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  • Details emerge about mosque arrests (plan was to assassinate Pak ambassador to US)

    08/05/2004 1:01:05 PM PDT · by johnfrink · 7 replies · 685+ views
    Albany Times Union ^ | August 5, 2004 | Brendan Lyons and Paul Grondhal
    FBI agents arrested two members of a Central Avenue mosque in an overnight raid in connection with an alleged plot to buy a shoulder-fired missile that would be used to assassinate the Pakistani ambassador in New York, according to court papers filed today in federal court in Albany. Mosque members said the imam, 34-year-old Yassim Aref, who also spells his first name Yasen, was arrested early this morning. Another mosque leader, Mohammed Mosharref Hossain, 49, an owner of a downtown pizzeria, was arrested at his home, according to mosque members. The arrests are in connection with a money-laundering scheme involving...