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Woman in suspected ‘honor killing’ dies

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Noor-Faleh-Almaleki The Arizona Republic… A 20-year-old Peoria woman has died of injuries sustained in what prosecutors are calling an “honor killing.”

Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of Glendale, is accused of running over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, and another woman in his Jeep Cherokee because he was infuriated with his daughter for becoming “too Westernized.”

Noor Almaleki died Monday of injuries she received during the Oct. 20 attack.

Peoria police said charges against Almaleki, who is in a Maricopa County jail on two counts of aggravated assault, will be upgraded, though a spokesman wasn’t sure what the exact charges would be.

Social experts say honor killings are an accepted practice in Iraqi tribal society, where family members feel they must kill a woman who shames them by not adhering to traditional Muslim or Iraqi values.

Family members said Almaleki was outraged after his daughter married a man in Iraq but returned to the Valley to live with a boyfriend and his mother in Surprise. The other victim, 43-year-old Amal Edan Khalaf, is apparently the boyfriend’s mother.

Police said Almaleki fled the country after the attack, driving to Mexico and later taking a plane to London. He was detained by British authorities and extradited to Atlanta last week.

Speaking before a Maricopa County judge over the weekend, state prosecutor Stephanie Low said Almaleki has admitted purposefully running down his daughter.

“By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family,” Low said. “This was an attempt at an honor killing.”

Almaleki did not address the accusations and spoke only to ask the judge about getting a court-appointed attorney.

Low said additional family members are suspected of assisting Almaleki in his escape.

“We can’t be naive and ignore that there’s a cultural aspect to this and there may be people who would support him, including his family, but also others who share his beliefs,” she said.

Citing Almaleki’s flight, Low asked the judge to take special precautions to prevent him from running again. Bail was set at $5 million.

Calls to Almaleki’s family members were not returned Monday.

Diana West speaks to IFPS-Canada

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The post below ripped word for word from IFPS.org

I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Diana West at a conference on freedom of speech and religion in Washington D.C. last week. To make the conversation short enough for the youtube limit, I removed most of my end of it. I opened by asking Diana about what she thought of the fellow from Harvard un-inviting the founder of the Minute Men to a debate at the last moment. The Fox video interview of that student is here.

Hopefully that makes her answer a tad less cryptic.

The rest of my chat, I replaced with single line questions in text.

Comments welcomed.

James

Canadian men connected to Detroit mosque arrested

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From The Ottawa Citizen

Two Canadians tied to controversial U.S. mosque arrested

Canwest News ServiceOctober 31, 2009 12:38 PM

Mujahid Carswell

Mujahid Carswell

Photograph by: Handout, Canwest News Service

WINDSOR, Ont. — Two Canadian men wanted by the FBI in connection to a radical mosque in Detroit were arrested by authorities in this country on Saturday.

Yassir Ali Khan, 30, and Mohammad Philistine, 33 – also known as Mohammad Al-Sahli and Mohammad Palestine – were arrested around 8 a.m. Saturday, according to an FBI news release.

Authorities have been searching for the men following the death this past week of the leader of a fundamentalist Islamic group, who was killed in a shootout with FBI agents after a raid on a warehouse in Dearborn, Mich.

The pair were picked up without incident by Windsor police and RCMP’s Immigration Task Force, the release said, adding both men were being held until an immigration and extradition hearing could take place. The FBI said that hearing was scheduled for Monday.

The Windsor police tactical squad surrounded a house in the southern Ontario city earlier this week to arrest 30-year-old Mujahid Carswell, also known as Mujahid Abdullah, a third man wanted in connection to Detroit mosque.

It was Carswell’s father, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was killed in the shootout with FBI agents.

The FBI has charged 11 people with various federal felonies, none of which is tied to terrorism.

U.S. authorities allege Abdullah and his followers were part of a Sunni Muslim group with the mission of establishing a separate Islamic nation within the United States.

