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14 arrested over terror in US
US anti-terrorism agents have arrested 14 mostly-Muslim suspects for offences ranging from alleged immigration fraud to illegal gun possession, court documents showed. Five residents of the northwestern city of Seattle were arrested for allegedly plotting to help Gambians illegally seek asylum in the United States by claiming they were refugees from strife-torn Sierra Leone.
Seattle again, huh? Seems to be a real hot bed of islamic types.
A further four were arrested and charged with an elaborate bank fraud scheme, while five men were arrested for illegally possessing guns, including an AK-47 assault rifle, documents showed. While the cases are not directly linked, a joint Federal Bureau of Investigation and police anti-terrorism task force discovered the alleged offences after launching a single investigation that later multiplied. "The cases themselves are not related, but one investigation led to another until there were three," said Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the US Attorney's office in Seattle. Five people were charged with conspiring to "assist immigrants, primarily from The Gambia, in fraudulently obtaining asylum in the United States."

The five - Souleymane Camara, Muhamed Njolo Tunkara, Bubacarr Tunkara, Muhammad Fofana and Mohamed Jawara - are accused of supplying fraudulent documents to Gambian immigrants who used them to apply for asylum, the indictment states. The documents, including Sierra Leone passports, birth certificates and identity cards, were chosen because the suspects believed it would be easier to obtain asylum for immigrants if they were thought to hail from the war-torn West African nation. Five men - Jacob Santos Martinez, aka "Yagoub," Ahmad Amdul Salaam As-Sadiq, Zaid Mumin, Samuel Olvira Morales and David Joseph McRae aka "Daoud" - were arrested for a range of weapons possessions charges. Four people - Karim Abdulla Asalaam, Attawwaab Muhammad Fard, Ali Muhammad Brown and Herber Chandler Sandford - were charged with a scheme under which they deposited more than 10,000 dollars of bad or fraudulent cheques over several years.

The arrests by the joint-terrorism task force came after officers executed around 12 search warrants in the Seattle area early yesterday. The warrants obtained by KOMO television indicated that agents were looking for training manuals instructing people how to shoot, assault or kill and were also seeking any information about training children for urban warfare. The Seattle area has been the site of a number of terrorism-related arrests by US authorities in the past three years since the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
Posted by: God Save The World 2004-11-19
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