IRS raids Philadelphia mosque

[Kadie]

IRS raids Philadelphia mosque

PATRICK WALTERS, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, May 27, 2004

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(05-27) 12:54 PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) --

Federal agents raided a mosque and two homes in Philadelphia on Thursday and took a Muslim cleric into custody on immigration charges, authorities and witnesses said.

IRS agents searched the Ansaar Allah Islamic Society and an adjacent home in the city's Bridesburg section, plus a third home in Northeast Philadelphia, according to IRS spokesman Skip Bedics.

Bedics would not say what IRS agents were looking for. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Philadelphia declined to discuss the raids.

FBI spokeswoman Jerri Williams would not disclose details of the case, but said it had "no direct connection to terrorism."


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/27/national1554EDT0658.DTL

[struggle4progress]

1. Boy, they're doing some more high publicity stuff with those Muslims.

Think they'll wait a week or two again, and then apologize?

[bluestateguy]

2. and stop by a few of those fundamentalist southern baptist churches too

we don't know what kind of violent acts against abortion clinics and gays are being plotted inside those churches, do we?

[keithyboy]

3. A new Inquisition? or just plain old fascism?

We sinking deeper into the pits of hell.