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To: steve harris who wrote (9359)	8/3/2007 8:20:27 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 20106

Predawn Raids Target Troubled Oakland Bakery POSTED: 6:37 am PDT August 3, 2007 UPDATED: 12:27 pm PDT August 3, 2007 ktvu.com OAKLAND -- Heavily armed police officers using flash grenades stormed the Your Black Muslim Bakery early Friday, detaining as many as 19 people -- including the organization's leader Yusuf Bey IV -- and seizing a small armory of weapons including shotguns and ammunition for assault weapons. It was not immediately known if the raids -- at the bakery and three other Oakland homes -- were related to the sidewalk assassination of Oakland reporter Chauncey Bailey. Sources say he was doing an investigative piece on the troubled splinter group not associated with the Black Muslims. Bey was arrested without incident in his Oakland home and a search of the house turned up at least two guns in plain view in a bedroom. Everyone else in the home at the time was detained. Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan would not comment if the raids connection to Bailey's slaying. "These raids were (launched) to seek evidence in several violent felonies including murder, robbery and kidnapping," Jordan said. Sources have confirmed to KTVU that the raids were in connection to three murders in the last six weeks in Oakland including Bailey's murder. Authorities said that four search warrants had been issued and the raid of the bakery triggered the start of the law enforcement crackdown by officers from San Leandro, Hayward, Fremont, Alameda County Sheriff's Department as well as Oakland related to an ongoing investigation stemming back "at least a year". At about 4:50 a.m., three rental trucks and a garbage truck pulled up in front of the bakery, said Dennis Monaghan, a security officer at Siddha Yoga Meditation Ashram, located at the corner of San Pablo and Stanford avenues, just doors down from the bakery. The trucks were filled with officers holding rifles and gear, he said. The trucks were followed by S.W.A.T. vehicles and patrol cars. About 20 officers assembled in front of the bakery. "And then you heard go, go, go," Monaghan said. The group has had a violent history. The founder -- Yusuf Bey -- fought accusations that he had raped or molested several girls who worked at Your Black Muslim Bakery between 1976 and 1995. When he died in 2003, he was awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused a girl who was 13 when she began working at the bakery. A violent succession battle ensued. Antar Bey, the son and Yusuf's designated heir, was gunned down as he talked on his cell phone at an Union 76 gas station in Oakland in October 2005. That slaying still remains under investigation. The group gained further attention in Nov. 2005 when several members were charged and pleaded no contest to trashing liquor cases at local convenience stores.

To: steve harris who wrote (9359)	8/3/2007 8:30:51 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

you can only open the spigots so far and for so long before it hurts the one in control of the big pipe

To: steve harris who wrote (9359)	8/4/2007 12:47:08 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

One in 11 British Muslims backs suicide bombers, says Brown aide Daily Mail ^ dailymail.co.uk One in 11 British Muslims backs suicide bombers, says Brown aide As many as one in 11 British Muslims agree with and proactively support terrorism, a Government adviser has warned police. Haras Rafiq also told officers at Scotland Yard that up to 20 per cent of the Muslim population ' sympathise' with militants, while stopping short of being prepared to 'blow themselves up'. His remarks underline the scale of the task facing Gordon Brown to win the hearts and minds of Muslims, only a week after he promised an extra £70million to councils and community groups to fight extremism. Mr Rafiq, an adviser to the Government's preventing extremism taskforce, said: "A percentage of people actually agree and support proactively the people that are deciding to blow themselves up. "It varies, it can be 7 per cent, 5 per cent, 9 per cent." With 1.6million Muslims living in the UK, nine per cent is the equivalent of 144,000 people supporting terrorism. (Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ....