, Americans actually shoot back... ;0)
ROTFL. And the toon is so correct in reality.
That would not be fair to the present residents of the farthest hellhole, poverty-ridden pimple on the face of the earth. We're never going to get anywhere if we can't be fair.
"None of the men targeted in the raids is accused under terrorism statutes.
Well that's just great... /s
"The angel of the Lord also said to her: 'You are now with child and you shall have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers." Genesis 16:11-12.
OUCH!!! I said ABOVE the ears!
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