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A prominent Philadelphia criminal defense attorney has confirmed that the terror suspect arrested by the FBI in an armed raid on his suburban home Monday is his 17-year-old son.
50-year-old lawyer Qawi Abdul-Rahman told The Daily Beast that he was “shocked and devastated” by the arrest of the teenager, who has been charged with arson, criminal conspiracy, weapons of mass destruction, and risking catastrophe, among other accusations.
“I didn’t see it coming at all. At all,” Abdul-Rahman, who recently campaigned to be a Common Pleas Court judge in Pennsylvania, told The Daily Beast. “I go to court because I want people to know that Muslims are out here doing things in the community, for the community. I’m an American like everyone else.”