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Rep. John Conyers and pal filmmaker Michael Moore. Conyers is closely allied with CAIR. An Islamic group and one of its top contacts within the U.S. Congress are in the midst of a plot to neutralize FBI counterterrorism efforts. And they've found a willing collaborator in Attorney General Eric Holder. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) applauded the news that the Attorney General Eric Holder and his Justice Department Civil Rights Division will review the shooting death of a Detroit imam, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, by FBI agents on October 28 in Dearborn. House Judiciary Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) announced...

Federal agents arrested at least seven members of a self-proclaimed Christian militia group in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio over the weekend, according to the FBI and a leader of another militia organization. The target of the raid was a group called the Hutaree, which proclaims on a Web site that it is "Preparing for the end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive." As many as six members of the group were arrested at a wake for one of its members, and the property of its leader was searched by federal agents, said Mike Lackomar, a county...

News reports from Washtenaw County, Michigan suggest at least one member of the Hutaree Militia has been arrested in a multiple location operation which include the FBI and Homeland Security.

Updated 6:15 PM CDT, Sun, Mar 28, 2010 FBI agents removed boxes of evidence and at least two dogs "trained to do bodily harm" from a house they raided over the weekend in Whiting, Indiana, according to a witness. The target of the raid, which took place on the 1900 block of Calumet Avenue, was arrested shortly afterwards in Clarendon Hills, Illionois, according to the FBI. The FBI raided the home as part of an "ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI in Detroit." Agents carried away several boxes from the home, according to the witness, an employee at...