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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 →

Synagogues in L.A. on alert after shooting that police are investigating as a hate crime [Updated]

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Adet Yeshurun Valley SephardicL.A. TIMES…Two worshipers at a North Hollywood synagogue were shot this this morning in an attack LAPD detectives are investigating as a hate crime. 

The shooting occurred at 6:20 a.m. at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue, at 12405 Sylvan St.

LAPD Deputy Chief Michel Moore said the shootings occurred in the underground garage of the temple. A man coming to the temple for worship parked his car in the lot and was approached by suspect who Moore said was wearing a black hoodie.

“Without any words,” Moore said, the suspect shot the man in the leg. Then the gunman fired on a second man who had arrived for prayers. That second victim was also wounded in the leg.

The gunman then fled from the garage. Witnesses called 911.

Moore described the victims as being in their 40s. He said both were in good condition.

Detectives are “working with [the victims] to understand more information,” Moore said.

Detectives don’t believe the motive was robbery, according to LAPD sources, who spoke to The Times on the condition that they not be named because the investigation is ongoing.

At about 7:40 a.m., Los Angeles police arrested a man near the synagogue but the sources say they don’t believe he was the gunman.

LAPD officials have alerted other synagogues around Los Angeles about the shooting, and police have stepped up patrols at Jewish religious institutions.

[Updated at 9:25 a.m.: The synagogue where the shooting occurred is in the heart of the San Fernando Valley’s Orthodox Jewish community and within walking distance of kosher markets and other synagogues. Many people have moved to the area so they can walk to temple.]

The sources said detectives are trying to determine the motive, and whether the gunman acted alone or as part of a larger group.

[Updated at 9:03 a.m.: LAPD detectives were reviewing security videotapes from the temple in hopes of better understanding the chain of events. They were also searching a nearby park to see if the suspect is hiding there.]

–Richard Winton, Anna Gorman, Duke Helfand, Baxter Holmes and Andrew Blankstein

Photo: LAPD officers continue their investigation into the shooting at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue this morning. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times

LA SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED BY BLACK ASSAILANT

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FIRST ACCOUNTS ARE SKETCHY

UPDATE 1: LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles police have detained a man near the North Hollywood synagogue where two people were shot in the legs. Officer Rosario Herrera says she’s not sure if the arrest is connected to the shooting Thursday at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue.
UPDATE 2 : Patrols boosted at Jewish temples after LA attack – Police have put extra patrols at Jewish schools and temples in Los Angeles after a gunman shot and wounded two men inside a synagogue parking garage.

UPDATE 3: (ATLAS)  Obama’s America: Two Jews Shot as Gunman attacks LA synagogue : The victims, both Jewish, were transported to a local hospital in stable condition, officials said. It’s believed the men, said to be in their 30s, were shot as they arrived at the temple for morning prayers.The suspect was described only as a black man.

Police had detained a teenager for questioning, but said they also were continuing to look for possible suspects. Deputy Chief Michael Moore says two members of Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue were shot in the legs as they were heading to services shortly before 6:30 a.m. Thursday. Moore says the gunman, a man in a hoodie, said nothing before opening fire.

2 shot in legs as gunman attacks LA synagogue

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles police say two men have been shot in the legs at a North Hollywood synagogue.
Officer Rosario Herrera says a man with a handgun entered the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue at about 6:20 a.m. Thursday and shot two people. Police are investigating the shooting as a hate crime.
The victims were taken to a hospital and police are searching for the gunman. It was not clear how many people were in the building at the time of the shooting.
No one answered a call to the synagogue.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Los Angeles police say two men have been shot in the legs in a North Hollywood synagogue.
Officer Rosario Herrera says a black man with a handgun entered the synagogue at about 6:20 a.m. Thursday and shot two people. Police are investigating the shooting as a hate crime. The victims were taken to a hospital and police are searching for the gunman.

FBI hunt for three Canadians connected to Islamist group

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[kaltura-widget wid=”8of101mpq0″ width=”410″ height=”364″ addpermission=”3″ editpermission=”3″ /]From The Ottawa Citizen

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

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

CFP: Dick Cheney speaks on BMD and other matters.

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This is a powerful and important speech by the ex VP of the U.S.A. A stern warning on geopolitical reality world wide. From KitmanTV

While the whole speech is excellent, I think my favorite part is the accusation that Obama uses ‘underpants gnomes‘ logic in terms of terrorism. Phase 1. we can use other means to get the information we need from hardened terrorists. Phase 2 (shrugs shoulders) phase 3. we win the war on terror!

“God made me do it” :no jail time for Canadian in U.S. stabbing

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From CTV News

Like so many others who pull out the God card to justify their violent and despicable actions, Harmit Bhangu is no exception.

No prison time for Canadian resident in U.S. stabbing

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This photo provided by the Clay County police via The Forum, shows Harmit Bhangu. (AP Photo/Clay County police via The Forum)

The Canadian Press

Date: Friday Oct. 23, 2009 7:24 AM ET

MOORHEAD, Minn. — A 33-year-old man from Canada won’t face prison time after being found not guilty by reason of insanity for stabbing a Montana trucker at a Moorhead rest stop.

