Imam warned jihad terror suspect's family that FBI was looking for him

"The man, whose name was withheld, had allegedly notified an imam that the FBI was looking for their Denver pal, and the Muslim leader, in turn, contacted the suspect's family to have them warn him." Was the imam arrested? If not, why not?

More on this story. "Bomb raid at home visited by 'associate,'" by Murray Weiss, Kati Cornell, Rich Calder and Chuck Bennett in the New York Post, September 15 (thanks to Anon):

Armed anti-terror agents yesterday stormed three Queens homes hunting for bomb-making materials allegedly sought by a suspected "al Qaeda associate" -- a dragnet sparked by President Obama's visit, law-enforcement sources said.

The suspect -- described as a Queens-born man in his late 20s who has an Afghani father -- had been under surveillance by the FBI in Denver, where he lives. But the investigation quickly turned to New York as intelligence indicated he was heading here to obtain bomb-making materials, sources said.

Hiking concerns was the suspected terrorist sympathizer's sudden, suspicious drive in a rental car from Denver to Flushing to visit local contacts as Obama hit town, the sources said....

One New York man was arrested as the emergency search warrants were executed.

The man, whose name was withheld, had allegedly notified an imam that the FBI was looking for their Denver pal, and the Muslim leader, in turn, contacted the suspect's family to have them warn him.

Authorities believe the people whom the "al Qaeda associate" met with locally share Osama bin Laden's hard-core anti-American and radical Islamist ideology, sources said....

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First I would want to confirm that the imam let the suspects know about the FBI interest. If that's the case then he's charged with aiding and abetting a terrorist and put on trial.

Second. How did this mystery man know that the FBI was looking for anyone. Are we looking at a double-agent in the mosque?

I would guess it was a dry run as they've done in other cities to spot response times and to 'out' informers and agents.

When they finally go live it will look a lot like the remake of 'The Thomas Crowne Affair' when the museum is swarmed by similarly clad men.

Lots of yellow cabs, which one has the bomb?

"The man, whose name was withheld, had allegedly notified an imam...."

But, isn't that per CAIR instuctions? If something is fishy, tell your Imam?

This "subject of the investigation" is a shuttle driver at the Denver International Airport. He took a car ride to NYC and returned via air. Hmmmmm. Sounds fishey.

Dear Mr. Obama,

Is this the achievement and enrichment that Islam has brought to America?

and "The contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalogue because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country," ?

Is this the religion that is "a great religion and its commitment to justice and progress." ?

What type of justice & progress do you value?

Kuffar: He took a car ride to NYC and returned via air. Hmmmmm. Sounds fishy.

Hard to take certain items on a plane but VERY easy to cross State lines in a rental.

Tick, tick, tick.....

I think he flew back because he was stopped on the George Washington Bridge and no longer had a car...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/16/2009-09-16_fbi_unit_set_for_more_antiterror_raids_in_queens_sources_fears_of_madridstyle_su.html

If I'm reading between the lines right.


"The 137th Street home of a Bosnian family -- including a father, mother, adult son and daughter -- was also raided, said John Choe, a City Council candidate from Flushing."

Heart warming ... feel the peace


I guess everyones Muslim problem looks different, untill they are terrorising you LOL LOL LOL. Weren't Bosnian Muslims those peacefull ones we were looking for? Oh well I guess the Serbian Muslim problem just looked different from the outside.

I think he flew back because he was stopped on the George Washington Bridge and no longer had a car...

Reading the report of the car being impounded makes sense, however why wouldn't he just rent another car and drive back?

This sounds eerily reminiscent of Weiss Rasool, the Fairfax County, VA police sergeant who was indicted last year for tipping off an FBI suspect and blowing a six month investigation. He was still on the force while he was being investigated. Apparently he originally lied and said he hadn't tipped off any one but when the authorities went to the friends house in the wee hours of the morning, he and his family were already up, dressed and shredding documents. When they played the answering machine, guess who's voice was on the recorder? Someone in the know told me that he quietly resigned in August 2008 at the "encouragement" of his attorney.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042201994.html

Hey, this iman ain't no rat fink, see...

- Muslim version of Edward G. Robinson

Authorities believe the people whom the "al Qaeda associate" met with locally share Osama bin Laden's hard-core anti-American and radical Islamist ideology, sources said.

And exactly how did these pro-Qaeda Muslims get into the US in the first place. If we would stop letting such people into the country in the first place we wouldn't have to worry about them blowing something up later down the road. Fighting jihad and strong immigration laws and enforcement go hand-in-hand. The front line against the jihad is not Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, or Somalia, but our own ports and borders. Why try and stop people from crossing into Iraq or Afghanistan if you will not stop the same sort of people from crossing into the US?

Who would rent a car and drive all the way from Denver to NY just to visit friends? The cost of the car rental, plus gas, plus time makes that a moronic thing to do. Unless he just wanted to drive through the beautiful countyside, yeh that must be it!!

Where there's smoke...

Kudo's to the FBI and the NYPD, they are doing a great job!

From the article - "The suspect -- described as a Queens-born man in his late 20s who has an Afghani father -- had been under surveillance by the FBI in Denver, where he lives...".

And the passage already noted by ethoman, above - "The 137th Street home of a Bosnian family -- including a father, mother, adult son and daughter -- was also raided,".

Here we have on the one hand the son of an Afghan father; on the other, 'a Bosnian family'.

Hmmm. Now what could a Bosnian and an Afghan, from opposite ends of the Eurasian landmass, thousands of kilometres apart, possibly have in common?

Now let's just imagine what this news report would have told us, if both those passages I have just cited, had been worded like *this*:

"The suspect - described as a Queens-born Muslim man in his late 20s who has an Afghani Muslim father - had been under surveillance by the FBI in Denver, where he lives..."

and "the 137th street home of a Bosnian Muslim family - including a father, mother, adult son and daughter - was also raided".

*Now* we can all see exactly what - and only what - they have in common; the thing that explains why they are *both* being raided in the course of the same investigation...of a jihad terror plot.







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