Bond??? You gotta be kidding me.
Posted on 08/30/2004 5:15:07 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
BALTIMORE - A man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative was freed Monday on a $1 million bond, but must appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago probing the Palestinian militant group's financing.
Ismael Selim Elbarasse was released during a closed-door detention hearing in federal court in Baltimore, said Vickie LeDuc, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office. His attorney said he was traveling to his home in Annandale, Va.
Elbarasse had been arrested after officers pulled him over Aug. 20 just west of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after spotting his wife filming the structure with a video camera.
Neither Elbarasse nor his wife was charged with any wrongdoing. However, Maryland authorities held him after discovering a material witness warrant had been issued for him in Illinois the same day.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
My memory is very vague, I just remember that a freeper observed strange happenings on a bridge.
Who paid for the $1M bond ?
I remember it too, but my memory of it is just as vague as yours.
Old age setting in, at least in MY case.
~</;o)
We're going to sell our security for a million dollars? How stupid!
How much would it be worth it for Al Qaeda or Hamas to destroy the bridge? If more than $1M, a bad decision was just made.
Disgusting.
So some judge just let an operative for a know terrorist organization back out on the street. That must be some good stuff that judge is smoking.
Hamas money in Chicago.
imagine if someone was videotaping the bridge as the dave matthews bus passed by.
Bond??? You gotta be kidding me.
I'm working on getting that information now. Should have it by morning.
See my article at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40150
Though his attorneys claim he's harmless, Virginia resident Ismail Selim Elbarasse, now in federal custody, for years has been tied to stateside financing of Middle East terrorist organization Hamas.
The Annandale, Va., resident was taken into custody Friday after two off-duty Baltimore County police officers saw him videotaping the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from a sport utility vehicle, said Marcia Murphy, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore.
Elbarasse was not charged with a crime but was detained on a material witness warrant issued by the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago.
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DITTO.
Let's see... the government gets a million bucks out of the terrorist slush fund and a wire imbedded in this guy's left arm... Sounds like a deal to me.
He made bail. Unreal.
BTTT
[Sarcasm torpedo ARMED. FIRE!]
Geez, I sure hope it wasn't *Teresa*.
(Think it through, folks. Cui bono?)
Bump!
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