FILED
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MAY 262009
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Clerk,u.s. District and
Bankruptcy Courts
Faraud K. Muhammad, )
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Plaintiff, )
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v. ) Civil Action No. 09 0980
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Secret CIA Agent Star et al., )
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Defendants. )
MEMORANDUM OPINION
This matter is before the Court on review of plaintiff s pro se complaint and application
to proceed in forma pauperis. The Court will grant the application and will dismiss the
complaint as it is required to do "at any time [it] determines that ... the action ... is frivolous."
28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i).
Plaintiff, a homeless individual in the District of Columbia, sues three individuals he
identifies as agents of the Central Intelligence Agency. Plaintiff accuses the defendants of
various misdeeds, including defaming his character by "submitt[ing] video recording footage
onto a website [depicting him] as a pedophile" and hiding in his food and drink "cyanide poison,
a cancer infections virus known to the CIA as [illegible], the HIV virus, syphyllis [sic] and what I
believe is a physiologically based toxicokinetic risk assessment drug or photosynthetic chemical
[] known as poison acetone." CompI. at 1.
Complaints that describe fantastic or delusional scenarios are subject to dismissal under
28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2). See Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319,328 (1989); Best v. Kelly, 39
F.3d 328,330-31 (D.C. Cir. 1994). Moreover, a complaint may be dismissed as frivolous when
it lacks "an arguable basis in law and fact," Brandon v. District of Columbia Bd. of Parole, 734
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F.2d 56, 59 (D.C. Cir.1984), or is based on "fanciful factual allegation[s]." Neitzke, 490 u.s. at
325. This complaint satisfies the foregoing conditions and, accordingly, will be dismissed. A
separate Order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.
Date: May 5, 2009
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