The leader of an anti-government fundamentalist Islamic group was shot and killed during a series of FBI raids yesterday that resulted in charges against eleven suspects. The shooting occurred at a trucking business at Michigan Avenue and Miller Road.
According to the FBI, 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 and dangerous.
During the arrests Wednesday, the suspects were ordered to surrender. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a.k.a. Christopher Thomas, refused to surrender and fired his weapon. An exchange of gunfire followed and Abdullah was killed.
According to the FBI, 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 and dangerous.
During the arrests Wednesday, the suspects were ordered to surrender. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a.k.a. Christopher Thomas, refused to surrender and fired his weapon. An exchange of gunfire followed and Abdullah was killed.
Abdullah was a leader in the Ummah Brotherhood, a group of mostly African-American converts to Islam, that seeks to establish a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States. A federal complaint was unsealed Wednesday charging Abdullah 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.
Also named in the complaint is Mohammad Abdul Bassi, Muham-mad Abdul Salaam, Abdul Saboor, Mujahid Caswell, Abdullah Beard, Mohammad Philistine, Yassir Ali Khan, Adam Hussain Ibraheem, Garry Laverne porter and Ali Abdul Raqib.
Seven of the suspects appeared Wednesday afternoon in a detention hearing. The rest will appear before a judge Thursday.
The FBI continues to seek Mujahid Carswell, Mohammad Alsahi and Yassir Ali Khan.
Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 313-965-2323.
Also named in the complaint is Mohammad Abdul Bassi, Muham-mad Abdul Salaam, Abdul Saboor, Mujahid Caswell, Abdullah Beard, Mohammad Philistine, Yassir Ali Khan, Adam Hussain Ibraheem, Garry Laverne porter and Ali Abdul Raqib.
Seven of the suspects appeared Wednesday afternoon in a detention hearing. The rest will appear before a judge Thursday.
The FBI continues to seek Mujahid Carswell, Mohammad Alsahi and Yassir Ali Khan.
Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 313-965-2323.
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4 comments:
Seriously? A radical Islamic cell is raided in Dearborn, with the shooting death of a black Muslim man, and no one that reads this blog has anything to say about it? Come now, you're all getting lazy.
I'm glad this "Imam" got what is coming to him. One bonus of all of this is that his official Imam gear will make a sweet Halloween costume.
Shame on you! This was a man of faith!! You won't be laughing when the government comes for you.
I'd like to know who got the "hot" 46" Toshiba flat screen TV's for $500-$600 that were being fenced out of that warehouse.
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