can’t help noticing that these stories always conveniently appear every time the Patriot Act is in danger of not being renewed.
Posted on 06/03/2015 5:43:52 AM PDT by raccoonradio
A man arrested in connection with a terror investigation in Boston will be in federal court Wednesday. David Wright was taken into custody at his home in Everett Tuesday afternoon, hours after a Boston police officer and an FBI agent shot and killed a man who was under 24-hour surveillance by terrorism investigators in Roslindale.
According to CBS News, Wright and the man killed, 26-year-old Usaama Rahim, were communicating about attacks in the U.S. and that’s why he was arrested. Investigators are continuing to look for other people both men were communicating with.
Wright will face federal charges in U.S. District Court in South Boston. Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, wouldn’t specify the charges, but confirmed they’re related to the Rahim investigation.
Boston police said they have surveillance video showing Rahim with a large military-style knife lunging at a police officer and an FBI agent in a CVS parking lot in Roslindale Tuesday morning before he was shot and killed — an account his brother has disputed.
A federal law enforcement source told CBS News Rahim had been on investigators’ radar for several months and recently under 24-hour surveillance. He had allegedly become radicalized and inspired by ISIS’ online propaganda and the belief is he wanted to attack law enforcement. According to a law enforcement source, Rahim “started to act a little differently” Tuesday. Even though members of the joint terrorism task force did not have an arrest warrant, they wanted to question him.
In the parking lot they moved in before he could make it to a bus. A source told CBS News Rahim was about to get on the bus and investigators wanted to prevent that from happening. The surveillance video from a nearby restaurant across the street shows what happened next, according to investigators.
Rahim allegedly pulled out the knife, officers repeatedly ordered him to drop it, according to Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans, but he continued to move toward them with it. He said the officers fired their guns, hitting Rahim once in the torso and once in the abdomen. Rahim was rushed to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he died.
BROTHER GIVES DIFFERENT ACCOUNT
That description differs from one given by Rahim’s brother Ibrahim Rahim, who said in a Facebook post that his youngest brother was killed while waiting at a bus stop to go to his job.
“He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times,” he wrote. “He was on his cellphone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness.”
Ibrahim Rahim, a former assistant imam at a Boston mosque, could not immediately be reached for more comment Tuesday. In an email to the Associated Press, he said he was traveling to Boston to bury his brother. Investigators say they are planning to share their video evidence with the Islamic Society of Boston. The Council of American-Islamic Relations will monitor the investigation, spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said. “We have a number of questions,” Hooper said. “Why exactly was he being followed? What was the probable cause for this particular stop? Were there any video cameras or body cameras of the incident? How do you reconcile the two versions of the story, the family version being that he was on his normal commute to work at a bus stop?” WHO WAS USAAMA RAHIM? Boston voter registration records for Usaama Rahim list him as a student. Records indicate that as recently as two years ago he was licensed as a security officer in Miami but don’t specify in what capacity. Rahim worked for CVS since March 2015, according to company spokesman Mike DeAngelis. “The Roslindale CVS/pharmacy was not open during the time of the incident involving Mr. Rahim and no other employees or customers were involved. We are fully cooperating with the authorities in this matter,” DeAngelis said in a statement to WBZ-TV.
Yusufi Vali, executive director of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, said the center’s security firm hired Rahim as a security guard for a month in mid-2013. Vali said Rahim did not regularly pray at the center and did not volunteer there or serve in any leadership positions.
RHODE ISLAND SEARCH
Authorities also searched a home in Rhode Island, Tuesday, but would not confirm that was linked to the Roslindale shooting. Shortly Rahim was killed, federal agents and RI State Police showed up at a home on Aspinet Drive in Warwick. Neighbors say officers went into the house with their weapons drawn, but no shots were fired. Neighbors say a man in his late 20’s has lived in the house for quite some time. According to them, the man recently grew a beard, and started wearing robes and acting strange. It is unclear if anyone was taken into custody at the home. WPRI-TV reported that the Warwick investigation is connected to the anti-terror investigation.
Howie Carr list ping
What were his terror plans, sitting on people?
CC
Sounds like the brother deserves a little investigating as well.
Thanks CBS News, for giving their friends a warning to leave Dodge.
Is there evidence that NSA info led to any of these individuals?
Not wishing to join the tinfoil hat crowd here, but can’t help noticing that these stories always conveniently appear every time the Patriot Act is in danger of not being renewed.
Looks like Dave is just another Son Of Barack....
Interesting scenario, though - FBI has been watching and gets this guy. Stories about FBI “air force,” and the threats from about a week before the train wreck about having jihadists in 15 major cities. Can they all be connected?
I’m actually pleased with this news.
I guess there just weren’t enough jobs in the NBA
for him...
Sound like a righteous shoot. Especially since LE announces that they WILL release video.
Paging Waco. Please pick up the white courtesy phone. You have a call from Boston.
Was planning to behead police officer
>>The man fatally shot by anti-terrorism officers in Boston on Tuesday and the suspect arrested Tuesday night in Everett had conspired to kill a police officer, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the case.
“We believe the intent was to behead a police officer,” one official said Wednesday morning. “We knew the plot had to be stopped. They were planning to take action Tuesday.”
What were his terror plans, sitting on people?
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Feeds (no pun intended) right into the Leftist/Moochelle meme that we are all too obese. The next thing you know, anybody who looks “fat” will be investigated as terrorist suspects (along with the ‘far right’ groups that Lynch & Obama are targeting with a study looking for a link to violence).
To be perfectly honest, both accounts sound like BS. Innocent bus rider shot in the back by 3 cops for no reason... or idiot charges 3 cops with a knife at a bus stop...
I hope the surveillance tapes had copies made before the authorities took them.
can’t help noticing that these stories always conveniently appear every time the Patriot Act is in danger of not being renewed.
Maybe in a film script. The FBI and the NSA and the CIA seem to be overwhelmingly incapable of doing what they say/imply they are doing. They are good at getting ordinary Americans though, or fake terrorists they set up. Otherwise, they are good at sweeping up the body parts when they miss the actual terrorists.
Was the brother there, or does CBS now use Facebook postings as a gold plated source?
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