DETROIT -- A lawyer for two Canadians wanted by the FBI following the death of a controversial imam in a police shootout in Detroit said they plan to fight extradition.

The two men, Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30, both of Windsor, Ont., appeared briefly in court Monday.

Lawyer Patrick Ducharme said their case was put over until Friday for a bail hearing.

The men, arrested Saturday, remain in detention at the Windsor County jail.

The FBI accuses the men of a conspiracy to sell stolen goods, and of being followers of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a leader of a Detroit mosque.

The FBI said the Windsor police also arrested 30-year-old Mujahid Carswell, who was the son of Abdullah, last week.

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After a two-year investigation, the FBI raided three locations in Detroit and in Dearborn and arrested several people suspected to have ties to a group called the Ummah, which translates to “the brotherhood.”

The group’s primary mission is to establish a separate sovereign Islamic state governed by Sunni law, according to FBI charging documents. Abdullah called his followers to an offensive jihad, rather than a defensive jihad, according to the FBI.

The documents also said the group was financing its version of Islam by fencing stolen goods and that Abdullah was interested in killing federal agents and making a bomb.

During the raid in Dearborn, Abdullah, aka Christopher Thomas, fired his weapon, said the FBI in a release. An FBI police dog, Freddy, was shot during the gunfire.

Freddy was transported via helicopter to an animal hospital in Madison Heights, but later died.

The FBI said Freddy, a Belgian Malinois, has been with the organization since September of 2008.

Seven of the suspects were arrested in the Detroit raid on Tireman and Firwood roads and the Dearborn raid on Michigan Avenue and Miller Road without incident.

Suspects Named In Complaint:

Before the raid, Abdullah and the 10 others were charged in a 43-page complaint with conspiracy to commit several federal crimes, including illegal possession and sale of firearms, arson, possession of body armor, theft from interstate shipments and tampering with vehicle identification numbers.

None of the members was charged with terrorism.

Named in the complaint are Mohammad Abdul Bassir, Muhammad Abdul Salaam, Abdul Saboor, Mujahid Carswell, Abdullah Beard, Mohammad Philistine, Yassir Ali Khan, Adam Hussain Ibraheem, Garry Laverne Porter , Acie Pusha, aka Uhmair Abdul-Aziz and Ali Abdul Raqib.

Three men appeared Wednesday afternoon in a detention hearing and seven men appeared before a judge Thursday afternoon.

One man who did not appear in the complaint was also in court on Thursday.

At a packed courthouse filled with the suspect's families, a judge set bond ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 for two of the men. However, the rest of the men were denied bond.

Their attorneys gave the judge several reasons why the men should be bonded out, including the fact that they are the sole bread winners for their families and that they do not pose a flight risk.

The prosecutor told the judge that the men absolutely do pose as a flight risk, considering several of the men arrested Wednesday during the raid where Abdullah was killed, were found hiding inside of a truck while FBI agents moved in on the truck warehouse.

Terror Suspect DPS Teacher

Local 4 has learned Porter, 59, is a convicted felon and a current teacher at A.L. Holmes Elementary School in Detroit. He was arrested at the school Wednesday and a large gym bag was seized. His vehicle was also towed.

He was charged with aiding and abetting a felon, conspiracy to commit federal crimes and selling stolen goods.

Porter, who has worked with the district for at least 38 years, was convicted of several charges including a misdemeanor larceny charge in 1988 and a felon carrying a concealed weapon.

Many parents are asking how a convicted felon passed the DPS background checks before he was hired. District officials said that with the exception of child sexual abuse charges and pedophilia, former felons can be employed with the district.

"If they had a felony conviction for say, an armed robbery or breaking-and-entering, if the district decides to retain that employee, they were supposed to submit a request to the state and provide a rationale on why that employee should be kept," said President of the Detroit Federation of Teachers Keith Johnson.

The district leaned about Porter's legal troubles in 2006 and a security advisory board made a recommendation to keep him on as an educator. The recommendation was approved in October 2006.

DPS Financial Manager Robert Bobb said he just found out about Porter's past Thursday. Also, the FBI did not notify him in advance about the investigation.

At the detention hearing, Porter's attorney, Ray Richards II, said he is a family man and did not have any ties to the Islamic group.

Porter was denied bond and remains behind bars.

Deeper Look At Ummah

The group consists primarily of African-Americans who converted to Islam while serving sentences in various prisons around the county.

The nationwide leader is believed to be Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of two police officers in Georgia.

Al-Amin, a veteran of the black power movement, started the group after he converted to Islam in prison.

"They're not taking their cues from overseas," said Jimmy Jones, a professor of world religions at Manhattanville College and a longtime Muslim prison chaplain. "This group is very much American born and bred."

The FBI built its case over two years with the help of confidential sources close to Abdullah who recorded conversations and participated in undercover operations involving the sale of furs, laptop computers, televisions, energy drinks and power tools.

Abdullah received at least 20 percent of any profit and claimed the "Prophet Muhammad said that it is okay to participate in theft; as long as that person prays, they are in a good state," stated an affidavit.

The FBI complaint described Abdullah as an extremist who believed the FBI bombed New York's World Trade Center in 1993 and the Oklahoma City federal building two years later.

The group preaches violence against law enforcement officials and has trained members of the Ummah inside of a mosque located on Joy Road on how to use firearms, martial arts, sword fighting and other types of self-defense in anticipation of government violence, according to the FBI.

Undercover agents in the organization have told the FBI that Abdullah used to discipline its members starting at an early age by beating them with sticks on their hands, knees and legs, and that once he beat a boy so badly that the child was unable to walk for several days.

Abdullah was spiritual leader at the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit until the group was evicted for not paying taxes. When the group left that location, a search turned up empty shell casings, and large holes in the concrete walls, which were used as shooting ranges.

The group moved to a location on Clairmount Street in Detroit and put up a sign in front of the building Wednesday evening notifying the members to meet in another location.

In October 2008, a source the FBI called “credible” recorded statements by Abdullah at a mosque during prayer where he said that Muslims need to cut ties with Christians, Jews, and Kuffars, which the FBI said means all non-Muslims.

“Obama is a Kafir. McCain is a Kafir, all the rest of them Kuffars, are Kuffars…. The worst Muslim is better than the best Kafir,” said FBI documents.

Dawud Walld, executive director of the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the FBI paints a very different picture of the Abdullah that he knew.

"He was known by thousands of Muslims in Metro Detroit. He was very well-respected amongst his piers and other Imams," said Walld.

Walld said Abdullah used to open the mosque to homeless people and he would hold regular soup kitchens.

"They're altering his legacy and someone needs to speak out about it and the good things he has done," said the defendant's brother Juhadel Jihad. "They killed a great man. He shouldn't be labeled anything than that. He was a God fearing man who prayed five times a day and gave to charity."

The FBI called a news conference in Detroit Thursday to talk about the case. The lead FBI leader Andy Arena also had a private meeting in the afternoon with Detroit-area imams.

"I wanted to caution both the media and the public not to draw undue connections between the activities of this particular group, which is a specific brand of radical ideology and to draw connections between that group and the faith of Islam or Muslim in general," said U.S. Attorney Terry Berg at news conference Thursday.

Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 313-965-2323.