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Title: FBI raids anti-war activists' homes (Chicago Union Local 73, SEIU PLO FARC peacenik Terrorists)
Source: Chicago Trubune
URL Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ ... ation-20100924,0,4070320.story
Published: Sep 25, 2010
Author: Andy Grimm and Cynthia Dizikes
Post Date: 2010-09-25 01:42:37 by Hondo68
Keywords: Chicago Union, Local 73 Terrorists, SEIU PLO FARC
Views: 14121
Comments: 22

Federal agents searched homes of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday in an investigation of possible links with terrorist organizations in the Middle East and South America.

About 20 FBI agents spent most of the day searching the Logan Square residence of activists Stephanie Weiner and Joseph Iosbaker, Weiner said.

In Jefferson Park, neighbors saw FBI agents carrying boxes from the apartment of community activist Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the Arab American Action Network. In addition, Chicago activist Thomas Burke said he was served a grand jury subpoena that requested records of any payments to Abudayyeh or his group.

"The warrants are seeking evidence in support of an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into activities concerning the material support of terrorism," said Steve Warfield, spokesman for the FBI in Minneapolis, where six additional homes were searched Friday.

Warfield said no arrests had been made and that there was no "imminent danger" to the public.

Ross Rice, an FBI spokesman in Chicago, gave the two Chicago blocks where agents had searched homes Friday, but he declined to name the targets.

Melinda Power, an attorney for Weiner and Iosbaker and a longtime friend, said agents took about 30 boxes of papers dating to the 1970s, including a postcard from an old girlfriend of Iosbaker's.

"They said they would determine what was evidence later," Power said.

Weiner, who said she and her husband for years have been active in labor causes and the anti-war movement, complained the search was an attempt to intimidate her and other activists.

"We aren't doing anything differently than we have in 20 years," said Weiner, a teacher at Wilbur Wright College. Iosbaker is a staff member at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a union steward for Service Employees International Union Local 73.

Burke said he received a grand jury subpoena requesting records of payments to Abudayyeh's organization as well as two groups among the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

The subpoena also requested "items relating to trips to Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian territories of Israel." Burke said he toured Colombia eight years ago with members of an oil workers union there.

Burke, a former school custodian-turned-stay-at-home father, belongs to the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a group mentioned in subpoenas and search warrants issued Friday to activists in Minneapolis.

Burke said he knows Weiner, Iosbaker and Abudayyeh from years of involvement in demonstrations and activities in Chicago. Most of the people whose homes were searched or who were issued subpoenas attended anti-war rallies at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., he said.

In a statement issued on behalf of the activists, Minneapolis activist Steff Yorek said the homes of a number of anti-war, socialist or pro-Palestinian groups had been searched by the FBI.

Yorek, whose home was also searched Friday, called the searches "an outrageous fishing expedition."

"Activists have the right not to speak with the FBI and are encouraged to politely refuse," she said.

Several of those targeted with warrants or subpoenas are also occasional contributors to Fight Back!, a socialist newsletter that is generally supportive of leftist groups and critical of U.S. "wars of occupation" in Iraq and Afghanistan, Burke said.

"We pretty much all know each other," Burke said. "We barely have money to publish our magazine. We might write about (revolutionary groups) favorably, but as for giving them material aid, nothing."

Weiner and Iosbaker were also subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago on Oct. 5, Power said.

Not long after the FBI agents left, a group of about 20 demonstrators gathered outside the couple's home, carrying signs and singing "Give Peace a Chance."

Sarah Simmons, 51, held a piece of paper printed with a peace sign. She said she had known the couple for 15 years. "I think this is outrageous," she said.

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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)

"They said they would determine what was evidence later," Power said.

Stalin's Courts couldn't have said it better.

Want to know what a combo of Germany/USSR 1937 would be like?

You're livin' it. ;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-25   8:30:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)

Want to know what a combo of Germany/USSR 1937 would be like?

Really? We're taking businesses from people based on their religious beliefs? Got a link?

We're taking peoples homes based on their religious beliefs? Got a link?

We've annexed land from Canada or Mexico? Got a link?

Your assertion is so assine, as demonstrated by asking you for links to back it up, its pathetic.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye  posted on  2010-09-25   9:30:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Badeye (#2)

Really? We're taking businesses from people based on their religious beliefs? Got a link?

To what?

And whose this we?

Gotta source?

Jesus, you zioFundy's just go back into your circular logic and think you're being o so cute. Never stops. ;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-25   9:41:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: All (#3)

As could be expected, politicians and the media had nothing to say about the thousands of Afghans who have been killed or injured. Instead, Prime Minister David Cameron took pains to insist that, "The soldiers who lost their lives in Sangin did not die in vain".

Such statements only demonstrate that, behind their rhetoric about supporting "our boys", the ruling elite have nothing but contempt for those they have sent to die in Afghanistan. Cameron believes their deaths are a price worth paying, but he cannot tell the truth about why this is."

In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity No more than 25% say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either by Lymari Morales

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-25   9:43:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: All (#4)

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/09/24/truth-ahmadinejads-speech-call-911-investigation-5593/

Coverage Of Amadinejad’s UN Speech Shows Why Americans Don’t Trust Corporate Media

The corporate media’s reporting on Mahmoud’s September 23rd, 2010 speech at the UN exemplifies why trust in corporate media has disappeared in 75% of Americans. Here are some of the headlines the the corporate media has published about the speech which as I will point out later are full of lies and deception designed to beat the “Bomb Iran” war drum. These are the same kind of lies reported by the Government and the corporate media about the BP Gulf Oil Spill.

