This time, it's a U.S. citizen accused of traveling outside the country to plot a terrorist attack.
LA Times Online
November 2, 2009
by Sebastian Rotella
It is a worrisome first: an American accused of going to Europe to plot a terrorist attack there.
Recent arrests in Chicago underscore a growing concern among Western officials about the threat posed by U.S. militants who take advantage of their passports to travel easily around the world on violent missions.
"We never thought it could be persons from the U.S. coming here to commit attacks," said Hans Jorgen Bonnichsen, a former chief of Denmark's police security intelligence service. "This shows a new tendency."
The Chicago case centers on David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani American businessman who allegedly traveled to Denmark to plot an attack on a newspaper targeted by Islamic extremists because it published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. |
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OneNewsNow.com
October 30, 2009
by Chad Groening
One of America's top experts on Islam and terrorism is taking her message on the road in an effort to build a grassroots citizens' organization to combat the spread of radical Islam.
Brigitte Gabriel lectures nationally and internationally on global terrorism, and is considered to be among the top 50 most prominent speakers in America. As founder and president of ACT! for America, the Arab Christian says she is dedicated to educating her fellow Americans about the threat of radical Islam to world peace and national security.
"We know that terrorists are infiltrating the country," she says. "In the last seven months -- since President Obama became president -- we have arrested 46 homegrown terrorists on American soil plotting to kill Americans. All of these terrorist are Muslim."
Gabriel is currently on a whirlwind tour of U.S. cities, hoping to awaken America to such dangers. Toward that end, she wants to grow her grassroots organization to one-million members and become the National Rifle Association of national security. "The NRA has four-million members. When the NRA roars, Capitol Hill shakes," she says. "No elected official who wants to be re-elected will dare tackle the gun legislation issue. Even Dick Durbin said no one wants to mess with the NRA."
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[Excerpt: "The two missing suspects are identified as Yassir Ali Khan and Muahammad Alsahli (Philestine). The men are believed to be armed and dangerous.
The men are believed to be part of a group known as "Ummah," or brotherhood. They are a group of mostly African-American men who converted to Islam. Officials say many of them converted while in prison." ]
WXYZ: ABC Action News 7
October 30, 2009
DEARBORN, Mich. (WXYZ) - Two suspects are still missing in connection with the FBI raids that were conducted in metro Detroit Wednesday.
Meanwhile, police have captured another suspect in the wake of the raids.
The FBI announced that Mujahid Carswell, also known as Mujahid Abdullah, was taken into custody by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at around 1:00 p.m. Thursday. He was captured in Windsor and taken into custody without incident. He is being detained by the Canadian Border Patrol on immigration violations. |
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[Excerpt: "He regularly preaches anti-government and anti-law enforcement rhetoric," an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit. "Abdullah and his followers have trained regularly in the use of firearms, and continue to train in martial arts and sword fighting." ]
The Detroit News
October 29, 2009
by Paul Egan
Detroit -- The leader of a Detroit mosque who allegedly espoused violence and separatism was shot and killed Wednesday in an FBI gun battle at a Dearborn warehouse.
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, was being arrested on a raft of federal charges including conspiracy, receipt of stolen goods, and firearms offenses.
Charges were also filed against 11 of Abdullah's followers. Eight were in custody Wednesday night awaiting detention hearings today; three remained at large.
A federal complaint filed Wednesday identified Abdullah, 53, also known as Christopher Thomas, as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group." His black Muslim group calls itself "Ummah," or the brotherhood, and wants to establish a separate state within the United States governed by Sharia law, Interim U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg and Andrew Arena, FBI special agent in charge in Detroit, said in a joint statement. |
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