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Posted by Steve White 2015-06-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 Photo of Usaama is from the Brookline high school yearbook. He's 26, which means he was about 12 or 13 on 9/11/2001. Was he given that name at birth, or did he adopt it later?
Recall there were about half a dozen "Hitler"s in the NYC phone directory in about 1938, but zero by 1945.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2015-06-04 00:15||   2015-06-04 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 So his brother, Ibrahim Rahim, is a "scholar known for preaching after the Boston marathon bombings that violence is anti-Islamic."

now that we know he's a LIAR, how seriously can we take the statement above?
Posted by Frank G 2015-06-04 09:11||   2015-06-04 09:11|| Front Page Top

#3 The photo of David Wright in this Fox News report is of recent vintage. Note the well-groomed appearance and brilliantly whote, perfectly straight teeth. Nation of Islam or traitional Sunni? Incidentally, from the article:

Rahim’s alleged associate, David Wright, 25, appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston to face a charge of obstructing a federal investigation by destroying electronic evidence on Rahim’s smartphone. A detention hearing was scheduled for June 19 after prosecutors said he was a flight risk.

Wright allegedly attempted to destroy Rahim’s cell phone and conceal evidence of their plans, according to the documents. Wright faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison if convicted.
Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-04 09:14||   2015-06-04 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Also from the Fox article (sorry, I'm still waking up):

Under the alias “Abu Sufyaan,” Rahim thanked his nephew, “Dawud Sharif Abdul-Khaliq,” an alias of Wright, for witnessing his wedding, according to a 2013 Facebook post.

The FBI-led task force had been watching Rahim and two associates also believed to be radicalized, according to a law enforcement official. Rahim had been monitored for at least a couple of years. Investigators were talking to the associates, and various locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island were being searched, officials said.

The Rhode Island raid was connected to a third person believed to be associated with Wright and Usaamah Rahim, according to two federal law enforcement sources. The third person was connected by more than just an “Internet relationship,” one law enforcement source said. The sources did not provide a name for the individual they were investigating.

The FBI is still investigating whether more people are connected with the three.

The plot thickens. Lone wolf, known wolf, known pack.
Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-04 09:20||   2015-06-04 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Googling images, this is definitely elder brother Imam Ibrahim Rahim. This is either Ibrahim or dead little bro Usaama -- I'm not clever enough to decide.
Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-04 09:43||   2015-06-04 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Sunni, I think. From his Instructor page at the Islamic Society:

Imam Ibrahim Rahim spent eight years of study in Saudi Arabia where he graduated in 1989 from the Islamic University of Medina, completed the Arabic Language Program, Quran recitation, and passing by Mecca where he advanced his Quran recitation attending the Haram Mosque. Imam Ibrahim returned to Boston where he worked as an associate Imam at Masjid Al-Quran in Dorchester, MA until 2011.

Over the span of 22 years, Imam Ibrahim worked diligently to share his knowledge with the Muslim community of Boston and around the nation as well as lead the Ramadan Taraweeh prayers in Boston at Masjid Al-Quran. Imam Ibrahim completed five books on the religion of Islam including literary work including Arabic Grammar, Tafsir of the Holy Quran, Tauheed, Womanhood in Islam, and an analysis of Iman as given in the Hadith collection of Imam Muslim. Imam Ibrahim is currently offering Tefsir of the Holy Quran and training families in Quranic recitation. His favorite saying is: Traveling through a strange place, on my way back to Allah.
Posted by trailing wife 2015-06-04 10:06||   2015-06-04 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Favorite part of this story: Usaama's last words: "No, you drop your weapon."
Posted by regular joe 2015-06-04 14:07||   2015-06-04 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Odds on which group disowns Rahim first?
Posted by Pappy 2015-06-04 14:36||   2015-06-04 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Usaama's last words: "No, you drop your weapon."

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Posted by tu3031 2015-06-04 17:54||   2015-06-04 17:54|| Front Page Top

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