Posted on 01/03/2007 2:16:08 PM PST by Michael81Dus
A German businessman of Syrian descent who wanted to surprise his daughter with a holiday visit was detained for four days in a Las Vegas holding cell before being sent back home without explanation. ... Shehadeh, 62, flew from Frankfurt to Las Vegas last Thursday, hoping to meet with his wife and drive to Bakersfield, Calif., where his American-born daughter had just gotten news she'd passed the California bar exam. Instead, he wound up shivering in a holding cell without ever being told why he couldn't enter the country, he said. ... She said Shehadeh's visa waiver could have been denied because "he could have a criminal record, or it could be a terrorism issue."
Shehadeh touched down Thursday afternoon on a direct Condor Airlines flight to McCarran International Airport, where his American wife was waiting to pick him up. The couple had planned to visit family in the Las Vegas area, before surprising their daughter for the New Year and celebrating her wedding anniversary in Central California. "I gave them my German passport, and he looked to see which countries I visited. He found I had stamps that looked like Arabic and asked if they were fake," Shehadeh said Tuesday in a phone interview from his home in Alzenau, a small Bavarian village. "Nobody ever informed me why I was being questioned," he said. "All that was ever told to me was this had to do with Washington." After being interrogated by Border Protection and FBI agents for more than 12 hours at the airport, Shehadeh said he was handcuffed and transported in the back of police car to a North Las Vegas jail.
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According to Spiegel.de the officers reproached him with having faked entry visa stamps of Lebanon and Syria in his passport, although he actually really went there. I think at least he deserves a letter of explanation by the Las Vegas Immigration office.
I have a visa from Lebanon in my passport and ask myself whether I will face problems when I want to enter the US in March?
Why would anyone fake an entry visa stamp to Syria?
Our usual complaint is that airport security focuses on vietnamese grandmothers, while ignoring people more likely to be a terrorist.
This seems in line with their modus operandi.
I think he should go back and tell all the other Syrians to keep out of the U.S.
Good question, maybe to hide that he´s not of Syrian but of Iranian descent or whatever. I don´t know what the officers thought, but my trust in their competence shrinks when I read reports like that. At least after a few hours of checking process they should have found out that this man was harmless - I mean, they get all the data from the airlines before the entry, and they get the fingerprints and face pic at the arrival. What else do they need?
Am I supposed to feel bad about this?
Al Qaeda can feel bad. We weren't being tough on travelling Muslims until 9/11. Now we have no choice.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761882/posts
From prior thread
It seems likely a front for terrorists.
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"In 1996 she founded a nonprofit organization called People in Motion to help people in need, including children in Afghanistan and women in Bosnia.
In other words, she and her husband are involved in Muslim charities that specialize in sending money to jihad areas - a prime source of terror funding, especially in the late '90s.
They can drop the "we are being harassed just because we are Muslims" act. We've got their number."
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When Bush first proposed beefing up airport inspections, the Democrats held out until he agreed to give them all jobs as government employees with union protection. As a result, things have been screwed up big time every since, and none of them can be fired.
Plus the Democrats have gained tens of thousands of grateful voters.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit if this is another screwup. If they can do it to grandmothers and medal of honor winners, they can do it to German Lebanese.
Ted Bundy was a good looking guy, too.
Clean cut; well spoken.
It helped him "get the chicks."
A 62 years old father of a legal resident in the US who just made her bar exam was denied entry to the US although he met all the requirements (citizen from a country of the VWP, enough money to travel back, no terrorist/criminal record - at least as far as we know and what the German Foreign Ministry says). I think this is not ok.
Alrighty then. Get the Dems out of power and then give these officers a a$$kick! ;-)
Buhbye Majida!
You're a muslim - GO HOME!
(Also read #5)
Apparently, what HuntsvilleTxVeteran posted at 10 counters your 'no terrorist/criminal record'. Post 10 looks like a flag to me.
He wasn't on a "look-out list" for nuttin.
I am very glad that you are not in charge of protecting our country from terrorism.
Would you tell us why you think this man could not possibly be a terrorist? You show us his picture, why does that tell you he is not a terrorist? You can tell them just by looking at them? What is it, his nice smile, his suit, or his age that convinces you?
Terrorists can have nice smiles and suits. Terrorists can even be old -- they don't have to be the bombers themselves, they could be providing money laundering, delivering messages, organizational assistance... Hell Arafat was mass murdering people left and right as an old man until he died.
How is it that you think you know better than the FBI who interviewed him for 12 hours again? Psychic powers, or the ability to judge a nice picture?
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