FBI: Calif. Muslim Cleric Plotted Attacks
FBI: California Muslim Cleric Plotted Attacks
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge refused to set bail Tuesday for a Muslim cleric from Pakistan who faces deportation and has been accused of planning to set up a camp to train followers to kill Americans.
Shabbir Ahmed, 39, is only charged with overstaying his visa while he was heading a mosque in Lodi. The allegation about the terrorist camp came from an FBI agent’s testimony during the immigration hearing.
“Do I believe he is planning a terror attack?” FBI agent Gary Schaaf said. “That’s some of the information that has been provided to us.”
He testified that Ahmed and others were in the fledgling stages of opening a terrorism training camp in Lodi.
Solution: Deport Muslim Clerics espousing jihad against the United States and plotting terror attacks.