“The 11 defendants are members of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over a period of many years, and known to be armed,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in an earlier news release.

On Friday, the lawyer for the two newly arrested men, Pat Ducharme, said his clients were not fleeing authorities and were in the city.

“They’re not on the run; they’re not hiding,” Ducharme said.

“They live here in this community. They are citizens of Canada, and I expect them to be treated within the parameters of the law, no matter what anybody thinks they’ve done.”

© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service

Islamic radicalization of Somali-Canadian community a growing security threat

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From The Ottawa Citizen

Radical Somali-Canadians potential threat: RCMP boss

Horn of Africa insurgency attracts ‘thousands’

By Ian MacLeod, The Ottawa CitizenOctober 31, 2009
RCMP Commissioner William Elliott on Friday told a conference of security intelligence specialists that the Islamic radicalization of Canada's Somali community is becoming a national security concern.

RCMP Commissioner William Elliott on Friday told a conference of security intelligence specialists that the Islamic radicalization of Canada’s Somali community is becoming a national security concern.

Photograph by: Rod MacIvor, The Ottawa Citizen, The Ottawa Citizen

Islamic radicalization of Canada’s Somali community is becoming a national security concern, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said Friday.

The potential of Somali-Canadians adopting the extremist ideology of the Islamist insurgency ravaging the failed state is on an evolving list of national security issues and threats Elliott outlined in a sobering speech to an Ottawa conference of security intelligence specialists.

Despite recent successes such as thwarting the Toronto 18 and Momin Khawaja terrorism plots, he said the current threat environment remains severe, from a resurgent al-Qaeda and fugitive Tamil Tigers to nuclear technology smuggling and border concerns.

Success in countering the dangers will require police to take on more of national security role and, “put more terrorism cases before the courts and more terrorists in jail.” Continue Reading →

Accused wife killer gets more time to pay for psychiatric expert

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Muzzammil S. "Mo" Hassan

Muzzammil S. "Mo" Hassan

 The Buffalo News… Over the objections of the prosecutor, Muzzammil S. “Mo” Hassan today was given additional time to secure the money needed to pay for the mental health experts he hopes will help him prove he was emotionally out of control when he decapitated his estranged wife last February.

Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk decried the “glacial pace” of the defense effort, but gave defense attorney James P. Harrington until Dec. 7 to report on the progress of the defense tactics.

The judge warned Harrington that he can still preclude this line of defense if further delays are unacceptable.

Prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable complained of deliberate foot-dragging by the defense.

But Harrington insisted that, until an Oct. 13 settlement was reached in the Hassan family estate case, there was a problem with ensuring enough money to pay for the criminal defense.

Though the estate case is several weeks away from a formal settlement, Harrington told the judge that Hassan is now assured he will have enough money to finance his defense, including pay for his psychiatric experts.

The the bulk of the estate will go to his four children. Hassan, 44, did not speak during the brief court session that ended about 10:15 a.m. Hassan, who has been jailed since he surrendered to police about an hour after the Feb. 12 killing, did not speak at court. Harrington declined comment as he left court.

Muslim father accused of running down ‘westernized’ daughter nabbed

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From The Arizona Republic

Glendale man accused of running over daughter found

Faleh AlmalekiFaleh Almaleki

by JJ Hensley – Oct. 30, 2009 08:55 AM
The Arizona Republic

The Glendale man accused of running down his daughter for being too “westernized” was taken into custody Thursday night, police confirmed.

Faleh Almaleki, 48, was in custody in Georgia, Peoria police spokesman

Mike Tellef said late Thursday.

Jim Joyner, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service in Atlanta, said Almaleki was arrested Thursday when he arrived at Atlanta’s airport

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Police believe Almaleki ran over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, 20, and Amal Edan Khalaf, 43, in a Peoria parking lot on Oct. 20 because he felt his daughter had disrespected the family.

Khalaf is reportedly the mother of Noor’s boyfriend.