The New York Daily News reports:

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-25   9:58:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: All (#2)

Want to know what a combo of Germany/USSR 1937 would be like?

You're livin' it. ;}

The above is YOUR statement, drama queen.

Back it up, or shut the fuck up.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye  posted on  2010-09-25   10:26:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: mcgowanjm (#1)

Stalin's Courts couldn't have said it better.

Want to know what a combo of Germany/USSR 1937 would be like?

You're livin' it. ;}

yoo hoo, yes we have a winner on most ridiculous post of the day.

Capitalist Erica must be a great chef. All the guys in the soup kitchen line all talk about how well he "TOSSES SALAD".

calcon  posted on  2010-09-25   12:01:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: mcgowanjm (#3) (Edited)

Jesus, you zioFundy's just go back into your circular logic and think you're being o so cute. Never stops. ;}

Speaking of circular logic... Thankfully we don't have to choose between zio-Fundamentalism, or your sharia law where personal wealth exceeding $150K is considered evil. I'm choosing, none of the above. Are these your homies below?


Commie Peace Dyke Nazi's on a Jihad

Hondo68  posted on  2010-09-25   12:20:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Badeye, mcgowanjm (#2)

Your assertion is so assine,

Mcclown is a pathological liar and insane propagandist. How's the Gulf Coast evacuation progressing, mcclown?

Ibluafartsky  posted on  2010-09-25   16:47:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: hondo68, A K A Stone, All (#8)

or your sharia law

You can now show me where I said that.

Looking forward to the sourcing, eh A K? ;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   9:05:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: mcgowanjm (#10)

He wasn't quoting a news source. He was personally attacking you.

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-09-26   9:08:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: calcon (#7)

Stalin's Courts couldn't have said it better.

Want to know what a combo of Germany/USSR 1937 would be like?

You're livin' it. ;}

yoo hoo, yes we have a winner on most ridiculous post of the day.

Gather round now children as I tell you the story of the crazed with power emperor who confused fantasy with reality.

Name a story, calcon, posted on the MSM, that has ANYTHING to do with ANY post here at LF in Breaking News.

This will be good. 8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   9:08:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: A K A Stone (#11)

He wasn't quoting a news source. He was personally attacking you.

Same thing.

The Individual has the same power as the state.

Read your Constitution.

It's slander w/o proof.

8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   9:09:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: A K A Stone (#11)

He wasn't quoting a news source. He was personally attacking you.

Unless of course you won't this LF site to degenerate into nuclear armageddon.

Cause I do have the arsenal, if you know what I mean. ;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   9:10:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: mcgowanjm, A K A Stone, Badeye (#10)

a combo of Germany/USSR 1937

Jesus, you zioFundy's

You can now show me where I said that.

After you show me where Badeye claimed to be a zio-Fundie? Also any others on this site who you think might be zio-Fundy's. Please provide a list of the zio-Fundy's you're referring to.

Hondo68  posted on  2010-09-26   10:49:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: hondo68 (#15)

After you show me where Badeye claimed to be a zio-Fundie?

#3. To: Badeye (#2)

Really? We're taking businesses from people based on their religious beliefs? Got a link?

To what?

And whose this we?

Gotta source?

Jesus, you zioFundy's just go back into your circular logic and think you're being o so cute. Never stops. ;}

mcgowanjm posted on 2010-09-25 9:41:07 ET

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   11:27:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: hondo68 (#15)

#10. To: hondo68, A K A Stone, All (#8)

or your sharia law

You can now show me where I said that.

Looking forward to the sourcing, eh A K? ;}

mcgowanjm posted on 2010-09-26 9:05:56 ET

That's how you source, hondo.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   11:28:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: hondo68 (#15)

#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)

Want to know what a combo of Germany/USSR 1937 would be like?

Really? We're taking businesses from people based on their religious beliefs? Got a link?

We're taking peoples homes based on their religious beliefs? Got a link?

We've annexed land from Canada or Mexico? Got a link?

Your assertion is so assine, as demonstrated by asking you for links to back it up, its pathetic.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye posted on 2010-09-25 9:30:06 ET

Want to know what a combo of Germany/USSR 1937 would be like?

THIS, in response to this:

"They said they would determine what was evidence later," Power said.

Stalin's Courts couldn't have said it better.

And Stalin's, or Hitler's courts couldn't have said it better. Them;s the facts.

The BE comes back with some non sourced/lacking creds off the cuff statements.

Amounting to Ad hominems on me. He shouldn't have done that. ;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   11:31:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: All (#18)

Your assertion is so assine, as demonstrated by asking you for links to back it up, its pathetic.

With his final, and o so familiar 'wee wee wee, all the way home' remark above.

Self appointed Judge & jury making Scalia 12122000 type remarks.

Stalin/Hitler Court System. BE would make a great part of it.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   11:33:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: hondo68 (#15)

Apparently to the Bush Administration, since "Muslim life was cheap" torture was a chance to embezzle something or pay off someone else.

Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Congress he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who suffered "grievous and brutal abuse and cruelty at the hands of a few members of the United States armed forces."

"It's the right thing to do," Rumsfeld declared in 2004. "And it is my intention to see that we do."

Six years later, the U.S. Army is unable to document a single payment for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib."

_Rising Hegemon

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-09-26   11:35:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Ibluafartsky (#9)

He's just another internet kook.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye  posted on  2010-09-27   9:41:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: hondo68 (#15)

Don't worry about it, he's a crank.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye  posted on  2010-09-27   9:41:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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