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Exclusive: FBI Probes Muhammad's Ties to Ohio Mosque
ABC News ^ | June 4, 2009 | By RICHARD ESPOSITO, PIERRE THOMAS and JACK DATE

Posted on 06/04/2009 5:45:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Nuradin Abdi was convicted in 2007 of planning to blow up an Ohio shopping mall.

Iyman Faris was convicted in 2003 of planning to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.

Christopher Paul was convicted in 2008 of conspiring to use explosives against targets in the U.S. and Europe.

All three terrorists worshiped and socialized at a small mosque in Columbus, Ohio, and, according to David B. Smith, an attorney for Faris, were part of a larger group of jihadists and extremists who frequented the mosque.

The FBI now is investigating reports of links to that same mosque by Muslim-convert Abdulhakim Muhammad who allegedly shot and killed one soldier Monday and critically wounded another in a drive-by attack on a Little Rock, Ark., recruiting station, ABC News has learned.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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To: appleseed
Wow, they’re all near major freeways. Easy to make a fast get away if they need to.
61 posted on 06/04/2009 8:36:10 PM PDT by SweetCaroline (Dear GOD help us save your babies from the Abortionist.)
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To: narses

tonight on O’Reilly they had asked the WH if that was true and supposedly it is not true.


62 posted on 06/04/2009 8:40:13 PM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: Velveeta

So he’s going to defend religious freedoms for the Muslims, but pastors might not be able to discuss homosexuality from the pulpit without it being deemed hate speech by Congressional mandate?


63 posted on 06/04/2009 8:49:15 PM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: popdonnelly
I hope this doesn’t give rise to negative stereotypes of Muslims. The President will be compelled to give another speech.

Rhetorical question: Will the American people eventually end up putting up with any kind of tyranny, injustice, or madness, just so Obama won't make a speech?

64 posted on 06/04/2009 8:52:09 PM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: piasa; hoosiermama; Cindy; Jim Robinson; All

Central Ohioans Against Terrorism

Ohio No Stranger to Radical Islam
By Erick Stakelbeck
CBN News Terror Analyst
October 27, 2007

CBNNews.com — COLUMBUS, Ohio — One traditional Middle Eastern grocery is painted to match the distinctive red, white, black and green of the Palestinian flag. Over the meat counter hangs a flag often flown at rallies for the terrorist group Hamas.

But this grocery store isn’t located in Gaza or the West Bank. It’s in Hilliard, Ohio: a sleepy suburb of Columbus. It seems an unlikely battleground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but support for the Palestinian cause runs deep.

“We are critical of our government policy in the Middle East, and its blind support of Israel,” Mahmoud El-Yousseph, a local columnist said.

A Palestinian native, El-Yousseph writes about Muslim issues. He says many Muslims in Columbus feel the U.S. has neglected the Palestinians.

He said, “Our foreign policy in the Middle East, it stinks. It needs a tune up, and we’re going to speak about it, whether people like it or not.”

El-Yousseph served 20 years in the U.S. military. His son is serving in Iraq now. He says patriotism isn’t an issue for this Muslim community.

“We are God fearing, law abiding American citizens,” El-Yousseph said. “We love this country. We want to work together for the common good of our national defense.”

A Jihad Hotbed?

Patrick Poole isn’t so sure. A writer and consultant on terrorism-related issues, he returned to the Columbus area recently after a ten year absence.

“After a decade away, to come back and see all the changes that Hilliard had gone through and then to find out that we are essentially a center of jihad — one of the hottest centers of jihad in the country — was just mind blowing,” Poole said.

Columbus is no stranger to Islamic radicalism. Members of an al-Qaeda cell attended a local mosque. Two of the men were convicted on federal terrorism charges. One plotted to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge. Another planned to blow up a local shopping mall.

Federal law enforcement officials say other members of the cell are still on the loose.

That al-Qaeda cell was one of the largest yet discovered in America. El-Yousseph says he and other local Muslims condemned those involved.

But Poole says support for two other terror groups is widespread among Columbus Muslims.

“Hamas and Hezbollah and everything going on in Israel are really the linchpin issues of radicalization here in Columbus,” Poole said.

According to Poole, there’s a budding Hamas support network in the area. He says much of this network leads back to one man — Dr. Salah Sultan.

Poole said, “I discovered that Dr. Salah Sultan — a very prominent international cleric who’s closely associated with Yusuf Qaradawi — was living right around the corner from my own home.”

Sultan’s relationship with Qaradawi is the first thing that caught Poole’s attention. Qaradawi is listed by the U.S. as a specially designated global terrorist. He’s openly advocated suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. He’s also called on Muslims to fight U.S. troops in Iraq.

A Closer Look

Terrorism expert Steven Emerson has followed Sultan and Qaradawi’s activities closely.

“Sultan is an acolyte of Qaradawi,” said Steven Emerson, of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. “And Qaradawi is a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who has called for killing Americans and killing Jews”

Their relationship is so close that Sultan joined in honoring Qaradawi at a reception this summer.