Harmit Bhangu will instead be deported after he’s sentenced to jail time already served on a separate assault charge. He’ll go to either Canada, where he’d been working, or to his native India.

Clay County Attorney Brian Melton did not oppose a doctor’s determination that Bhangu didn’t know what he was doing last Jan. 11 when he stabbed Dale Morigeau, a truck driver from Ronan, Mont. Morigeau survived the attack.

Psychologists testified in April that Bhangu believed he heard God order him to kill Morigeau.

Muslim father gives daughter a paid trip to France for getting A in art class!

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No not really. Muslim father wanted by police for murdering his daughter by running her over in his car for being ‘to westernized’ while living in the U.S.A.

Phyllis Chesler: A Dangerous Denial

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The New York Times does not tell us whether Tareq Mehanna, the 27-year-old Massachusetts pharmacist who was just arrested on federal terrorism charges, is or even might be a Muslim. In their pages, telling this particular truth is still verboten, politically incorrect, rude, racist, a cheap shot, even “Islamophobic.”

Look: Mehanna might have traveled to Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen (which he did) because, as a relatively young man, he just wanted to sew his wild oats. No matter that Mehanna and his “associates,” including one Ahmad Abousamra who subsequently fled to Syria, had traveled together “seeking training from terrorist groups to fight against American soldiers.” No matter that Mehanna had tried to buy a gun from one Daniel Maldonado who is “currently serving a 10-year-prison sentence for training with Al Qaeda in Somalia. “

Please click here to read the rest of this article. If you have any friends who are in denial of the facts of Islam, please send them this link. Chesler explains them rather well here.

Repost: Burn Koran, a tribute.

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I posted this in June of 2009. However, given the horrifying new information (to me at least) that Obama and Egypt slipped a bill through the U.N. eliminating the crucial right to criticize or attack irrational religious authority, I thought Vlad was due to re-post this short little video. Please enjoy the music, but read the captions as they go by. This video now in many countries is punishable by death for having made it and perhaps even for having watched it and now, thanks to Obama and others, the legitimacy to persecute those who would question or even ridicule the irrational, the tyrants who operate under the guise of religion, the true purveyors of hate, may now find themselves on the wrong side of the law, in nations which formerly represented progress, freedom, and logical thought.

Link: Burn Koran a tribute 2

Who is funding CAIR? What implications does this have?

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Here is a rather profoundly disturbing and important video on an organization which has become profoundly influential in The U.S.A. From Breitbart.com, a web site that seems to be doing more to preserve freedom and honesty in government than any actual government agency tasked for that sort of thing.

Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Thanks Iran For Its Financial Support

by Frank Gaffney

This Saturday, the Council on American Islamic Relations will hold its 15th Annual fundraiser in Arlington, Virginia.  Last year, our investigative teams went undercover to the November 23, 2008 CAIR 14th Annual Banquet fundraiser, and secretly videotaped the proceedings.  They were there to videotape the moment when Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR, was served court papers for a civil suit for fraud, now on appeal.  But to their surprise, our team discovered that  six of the tables at the fundraiser were identified with signs for foreign embassies officially attending the event: the embassies of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.  Those same embassies were listed in the CAIR 14th Annual Banquet’s printed program (see below) in a section titled  “Thanks To: ” on page 20, which appears to give credit to supporters for the fundraiser.

Arizona Man Ran Down Daughter For Becoming ‘Westernized’

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They hate the West. They immigrate to the West . They attempt to murder those who embrace the west. Ya, no problem with Islam.

20-year-old daughter suffered serious injuries

Updated: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 6:26 PM MDT
Published : Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 12:27 PM MDT

PEORIA, Ariz. – Peoria police are looking for a father suspected of running down his daughter because she was becoming too “westernized” and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values.

Peoria police say 48-year-old Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale allegedly ran his daughter down Tuesday at an Arizona Department of Economic Security parking lot in Peoria.

“When I walked out the door I saw two ladies on the ground, so my first thought was some kind of domestic dispute,” says witness Synthia Diaz.

The victim, 20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki of Surprise, is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

A second woman, Noor Almaleki’s roommate, was also injured. She’s identified as 43-year-old Amal Edan Khalaf, also of Surprise. Khalaf has what are described as non-life threatening injuries.

Faleh Almaleki was last seen driving a grey or silver 2000 Jeep grand Cherokee, Arizona license ADS-9192. He has not yet been apprehended.

Family and friends told Peoria investigators that Almaleki was mad and threatened his daughter for adopting Western ways. Almaleki and his family had moved to Glendale from Iraq

Another Muslim Charged In Terror Plot

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Terek Mehanna

 Fox News…  A 27-year-old Massachusetts man has been charged with conspiring with others to support and plan violent jihad in and outside the United States, including terror plots to attack U.S. shopping malls and U.S. military in Iraq.Federal officials in Boston say Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury worked with others from 2001 to May of 2008 to provide support and resources in a conspiracy to “kill, kidnap, main or injure” people in foreign countries and to kill prominent U.S. politicians.
Mehanna was charged in a complaint with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, according to the Department of Justice.