The two women were still in the hospital, with Noor Almaleki in “life-threatening” condition and Khalaf’s condition improving, when police updated their status earlier this week.

Faleh Almaleki had evaded police for more than a week since running over the two women.

Noor’s brother, Peter-Ali Almaleki, said their father called home late last week to check on his daughter’s condition but his wife hung up on him.

Includes information from The Associated Press

Muslims Threaten Breslin Owner After He Laughs Off Bar Demand

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H/T Diana West:

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Katie Sokoler/Gothamist

The lovely-looking restaurant and bar The Breslin begins lunch service tomorrow, and co-owner Ken Friedman (The Spotted Pig) is planning on serving alcohol despite objections from the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street. Earlier this month the mosque’s leaders called a meeting with Friedman at The Ace Hotel, where The Breslin is located, and asked, “Can you move the bar?” Friedman’s response makes us want to hurry over to The Breslin right now for a dram of Laphroaig to show our support (and drown out the voices):

I laughed. And the guy said, “Oh, you think that’s funny?” And I said, “Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because we’re not going to move the bar just because you discovered we’re serving booze.” Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesn’t serve booze? I said, “This is the United States of America and we’ll do whatever the fuck we want.” He said the mosque had suggested it couldn’t control the behavior of “a few bad eggs”; i.e., we could get a brick through our window.

Friedman notified police of the threat, but just to show he’s not a hard-hearted man, that it’s not all dollars and cents, he agreed to put a curtain over the windows so devout Muslims wouldn’t be corrupted by the sight of infidel inebriation. But the curtain hasn’t arrived yet, so over the weekend he actually taped paper over the windows to hide a gay wedding. A volunteer at the mosque says city law forbids serving liquor within 200 feet of a place of worship and that “not more than 200 feet is between the mosque and the bar.”

But Ace Hotel developer Andrew Zobler tells The Observer, “The law is clear that in order for that to apply it has to be an exclusively dedicated house of worship, and at their space they have both residences and a restaurant, so basically, because of those uses the law allowed there to be a bar within 200 feet. Everyone was aware of that when the liquor license was granted.” And Friedman adds, “They can threaten, but they can’t really stop us.” Yeah, heh, what are these devout, pissed-off Muslims gonna do?

Another article on the same story below the fold. I believe this is a much more important story than perhaps even terrorism as we are more familiar with it, as this type of extortion and intimidation wide spread can collapse a culture and civilization such as ours much much faster than occasional attack.

Eeyore for Vlad

Mosque ‘unhappy’ with booze served at New York resto-bar, threatened brick toss

By Grace | October 30, 2009

From The New York Observer

Spotted Piglet Hiccups: Boozy Breslin Clashes With Mosque

October 27, 2009 | 8:00 p.m
Ken Friedman.

The much-hyped, soon-to-open Breslin restaurant, situated in the 12-story Ace Hotel on Broadway and 29th, is giving members of the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street some agita. “Five times a day, there’s a hundred cabs on the street—the good news is you can always get a cab,” co-owner Ken Friedman told the Transom the other evening. He said some mosque visitors “object to seeing people drink alcohol.” Continue Reading →

Islamists tell government to ‘keep Mum’ on Detroit Imam’s faith

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From IPT: The Investigative Project on Terrorism

Islamists Urge Government to Keep Imam’s Faith Out of Detroit Case

IPT News
October 29, 2009

The imam had driven from Detroit to northern Virginia to raise money for a jailed friend, a convicted cop killer.

“If you study the case you’ll see that it’s a conspiracy,” the imam said. “If you study what went on with him, you’ll say, ‘How in the world is he in jail?'”

