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Feds: Radical Islam leader killed in raid
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, refused to surrender and fired a gun when the FBI raided a Dearborn warehouse, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Michigan said in a joint statement. He was killed when agents returned fire, they said.
Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, and 10 others were charged in a complaint with conspiracy to commit felonies, including illegal possession and sale of firearms and theft from interstate shipments.
"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 statement said.
Those arrested are members of Ummah, a group made up mostly of African-American converts to Islam who seek to create an Islamic state within the United States, federal officials alleged. The complaint said the Detroit mosque to which they belong called for an "offensive jihad," the Detroit Free Press reported.
Seven of the men appeared in U.S. District Court Wednesday, and another was in custody. Two had yet to be caught.
The raids took place at at least two locations, the Dearborn warehouse and a home in Detroit, authorities said.
Federal authorities said Ummah is ruled by Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, the 1960s radical born Hubert Gerold Brown and formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who is serving a life sentence for shooting two police officers in Georgia in 2000. Brown was once chairman of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and justice minister of the Black Panther Party.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/28/2009
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11-03-2009 16:03
Leslee in Canada wrote:
Seems to me the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on the shattering of the glass ceiling and the courage to begin a long overdue change to the way Americans see leadership.
But hey, I'm just a heathen Canadian stuck with a white-bread Prime Minister who puts more stock in his haircut than the worth of our citizens.
But hey, I'm just a heathen Canadian stuck with a white-bread Prime Minister who puts more stock in his haircut than the worth of our citizens.
10-31-2009 19:16
Who Cares wrote:
It seems they look at it as PUNISHMENT for crimes yet to be committed. Sorta like awarding the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for something not yet done!
10-31-2009 15:37
Verhoeven wrote:
The Bible God Speaks according to the same book for the Jew, The Muslim and Christan in Exodus 20:13, "Thou shalt not Kill". A bit further down Exodus 32:27, God tells the Sons of Levi to "slay every man, his brother, and every man, his companion and every man, his neighbor"???? Talk about mixed signals. It seems to be a lingering primitive superstition unable to function in todays advanced Societies of reason. No wonder Deism is gathering momentum with a new found progress and freedom of ones mind through education.
10-31-2009 13:50
wrote:
57? - I thought it was 70!
10-31-2009 13:29
Helios wrote:
Islam = Murder
I see 57 virgins, armed and ready. . and smiling. Yep, they are ready for these freaks.
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