Doctor in Detroit Arrested with AK47 Ready to Strike! UPDATE

"Federal authorities in Dearborn may have stopped a planned terrorist attack and mass murder before it happened. Police got a tip that a 26-year-old medical student was planning an attack, and when they stopped him in a Dearborn park, he had an AK-47 assault rifle and was dressed in black military style clothing. He also had black makeup on his face as he climbed into an SUV with the loaded weapon. The man was arrested and is facing several felony charges. Police say he has a website where he claims to be a member of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah." thanks Jihad Watch.

This post is for all of those who still think we have no problem in the United States with sleeper cells.

Think long and hard about who is living next door to you, your wife and your family.

UPDATE

Accused Hemlock Park gunman back in court

By Sean Delaney, Press & Guide Newspapers

PUBLISHED: March 23, 2008

DEARBORN - A former medical student accused of carrying a loaded weapon through Hemlock Park in September 2007 will return to Dearborn on April 18 for his preliminary examination — nearly four months after being bound over for trial in Wayne County Circuit Court.

Houssein Ali Zorkot was charged Sept. 11, 2007, with one count of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, one count felony firearm and one count of possession of a loaded firearm. If convicted, the Dearborn resident could have been sentenced to nearly a decade in prison.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Diane Hathaway granted a motion earlier this month to send the case back to 19th District Court in Dearborn. Judge William Hultgren, who bound Zorkot over for trial in December 2007, will hear the case.

Zorkot had essentially agreed to be bound over in December by waiving his right to a preliminary, but apparently changed his mind by asking Judge Hathaway to grant one now.

Zorkot, a former third-year medical student at Wayne State University in Detroit, was arrested Sept. 8, 2007, after police received calls from three concerned residents who claimed to have seen the Dearborn resident carrying an assault rifle through Hemlock Park, north of Ford Road between Schaefer and Oakman Boulevard.

The case gained national attention late last year due to the incident occurring just three days before the nation remembered the events of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

But according to city officials, Zorkot had not been identified as a terrorist and has not bee linked to any terrorist activities or organizations, including Hizballah, which he openly supports on his Web site.

Zorkot was allegedly dressed in dark clothing and had his face painted black when officers found him inside his 2007 Ford Escape, which was parked on the park's west side with the engine still running.

Officers approached the vehicle, which proceeded to pull out of the parking space and head northbound toward the park's entrance. Police were able to block the vehicle in before it was able to leave the park.

During the confrontation, officers observed Zorkot lower his right hand toward the center console, which was out of view. According to police reports, officers feared Zorkot may have been reaching for a weapon and grabbed his left wrist while ordering him to exit the vehicle.

An officer at the scene observed an AK-47 in the vehicle's backseat, and alerted her fellow officers that the Dearborn resident was armed. Zorkot was then forcibly removed from the vehicle through the driver's side door — although he initially refused to let go of the door.

When he refused to release the door, officers struck Zorkot's arm once with a plastic flashlight; however, the Dearborn resident refused to let go.

A Taser was then deployed, which struck Zorkot between his shoulder blades. The electrical jolt caused Zorkot to fall to the ground, where he began rolling back-and-forth.

When Zorkot refused to comply with officers' orders, he was stunned again and taken into custody. As police placed the Dearborn resident into the back of a patrol vehicle, evidence technicians then searched Zorkot's vehicle and found two pairs of cloth gloves, a military combat belt with a canteen and two knives, boots with socks, a receipt for the AK-47 rifle and ammo, a gunlock and keys, a list of Metro Detroit shooting ranges, numerous photographs of Zorkot standing in front of billboard depicting "various Muslim extremists," a briefcase containing a laptop and a cell phone.

Two cameras, a portable AM/FM radio, a pair of binoculars, four computer CDs, an Army surplus bag, a camouflage face paint kit, a Lebanon flag, a VCR cassette of "The Never Ending Story," and eight prepaid international phone cards were also found inside the vehicle.

Based on the statements he made at time of his arrest, and the materials found inside his vehicle, a search warrant was issued for Zorkot's home. Police have not disclosed the results of that search.

For more on this story, see future editions of the Press & Guide.

Contact Staff Writer Sean Delaney at (313) 359-7820 or [email protected].