The Masjid As-Salam mosqe in downtown Albany, N.Y., is seen Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004. Federal agents and Albany police raided the mosque Wednesday night, Aug. 4. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)
Hummmmm Now why would they put paper over all the windows???
Posted on 08/05/2004 4:07:09 AM PDT by The Mayor
August 5, 2004, 6:48 AM EDT ALBANY, N.Y. -- Federal agents and city police raided a Muslim mosque overnight Wednesday, with armed officers sealing off a block in downtown Albany for several hours.
Authorities declined to immediately discuss the raid at Masjid As-Salam mosque.
An FBI spokesman said a press conference was tentatively set Thursday afternoon in Washington. Some mosque members held morning prayers Thursday on a nearby sidewalk.
WTEN-TV reported two men were arrested and are suspected of providing material support for terrorism. Calls to the U.S. attorney's office were not immediately returned. On Tuesday, William Chase, special agent in charge of the FBI's Albany office, said there had been no terrorism-related arrests in the area and relatively few nationally since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"But I think as time goes on you'll start to see an increased number of prosecutions as law enforcement increases its level of activity and starts looking at some of the ancillary things like financing and those type of things, the things that feed into the system that supports the terrorism," Chase said.
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Are you saying that the timing of all this is suspicious?
Did Bush know ahead of time and keep it from the American people - especially the elderly?
Wonder if I can get a large pie with sausage?
At the risk or being repetitive (I posted this on related threads several times)...
It has long been time for 24/7/52 surveillance of every mosque in the USA. We need to start organizing local militias to share the duty and equipment; not everyone has a video camera, the primary weapon.
I'll take midnight - 4 AM Monday...
Eric Sean on FoxNews:
Sting operation. 2 men tried to buy shoulder-firing missiles. One of the men was the Iman of the Mosque. [hmmmm]. Mosque has been under investigation for about a year.
The Mosque's name means --- 'peace'. [How wonderful. the Iman at the mosque of peace wanted to buy shoulder-firing missiles. How peaceful of him.]
2 in Albany translates to what 100000 in Detroit? :-)
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Thanks, Mayor ! I heard this on the radio this morning. On FOX News now too.
bumping for later read
At least every one of them built by Saudi government money --- which is at least 80% of them.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two leaders of a mosque in Albany, N.Y., were arrested on charges stemming from an alleged plot to help a man they thought was a terrorist purchase a shoulder-fired missile, federal authorities said Thursday.
The men have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam, which has been linked to the al-Qaida terror network, according to two federal law enforcement authorities speaking on condition of anonymity.
The two arrests came as FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agents executed search warrants at the Masjid As-Salam mosque and two Albany-area residences, officials said. The men were identified as Yassin Aref, 34, the imam of the mosque, and 49-year-old Mohammed Hoosain, one of the mosque's founders.
According to law enforcement officials, the two are being charged with providing material support to terrorism by participating in a conspiracy to help an individual they believed was a terrorist purchase a shoulder-fired missile.
The individual was in fact working undercover for the government and no missile ever changed hands. Aref and Hoosain were allegedly involved in money-laundering aspects of the plot, the officials said.
The investigation has been going on for a year and is not related to the Bush administration's decision earlier this week to raise the terror alert level for certain financial sector buildings in New York and Washington, the officials said.
In Albany, some mosque members gathered early Thursday outside the institution for morning prayers.
More details about the case were expected to be released later Thursday by the Justice Department in Washington.
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Associated Press writer Michael Virtanen contributed to this story from Albany, N.Y.
Now on CNN....
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/08/05/ny.mosqueraid.ap/
Oh good. The imam and the founder. So that means the entire mosque is probably corrupt as they come.
The Masjid As-Salam mosqe in downtown Albany, N.Y., is seen Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004. Federal agents and Albany police raided the mosque Wednesday night, Aug. 4. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)
Hummmmm Now why would they put paper over all the windows???
That graphic is incredible..
Thanks
A typical up-close view of the enemy within. I have seen those fruits in N.C. standing on the corners peddling their anti-white newspaper. I always keep my glock 40 in plain view. I think it's very comical to see these clowns dressed in a suit and bow-tie. Domestic terrorist in the open saleing their propaganda of anti- white-anti-jewish rhetoric. I am glad to see the Feds develop some backbone and quit worrying about offending a certain group or race.Terrorism is an Equal-Opportunity-Employer for Muslim Converts. Bush/Cheney 2004
got it and reading it. very scary
Jim, you have an excellent idea. Many of the people from where I are tired of this pandering to the religion of peace. They don't want to feel the wrath of our country in an American Crusade on their camel looking asses.
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