No reasons given for the search, but it may be linked to this. "FBI Raids Mo. Islamic Leader's Home," from AP, with thanks to Mackie:
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- 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 on Monday, FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said. Agents removed boxes and computer equipment throughout the day, neighbors said....
Federal agents on Monday also raided the offices of a Southfield, Mich., Muslim charity organization, Life for Relief and Development, where Hamoodi has worked.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, is a former University of Missouri engineering professor who now owns an international grocery store. He said he has worked as a paid organizer and fundraiser for the organization for several years. He 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.
By which book does he do everything?
Note that the AP makes sure to point out he's an outspoken critic of the Iraq War and a victim of vandalism. *rolls eyes*
as always , like the German Sargent on Hogans Heroes. the reply is always " I know nothing"
OT but maybe important.:
I've been reading/posting on JW/DW while doing some work in Excel. I've noticed Excel acting up/crashing while saving.
I am not an expert.. could this have something to do with evildoers reading what we post here and trying to do damage in some way?
Enquiring minds..
Again, no one addresses the most important issue: why and how was this person and others like him issued a green card?
Unless immigration officers and immigration policymakers are held responsibe for the crimes the people they admitted commit, there is no hope of putting an end to this.
Check the muslim playbook:
"It's charity. Surely you believe in charity and giving to the poor ?"
Charity in muslimspeak means funding the terrorists muslims.
Hear that Ibrahim ?
Or are you still trying to convince us how good muslims are that they give to "charity"
You must be laughing up your sleeve to believe that we will still fall for this transparent ploy to trick us.
At a certain point, even the airheads in the massmedia will not give you credence.
"It was also reasonable to believe that, as he looked down at that photograph or looked down at the video, that a number of the people that were standing there at that funeral were Taliban fighters,” the general added."
could it be the photos show numberous individuals carrying AK47s, RPGs , or posturing around the funeral in a military defensive posture.
A funeral? It could have been a staff meeting.
It certainly was a target of opportunity, and we wasted it.
The military is useless if it cannot destroy the enemy when it has the opportunity to do so.
Soldiers die when the enemy is not killed.