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The FBI, IRS and INS were all involved in this morning's raid. The Counter-Terrorism Task Force raided a home and a mosque in Northeast Philadelphia on Wakeling Street. It happened at the home of 45-year-old Muhammad Gurab and his family. He is an Egyptian national who came to the U.S. 4 years ago and started a mosque. The man's wife, Meriem Moumen, tells Action News they were on their way to drop their daughter off at school when the police pulled up behind them with the lights flashing and demanded that the family get out of the car. She tells...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Federal agents raided a mosque and two homes in Philadelphia on Thursday and took a Muslim cleric into custody on immigration charges, authorities and witnesses said. Internal Revenue Service agents executed a search warrant at the Ansaar Allah Islamic Society and an adjacent home in the city's Bridesburg section, plus a third home in Northeast Philadelphia, according to IRS spokesman Skip Bedics. No one was arrested on criminal charges, but immigration authorities detained Mohamed Ghorab, an Egyptian who is the imam at the small mosque, which is housed inside a cinderblock garage. FBI agents were also on...

Islamic Cleric Arrested in NE Phila. Raids by KYW's Tony Hanson A Muslim cleric has been taken into custody on immigration charges by federal authorities in Philadelphia, following a raid on a mosque and two residences on Thursday morning in Northeast Philadelphia. Meriem Moumen (at left in family photo), 33, says she and her husband, Imam Mohamed Gohorab, were confronted by armed federal agents as they took their daughter to school: "We dropped her off and hundreds of cars, white vans -- I'm still dizzy from all the flashes -- and somebody screaming, 'Get out of the car, keep your...