Posted on 07/26/2004 6:20:44 AM PDT by oswegodeee
MINNEAPOLIS - The war on terrorism is again at Minnesota's front door after federal authorities arrested a man who they suspect has terrorism ties.
Federal sources told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the man was arrested last Wednesday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Sources in the Twin Cities and in Washington D.C. said the man arrived on a flight and was taken into federal custody. Along the way, customs agents found disturbing items in his possession.
The U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that Ali Mohamed Almosaleh is in federal custody in the Twin Cities. He was being detained on an immigration law violation, but federal sources confirmed there is much more than that to this investigation.
Sources confirm Almosaleh was carrying a suicide when he was arrested. They say that note indicated a specific time and date for carrying out some sort of public suicide. He was also carrying CDs and DVDs, which federal sources say contained anti-American material. A source also confirms Almosaleh had something with him indicating a connection with at least one known terrorist.
"One of the first things that comes to mind is is he actually going to do something that's the first concern," said terrorism expert Bill Michael. "Second, if law enforcement believes he is, and now rightly so they take an overly safe approach and they try and determine what activity he might actually be planning to engage in."
Almosaleh arrived on a KLM flight last week. A source confirmed he began his travels in Syria and stopped in Amsterdam before continuing to the Twin Cities.
A federal source would not say where Almosaleh's final destination was, but that source did indicate it appears Almosaleh had plans to travel beyond the Twin Cities.
One federal official in Washington noted, this is a "very sensitive" investigation.
Minnesota?
Isn't that the liberal center of islamic jihadists where they hate the Boy Scouts of America but allow the muslims to set up a training camp permanently?
Oh, boy.
It's so interesting to hear the left say we aren't safer in the WOT.
They don't like the Patriot Act.
They don't like the WOT in general.
They don't want us to profile in any way.
They don't like the war in Iraq specifically.
Just what WOULD they do to prevent terrorist attacks in America?
Call for a Blue-Ribbon Panel discussion. (That's exactly what Kerry said he would do--"I would lead!"). Or, perhaps propose to another heiress?
According to John Kerry and the democrats, it's wrong to take pre-emptive action. Possession of suspicious items doesn't prove he was going to use them. Now the suspects democrat lawyers will spring into action to defend him.
Hmm.. I did a random search and nothing appeared for that topic or the subject matter.. Anyway sorry for the double post.. My error!
All sorts of low level events will take place in order to maximize security costs, while probing it for weaknesses. Every day the media runs a news story like this, or a day where "experts" claim the stock markets are shaky because of terrorism, terrorism has accomplished it's goal.
Until Islam and it's masses police their own in a clear, unambiguous uprising against those who choose to play this game, the world is doomed to fall prey to a handful of zealots feeding off the Islamic tennent of charity to fund private cells on a global basis.
Flew though the twin cities last summer.....Our plane was delayed as they check "the tires or something like that"* My seat mate thought they might be checking out the half dozen ME single men taking the flight with us to INDY.
The ironic part is little ol white haired me got pulled aside cause the metal detector went off .
*Actually what the captain said when he made the announcement we'd be delayed.
French troops in blue berets?
A sure give-away. Those things are heavy.
. Gee, there's that country again, Syria. Amazing how it seems to keep coming up over and over again in stories relating to terrorism and airlines nowadays, huh? Just another isolated incident, I'm sure.
US Offers Citizenship To 7000 Ahiska Muslims
By Damir Ahmed, IOL correspondent
KRASNODAR, Russia, July 24, (IslamOnline.net) -
The United States has agreed to grant citizenship to 7,000 Ahiska Muslims who will be settled in Pennsylvania, reported a Russian newspaper on Friday, July 23.
The first 11-strong batch of the Ahiska Muslims, living in the Russian province of Krasnodar, left for Geneva on Thursday, July 22, before flying to Philadelphia, reported Novie Izvestia.
It added that the Muslims would be housed near the grand mosque in Philadelphia. The paper recalled that Krasnodar governor Alexander Tkachev was notified of the American decision on February 15.
Izvestia said the Russian government does not treat Ahiska Muslims as citizens and has not therefore given them passports or IDs.
An official in Krasnodar administration had told Interfax on Tuesday, July 20, that of the 11,999 Ahiska Muslims living in the region, 4,943 have received Russian citizenship and 744 have embarked on Russian naturalization procedures.
He added that more than 5,000 others have expressed a desire to emigrate to the United States.
Earlier, Chingiz Neiman-zade, chairman of Vatan, a Meskheti Turks association based in Georgia, said the United States had offered to accept the Ahiska Muslims living in Krasnodar as immigrants.
"On February 16, the International Migration Organization began an information program in Krasnodar to explain the terms for the resettlement of the Ahiska Muslims in the U.S.," he told Chicago Tribune on Thursday, July 22.
"The immigrants will be provided with housing and furniture, they will be helped to learn the English language and to complete formalities needed for residence in the US, which is especially important, and have been promised life-long welfare allowances for pensioners and the disabled."
Happiness
Ahiska Muslims were happy with the American offer.
"This decision marks a great change in our life", said Tepeshon Swanidze, leader of the Ahiska Muslim community in Russia.
"We thank the US administration for its humanitarian decision", he added. Ahiska Muslims , originally hailing from Anatolia, were exiled from their homeland after Russia seized the region of Ahiska following its 1828-1829 war with the Ottoman Empire.
Many Ahiska Muslims were forced to seek refugee in Erzurum in eastern Turkey after being persecuted by the Russian Cesar for supporting the Ottoman Empire.
Facing a similar fate under the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Ahiska Muslims fled to Uzbekistan in 1944. One year later, they went to Azerbaijan where they currently reside. Turkish and Azeri parliamentarians had recently appealed for an international intervention to pressure the Georgian government into allowing the return of Ahiska Muslims. Ahiska became part of Georgia in 1918.
Land of 10,000 taxes and plenty o' terror suspects...
They've taken over the airport in Minneapolis.
Maybe he was a lost member of the so-called "Syrian band" that so alarmed Annie Jacobsen of the WSJ last week.
Convert or die?
The authorities stated this case is "sensitive". To me, it's scary as hell. I wonder how many other Islam homicidals/suicidals are traversing this country at will while the liberals and libertarians work overtime to gut the Patriot Act by parsing every word it contains.
Leni
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