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US authorities allege Oregon imam assisted radicals
Associated Press ^ | Jul. 20, 2015 10:03 PM EDT | Jonathan J. Cooper

Posted on 07/20/2015 11:31:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai

U.S. authorities are seeking to revoke the citizenship of an Oregon imam who they say tried to conceal past associations with radical Islamic groups.

Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye raised money, recruited fighters and provided training for insurgent groups battling Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the U.S. Department of Justice says in a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland.

Kariye was one of more than a dozen people who filed a lawsuit challenging the no-fly list, winning last year a court order saying the government must provide information about why people are on the list.

The immigration complaint does not include criminal charges. Government lawyers say Kariye for a time “dealt directly” with Osama bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam, the founders of al-Qaida, and he recruited sympathizers in the United States and Pakistan for an al-Qaida precursor known as Maktab Al-Khidamat. …

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; azzam; binladen; citizenship; clerics; grf; imam; imams; jihad; kariye; mak; masjidassaber; noflylist; osamabinladen; portland; portlandcell; rop; somali; somalia; terrorcharities

1 posted on 07/20/2015 11:31:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
seeking to revoke ?

Hey assholes ... you just DO it.

Let CAIR scream ... they'd be next

Screw using our laws AGAINST us.

2 posted on 07/20/2015 11:41:33 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Olog-hai

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/980938/posts


3 posted on 07/20/2015 11:45:41 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Olog-hai

China / Portland 7 :

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963534/posts


4 posted on 07/20/2015 11:46:47 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Olog-hai

National schizophrenia: half of gubmint is helping these sick islamic bastards, and the other half is tracking them down for their sick islamic activities.


5 posted on 07/21/2015 3:28:45 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Just what is the difference between a "centrist democrat" and a "moderate republican?")
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