Slain Muslim leader's autopsy released
http://www.workers.org/2010/us/abdullah_0218/
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Feb 10, 2010
On Feb. 1 the long-suppressed autopsy of slain Muslim leader Imam
Luqman Ameen Abdullah was released to the public at the Dearborn,
Mich., police headquarters. Imam Abdullah was killed in Dearborn, a
suburb of Detroit, on Oct. 28.
The autopsy report states the imam was shot 21 times, with numerous
wounds in the midsection, waist and groin areas. At least one shot
was through the back. There were also numerous lacerations on his
hands and forehead, presumably from the attack dog that was killed
during the FBI operation.
There was much anticipation in the Detroit area prior to the release
of the autopsy report. The Michigan Emergency Committee Against War
and Injustice held a demonstration and press conference outside
Dearborn police headquarters on the day of the release.
These actions were supported by the Detroit Coalition Against Police
Brutality and attended by the imam's son as well as members of his
mosque, Masjid al-Haqq. Ten members of the mosque currently have
felony charges pending against them in connection with FBI
infiltration of Masjid al-Haqq.
MECAWI described the death of the imam as a "targeted assassination."
This quote was picked up by news agencies throughout the world,
including the Associated Press, UPI, Islamonline.net and Russia Today.
On Feb. 2 another press conference, called by U.S. Congressperson
John Conyers Jr., was held in downtown Detroit. Conyers issued a
letter requesting an internal investigation of the actions of the FBI
field office in Detroit.
Conyers wrote in the letter to Attorney General Eric Holder that he
seeks Holder's "personal assurance that the Department's
investigation into the shooting death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah
... will be appropriately rigorous, thorough, and most critically
transparent. In addition, I call for the Department's Civil Rights
Division to conduct a separate, independent review of whether the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's use of confidential informants in
our nation's houses of worship may constitute a deprivation of
protected constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. 14141."
At the Feb. 2 press conference, the widow of Imam Abdullah was on the
panel. It was revealed that federal immigration authorities are
attempting to deport her from the United States. Amina Abdullah, a
national of the east African state of Tanzania, has been placed on a tether.
One of the imam's sons, Mujahid Carswell, is a defendant in the
Detroit 10 case. Members of the imam's family and mosque were victims
of FBI infiltration of their group. The information supplied by the
FBI lured the imam and his followers to the warehouse where he was
gunned down by federal agents.
MECAWI told members of the international press on Feb. 1 that the
assassination of Imam Abdullah represented a pattern of systematic
harassment and persecution of Muslims in the U.S. and abroad. This
assassination must also be viewed within the context of standard
government policy to both neutralize and liquidate effective
leadership emanating from the oppressed African-American community.
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