Posted on 09/19/2006 12:52:33 PM PDT by jdm
FBI agents searched the home of a prominent Islamic community leader and Iraq war critic, a bureau spokesman said, declining to reveal any reasons for the search.
A dozen agents searched the home of Shakir Abdul-Kaf Hamoodi and his wife, Lamya Mukhlef Najem on Monday, FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said. Agents removed boxes and computer equipment throughout the day, neighbors said.
The search warrant has been sealed and Lanza wouldn't comment on what the agents were looking for.
Federal agents on Monday also raided the offices of a Southfield, Mich., Muslim charity organization, Life for Relief and Development.
In that raid, the warrants were based on a criminal assertion, but the affidavits were sealed, William Kowalski, an assistant special agent in the FBI's Detroit office, told the Detroit Free Press.
The Michigan charity's head of legal services, Ihsan Alkhatib, said the agents are investigating whether the charity conducted business in Iraq before the 2003 war in violation of legal sanctions against the country.
Alkhatib said the organization "did everything by the book."
Lanza declined to discuss whether the Michigan and Missouri searches were connected.
Hamoodi, 54, said he cooperated fully with federal investigators.
"They came in, asked questions, I told them the answers and they left," he told the Columbia Missourian.
Hamoodi, who grew up in Iraq but has lived in Columbia for 21 years, has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war and recently had his home defaced with graffiti.
The search came three days after bureau officials met with Muslims at a local mosque to try to improve community relations.
Shots fired?
Anyone? Anyone?
Should we CAIR?
How the hell is it that CAIR even has a say.
....psssst tell em to check the freezer...:)
Doogle
They should be happy they weren't Waco'd.
Low volume ping list
FReepmail me to be on, or off, this list.
And I hope someone squealed.....
They set the cell phones taken from the Islamofascists to "homing." Led them right to the charities. I'M KIDDING.
Link to profile on the "Islamic charity" that was raided in Columbia, MO
in 2004:
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6408
My parents got to see the FBI posse swarm the house of the group's leader.
He and his family have "vanished" from the local scene.
One of the associates of the "charity" provided one of the satellite phones
used by OBL's guys in the bombing of American embassies in Africa.
Link to the local news coverage of the raid in Columbia, MO:
http://www.showmenews.com/2006/Sep/20060919News014.asp
A good start. The next step is expulsion.
see link in post 11
Last week some bombing material and a list of churches were picked up by local police in the Tri-Cities area of eastern Tennessee. Following FBI involvement, the whole thing was downplayed, there were no suspects, and even the story disappeared from the newspaper in Kingsport, TN.
My suspicion is that there was a play on by the Islamic whack-jobs in our midst. Perhaps attacks on churches, schools or school buses. Something aimed at the heart of American communties and families. And I think the federal authorities are quietly and discreetly nipping this one in the bud before it comes anywhere near execution.
We may never know how close we came.
Wishful thinking on my part.
I'm glad to see that The FBI is on top of things!I wonder if their Intel came from The CIA or....?This wouldn't have happened under Klintoon(Gorelick Wall)!!
"Hamoodi, who grew up in Iraq but has lived in Columbia for 21 years, has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war and recently had his home defaced with graffiti. "
That's Right!Old Janet El Renio would have FRIED EM'!!!!!!!!!
Alkhatib said the organization "did everything by the book."
What book - "How to Kill Infidels."
My mistake. I assumed Columbia was a suburb of St. Louis. A quick look at the map showed me it was just north of the state capital.
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