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Article: Radical Muslim sect leader killed in FBI raid.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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Byline: Ben Conery, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The FBI on Wednesday fatally shot the leader of a radical Muslim sect who preached a violent, separation theology and, authorities said, once remarked that law enforcement would have to shoot him before it could arrest him.
Luqman Ameen Abdullah fired a gun when FBI agents, who had come to arrest him on criminal charges, ordered him to drop his weapon. The agents fired back and killed Abdullah. An FBI dog was also fatally shot, though it was not immediately clear whose bullets killed the dog.
Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was the leader of the Detroit faction of a Sunni Islam group known as ...