Bob McCarty Writes

Controversy is swirling three months after the death of Luqman Ameen Abdullah (right), a Muslim imam who died in an Oct. 28 shootout with federal agents in Dearborn, Mich., trying to arrest Abdullah and others on charges related to stolen goods.

The Detroit Free Press is reporting on the results of an autopsy alleged to show the Muslim cleric was shot 21 times and handcuffed.  We won’t know for sure what the autopsy contains until Monday at 10:30 a.m. Eastern when the Dearborn Police Department is scheduled to hold a news conference to discuss the autopsy report.

Meanwhile, the folks at the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a news release today in which they reiterated their call for an independent investigation into the Muslim cleric’s death.  Based on CAIR’s track record, I’ll be siding with the FBI on this one.

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UPDATE 2/3/10 at 1:15 p.m. Central: Steven Emerson at the Investigative Project on Terrorism published an update on this story in which he wrote, among other things, the following:

Reactions to the medical examiner’s report also show that a facts-be-damned attitude persists among the imam’s supporters when it comes to their campaign to foment anger and hostility toward law enforcement. Protesters gathered outside a news conference given by Dearborn’s police chief Monday standing in front of a banner reading “Stop FBI Terror!” A supporter called the shooting “a targeted assassination.” [Click here to read the full article.]