{"id":1551,"date":"2002-07-29T01:05:45","date_gmt":"2002-07-29T06:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2002-07-29T01:05:45","modified_gmt":"2002-07-29T06:05:45","slug":"seattle_man_arrested_for_alleged_al_qaeda_links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seattle_man_arrested_for_alleged_al_qaeda_links\/","title":{"rendered":": Seattle Man Arrested for Alleged Al&#045;Qaeda Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It may not be a surprise that someone like James Ujaama would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk%2Fuslatest%2Fstory%2F0%2C1282%2C-1900992%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">detained<\/a> by federal authorities looking for links to Al-Qaeda. After all, he has set up some admittedly provocative websites in the US and Britain (<a href=\"http:\/\/stopamerica.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">stopamerica.org<\/a>, which rails against US foreign policy, and a website advertising a paramilitary training course shut down by British authorities). But Ujaama, an American citizen, African-American convert, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2FASIN%2F0910303258%2Fqid%3D1027925995%2Fsr%3D1-2%2Fref%3Dsr_1_2%2F103-1929364-0793404\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">author<\/a> of four books has had what many colleagues have called a <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com%2Flocal%2F79438_statement20.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">productive and principled<\/a> history of community service and <a href=\"http:\/\/rockymountain.indymedia.org%2Ffront.php3%3Farticle_id%3D3166%26group%3Dwebcast\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">anti-drug efforts<\/a> (along with his brother Mustafa, who was also detained briefly). Soon after the arrest, many in his native Seattle community <a href=\"http:\/\/news.findlaw.com%2Fap_stories%2Fother%2F1110%2F7-19-2002%2F20020719114502_09.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">defended him<\/a>, along with the local chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com%2Flocal%2F79477_naacp22.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NAACP<\/a>. Because he is being held as a material witness, authorities are allowed to keep him in custody indefinitely (thanks to the PATRIOT Act) despite his normally accorded rights as a citizen (his home was also <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020726%2Fap_on_re_us%2Fattacks_arrest_1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">raided<\/a> for information). The judge in the case also denied the media\u2019s requests to <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com%2Flocal%2F80306_ujaama27.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">open the hearing<\/a>. Ujaama\u2019s case provides perhaps the most striking conflict to date between anti-terrorism actions and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com%2Fdrmn%2Fopinion%2Farticle%2F0%2C1299%2CDRMN_38_1287619%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">denial of rights<\/a> of a US citizen and almost certainly will increase the pressure on authorities to either charge or release him as civil libertarians continue to raise the issue with the public.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Ujaama&#8217;s arrest in Denver last week is just one of many detainments attributed to the war on terrorism. 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