Emerson said, “The fact that Sultan is hanging out with these men indicates exactly where he stands.”

Qaradawi is a leader of The Muslim Brotherhood, a jihadist movement that seeks to establish worldwide Islamic law. An exclusive interview with Sultan was featured on the Brotherhood’s Web site last year.

El-Yousseph told CBN News that Sultan is a Muslim scholar. He says Sultan’s views aren’t extreme, and that he even supports women’s rights in countries such as Saudi Arabia.

Sultan’s views on 9/11 are more problematic. He told Saudi TV the attacks were planned by the U.S. government.

“The entire thing was of a large scale and was planned within the U.S., in order to enable the U.S. to control and terrorize the entire world,” Sultan said.

Sultan recently left his home in an affluent Columbus suburb and now lives in the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain.

His application for U.S. citizenship was denied after he appeared at a Hamas rally in Turkey last summer. But he’s still allowed to enter the U.S. and move around freely.

Sultan agreed to a phone interview with CBN News, but later cancelled.

Poole says Sultan continues to be influential in the Columbus area’s Muslim community.

“Dr. Sultan was insulated into all of the major Islamic institutions here in Columbus,” Poole said. “The Islamic Society of Greater Columbus, Sunrise Academy — the private islamic school — the Al Noor Center, he was preaching at several other mosques. He was all over the place and integrated into all those institutions.”

For example, one site that used to be Hilliard’s public library is now home home to Sunrise Academy, a K–8 Islamic school. Sultan lectured there on a regular basis. Siraj Wahhaj also appeared there recently. He’s an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

El-Yousseph says Sultan and other Muslims in Columbus have been singled out unfairly since 9/11.

He said, “Most Muslims I know are professional here. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, grocers, schoolteachers who love this country, who left overseas because of religious persecution. They want to be here for a better life. They’re not here to betray America and stab it in the back.”

Emerson says that’s exactly the case with Sultan.

“Salah Sultan has made incredibly incendiary comments about Jews, about jihad.” he said. “This is not someone we want in the United States.”

http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/2007/11/cbn-news-jihad-in-central-ohio.html


65 posted on 06/04/2009 9:00:52 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

Thanks for posting, Jim. Very interesting. Thanks to all linkers/researchers.


66 posted on 06/04/2009 9:05:07 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: STARWISE

Thank you Starwise.


67 posted on 06/04/2009 9:13:56 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All

Adding link to post no. 1:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Blotter/story?id=7758485


68 posted on 06/04/2009 9:18:16 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Velveeta

Holder: “There are those who will continue to want to divide by fear - to pit our national security against our civil liberties...”

Gee, Is he referring to Al Qaeda?

Or maybe he’s thinking about Ahmadinejad?


69 posted on 06/04/2009 9:19:22 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: piasa

Thank you piasa, great work!


70 posted on 06/04/2009 9:37:50 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: Cindy

;)


71 posted on 06/04/2009 9:38:26 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: GOP_Lady; G8 Diplomat

Yep, Polaris Mall...it’s less than a mile from my home.

Haven’t figured out where the mosque is yet, but this connection is new news to me.


72 posted on 06/04/2009 9:40:15 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (SARAH PALIN - Supports a "path to citizenship" for ILLEGAL ALIENS.)
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To: STARWISE

Thank you starwise,
Lots of stuff to absorb on this thread...


73 posted on 06/04/2009 9:40:26 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: hoosiermama

bump!


74 posted on 06/04/2009 9:44:48 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (There is something deeply wrong with the USA, and its People, if high Obama-approval levels continue)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

If you do a search for Steve Emerson and mosques, American jihadists, you’ll find lot of stuff. He’s been following them here for years.


75 posted on 06/04/2009 9:51:45 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: SoCalPol; All

“Material seized from Muhammad’s truck and apartment this week included guns, ammunition and Molotov cocktails.”

The mention of Molotov cocktails caught my eye. Check out this incident in West Memphis, AR, earlier this week concerning a crate of Molotov cocktails found in the street:

http://www.theeveningtimes.com/articles/2009/06/03/news/news1.txt


76 posted on 06/04/2009 9:55:23 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: Cedar; STARWISE; jimrob; piasa

Thank you both for the tips.

the more we research, discuss and share—the less will be hidden. You guys are getting the word out, and educating the masses, spreading the word and staying on top of this..should be our primary goal because it appears to me, that the media has no intention on doing the investigating reporting done here. So a big bravo and thank you...


77 posted on 06/04/2009 10:12:15 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: mojitojoe
Time for a well placed fire bomb to clear the litter from what I'm sure is a “violence free are” around the high school.
78 posted on 06/04/2009 10:25:37 PM PDT by antiunion person (The Obama administration is the same as a cosmic black hole.)
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To: hoosiermama

Wonder how far our Muslim President will allow the investigation to go before he has Holder put an end to it?


79 posted on 06/04/2009 10:26:28 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin for OK Governor in 2010! Mark Rubio for FL US Senator in 2010!)
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To: Cedar

It looks like a connect the dots situation


80 posted on 06/04/2009 10:30:42 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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