“The boy’s father, Siraj Wahhaj, was arrested Friday…”
Siraj Wahhhaj’s father, also named Siraj Wahhaj, is one of the most prominent imams in the United States, and is much in demand on the Islamic lecture circuit. The elder Wahhaj was designated a “potential unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. he earned the designation by sponsoring talks in the early 1990s by the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, in mosques in New York City and New Jersey; Rahman was later convicted for conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993.
Wahhaj Senior has also warned that the United States will fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.” He has also asserted that “if only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.”
“Remains of boy found during search of New Mexico compound,” by Holly Yan, Samira Said and Chuck Johnston and Darran Simon, CNN, August 7, 2018:
(CNN) The remains of a young boy were found on a compound in rural New Mexico where 11 emaciated children were discovered last week, authorities said Tuesday.
But it is unclear whether the remains uncovered Monday are those of a missing Georgia boy, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, who was nowhere to be found after authorities stormed the complex on Friday. The boy’s father was suspected of abducting him late last year from Clayton County, Georgia.
Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said the positive identification of the remains is pending an autopsy.
“We discovered the remains yesterday,” the sheriff said, getting choked up, “on Abdul’s fourth birthday.”
The boy’s father, Siraj Wahhaj, was arrested Friday along with his sisters Hujrah Wahhaj and Subhannah Wahhaj after authorities raided the compound. The siblings and two other adults also arrested — Lucas Morten and Jany Leveille — are accused of keeping the children in an underground trailer with virtually no food or water.
New Mexico authorities had suspicions that the father and son may be at the compound after learning in May about the abduction, the sheriff said. But authorities didn’t have enough evidence for a search warrant, he said. Surveillance of the property didn’t identify the pair there, the sheriff said.
The “breaking point for us” in the search for Abdul-Ghani came last Thursday, when New Mexico authorities received a tip about possible starving children living on the compound, the sheriff said. He said he felt investigators had enough probable cause to put in an affidavit for a search warrant.
The sheriff said authorities learned more details after the raid and returned Monday with a good idea of where to search for Abdul-Ghani.
Abdul-Ghani’s mother, Hakima Ramzi, could not be reached after authorities announced the discovery of the remains.
The boy’s grandfather, Imam Siraj Wahhaj is “devastated that those remains could possibly be those of Abdul-Ghani,” according to a spokesman.
“We don’t know whether those remains are those of his grandson,” said the Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid, head of the Muslim Alliance in North America….