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Al Qaeda, Cleveland, counterterrorism, Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts arrest, FBI, Fourth of July, material support, news conference, Ohio, terrorism
Arrested: Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts AKA Abdur Raheem Rafiq , Cleveland, Ohio for “attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization”. Pitts appears to have a related record online: http://www.bustedmugshots.com/ohio/columbus/demetrius-nathaniel-pitts/17357991. A similar al-Qaeda related story broke in 2003 with the arrest of Ohio-based trucker Lyman Faris, then 34 years old, in New York City for the same thing — and with the same M.O.
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