The complaint further alleges that the co-conspirators attempted to radicalize others and inspire each other by, among other things, watching and distributing jihadi videos.

The charges accuse the suspects of talking about their desire to participate in Islamist holy war and of their desire to die on the battlefield.

 Federal prosecutors say Mehanna and his conspirators planned the logistics of a mall attack — including the possibility of attacking emergency responders. However, authorities say the plot was not carried out because they could not get automatic weapons.

“Mehanna and the co-conspirators had multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in a shopping mall, and that the conversations went so far as to discuss the logistics of a mall attack, including coordination, weapons needed and the possibility of attacking emergency responders,” the Justice Department said.

Mehanna’s attorney J.W. Carney Jr. did not immediately return calls for comment.

If convicted on the material support charge, Mehanna faces up to 15 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine, the Justice Department said.

Mehanna was arrested in November 2008 for allegedly lying to authorities about the whereabouts of a man who trained with Al Qaeda members with the goal of overthrowing the Somali government.

In December 2006, Mehanna got a phone call from American Daniel Maldonado, who urged Mehanna to join him in Somalia, where he was training for jihad.

But when interviewed by FBI a few days later, he told FBI that Maldonado was in Egypt working for a Web site.

The FBI also interviewed Mehanna about a trip he and two othes made to Yemen in 2004.

 

Federal Agents Raid Goat Meat Plant

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Federal Agents Raid Goat Meat Plant

H/T Solstice

Authorities Confirm Raid, No One Taken Into Custody


Federal agents Sunday afternoon conducted a raid at a goat meat processing plant near Morris, Illinois. The secretive operation was led by the Chicago FBI office. CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports that on Monday, the Feds are being very tight-lipped on what they found and why they were even there.

Spokesman Ross Rice confirms agents were at 6260 Kinsman Road, in Kinsman, Illinois. The business is called First World Management. Rice would not say why agents were there but said nobody was taken into custody.

The FBI said the raid began Sunday morning and ended in the late afternoon. They were at the plant about nine hours total.
FBI officials told CBS 2 the meat plant was shut down and abandoned. A spokeswoman would not comment on whether the plant was processing goat meat illegally.

According to sources, the plant provides goat, beef and lamb meat which is prepared in the Halal way in accordance with Muslim custom.

The government workers inside First World Management meat packing plant in Kinsman Monday wouldn’t say why they were there or why scores of FBI agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were there Sunday.

The trouble is the FBI isn’t saying much about what happened at this rural Grundy County plant. A spokesman confirms that the plant, which has a Muslim prayer room, was raided as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

Several witnesses reported that the Grundy County Sheriff’s office was involved, as well, saying sheriff dept. vehicles were visible at the scene. The Sheriff’s department denies it was present.

When asked if the raid had something to do with undocumented aliens, the person wouldn’t say. A neighbor suggested that undocumented immigrants live in a trailer behind the facility and work there.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the agency assisted in the raid, but had no further comment. According to sources, many of the FBI and ICE agents were armed.

Several USDA criminal investigators were on site at the plant on Monday, but they would not comment on the situation.

One man who was talking about the raid was Jim Cavaness. He’s a handyman who occasionally works at the plant where goats, sheep and cows are slaughtered. On Sunday, he witnessed the raid and says he was questioned by FBI agents.

Cavaness says the FBI asked him if he had seen anything unusual at the plant. He says he’s never seen anything unusual, but, he says, judging by the amount of firepower on the scene, the FBI wasn’t just working an immigration case.

“Way too much overkill for immigration,” Cavaness said.

Neighbors who saw the raid on Sunday told CBS 2 it was a huge operation, involving more than 100 agents, police officers and even what one believed to be National Guard troops.

Sources say during the raid, the driveway was filled with more than 50 government vehicles. There was a helicopter flying overhead and a command center set up. On top of it were government sharpshooters with rifles at the ready.

George Jackson III is an attorney hired by one of the plant operators, Dr. Syed Hamid. Jackson and Dr. Hamid spoke briefly while on their way to a meeting with the federal prosecutor Monday.

Jackson says it’s too early to say why there was such a huge show of force at the plant.

“Obviously, it was more than what was needed here, but why they felt the need to come forward with that much manpower allegedly, it’s too early to say,” Jackson said.

Jackson said federal agents confiscated the company’s computers, effectively shutting down the business. Dr. Hamid chose not to weigh in Monday.

“I don’t want to comment at this point,” Dr. Hamid said.

Sources tell CBS 2 there are only six employees at the plant. An FBI spokesman would not confirm that but does say that no one has been charged.

CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli contributed to this report.

This area has 11 nuclear plants working at this time and an interesting history of nuclear research and facilities.

Nuclear Illinois mapGoat plant to cooling pond map

Goat meat plant is in Kinsman Il. There appears to be a large number of nuclear related plants and production facilities within a dozen miles of this particular Muslim owned goat butchering plant. Also, the scale and method of the raid does seem to indicate more than a casual search for a few illegal immigrants.

Home of meat plant owner also raided: