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Fugitive son of Detroit Imam arrested in Windsor
Canwest News Service ^ | 2009-10-29 | Jorge Barrera and Don McArthur
Posted on October 29, 2009 12:59:50 PM PDT by Clive
The fugitive son of an Imam shot dead by U.S. federal agents Wednesday was arrested Thursday in downtown Windsor and in the custody Canadian border authorities, the FBI said in a statement.
Mujahid Carswell, 30, also known as Mujahid Abdullah, was arrested by RCMP officers at about 1 p.m. Thursday without incident after police blocked off a downtown street and surrounded a house with a tactical team. He was witnessed being whisked away in a prisoner transport van and is currently in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency on immigration violations.
Mr. Carswell is the oldest son of Lubqman Ameen Abdullah, the imam of a Detroit mosque who was killed after an exchange of gunfire with FBIagents during the raid on a warehouse in Dearborn, Mich.
Mr. Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, and 10 others, including the three fugitives, were named in a federal complaint unsealed Wednesday that alleges conspiracy to commit theft from interstate shipments, mail fraud to obtain the proceeds of arson, illegal possession and sale of firearms and tampering with motor vehicle identification numbers.
Mr. Carswell was a member of the security Sura team that guards the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit where his father was the imam. The federal complaint, obtained by Canwest News Service, says that according to an informant, Mr. Carswell moved to Windsor and was living two blocks from the tunnel border crossing and goes to a large mosque in the city.
Mr. Carswell also trains about 60 children, ages eight to 18, in martial arts at the mosque, the federal complaint said.
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Previously...
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/28/windsor-border-task-force-091028.html
“Canada, U.S. join forces at Detroit-Windsor border”
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | 4:27 PM ET
CBC News
SNIPPET: “The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has established a task force to help keep gang-related activity from crossing the U.S.-Canada border at Windsor, Ont.
Windsor police chief Gary Smith was in Detroit on Wednesday to announce a new, US-Canada task force to monitor the Detroit-Windsor border. (Dennis Porter/CBC)The Border Enforcement Security Task Force, or BEST, comprises law enforcement officers at the federal, state and local levels in the U.S. and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada Border Services Agency, Ontario Provincial Police and Windsor Police Service in Canada.
Together, those agents will cover about 1,160 kilometres of border.
“The BEST’s mission is clear — to collaboratively identify and disrupt transnational criminal organizations exploiting our shared border,” Brian Moskowitz, special agent in charge of ICE’s office of investigations in Michigan and Ohio, said Wednesday morning in Detroit.
Its focus includes:
National security and terrorist threats.
Human smuggling and trafficking.
Contraband smuggling.
Bulk cash smuggling.
Money laundering.
Transnational gang activities exploiting the border region.”
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SNIPPET: “The second outstanding suspect from Windsor is identified in the court filing as Mohammad Philistine, also known as Mohammad Al-Sahli or Mohammad Palestine. The slain Abdullah, according to the court filing, told the FBI informant that Philistine was a “soldier and a warrior.””
“Two Windsor men sought after FBI raids on radical Islamic group in Dearborn
Third suspect hails from somewhere in Ontario”
BY STAR STAFF, THE WINDSOR STAR
OCTOBER 29, 2009