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Hamas-linked CAIR to sue FBI over death of friend of Boston Marathon jihadi

Mar 3, 2015 1:45 am By Robert Spencer

abdulbaki-todashevThe Associated Press reported in March 2014 that according to an official report on the incident, the FBI agent who shot Todashev was “justified” in doing so, as “Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter, flipped a coffee table in the air, knocking down the FBI agent and causing a bloody gash on the agent’s head. Todashev then ran past the two officers, into the kitchen and returned with a pole — a long metal handle of a broom or mop — that he pointed at the Massachusetts officer, the report said.”

This is just yet another attempt by the Hamas-linked terror organization CAIR to stymie counter-terror efforts.

Note also that AP once again calls Hamas-linked CAIR a “civil rights group,” and doesn’t see fit to mention its unsavory links to Hamas, the jihad terror convictions of several of its former officials, etc.

“Civil Rights Group To Sue FBI For $30M Over Chechen Man’s Death,” by Mike Schneider, the Associated Press, March 2, 2015:

ORLANDO, Fla. Leaders of a civil rights group said Monday that they plan to sue the FBI for $30 million on behalf of the family of a Chechen man who was fatally shot while being questioned about a Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

The Council of American-Islamic Relations Florida filed a notice stating its intention to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the FBI over the death of Ibragim Todashev.

CAIR officials said they hope the lawsuit forces the FBI to change aspects of its hiring practices, where it interrogates people and how it investigates its agents, who are rare disciplined for such shootings. They said the agent who shot Todashev was sued for police brutality before he was hired by the FBI, and that Todashev should have been questioned in a controlled environment, rather than his apartment.

“The organization hopes that the suit will bring justice for the Todashev family,” said Ali Kurnaz, a spokesman for CAIR Florida. “It is a point of American pride that no authority is above the law. We have the freedom to question our government and hold our law enforcement accountable.”

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson refused to comment.

Todashev was killed at his Orlando, Florida, apartment about a month after the April 15, 2013, marathon bombings. FBI agents were interviewing Todashev as they looked into the background of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Todashev and Tsarnaev had been friends through mixed-martial arts circles when Todashev lived in Boston.

Prosecutors in the State Attorney’s Office in Orlando investigated the shooting and decided not to file charges.

They said in a report that Todashev had been cooperative with investigators but he became agitated as he wrote a statement about his role in the 2011 killings of three men in Waltham, Massachusetts. In that case, three men were found in an apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana. One of the victims was a boxer and Tsarnaev’s friend.

Friends of the men have said they presumed the killings were drug-related, but police never confirmed that and the investigation is ongoing….

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  1. PE says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 4:12 am

    Typical Muslim crybabies. You think you can assault a Federal Officer and come away unscathed? Wrong again, Ali Baba.

    • noellsq says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 1:13 pm

      You can do anything you want if you are an illegal alien, a black panther or a muslim and Holder will turn a blind eye.

  2. Jeff says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 4:28 am

    The UAE was smart enough to declare CAIR as a terrorist organization. Why aren’t we as smart? Oh, Obama is why.

    • yuri pelham says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 9:41 pm

      We support terrorists. Saudi Arabia for a start and the ineffectual wars which we fight half heartedly looking to me like we’re long on purpose.

    • M S case says

      Mar 4, 2015 at 10:58 pm

      It’s time for CAIR to disappear into nothingness

  3. particolor says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 4:38 am

    If they won the Case Id give them 1 Buck a Month for a Thousand Years !! 🙂

  4. Baucent says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 5:43 am

    Perhaps CAIR might like to initiate a civil prosecution against the younger Tsarnaev for “reckless driving causing death” or “Hit and run” since he ran over his brother with the SUV.

  5. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 6:53 am

    What is wrong with the Associated Press? Do they not have editors who can correct “who are rare disciplined” to “who are rarely disciplined”? And does this AP reporter — one Mike Schneider, says
    http://www.wbur.org/2015/03/02/civil-rights-group-sues-fbi-over-todashev-death —
    really think that CAIR stands for the Council “of” American-Islamic Relations. Didn’t he check for the proper preposition on the CAIR website at cair.com ?

    • Lioness says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 10:11 am

      Yea, sloppy, junk reporter with low IQ and leftist ideology.

  6. Angemon says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 7:05 am

    Todashev should have been questioned in a controlled environment, rather than his apartment.

    So that he could ask for his attorney, who would tell him to keep his mouth shut, all while CAIR would go to the press and cry about “islamophobia” in the FBI and its persecution of muslims without any evidence – if the FBI had something on him, they would have took him to their office, as CAIR (who apparently decides how the FBI should act) suggests. As it was, it seems like a standard “do you know anything about this?” visit. It’s not the FBI agents’ fault that the criminal flipped out and pulled a Michael Brown. I don’t know the official statistics, but I’m guessing that NOT attacking police agents dramatically drops the chances of being killed by one.

  7. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 7:35 am

    Anybody know if CAIR receives U.S. taxpayer dollars from the gubmint? I know they get Petrodollar dough from the Arabs, but, hey, ACORN was publicly subsidized, so why not a civil rights group like CAIR?

  8. RonaldB says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 8:26 am

    This is another case where the legal system is used, not to convict, but to harass. Obviously, the case has no chance of winning, but the FBI agent will be subjected to career-ruining publicity, and the FBI itself will have to fight an expensive legal battle. Now, of course, the FBI has the resources, but the case will serve as a warning to local security agencies, such as municipal police, to not mess with Muslims.

    The counter strategy for this tactic is

    1) the judge should peremptorily throw the case out of court, on the grounds that the police have no responsibility to take steps against clearly illegal behavior. This is pulling a legal case literally out of the air, and I see no reason why a judge should let that sort of claim go past the initial filing.

