Akhtar Hussain Muawia worked in Jersey City bodega following his alleged assassination of Shia leader Mahmood Shah in Pakistan in 1997.
Posted on 11/02/2007 2:32:32 PM PDT by Stoat
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Akhtar Hussain Muawia worked in Jersey City bodega following his alleged assassination of Shia leader Mahmood Shah in Pakistan in 1997.
The store, run by Muawia's brother-in-law, is suspected of laundering money for terror group.
Akhtar Hussain Muawia sneaked into the country under an assumed name less than a year after the murder of a top Shia leader, moved in with his sister and worked in his brother-in-law's Mashaallah Grocery, the sources said.
The NYPD unmasked Muawia several months ago when a 30-year-old civilian analyst discovered his true identity, sources said.
"If what you say is true, that was not a holy man," said an employee at the Sunni Rizvi Jamia mosque in Jersey City, where Muawia worshiped.
"They left and no one talked about them. No one said a word. I do not like thinking that was happening here," the worker said.
Muawia was arrested in May as the alleged gunman who killed Shia leader Mahmood Shah in Pakistan in 1997, sources said. He is in federal custody fighting deportation.
"It's 100% not true," said Muawia's lawyer Amy Nussbaum Gell. "They are using buzz words, like 'terrorist,' 'murder,' all because they think they can get away with railroading a Muslim kid," she said.
Gell said Muawia was cleared - in absentia - of the murder in a Pakistani trial in February. "They have nothing on this young man, other than he is Muslim," Gell said.
Immigration sources agreed with Muawia's lawyer.
"He was more of a lamb than a lion," said a federal immigration source familiar with Muawia's arrest.
But a law enforcement source countered that Muawia, 33, was never cleared in Pakistan, and did more than work the cash register at his brother-in-law's food store.
It's believed the three-aisle bodega laundered money for the terrorist organization Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba/Pakistan (SSP).
Muawia was allegedly a favored assassin with the SSP, which has been blamed for the massacres of scores of Pakistani civilians as it pushed a pro-Sunni, anti-American agenda.
An SSP cell was first discovered in New York City in 2003, when investigators raided a Brooklyn apartment and found recruitment documents and membership forms, sources said.
Another SSP member was deported after being caught in 2004 photographing the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges.
Federal immigration officials arrested Muawia's brother-in-law, Mumtaz Ahmed, 47, last October, as part of a money-laundering investigation, sources said. Muawia was arrested at the same time and charged with being in the country illegally. Ahmed was eventually deported, but Muawia was let go.
Aside from his brush with immigration, Muawia remained under the radar until the NYPD analyst began piecing together his history in February last year.
By March this year, the Ivy League analyst felt he had pulled together enough information to prove the Jersey City grocery clerk was the wanted assassin.
A month later, the NYPD tracked Muawia to Jersey City, and put him under surveillance. The NYPD contacted the Newark Joint Terrorism Task Force and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which arrested him in early May.
The expected, hysterical response that any of us could have pre-written for her long ago.
It's believed the three-aisle bodega laundered money for the terrorist organization Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba/Pakistan (SSP).
Muawia was allegedly a favored assassin with the SSP, which has been blamed for the massacres of scores of Pakistani civilians as it pushed a pro-Sunni, anti-American agenda.
Yes, just a quiet, polite Muslim "kid" who never did anyone any harm and is being railroaded by the evil, Racist, anti-Muslim bigots in the Evil Bush Administration.
Even the Left must surely be rolling their eyes over this sort of thing by now
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Why are these people in our country? Why haven’t they all been rounded up and deported? What is the government waiting for, another 9/11? Are we gonna have to do it ourselves?
Great Work to catch a murderer. Too bad the clock is still ticking for this one, and millions of others (like hime) here inside our nation.....mho
"Muslim kid"? This guy is 33. And he was 23 when he assassinated a Mahmoud Shah.
Sounds like Amy Nussbaum Gell is another ultra-liberal, self-hating Jew. She should don a burqua and start bowing to Mecca.
Because immigration to the United States is controlled, in large measure, by people who think this way:
"He was more of a lamb than a lion," said a federal immigration source familiar with Muawia's arrest.
What is the government waiting for, another 9/11?
Yes.
Are we gonna have to do it ourselves?
Yes.
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From the article:
It's believed the three-aisle bodega laundered money for the terrorist organization Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba/Pakistan (SSP).
Muawia was allegedly a favored assassin with the SSP, which has been blamed for the massacres of scores of Pakistani civilians as it pushed a pro-Sunni, anti-American agenda.
An SSP cell was first discovered in New York City in 2003, when investigators raided a Brooklyn apartment and found recruitment documents and membership forms, sources said.
Another SSP member was deported after being caught in 2004 photographing the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges.
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One might wonder if Amy Nussbaum Gell would be at all concerned if the explosive destruction of the Brooklyn and / or Williamsburg bridges by terrorists were to kill any of her own family members.
Would he still be "just a poor, innocent Muslim kid" in her view?
Well now we know th MSNM is telling a whopper, I mean jerkoff and jorge have a death grip on the boarder, don't they. "Sac Off"
This could never happen. After all, this is a real country with borders and stuff, right?
It will be interesting to see if Nussbaum-Gell is a member of the communistfront National Lawyers Guild, the communist-created Center for Constitutional Rights, or the commie-wannabes of the ACLU.
Her middle name is infamous in communist labor unions and fronts.
Yes, Nussbaum is a familiar name in those circles, as you say.
And in academia, there’s Martha Nussbaum.
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