But it was what Luqman Abdullah said on the way to that March 2008 fundraiser that helped bring the FBI to his door on Wednesday in what proved to be a fatal confrontation. In the car with his son and two followers, one of whom turned out to be an FBI informant, Abdullah repeated his long-standing concern that law enforcement was after him. According to a criminal complaint:

“Abdullah stated that the FBI is the enemy of Islam. Abdullah stated something to the effect, ‘If they are coming to get me I’ll just strap a bomb on and blow up everybody.’ Abdullah gave S-3 the impression that he has access to an explosive device.” [Emphasis original]

According to the FBI, Abdullah led a separatist movement which wanted “a separate, sovereign Islamic state (‘The Ummah’) within the borders of the United States, governed by Shariah law. The Ummah is to be ruled over by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown.”

Al-Amin is the convicted killer Abdullah was working to free. He’s a political prisoner, Abdullah told his audience at the fundraiser, held at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, or ADAMS Center, in 2008. Then he challenged the audience on its commitment to free Al-Amin:

“How much can we sacrifice in order to see Imam Jamil released? If we could sacrifice our lives, would we?”

Abdullah also was a founder and board member of the Muslim Alliance of North America (MANA). The group issued a statement Thursday expressing “deep concern” over the case. The concern was not why Abdullah refused to lower his weapon and fired at agents, but at why he was shot:

“This tragic shooting raises deep concerns regarding the use of lethal force by law enforcement agents.”

An FBI statement said agents considered the suspects to be armed and dangerous, and “special safeguards” were employed to try to make the arrests peacefully. The complaint contains repeated references to Abdullah’s instructions that his followers stay armed and his vow not to be taken by law enforcement. An FBI dog was killed in the shootout that resulted.

The MANA statement said allegations in the complaint were “shocking and inconsistent” with what they knew about Abdullah. It also stressed that the charges involved regular criminal activity and should not be used “in order demonize American Muslims.” Continue Reading →

Canadian spy chief chastises those soft on terror

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From The Ottawa Citizen

Canada oblivious to terror danger: CSIS boss

New director takes aim at critics in first public speech

By Ian MacLeod, The Ottawa CitizenOctober 30, 2009
CSIS head Richard B. Fadden says security and rights are 'not in opposition, but are intertwined like DNA stands.'

CSIS head Richard B. Fadden says security and rights are ‘not in opposition, but are intertwined like DNA stands.’

Photograph by: Chris Mikula, The Ottawa Citizen, The Ottawa Citizen

Despite a history of domestic terrorism, from Air India to the Toronto 18, Canada has a “serious blind spot” acknowledging that violent extremism imperils our national security, says the new head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

In his first public speech since becoming Canada’s spy master this summer, Richard B. Fadden wasted no time Thursday railing against those he believes ignore, minimize and even applaud terrorism and the people caught up in it, while portraying government efforts to combat extremism as assaults on liberty.

“Almost any attempt to fight terrorism by the government is portrayed as an overreaction or an assault on liberty. It is a peculiar position, given that terrorism is the ultimate attack on liberties,” Fadden told an Ottawa conference of about 300 security and intelligence specialists. Continue Reading →

Son of Radical Islam Leader Killed in FBI Shootout Caught in Canada

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Luqman Ameen Abdullah FOXNEWS… One of three people sought by the FBI was captured in Canada Thursday and two were still on the loose after a federal raid and deadly shooting of a radical Islam leader whose goal authorities say was to take down the U.S. government.
Federal authorities in Detroit said the son of 53-year-old Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was killed in Wednesday night’s shootout with FBI agents, was arrested across the border in Windsor, Ontario.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police took 30-year-old Mujahid Carswell, who was considered armed and dangerous, into custody Thursday. No other details were released.

Carswell was among 11 people charged Wednesday in a criminal complaint in federal court in Detroit.

Andrew Arena, the head of the FBI office in Detroit, says the men follow “a very hybrid radical ideology” that mainstream Muslims “would not recognize.”

 Abdullah was killed in a gunbattle in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn as federal agents tried to arrest him on a number of charges including conspiracy to sell stolen goods and the illegal possession and sale of firearms.

Abdullah repeatedly told followers that the U.S. government was their enemy and they should be willing to fight the FBI, even if it meant death, according to the criminal complaint against him.

“You cannot have a nonviolent revolution,” Luqman Ameen Abdullah said, according to a 2008 conversation secretly recorded by a confidential FBI source.

Abdullah was killed Wednesday at a warehouse in Dearborn, where agents were attempting to arrest him. FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said Abdullah refused to surrender, fired a weapon and was killed by gunfire from agents.

He was one of 11 people named in a criminal complaint after a two-year investigation.

Among the others charged with Abdullah and in custody were a state prison inmate, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Another man not named in the complaint also was arrested.

The 43-page complaint described Abdullah as an extremist who believed the FBI bombed New York’s World Trade Center in 1993 and the Oklahoma City federal building two years later.

Abdullah beat children with sticks at his Detroit mosque, the complaint claimed, and was trained with his followers in the use of firearms, martial arts and swords. Continue Reading →

Saudi man demands cash for wife’s freedom

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From The National Post

Saudi husband demands $300K for wife’s freedom

Marian Scott, Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009

Nathalie Morin's husband has refused to give her permission to return to Canada, demanding $300,000 for the release of his three children and wife. Courtesy Durocher Family Nathalie Morin’s husband has refused to give her permission to return to Canada, demanding $300,000 for the release of his three children and wife.

The common-law husband of a Quebec woman is demanding $300,000 for the release of his three children and wife, who swore in an affidavit that she has been held against her will in Saudi Arabia since 2005.

Samir Said Ramthi Al Bishi met with Canadian officials in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 22, at which time he demanded the cash in exchange for the release of his wife, Nathalie Morin, 25, a Longueuil woman and mother to the couple’s three children, ages 7, 3, and 11 months.

Canadian officials responded by saying Mr. Al Bishi’s demand is legal under Saudi law, so “we cannot take sides and will continue to consider the situation of Mrs. Morin and her three children as a private, family matter,” consular official Nathalie Tenorio-Roy told Ms. Morin’s mother, Johanne Durocher, in an email on Oct. 22.

“I’m completely scandalized that the government would pass on this demand to me,” said Ms. Durocher, who compared Mr. Al Bishi’s request for cash to a ransom demand. “You don’t buy your children,” she added.

Ms. Durocher said she has no intention of negotiating a payment for her daughter’s return, and has no money to do so anyway.

Meanwhile, information obtained by Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde under freedom of information reveals that Canadian consular officials suggested Ms. Morin’s children might be better off staying in Saudi Arabia without her.

“Maybe we will get the children to Canada — to be with their high-school-educated, 22-year-old mother,” an embassy official wrote in a memo on Oct. 19, 2006.

In another memo, sent the previous day, the official wrote: “We have higher priorities and I have spoken with Nathalie — not her priority either.”

Ms. Durocher rejected the official’s claim that bringing her children back to Canada was not a priority for Ms. Morin.

Her daughter might have told embassy officials she was prepared to leave her children in Saudi Arabia because she was demoralized from enduring beatings and not being allowed to leave the house, Ms. Durocher said.

But Ms. Durocher said that Ms. Morin, who visited Montreal for one month in 2006 without her children, went back to Saudi Arabia because she couldn’t bear being away from them.

Ms. Morin’s Montreal lawyer, Julius Grey, said he is studying the documents obtained under freedom of information to determine whether she has grounds to sue the government.

Ms. Morin met Mr. Al Bishi in 2001 in Montreal, where he was living illegally. He was deported in 2002, soon after she had a child by him. She moved to Saudi Arabia in 2005 after two visits there.

Gar Pardy, a former Canadian ambassador and expert on consular matters in Ottawa, called on the government to take a stronger stance on Ms. Morin’s behalf.

“The government has to stay involved by pushing the Saudis to do something appropriate,” he said.

Natalie Sarafian, press attache to Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, noted that when Canadians leave Canadian territory, they are subject to foreign laws.

“Minister Cannon’s greatest wish is that this matter is settled and we are doing everything we can to enable this,” she said.

