Radical Islamist Killed in Shootout Near Detroit
“Shooting Range” Discovered Inside Mosque
CAIR Comes to Defense of the Radical Islamist
Dear Harold,
In yet ONE MORE incident of homegrown jihad this year, federal agents were fired on by an Islamist imam, who then returned fire and killed the man. (See story below).
Such incidents are now an almost weekly occurrence. This latest one comes just two days after two men were arrested in Chicago for planning terrorist acts overseas.
The slain imam, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, had been recorded in a 2008 conversation saying “You cannot have a nonviolent revolution.”
The story below notes that Abdullah was the leader of a radical Islamist group “whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the U.S.”
Agents discovered what was described as a “shooting range” inside the mosque.
Predictably and right on cue, a leader of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, came to Abdullah’s defense. Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR’s Michigan chapter, said “I knew nothing of him that was related to any nefarious or criminal behavior.”
Mr. Walid must have missed those shell casings and bullet holes in the wall in the “shooting range” inside the mosque.
It is standard operating procedure for CAIR to dismiss allegations against terror suspects, regardless of the amount or quality of the evidence arrayed against such suspects.
TOMORROW WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A MAJOR EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING CAIR — SO STAY TUNED.
Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid
AP – Detroit Police enter the temporary home to the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. …
• Slideshow: Radical Islamic leader killed in Detroit raid
By ED WHITE, Associated Press Writer – 31 mins ago
DETROIT – A leader of a radical U.S. Sunni Islam group killed in a shootout with federal agents near Detroit repeatedly told followers that the government was the enemy and they must be willing to take on the FBI — even if it meant death, authorities said.
"You cannot have a nonviolent revolution," Luqman Ameen Abdullah said, according to a 2008 conversation secretly recorded by a confidential FBI source.
Abdullah, 53, was killed Wednesday at a warehouse in Dearborn, where agents were attempting to arrest him on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. He was one of 11 people named in a criminal complaint after a two-year investigation.
FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said Abdullah refused to surrender, fired a weapon and was killed by gunfire from agents.
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.
Neither Abdullah nor his co-defendants were charged with terrorism. But he was "advocating and encouraging his followers to commit violent acts against the United States," FBI agent Gary Leone wrote in an affidavit filed with the complaint.
The FBI said Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was an imam, or prayer leader, of a radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the U.S.
Abdullah told followers that it was their "duty to oppose the FBI and the government and it does not matter if they die" and to "simply shoot a cop in the head" if they wanted the officer's bulletproof vest, Leon wrote.
The affidavit also said bombs, guns and even the recipe for TNT were among Abdullah's regular topics with his allies. Group members and former members said they were "willing to do anything Abdullah instructs and/or preaches, even including criminal conduct and acts of violence," the FBI agent wrote.
But that description doesn't match what Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan chapter, said he knew of Abdullah.
"He would open up the mosque to homeless people. He used to run a soup kitchen and feed indigent people," Walid said. "I knew nothing of him that was related to any nefarious or criminal behavior."
Walid said Abdullah had a wife and children. A phone number for the family had been disconnected.
Ummah believes that a separate Islamic state in the U.S. would be controlled by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado for shooting two police officers in Georgia in 2000, Leone said.
Al-Amin, a veteran of the black power movement, started the group after he converted to Islam in prison.
"They're not taking their cues from overseas," said Jimmy Jones, a professor of world religions at Manhattanville College and a longtime Muslim prison chaplain. "This group is very much American born and bred."
Abdullah's mosque is in a brick duplex on a residential street in Detroit. A sign on the door in English and Arabic reads, in part, "There is no God but Allah." The mosque was located elsewhere in the city until the property was lost in January because of unpaid taxes.
When the eviction took place, a search turned up empty shell casings and large holes in the concrete wall of a "shooting range," Leone said.
Seven of the 10 people charged with Abdullah were in custody, including a state prison inmate, the U.S. attorney's office said. Three were still at large. Another man not named in the complaint also was arrested.
The FBI built its case over two years with the help of confidential sources close to Abdullah who recorded conversations and participated in undercover operations involving the sale of furs, laptop computers, televisions, energy drinks and power tools.
Abdullah received at least 20 percent of any profit and claimed the "Prophet Muhammad said that it is okay to participate in theft; as long as that person prays, they are in a good state," Leone wrote in the affidavit.
Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Dearborn, said the FBI briefed him about the arrests.
"We know that this is not something to be projected as something against Muslims," Hamad said.
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Associated Press writers David Runk, Corey Williams, David N. Goodman and Rachel Zoll contributed to this report.
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