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We need an observation network of Jihadi Training Camps in the USA. Our government has now classified terrorist acts as crimes. That invokes the right of citizen self defence agaist crimes. To defend ourselves we need information on threat, which our government, including Homeland Security, no longer provides to the people. We need to do that ourselves. A Congressional Hearing into the Issue has been derailed. We need to organize. Seeking Freepers in these locations who are interested in providing information: Jamaat ul-Fuqra camps (Also known as Muslims of America and Quranic Open University) 1. Deposit, NY 2. Hancock, NY...

(Fresno, California) Yesterday, a member of the radical Muslims of the Americas group, Ramadan Abdullah, was sentenced to life in prison for the 2001 killing of Fresno County Sheriff's Deputy Erik Telen. Last Friday, Fresno County Superior Court Judge Ralph Nunez found Abdullah, 27, guilty of first-degree murder with special circumstances for fatally shooting Telen.

FRESNO - The founder of a California charter school was sentenced today to 14 years in state prison for siphoning off taxpayer and private funds she was supposed to be using to educate disadvantaged children from the San Joaquin Valley to Sunnyvale. Fresno County Superior Court Judge R. L. Putnam said former Gateway Academy Superintendent Khadijah Ghafur had shown sophistication, planning and leadership and an ``absolute complete lack of remorse in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt'' for her embezzlement schemes. Today's sentencing of Ghafur and another Gateway administrator, who received probation, close the cooked books on the Fresno-based...

June 30, 2006 - A former Valley school administrator will likely be going to prison. Friday afternoon, a Fresno jury came back with a verdict in the trial of the administrators of a now defunct local charter school. They were accused of misusing taxpayer money. An Action News investigation revealed the Gateway Charter School operated with little oversight, sparking a probe by the State Department of Justice. There were three defendants in the case, and the jury treated them all differently. Two of the former Gateway administrators probably won't see any jail time at all, but jurors decided one woman...

Fresno County Superior Court Judge R.L. Putnam on Monday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Khadijah Ghafur, superintendent and president of the now-closed GateWay Academy charter school system, after she failed to show up for her ongoing trial, where she is accused of stealing public funds. (excerpt)Ghafur is charged with five counts of misappropriation of public funds and five counts of grand theft by embezzlement.

<p>BADGER -- A handwritten sign on an isolated, winding section of Highway 245 advertised a yard sale Thursday. "Everything must go," it read.</p> <p>Apparently, that included the people who lived there.</p> <p>One woman and a collection of clothes, chairs and computer parts were all that remained of Baladullah, a Muslim village near the mountain community of Badger.</p>

.Why is there an Islamic Village in the foothills near Fresno? There's an airstrip and neighbors complain of gunfire. Kevin Quinn takes you inside Baladullah, California. Sorry, no transcript as of now. Video only. Worth the effort to view. The video provides a look at this compound in the foothills above Fresno, CA. Pre 9-11, a Fresn County Sheriffs deputy was killed by a member of this peaceful Islamic community. The suspect (in the beginning trial phase still) broke into a empty nearby foothill home, when deputies arrived this guy was lying in the hallway floor with a rifle, and ...

<p>State and Fresno Unified leaders are determining what to do with publicly funded classroom furniture bought by GateWay Charter Academy, which recently lost its charter because of questionable debt and a list of violations. California Department of Education and Fresno Unified officials are discussing how the desks, chairs, shelves and other office supplies bought with taxpayer money by GateWay could be used and who should use it.</p>

<p>The man accused of killing Fresno County sheriff's deputy Erik Telen last year was found competent to stand trial by a second court-appointed psychologist, prompting his attorneys to ask that a jury decide the matter. Two previous court-appointed psychologists were split on whether 20-year-old Ramadan Abdur-Rauf Abdullah is competent to assist in his defense, prompting evaluation by the third. Two psychiatrists hired by the defense found him incompetent.</p>

<p>BADGER -- A handwritten sign on an isolated, winding section of Highway 245 advertised a yard sale Thursday. "Everything must go," it read.</p> <p>Apparently, that included the people who lived there.</p> <p>One woman and a collection of clothes, chairs and computer parts were all that remained of Baladullah, a Muslim village near the mountain community of Badger.</p>