Terror Suspect Arrested in North Carolina

Fox News ^ | November 14, 2002 | Associated Press

[Future Useless Eater]

Thursday, November 14, 2002

DETROIT — A fugitive accused by the government of leading a terrorist sleeper cell here has been arrested in North Carolina and will be extradited to Michigan to face charges, authorities said.

Identified by court papers only as Abdella, the man was accused in an August indictment of acting with "a covert underground support unit" and an "operational combat cell" for a radical Islamic movement allied with Al Qaeda.

He remained at large until Nov. 5, when he was arrested outside Greensboro, N.C., federal authorities told the Detroit Free Press.

His alleged accomplices, Karim Koubriti, 24, Ahmed Hannan, 34, and Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 22, were arrested less than a week after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. A raid on a Detroit apartment the men shared yielded a cache of false documents and videotapes that appeared to case U.S. landmarks, authorities said.

Abdella was charged with providing material support to terrorists, and conspiracy to engage in fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents. He appeared Nov. 6 in U.S. District Court in Durham, N.C., and was ordered held without bond, the Free Press said.

FBI officials in North Carolina said Wednesday that a gag order issued by a federal judge in Detroit prevented them from providing details.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino, who is directing the case in Detroit, declined comment on the arrest.

Koubriti, Hannan and Ali-Haimoud pleaded innocent in September to a charge of conspiracy to provide material support or resources to terrorists. Their trial is scheduled for Jan. 21.

The indictment suggested the men were involved with an Islamic extremist movement known as Salafiyya, which became associated with Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network.

The government alleges the men were taking actions to "engage in or support holy war or global jihad" and that three of them had discussed in June 2001 that "Islam permitted the killing of innocent civilians."

In the Detroit apartment shared by some of the men, officials discoverd false documents, including visas, and a day planner detailing planned attacks in Turkey and Jordan.

A videotape appeared to case U.S. landmarks such as Disneyland in California and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The indictment said the men checked Detroit's airport for gaps in security.

The indictment considers Abdella an expert in airport security operations, telephone calling card fraud and falsifying identification. It lists several aliases for Abdella but does not list a last name or country of origin.

Koubriti and Hannan are from Morocco and Ali-Haimoud is from Algeria.

[TexKat]

Bump

[doosee]

The indictment said the men checked Detroit's airport for gaps in security

Sadly, the Detroit area is loaded with terrorists who are well hidden in the large Moslem community. Not surprisingly, this is why Bonior the Weasel was over in Iraq on TV kissing Saddam's backside. I purposely avoid flight connections through Detroit.

[buffyt]

I wonder what the radicals of the 60s, the ones who killed and bombed here in the US, the Underground, the SLA, what the members of those groups think of today's terrorists? They were homegrown terrorists but they did the same kind of maiming and killing for their twisted reasons. Four of the SLA are in jail now, I wish someone would ask them how they would have liked it if the Islamic terrorists had blown their family up... I just wonder if they realize they used to do the same thing that the terrorists of today are doing now.

[Fred Mertz]

The indictment suggested the men were involved with an Islamic extremist movement known as Salafiyya, which became associated with Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network.

I can't keep up with all these terrorist network group names.

[Constitution Day]

BTTT

[Grampa Dave]

Identified by court papers only as Abdella, the man was accused in an August indictment of acting with "a covert underground support unit" and an "operational combat cell" for a radical Islamic movement allied with Al Qaeda.

Could this radical Islamic movement be al Fuqra, Jamatt al fuqra, nation of Islam, black panthers, new black panthers, Black Muslims, 5 percenters or their rat supporters in congress?

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for finding this and posting it!

[Grampa Dave]

Has anyone in your area checked the donations to Bonior to see if he has a lot of donations from pro Islamofascists in this country like Jihad Cindy McKenzie had?

[swarthyguy]

They're all connected. think of them as

The International Islamic Front for WorldWide Jihad.

[Grampa Dave]

Besides the difficulty in keeping up with the names of the terrorist organizations, the names that the Islamofascists and Islamokazis go by are spelled differently even by them. Then they have several aliases.

NSA had a problem trying to follow them after 9/11. Apparently some California computer software firm has come up with a package that makes this task easier.

This why the poster of the threads and anyone who replies with a document should put the names and organizations of the bad guys into the key words section so we can follow them. The twenty character limit on Free Republic makes it very hard to enter a name that may have 30 to 50 characters in the total name.

[Grampa Dave]

FLE, great find and post.

FYI for the other freepers.

[Clovis_Skeptic]

quick google search reveals that:

These Shayateen first called themselves Wahhabiyya, but after numerous fatawa were passed about them, they soon changed their name to: Salafiyya

So I guess it is Wahhabism or ? Still checking.

[Clovis_Skeptic]

Somebody Else's Civil War
by Michael Scott Doran
From Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002

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continued...
The al Qaeda organization grew out of an Islamic religious movement called the Salafiyya -- a name derived from al-Salaf al-Salih, "the venerable forefathers," which refers to the generation of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. Salafis regard the Islam that most Muslims practice today as polluted by idolatry; they seek to reform the religion by emulating the first generation of Muslims, whose pristine society they consider to have best reflected God's wishes for humans. The Salafiyya is not a unified movement, and it expresses itself in many forms, most of which do not approach the extremism of Osama bin Laden or the Taliban. The Wahhabi ideology of the Saudi state, for example, and the religious doctrines of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and a host of voluntary religious organizations around the Islamic world are all Salafi. These diverse movements share the belief that Muslims have deviated from God's plan and that matters can be returned to their proper state by emulating the Prophet.

Like any other major religious figure, Muhammad left behind a legacy that his followers have channeled in different directions. An extremist current in the Salafiyya places great emphasis on jihad, or holy war. Among other things, the Prophet Muhammad fought in mortal combat against idolatry, and some of his followers today choose to accord this aspect of his career primary importance. The devoted members of al Qaeda display an unsettling willingness to martyr themselves because they feel that, like the Prophet, they are locked in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of unbelief that threaten from all sides. They consider themselves an island of true believers surrounded by a sea of iniquity and think the future of religion itself, and therefore the world, depends on them and their battle against idol worship.

In almost every Sunni Muslim country the Salafiyya has spawned Islamist political movements working to compel the state to apply the shari`a -- that is, Islamic law. Extremist Salafis believe that strict application of the shari`a is necessary to ensure that Muslims walk on the path of the Prophet. The more extremist the party, the more insistent and violent the demand that the state must apply the shari`a exclusively.

[Clovis_Skeptic]

Link to article above

[Ditto]

I purposely avoid flight connections through Detroit.

I did that long before 9/11. That airport is an armpit.

[Republic]

We need to clamp down on our borders-regardless of the inconvenience to innocents.

[Clovis_Skeptic]

We need to clamp down on our borders-regardless of the inconvenience to innocents.

"Absssooooluuutleeeeey"!

[Republic]

Oh yeah.....LOL....and then some!