Feds May Move On Local (SF Bay Area) Mosques

[Newsjock]

Source: Metro Silicon Valley

... Now, members of the Bay Area's Muslim community believe that the FBI is close to making additional high-profile arrests of one or more terror suspects who frequent mosques in Silicon Valley and the East Bay. According to a source informed about the investigation, one of the organizations targeted in the Bay Area terror probe is the Tablighi Jamaat, a conservative-leaning Muslim organization, founded in India during the 1920s, that boasts world-wide membership and whose primary focus is to persuade Muslims to recommit to their faith.

... Muslims connected to the Fremont mosque are also concerned that the planned arrests may be supported by flimsy evidence. One critic with ties to law enforcement agrees that current terror investigations can be motivated not by strong evidence, but by pressure on America's counter-terrorism agencies to produce results.

"It's something, in my opinion, that is happening," says James Wedick, who retired from the FBI in 2004 after 35 years of service, when asked if the FBI could be pressured to move on weak terror cases. During the Lodi case, Wedick had been skeptical of the evidence marshaled against the terror suspects and worked with defense attorneys on the case; a judge did not permit him to testify in the trial as an expert witness.

"In the last couple of years throughout the Bureau, they know there is a pot of gold out there called terrorism dollars," he says. "(It's) resource allocation—who gets what money, including plain dollars and agent bodies. You are allocated these resources depending upon if you got something going. What I've seen is the Bureau and the department is quick to call something terrorism when it's not—because you got an obvious interest in getting those resources, and they are not going to get them, unless they could say to folks back in Washington that there is a legitimate case. So there is motivation, unfortunately. I've talked to people in the position to know; I've got guys coming to me all day long, telling me they (the FBI) are mischaracterizing things. I don't know if it's going on with respect to this specific case."

Read more: http://metroactive.com/metro/04.04.07/terror-probe-0714.html

[DCKit]

1. And if terrorists are here five and a half years after 9/11, WHOSE FAULT IS IT?

Oh, that's right, we're busy fighting them OVER THERE. Good thing the Mexicans have the southern border handled.

[caligirl]

2. Force them to do this publicly, load film and camera and make this extremely public.

this won't fly in the bay area. People here aren't like people in Lodi.

[pigpickle]

3. Bye-bye freedom of religion

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Freedom of religion will not be harmed...

Provided, of course, that you follow one of the government approved religions.

First they came for the Muslims,
and I said nothing because I was not a Muslim....