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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA ASKED NOT TO CALL MIAMI TERROR SUSPECTS 'MUSLIMS' Sect trains 'through the bible,' worships in 'temple,' not mosque (WASHINGTON, DC, 6/23/06) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on media professionals not to refer to seven terror suspects arrested in Miami as "Muslims." The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR ) said media reports indicate that the suspects are part of a sect called "Seas of David." When asked by CNN why group members refer to themselves as "soldiers," "Brother Corey" said:...

Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., a federal law enforcement official said. The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt news conferences planned for Friday in Washington and Miami. Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said in a statement that the investigation was an ongoing operation and that more details would be released Friday. Local...

CHICAGO -- A federal official said seven people have been arrested in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S. NBC News has learned from federal law-enforcement sources Thursday that the FBI has arrested about half a dozen men in Miami as part of an ongoing terrorism operation. The men, part of a radical black Muslim group, were planning terror acts in Miami and Chicago, the officials said. An FBI informant infiltrated the group, according to the source, neutralizing the threat.

Seven men, some of whom lived in a Liberty City, Fla., warehouse, have been arrested as potential homegrown terrorist sympathizers who discussed blowing up Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI headquarters in Miami-Dade County, multiple sources told The Miami Herald on Thursday. They posed no immediate danger to the community, federal officials said Thursday. Details will be revealed Friday morning at a press conference in Washington. Agents must now figure out if the men were actually capable of mounting attacks. Several sources described them as homegrown wannabes with no known connection to foreign terrorists. No explosives or guns were found, sources...

I just walked away from the press confrence on FOX about these 7 that were arrested for the plot to attack the Sears Tower. And I have yet heard them mention the fact that one of them was an ILLEGAL ALIEN! Do they not find this important? and I cant believe I havent heard one person from the press ask for them to comment on this yet. "Federal sources said five of the seven suspects were Americans, one was an illegal immigrant from Haiti whose visa had expired and one man was a resident alien."http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/23/miami.raids/index.html?section=cnn_topstories