    2) pass legislation where the loser pays the legal fees of the winner. Up the ante to 15% for frivolous lawsuits of which this is an obvious example. This would tend to not only discourage legal harassment like this, but make more lawyers willing to oppose well-funded bullies like CAIR.

    • Chris says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 8:34 am

      Spot on in all respects. Yet again, the process is intended as the punishment. And it is very, very effective in jurisdictions which cannot function in a timely or cost-effective manner.

  9. zulu says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 9:51 am

    OT

    Another Pakistani rape gang story from England….

    Revealed: Hundreds of girls as young as 11 were drugged, raped and forced into prostitution by paedophile gangs – but officials did nothing because they ‘brought it on themselves’

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2977034/Police-social-services-face-brutal-criticism-report-revealing-hundreds-young-people-groomed-sexually-exploited-gangs-Oxfordshire-15-years.html#ixzz3TKnJogaq

  10. BC says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 10:04 am

    They learn quickly and have seen the riots over police shootings recently. I am sure the bum on the White House throne will give it his support.

  11. mortimer says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 10:11 am

    A metal pole in the hands of a martial arts student can be a maiming or even a deadly weapon. It is clear he wanted to evade arrest or even seek the death of an Islamic martyr, thus ensuring his entry to Islam’s pornographic-alcoholic eternity.

  12. Ayatrollah says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 10:34 am

    I think the case can be made that since this man was a Muslim the fbi killed him without right. Obama is insisting federal officers respect shariah when dealing with believers.

  13. mortimer says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 10:43 am

    “Friends of the men have said they presumed the killings were drug-related, but police never confirmed that and the investigation is ongoing…”

    The conspirators set up the murder of a Jewish student to look like it was drug-related to throw off the scent. The murder was Islam-related. The conspirators wanted to kill a Jew because of Islam’s doctrine of Jew hatred.

  14. Dee says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 11:03 am

    CAIR and all of it’s members and all of the other muslims should be run out of our country, starting with the head muzzy in the oval office.

  15. Jay Boo says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 11:10 am

    Victimhood mongering to subvert or at least avert attention away from the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
    Our Muslim neighbors are once again trying to hide the STINK that is Islam.

    Why did they wait so long until just after start of the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
    Are they trying to run interference?
    CAIR doesn’t care about the victims of Boston.
    They are acting like typical Muslims.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 3:04 pm

      Coincidentally ?????

      After two months of jury selection, a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates was seated Tuesday for the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

      http://www.wral.com/jury-seated-in-trial-of-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect/14487374/

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 3:05 pm

      in addition
      Read more at http://www.wral.com/jury-seated-in-trial-of-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect/14487374/#MBjXZ8iQbK68tILH.99

  16. Crixus says

    Mar 4, 2015 at 3:27 am

    Now if this had happened in the UK we would be reading the usual ‘end of the UK’ comments from Robert.

  17. el-cid says

    Mar 4, 2015 at 10:15 am

    This article looks like it was written by CAIR, not a free press. How did we come to this?

  18. Rob Crawford says

    Mar 4, 2015 at 11:51 am

    The CAIR lawyers should be disbarred for abusing the courts.

  19. Larry A. Singleton says

    Mar 4, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld, (CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood), That’s Conspiring to Islamize America by Gaubatz and Sperry.

    Is CAIR a Terror Group? by Daniel Pipes (National Review Online)
    http://www.danielpipes.org/15220/cair-terror-group#print

    •”CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists”;
    •”CAIR … is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries”;
    •”CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists”; and
    •”CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations.”

    Getting to Know the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
    http://www.danielpipes.org/biblio_cair.php (Assorted articles)

    CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (MEQ article)
    meforum-org/916/cair-islamists-fooling-the-establishment#_ftnref60

    CAIR’s silence on pastor’s apostasy death sentence is deafening” by Andrew G. Bostom (American Thinker)
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/cairs_silence_on_pastors_apostasy_death_sentence_is_deafening.html

    Free Speech v. Political Correctness by Abraham H. Miller (Gatestone Institute)
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4862/berkeley-free-speech

    FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Muslims, which are never justified, are actually quite uncommon, with hate crimes against Jews being over four times more common. Details here: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2014/12/new-fbi-hate-crime-stats-another-blow-to-islamist
    Many women and girls around the world have been brutalized and even killed for not wearing a hijab. A list of some of them, with further links to the relevant news stories, is at this link: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/today-is-world-hijab-day
    CAIR and the MSA appear to have been involved in this event. Both were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land trial, which involved funneling money to the terror group Hamas. Both have demonstrable ties, documented and noted by the FBI, with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. See, for example, these links:

    http://www.investigativeproject.org/2340/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas

    http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/March/Muslim-Student-Group-a-Gateway-to-Jihad/

    Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer (Booklet)

    11 of Canada’s highest-profile jihad terrorists tied to Muslim Students Association
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/11-of-canadas-highest-profile-jihad-terrorists-tied-to-muslim-students-association

    Slavery, Terrorism and Islam, (and Holocaust in Rwanda), by Peter Hammond (This is an Ass-Kicking little resource of 276 pages.)

    Subscribe to Jihad/Campus Watch and the Middle East Forum/Quarterly, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Gatestone Institute, FrontPage Magazine, American Thinker, The Clarion Project, Cross Muslims, Palestinian Media Watch, Muhammad unveiled, Religion of Peace and read Raymond Ibrahim, Efraim Karsh, Patrick Poole, Caroline Glick, Bat Ye’or and others.

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