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Judge dismisses charges against 3 ‘extremist Muslim’ suspects in NM compound bust
Military News ^ | 8.29.2018 | Melissa Leon

Posted on 08/29/2018 4:30:25 PM PDT by narses

A judge on Wednesday dismissed child neglect charges against three of the five suspects who were arrested after a New Mexico compound bust earlier this month. Eleven children were found living in filth and the body of a 3-year-old boy was discovered during the raid.

The compound was linked to “extremist Muslims,” where it was discovered one suspect was training the children, ages 1 to 15, to commit school shootings, according to court documents.

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Prosecutors missed a 10-day deadline for a hearing to establish probable cause for the child neglect charges, Judge Emilio Chavez said, the Associated Press reported.

Lucas Morton, Subhannah Wahhaj and Hujrah Wahha can still be charged by prosecutors, but there was no indication as to how things would move forward, the Associated Press said.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, and his partner, Jany Leveille, still face charges. It was Siraj Ibn Wahhaj’s 3-year-old son whose remains were discovered at the compound.

There were 11 children discovered at the compound, whom Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe described as looking like “third world country refugees not only with no food or fresh water, but with no shoes, personal hygiene and basically dirty rags for clothing,” Fox News had reported. The conditions were “the ugliest looking, filthiest” he had ever seen, the sheriff added.

Authorities described Wahhaj as “heavily armed with an AR15 rifle, five loaded 30 round magazines, and four loaded pistols, including one in his pocket when he was taken down” when the compound was raided, Hogrefe said, Fox reported.

Hogrefe has said that the adults at the compound were “considered extremist of the Muslim belief,” but he did not elaborate, CBS News had reported.

Prosecutors said that Wahhaj was using the guns to train the children “how to perform mass school shootings,” The Daily mail had reported.

The compound, located near the Colorado border, is linked to “extreme Muslims,” according to various reports, includingFox News.

The New York Post had revealed that Siraj Wahhaj is the son of a Brooklyn imam of the same name, who is 68 years old and leads the Masjid At-Taqwa in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to several congregants.

“Prosecutors named the elder Siraj Wahhaj — born Jeffrey Kearse — as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He also was a character witness in the trial of convicted terror plotter Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman,” The Post reported.

The imam was at one point on a list of people who “may be alleged as co-conspirators” to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, court documents released by prosecutors Wednesday said, CBS had reported.

The elder Siraj Wahhaj testified as a character witness for the “blind sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of plotting terror attacks in the United States, CBS said.

There was a monthlong investigation into the disappearance of the younger Wahhaj’s son, 3-year-old Abdul-ghani Wahhaj, who is said to have medical issues and went missing from Georgia in December 2017, Fox said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
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To: narses; generally; ransomnote; Liz; jazusamo; LucyT; Ann Archy; Nextrush; humblegunner

There is a dead child.
Who in the world has the interest of the dead child in mind?

Shame on New Mexico.


21 posted on 08/29/2018 5:22:50 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: DaveA37
Shucks, where they Conservative Christian gun owners? Then the FBI don't care.
22 posted on 08/29/2018 5:27:32 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

btt


23 posted on 08/29/2018 5:28:23 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: narses

Fine, then time for Federal charges to brought against them.........or do they only do that to law enforcement when they don’t get the result they want?


24 posted on 08/29/2018 5:30:31 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: narses

Someone in this mess is a CIA/FBI asset, IMHO.


25 posted on 08/29/2018 5:32:44 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Exactly. What the hell is going on here? It is WAY past time we stop putting up with this.


26 posted on 08/29/2018 5:42:24 PM PDT by softengine
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To: narses

Law is in the courtroom, justice in the alley.


27 posted on 08/29/2018 5:49:56 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: bk1000; ptsal

I’d go beyond that. I’d call it “collaboration”.


28 posted on 08/29/2018 6:08:29 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: ptsal
Someone in this mess is a CIA/FBI asset, IMHO

Bingo.

29 posted on 08/29/2018 6:11:04 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: ptsal

Winner

Winner

Chicken Dinner!


30 posted on 08/29/2018 6:23:13 PM PDT by narses (Censeo praedatorium gregem esse delendum.)
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To: narses

What in the kcuF?


31 posted on 08/29/2018 6:26:05 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Vendome

Deep state coverup? Alex Jones is right?


32 posted on 08/29/2018 6:33:13 PM PDT by narses (Censeo praedatorium gregem esse delendum.)
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To: narses
Prosecutors missed a 10-day deadline for a hearing to establish probable cause for the child neglect charges....

Sounds like the prosecutors dropped the ball and the judge had no option other than to release the defendants. Maybe there is something more going on behind the scenes.

33 posted on 08/29/2018 7:10:55 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: bk1000

“It can only be utter incompetence or it’s a cover-up.”

I’ll take “door” #2, and you can keep the $200.


34 posted on 08/29/2018 7:47:45 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: narses

They’re lucky they weren’t white or the feds would have burned the place down with them in it.


35 posted on 08/29/2018 10:59:56 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: narses

Camp cleared by unnamed authorities.

Dismissed by commie judge.

Coordinated effort?

Conspiracy?

Judge and authorities colluded?


36 posted on 08/30/2018 3:21:24 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (17...#1776)
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