Cops arrest suspected radical Islamists
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Last Updated: 1st November 2009, 4:43am
WINDSOR, Ont. -- Two men wanted by the FBI for alleged involvement in a radical Islamic group were arrested yesterday in Windsor, Ont., days after the group's alleged leader was killed in a shootout with the FBI.

Windsor police Staff Sgt. Dave Kigar said Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30, both of Windsor, were arrested at homes in the city early Saturday morning.

"They used a tactical team due to the information as to what happened in the arrest in Dearborn (Mich.) and that resulted in a shootout," Kigar said.

Tactical teams of RCMP and Windsor police simultaneously surrounded two houses in the same area of the city and called out to people inside the houses.

Although police had concerns about violence after the Detroit shootout, the men were arrested without any trouble.

Kigar said it was not known how long they had been in Windsor or whether they owned homes there.

Kigar said the RCMP contacted Windsor police after receiving information from the FBI that the men were living at addresses in the southwestern Ontario city that borders Detroit. Kigar said the men were arrested on immigration violation warrants, but added the underlying reason was the FBI investigation.

Al-Sahli and Khan are currently in custody and will appear before a Superior Court judge in Windsor tomorrow to face extradition to the United States.

The arrests come just days after Mujahid Carswell, the son of an imam killed in a shootout with the FBI in Detroit Wednesday, was arrested in Windsor.

An FBI complaint, the result of a two-year-investigation, alleges all three men conspired to commit federal crimes.

The two were the last of 11 men sought in a federal criminal complaint that listed several charges, including conspiracy to sell stolen goods.

However, the underlying thread is that the group espoused violence and sought to establish a Shariah-law state within the United States.

Also charged in the complaint was Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a leader of a Detroit mosque.

Federal agents fatally shot him Wednesday after authorities say he resisted arrest and fired his weapon.