By Benamin Wiser New York Times. NEW YORK — The fiery British cleric who prosecutors said had “devoted his life to violent jihad” and had dispatched young men around the world to train and fight was convicted of 11 terrorism-related charges on Monday in Manhattan. Prosecutors had charged that the cleric, Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kareem Ibrahim, an Imam, will have to communicate to the person up above, behind bars, for the rest of his life. Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry on Friday sentenced Ibrahim to life in prison for conspiring to commit a terrorist attack at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Detroit Free Press reports some puzzling matters surrounding the death of Detroit imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was shot and killed by four FBI agents during a raid in a suburban warehouse in Dearborn in October 2009. The paper reports that the four FBI agents were not interviewed by investigators…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over the FBI’s fatal shooting of a Detroit imam last October may not go away any time soon. The Detroit Free Press reports that a noted pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, who did a pathology report at the request of the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A remorseful New York imam, as expected, pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to FBI agents in the subway bombing plot. The Associated Press reported that a tearful Ahmad Afzali told the judge that he wanted to help authorities but lied under grilling by the FBI. He had tipped off al Qaeda…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com, tells the Detroit News that he thinks agents acted appropriately when they fatally shot an imam 20 times during an October raid in Dearborn, Mi, after the imam shot and killed an FBI dog. “Once you’ve made the decision to use deadly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has launched a routine investigation into the fatal FBI shooting in Michigan of a Muslim imam in October, the Detroit News reported. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who had asked the Justice Department to probe the matter, announced the news at…
The use of FBI informants in mosques is causing a lot of tension around the country between Muslims and the FBI. Here’s one of those instances. BY NIRAJ WARIKOO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER DETROIT — He called himself Jabril. Two years ago, a white man who claimed he was an ex-con and convert to Islam…
