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Jackson,
Walid
Question
FBI
Tactics
By
Michael
Carroll/Tell
Us
Detroit
DETROIT
– The
Federal
Bureau
of
Investigation
was
criticized
heavily
Sunday,
by both
Rev.
Jesse
Jackson
and Imam
Dawud
Walid,
the
Michigan
chapter
of the
Council
on
Arabic-Islamic
Relations
Executive
Director.
Their
comments
were
given
during
CAIR-MI
annual
fundraising
event in
Dearborn.
“I am
speaking
of the
tactics
of the
Federal
Bureau
of
Investigation
investigating
our
community…
what we
at CAIR
have
documented
across
the
country,
which is
the
misuse
of FBI
informants
in our
houses
of
worship,
“ said
Walid.
Walid
continued
to
chastise
FBI
tactics
in
regards
to the
fatal
shooting
of Imam
Luqman
Abdeen
Abullah
in
October
of last
year.
Walid
said
that
many
Islamic
religious
leaders
across
the
country
had
already
expressed
concerns
to CAIR
over the
alleged
coercion
practices
of the
FBI in
attempt
to
recruit
and
exploit
informants.
“Our
concerns
unfortunately
manifested
themselves
exactly
5 months
ago to
this
day, on
October
the 28,
2009,
where a
series
of raids
took
place
based
upon two
years of
infiltration
by agent
provocateurs
at a
Mosque
in
Detroit,
which
led to
the
homicide
of Imam
Luqman
Admeen
Abdullah,”
Walid
Said.
The Rev.
Jesse
Jackson,
the
events
keynote
speaker,
told the
crowd
they had
nothing
to fear
from FBI
investigations,
and that
justice
always
finds
the
light.
“Dr.
King
said
there is
no
defense
against
sabotage
and
ambush…
Let them
spy and
challenge
them to
find
fault,”
Jackson
said.
“somehow
someway
those
who are
righteous,
god
protects
in life
and
death.
The
blood of
the Imam
has
fertilized
the soil
for hope
and new
possibility.”
Abdullah,
also
known as
Charles
Thomas,
was
under
investigation
by the
FBI,
according
to the
criminal
complaint
filed
with the
U.S.
District
Court,
for the
sale and
transport
of
illegal
goods,
illegal
firearms,
providing
ammunition
and
firearms
to
convicted
felons,
and a
host of
other
charges.
Abdullah
was one
of 11
men
targeted
by the
two year
investigation.
The
complaint
further
identifies
Abdullah
as a
“highly
placed
leader
of a
nationwide
radical
fundamentalist
Sunni
group”
whose
primary
mission
is to
establish
a
separate,
sovereign
Islamic
state
within
the
borders
of the
United
States.
Abdullah
was also
convicted
of
felonious
assault
and
carrying
a
concealed
weapon
in 1981.
The
following
statement
was
taken
from a
recorded
conversation
with
Abdullah
and
included
in the
complaint.
“How are
we going
to [to
have]
Islam
here and
the
Koresh,
if you
will, or
Washington
is
trying
to stop
everything
we
do?....
Well
yeah,
but it’s
not just
the fear
factor,
it’s the
whole
point
of. of
knowledge.
Of
understanding
that
“they”
are the
enemy,
and that
I should
be
trying
to plot
as to
how to
make
moves to
get some
things
accomplished.”
Controversy
continues
to
surround
the
shooting
of
Adullah,
who
according
to an
autopsy,
was shot
21 times
by
federal
agents,
including
once in
the
back.
“We are
not
anti-law
enforcement
at CAIR,
we are
pro-law
enforcement
at CAIR,
but we
are
anti-law
enforcement
misconduct,”
said
Walid.
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