New York Arrests
News Hound | 05.08.2004 16:44
The imam and the founder of a mosque in Albany, New York, are being held after an FBI sting operation in which the suspects tried to help an undercover agent posing as a terrorist.
The FBI approached the suspects, Yasin Aref, 34, the imam at the Masjid As-Salam mosque, and the mosque's founder, Mohammed Hoosain, 49, with the idea of laundering money. Hoosain is on the commitee of the mosque in Luton at the centre of the recent arrests.
They were apprehended when they agreed to launder the money so the presumed terrorist could buy a shoulder-fired missile. The charges involve material support to terrorists.
Authorities were conducting a raid at the mosque Thursday, a source said, and that the raid is being carried out by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The Associated Press cited two federal law enforcement sources who said the men who were arrested have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam, a group with strong links to Al Qaeda
They were apprehended when they agreed to launder the money so the presumed terrorist could buy a shoulder-fired missile. The charges involve material support to terrorists.
Authorities were conducting a raid at the mosque Thursday, a source said, and that the raid is being carried out by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The Associated Press cited two federal law enforcement sources who said the men who were arrested have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam, a group with strong links to Al Qaeda
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05.08.2004 17:06
By Ahmed Janabi
Saturday 31 July 2004, 15:31 Makka Time, 12:31 GMT
The human toll is all too evident in daily scenes such as this
An Iraqi political group says more than 37,000 Iraqi civilians were killed between the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003 and October 2003.
The People's Kifah, or Struggle Against Hegemony, movement said in a statement that it carried out a detailed survey of Iraqi civilian fatalities during September and October 2003.
Its calculation was based on deaths among the Iraqi civilian population only, and did not count losses sustained by the Iraqi military and paramilitary forces.
The deputy general secretary and spokesperson of the movement told Aljazeera.net he could vouch for the accuracy of the figure.
"We are 100% sure that 37,000 civilian deaths is a correct estimate. Our study is the result of two months of hard work which involved hundreds of Iraqi activists and academics. Of course there may be deaths that were not reported to us, but the toll in any case could not be lower than our finding," said Muhammad al-Ubaidi...
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UK-US war crimes
they happened
they're still happening
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06.08.2004 15:28
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