DETROIT (AP) -- Records obtained by a newspaper claim an FBI investigation that ended with the fatal shooting of a Detroit mosque leader began after a former member of his mosque shot two Detroit police officers.
The Detroit Free Press says the a 2006 shooting of the officers sparked a nearly four-year probe that ended Oct. 28, 2009, when Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah was killed in a Dearborn warehouse. FBI agents shot Abdullah 20 times.
The newspaper filed a request for the records under the Freedom of Information Act.
The FBI described Abdullah and his followers as black separatist extremists who wanted to establish an Islamic state in the U.S.
Records say Andrew Arena, head of the FBI in Detroit, described the plan to arrest Abdullah during a sting operation as the "best of bad options."
Published: Tue, Nov 2, 2010