Ms. Sarafian added that Mr. Cannon met with Saudi Arabia’s Commission on Human Rights and raised the Morin case with his Saudi counterpart on Saturday during a visit to the Middle East.

FBI hunt for three Canadians connected to Islamist group

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FBI hunts 3 Ont. men linked to dead Islamic leader

By Neil Haesler, Canwest News ServiceOctober 29, 2009 9:02 AM
3 Ontario men are being sought by the FBI on charges of conspiracy to commit federal crimes in the United States including the illegal sale of firearms and mail fraud.

3 Ontario men are being sought by the FBI on charges of conspiracy to commit federal crimes in the United States including the illegal sale of firearms and mail fraud.

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Three Ontario men are being sought by the FBI on charges of conspiracy to commit federal crimes in the United States including the illegal sale of firearms and mail fraud.

The three were named in an Federal Bureau of Investigation operation that resulted in the shooting death of the leader of a radical Islamic group who allegedly preached violence against the government. Luqman Abdullah, 53, refused to surrender during an FBI raid near Detroit Wednesday and was shot and killed, police said.

Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, and 10 others, including the Canadians, were named in a federal complaint unsealed Wednesday that alleges conspiracy to commit theft from interstate shipments, mail fraud to obtain the proceeds of arson, illegal possession and sale of firearms and tampering with motor-vehicle identification numbers.

The complaint says the 11 defendants are members of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over many years.

“In light of the information that the charged individuals were believed to be armed and dangerous, special safeguards were employed by law enforcement to secure the arrests without confrontation. During the arrests . . . the suspects were ordered to surrender. At one location, four suspects surrendered and were arrested without incident. Luqman Ameen Abdullah did not surrender and fired his weapon. An exchange of gunfire followed and Abdullah was killed. An FBI canine was also killed during the exchange,” the FBI said in a news statement.

The Canadians being sought in connection with the incident and facing charges of conspiracy to commit federal crimes are: Mujahid Carswell, 30, also known as Mujahid Abdullah; Mohammad Alsahi, 33, also known as Mohammad Palestine and Yassir Ali Khan, 30. It is unclear where in Ontario the suspects live.

According to the FBI, the man who was killed, Abdullah, was the local leader of the group which calls itself Ummah (the brotherhood) a group of “mostly African-American converts to Islam, which seeks to establish a separate Shariah-law governed state within the United States.”

The FBI says the Ummah is ruled by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, now in prison for the murder of two police officers in Georgia.

Once the investigation is complete, authorities will decide whether to seek a felony indictment on the charges.

Police in Windsor did not comment on the case Thursday morning.

© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service

Leader Of Islamic Group Killed In Raid

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DETROIT — The Detroit leader of a nationwide fundamentalist Islamic group was fatally shot during a series of FBI raids Wednesday afternoon.

 The FBI arrested 10 people who have ties to the group called the Ummah, which translates to “the brotherhood.”

 The group’s primary mission is to establish a separate sovereign Islamic state governed by Sunni law, according to FBI charging documents. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, called his followers to an offensive jihad, rather than a defensive jihad.

 During the raid, Abdullah, aka Christopher Thomas, fired his weapon, said the FBI in a release. An FBI police dog was shot during the gunfire.

 The dog was transported via helicopter to an animal hospital in Madison Heights, but despite the rescue efforts, the dog died.

The rest of the suspects were arrested at the Detroit raid on Tireman and Firwood roads and the Dearborn raid on Michigan Avenue and Miller Road without incident.

Seven of the suspects appeared Wednesday afternoon in a detention hearing. The rest will appear before a judge Thursday.

 Before the raid, Abdullah and the 10 others were charged in a complaint with conspiracy to commit several federal crimes, including illegal possession and sale of firearms, arson, body armor and theft from interstate shipments.
 
