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Radical Imam Killed in Dearborn Raid

Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:10:55 am

This is the Associated Press video report on an FBI raid in the Detroit area that resulted in a shootout, in which the leader of an extremist Sunni group was killed.

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UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:44:34 am:

A more detailed video from CNN: Hearing set for suspects tied to group seeking Islamic state.

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UPDATE at 10/29/09 9:59:40 am:

Following the shooting, a Detroit News photographer was assaulted outside the imam’s mosque.

A group of men attacked a Detroit News photographer Wednesday evening outside a mosque where the leader had been fatally shot earlier in a shootout with federal agents.

Witnesses said the men were on the porch at the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque when Ricardo Thomas, 67, began taking photos from across the street. Several pushed him, one threw a punch at him and his camera equipment was smashed.

(Hat tip: Lawhawk.)