This is a guest post by CSC Research intern, Zoe Dan.
Following the weekend arrest of Mohammad Philistine and Yassir Ali Khan, all men wanted in connection with the radical group linked to the Detroit imam killed in the United States last week have now been apprehended.
Following the weekend arrest of Mohammad Philistine and Yassir Ali Khan, all men wanted in connection with the radical group linked to the Detroit imam killed in the United States last week have now been apprehended.
Luqman Ammen Abdullah was killed
in a shootout with FBI agents last week. According to the FBI:
'Abdullah was the leader of
part of a group which calls themselves Ummah ("the brotherhood"), a group of
mostly African-American converts to Islam, which seeks to establish a separate
Sharia-law governed state within the United States.'
The group - which largely
consisted of African-American converts to Islam - have not been charged with terrorist
offences, but with offences such as 'theft from interstate shipments, mail fraud to obtain the proceeds of arson, illegal possession and sale of firearms, and tampering with motor vehicle identification numbers.'
"Mohammad Philistine"? Let's hope they also nail Osama bin Boorish and Mustafa NotThatIntoOpera soon!
Well done FBI!