New York Suspect Causes Terror Concern
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Akhtar Hussain Muawia was wanted in connection with the assassination of a Shiite leader in Pakistan, he is purported to have illegally entered the United States and was working as grocery store clerk. Investigators believe he has ties to a purported militant terror group and in 2004 he was caught with someone in his truck taking photos of the support structure of the Brooklyn Bridge.
What is he doing now? He’s fighting deportation and his attorney has denied he was involved in the killing or any acts of terrorism.
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A follower of an Islamic militant group caused a previously undisclosed scare in 2004 when someone in his truck took mobile phone photos of the support structures of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, a police official said.
The New York Police Department uncovered the suspected reconnaissance mission in Manhattan while investigators already were on alert that Pakistani immigrants loyal to the radical Sunni group, Sipah-e-Sahaba, were in the city “and possibly up to no good,” said Paul Browne, the NYPD’s top spokesman.
The spokesman detailed the bridge episode in response to a report on Friday in the Daily News that the NYPD was involved in the detention of a member of the group who is purportedly wanted in Pakistan for the assassination of a Shiite leader.
The NYPD has credited one of its intelligence analysts with piecing together evidence that the suspect, Akhtar Hussain Muawia, had used an alias to slip into the United States after the 1997 assassination and was working as a clerk at a grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York.
Muawia, 33, was detained in May and is fighting deportation. His attorney has denied he was involved in the killing or any acts of terrorism.
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