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Besides being Middle East Terrorists, they have something else in common. Several, apparently came in our open doors with Mexico!
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This is proof that your comment is right on target:
Besides being Middle East Terrorists, they have something else in common. Several, apparently came in our open doors with Mexico!
Welcome to America amigos! Oh you don't speak Spanish, no problem!
By CHARLIE BRENNAN
The radical Islamic leader linked to the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has been tied to a wide range of illegal activity throughout Colorado.
The extremist group is believed to still have compounds in New York, California, South Carolina and Virginia.
Through a broad-based investigation launched in 1989, Colorado authorities convicted four members of the al-Fuqra movement on a series of felonies including racketeering, forgery, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and the 1984 firebombing of a Hare Krishna temple in Denver.
Those who helped lead those investigations said the Pakistani-based leader of al-Fuqra, Sheik Mubarik Ali Jilani, briefly owned two lots in downtown Buena Vista.
Susan Fenger, then an investigator for the state Department of Labor and Employment, helped build the case against the Colorado al-Fuqra members.
She said Jilani had been in Colorado.
"Sheikh Mubarik Jilani was the leader of al-Fuqra and still is," said Fenger, now working privately as a forensic documents examiner.
"Sheikh Jilani visited Colorado, we know that," said Doug Wamsley, a prosecutor in the Jefferson County District Attorney's office. Wamsley, then an assistant attorney general, led the prosecution against four al-Fuqra members in the early 1990s.
"We have at least one witness who remembered Jilani from the Buena Vista area, where he had talked to a Realtor and arranged to buy a piece of property," said Wamsley. "But then it was sold, right away. We didn't pay much attention to it, because he held it so briefly."
Pearl was seeking to interview Jilani when he vanished on Jan. 23 in Karachi. Jilani has been questioned in the Pearl kidnapping, but has reportedly denied knowing anything about it.
Fenger described al-Fuqra's presence in Colorado now as minimal.
Jilani was questioned in connection with the Pearl kidnapping, Fenger said, after police intercepted a communication from Jilani to al-Fuqra members at their compound in Red Huse, Va.
(Contact Charlie Brennan of the Rocky Mountain News at http://www.rockymountainnews.com.)