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“CAIR Blasts Investigation for Not Agreeing with Them”
by IPT News • Oct 14, 2010 at 11:07 pm
SNIPPET: “Leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Michigan chapter are blasting a Justice Department review of last year’s shooting death of a Detroit imam after the review found agents acted appropriately.
CAIR officials have spent the past year trying to cast the shooting as unjust and excessive. They were joined at a news conference Thursday by leaders of several community groups and Imam Luqman Abdullah’s son. Dawud Walid, CAIR’s Michigan director, called the DOJ review “superficial and incomplete” and demanded the Justice Department examine the tactics used in the arrest, which featured SWAT teams and officers from numerous agencies.
The DOJ investigation, as probes by the Michigan Attorney General and Dearborn police before it, made it clear that Abdullah’s history of threatening law enforcement and other inflammatory rhetoric was at the forefront of agents’ thinking. Still, Walid and CAIR attorney Lena Masri cast the “military-type operation” as excessive and something that should be reserved for terrorists or drug kingpins.”