Ohio: 12 years for Muslim caught with weapons cache & pipe bombs
Posted on December 26, 2010 by creeping
An update on this post. Going back to his roots – at least his Islamic roots – prison. All that dawah is netting Islam a lot of criminals. A repeat offender who preyed on the disabled. via Arsenal gets man 12 years
The Columbus Dispatch.
The arsenal of semi-automatic weapons was for recreation only, a Franklin Township man told a U.S. district judge in Columbus yesterday.
And the pipe bombs? Abdullah M. Muslim said he’d removed them from his neighborhood streets and kept them so others couldn’t use them.
Judge Michael H. Watson didn’t buy those arguments, calling the collection of weapons “extremely dangerous” to the community. He sent Muslim, 38, to prison for 12 years.
Muslim was charged with illegal possession of firearms and bombs, lying in a passport application and aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty in 2009 and 2010 to all the charges and could have been sentenced to 42 years in prison.
Watson did not label Muslim a terrorist, even though he admitted traveling before his arrest to areas of Pakistan where the Taliban operate and trying to get a fake passport to return there. Investigators wouldn’t comment on whether Muslim has been involved with terrorists.
No evidence tied Muslim to terrorists, said his attorney, Joe Edwards. But he pointed out that Muslim has a history of mental-health issues.
Muslim said he has schizophrenia.
He came to the attention of the Violent Crime Impact Team, led by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, when Franklin Township police were called to his house at 1851 Eastfield Dr. in November 2008.
His wife, Aisha, had shot herself in the foot while cleaning an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle, Watson said.
Officers from the task force went to the house in southern Franklin County with a search warrant and found 12 weapons, two flak vests and 200 rounds of ammunition, according to court records. Already convicted of felonious assault in 1994 and of mailing threatening communications in 1999, Muslim could not possess a firearm without court permission.
He surrendered his passport and was released on his own recognizance after being charged with firearm and bomb possession. Then, in an attempt to return to Pakistan, he schemed to obtain a new identity, court records say.
Using what Watson said were skills he learned during other prison stints, Muslim posed as an associate of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry seeking mentally handicapped people who needed grants for assistance. Muslim used the fake grant applications to collect personal information on 10 people.
He chose a mute Columbus man with cerebral palsy and used his identity to first obtain a West Virginia ID card and then to apply for a U.S. passport in Hurricane, W.Va.
Passport officials suspected that his application documents were fraudulent. After finding the man Muslim was impersonating, officials arrested Muslim in October 2009 on charges of passport fraud and aggravated identity theft.
ATF agents again searched his home and found firearms, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and pipe-bomb components.
Muslim said in court that he wanted to return to Pakistan to obtain information that could be useful to the U.S. government.
Edwards said Muslim changed his name from Johnnie P. Clagg after converting to Islam in the 1990s.
Muslim’s wife and a brother attended the sentencing but would not talk to reporters
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