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Last Updated: October 28. 2009 10:42PM .Detroit mosque leader killed in FBI raids
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
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.
"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 Ummah is headed nationally by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who is serving a state sentence for the murder of two police officers in Georgia. .....
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FBI seeks 3 Canadian residents after radical imam killed in police shootout
By Colin Perkel (CP) – 32 minutes ago
TORONTO — Three men who apparently live in Canada, including the son of an imam killed in a shootout with police in Detroit, were being sought by the FBI on Thursday amid allegations they were involved with a radical Islamic group in the United States.
An FBI complaint, the result of a two-year investigation, alleges the men conspired to commit federal crimes of a relatively minor nature.
However, the underlying thread is that the group espoused violence and sought to establish a Sharia-law state within the United States.
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, was killed in a gunbattle Wednesday as police sought to arrest him at a warehouse in nearby Dearborn, Mich.
Seven men, alleged to be his followers, were arrested.
The three with links to Canada were still being sought, police said. .....
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Department of Justice Press Release
For Immediate Release
October 28, 2009 United States Attorney's Office
Eastern District of Michigan
Contact: (313) 226-9100
Eleven Members/Associates of Ummah Charged with Federal Violations
One Subject Fatally Shot During Arrest
United States Attorney Terrence Berg, Eastern District of Michigan, Andrew G. Arena, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Federal Bureau of Investigation, (FBI), Detroit, Michigan, and Police Chief Warren Evans, Detroit Police Department (DPD), Detroit, Michigan announced a federal complaint was unsealed today charging Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a.k.a.Christopher Thomas, and 10 others with conspiracy to commit several federal crimes, including 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 eleven 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.
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 today, 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 gun fire followed and Abdullah was killed. An FBI canine was also killed during the exchange.
Abdullah was the leader of part of a group which calls themselves Ummah (“the brotherhood”), a group of mostly African-American converts to Islam, which seeks to establish a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States. The Ummah is ruled by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown, who is serving a state sentence in USP Florence, CO, ADMAX, for the murder of two police officers in Georgia. As detailed in the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint that was unsealed today, Abdullah has espoused the use of violence against law enforcement, and has trained members of his group in use of firearms and martial arts in anticipation of some type of action against the government. Abdullah and other members of this group were known to carry firearms and other weapons.
The 11 individuals charged include:
Luqman Abdullah (aka Christopher Thomas), age 53, of Detroit, Michigan. Abdullah is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes,
18 U.S.C. Sale or Receipt of Stolen Goods Transported in Interstate Commerce,
18 U.S.C. 922(d) Providing Firearms or Ammunition to a Person Known to be a Convicted Felon,
18 U.S.C. 931 Possession of Body Armor by a Person Convicted of a Violent Felony,
18 U.S.C. 551 altering or Removing Motor Vehicle Identification Numbers.
Mohammad Abdul Salaam (aka Gregory Stone), age 45, of Detroit, Michigan. Salaam is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes,
18 U.S.C. Sale or Receipt of Stolen Goods Transported in Interstate Commerce.
Abdullah Beard (aka Detric Lamont Driver), age 37, of Detroit, Michigan. Beard is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes.
Abdul Saboor (aka Dwayne Edward Davis), age 37, of Detroit, Michigan. Saboor is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes.
Mujahid Carswell (aka Mujahid Abdullah), age 30, of Detroit, Michigan and Ontario, Canada. Carswell is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes.
Adam Ibraheem, age 38, of Detroit, Michigan. Ibraheem is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes.
Gary Laverne Porter (aka Mujahid LNU), age 59 of Detroit, Michigan. Porter is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes,
18 U.S.C. 922(g) Possession of Firearms or Ammunition by a Convicted Felon.
Ali Abdul Raqib, age 57, of Detroit, Michigan. Raqib is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes.
Mohammad Alsahi (aka Mohammad Palestine), age 33, of Ontario, Canada. Alsahi is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes.
Yassir Ali Khan, age 30, of Ontario, Canada and Warren, Michigan. Khan is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes.
Mohammad Abdul Bassir (aka Frankin D. Roosevelt Williams, age 50 , of Ojibway Correctional Facility. Bassir is charged with:
18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to Commit Federal Crimes,
18 U.S.C. Sale or Receipt of Stolen Goods Transported in Interstate Commerce,
18 U.S.C. 1341 Mail Fraud
18 U.S.C. 922(d) Providing Firearms or Ammunition to a Person Known to be a Convicted Felon,
18 U.S.C. 922(g) Possession of Firearms or Ammunition by a Convicted Felon.
18 U.S.C. 551 Altering or Removing Motor Vehicle Identification Numbers.
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