Named in the complaint are Mohammad Abdul Bassir, Muhammad Abdul Salaam, Abdul Saboor, Mujahid Carswell, Abdullah Beard, Mohammad Philistine, Yassir Ali Khan, Adam Hussain Ibraheem, Garry Laverne Porter and Ali Abdul Raqib.

The group consists primarily of those who converted to Islam while serving sentences in various prisons around the county.

The nationwide leader is believed to be Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of two police officers in Georgia.

Abdullah Al-Amin preaches violence against law enforcement officials and has trained members of the Ummah inside of a mosque located on Joy Road how to use firearms, martial arts, sword fighting and other types of self-defense in anticipation of government violence, according to the FBI.

Undercover agents in the organization have told the FBI that Luqman Abdullah used to discipline its members starting at an early age by beating them with sticks on their hands, knees and legs and once he beat a little boy so badly that the child was unable to walk for several days.

 In October of 2008, a source the FBI called “credible” recorded statements by Abdullah at a mosque during prayer where he said that Muslims need to cut ties with Christians, Jews, and Kuffars, which the FBI said means all non-Muslims.

 “Obama is a Kafir. McCain is a Kafir, all the rest of them Kuffars, are Kuffars…. The worst Muslim is better than the best Kafir,” said FBI documents.

 At this time, the FBI continues to seek Mujahid Carswell, Mohammad Alsahi and Yassir Ali Khan. Seven of the suspects appeared Wednesday afternoon in a detention hearing. The rest will appear before a judge Thursday.

 Before the raid, Abdullah and the 10 others were charged in a complaint with conspiracy to commit several federal crimes, including illegal possession and sale of firearms, arson, body armor and theft from interstate shipments.

 Named in the complaint are Mohammad Abdul Bassir, Muhammad Abdul Salaam, Abdul Saboor, Mujahid Carswell, Abdullah Beard, Mohammad Philistine, Yassir Ali Khan, Adam Hussain Ibraheem, Garry Laverne Porter and Ali Abdul Raqib.

 The group consists primarily of those who converted to Islam while serving sentences in various prisons around the county.

 The nationwide leader is believed to be Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of two police officers in Georgia.

 Abdullah Al-Amin preaches violence against law enforcement officials and has trained members of the Ummah inside of a mosque located on Joy Road how to use firearms, martial arts, sword fighting and other types of self-defense in anticipation of government violence, according to the FBI.

Undercover agents in the organization have told the FBI that Luqman Abdullah used to discipline its members starting at an early age by beating them with sticks on their hands, knees and legs and once he beat a little boy so badly that the child was unable to walk for several days.

In October of 2008, a source the FBI called “credible” recorded statements by Abdullah at a mosque during prayer where he said that Muslims need to cut ties with Christians, Jews, and Kuffars, which the FBI said means all non-Muslims.

“Obama is a Kafir. McCain is a Kafir, all the rest of them Kuffars, are Kuffars…. The worst Muslim is better than the best Kafir,” said FBI documents.

At this time, the FBI continues to seek Mujahid Carswell, Mohammad Alsahi and Yassir Ali Khan.

Canadian arrested in Danish newspaper plot

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TORONTO — The FBI has arrested a Canadian for his role in an alleged terrorist plot against the Danish newspaper that published the controversial Muhamad cartoons.

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, owner of First World Immigration Services, was charged with aiding a conspiracy to attack the Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen.

In an indictment unsealed this morning, the U.S. Justice Department said Mr. Rana had worked with David Coleman Headley and three Pakistani terrorists to organize the attack.

Mr. Rana, a Canadian citizen born in Pakistan, has been living in Chicago, where he operates an immigration firm and grocery store. He also owns a halal meat business in Kinsman, Ill., that was raided by FBI agents last week.

“The criminal complaints unsealed today have exposed a serious plot against overseas targets by two Chicago-based men working with Pakistani-based terrorist organizations,” said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.

Muslim extremists rioted around the world after the newspaper published a dozen editorial cartoons of Muhamad in 2005 that some considered blasphemous.

National Post