Posted on 06/08/2009 7:23:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
FBI Director Defends Use of Informants in Mosques
June 08, 2009
LOS ANGELES — FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday defended the agency's use of informants within U.S. mosques, despite complaints from Muslim organizations that worshippers and clerics are being targeted instead of possible terrorists.
Mueller's comments came just days after a Michigan Muslim organization asked the Justice Department to investigate complaints that the FBI is asking the faithful to spy on Islamic leaders and worshippers. Similar alarm followed the disclosure earlier this year that the FBI planted a spy in Southern California mosques.
"We don't investigate places, we investigate individuals," Mueller said during a brief meeting with reporters in Los Angeles.
"To the extent that there may be evidence or other information of criminal wrongdoings, then we will ... undertake those investigations," Mueller added. "We will continue to do it."
He called relations with U.S. Muslims "very good," but acknowledged disagreements without providing specifics.
The Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder after mosques and other groups reported members of the community have been asked to monitor people coming to mosques and donations they make. The FBI's Detroit office has denied the allegations.
In the California case, information about the informant who spied on the Islamic Center of Irvine came out at a February detention hearing for a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, an Afghan native and naturalized U.S. citizen named Ahmadullah Niazi who is accused of lying on his citizenship and passport applications about terrorism ties.
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....the information that the FBI is penetrating mosques is the best news I’ve heard today.
Yes, thank goodness.
Too bad they didn’t have informants in the Arkansas recruiter shooter’s mosque.
Humm, lets see here after OKC they were watching white Christians, I didn’t hear anyone squawking about that. Now we have a bunch of BLACK homegrown terrorist and now they want to make something of it.
Not now that the word is out.
Worshipers in Mosques are possible terrorists. Much more so than any other group that might gather together in a (semi) public place.
I imagine they did. Not all informants tell you what they really know. Remember lying to the infidel is encouraged.
Islam seems to be the only religion hazardous to America’s welfare and requiring FBI scrutiny. Yet we are willing to import and live with the enemy.
Oops, I forgot, what can we expect when we are living in the largest Muslim country.
There's a difference?
Eric Holder, a coward and a white hating racist, should have stopped this dead in it’s tracks at HIS desk.
The FBI should not have had to say a damn thing to confirm or deny the enemy’s allegations/complaints or concerns.
Hey, Mooslimes, we got you wired. You don’t if yo bruver be ratin’ you out or no.....
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he Mapping Sharia in America Project, sponsored by the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, has trained former counterintelligence and counterterrorism agents from the FBI, CIA and U.S. military, who are skilled in Arabic and Urdu, to conduct undercover reconnaissance at some 2,300 mosques and Islamic centers and schools across the country. So far of the over 100 mosques mapped, 75 should be on a watchlist, according to staff experts. Many of the mosques are operating under Saudi financed influence and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Well...there you have it! “Our friends, the saudis” and the muzzie brotherhood in league with each other doing their best to attack the US by proxy & doing a damn fine job at it while we look on like some dodo bird staring at its inevitable fate.
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