Posted on 12/09/2015 1:43:09 PM PST by ManHunter
A Syria-born US citizen was accused of smuggling military-style gear, including rifle scopes, night-vision goggles and bulletproof vests, to Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants. Prosecutors say he planned to take $30,000 worth of items and train people in Syria.
Amin al-Baroudi, a 50-year-old of Syrian descent, is facing four charges of violating US sanctions against Syria, the Associated Press reported.
According to the federal prosecution, al-Baroudi traveled to Turkey from Los Angeles in February 2013 with a total of 14 pieces of checked luggage weighing 619 pounds (about 280 kg). He returned to the US the next month with only two bags. The indictment says al-Baroudi brought scopes, laser sights and tactical vests along with other equipment, which he bought online and from US companies, across the border to Syria.
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I guess TSA saw nothing unusual about a single person traveling to Turkey with 14 bags weighing over 600 lbs, but they can manage to find bottles of fluid that exceed 3.4 oz., but can't identify 600-plus pounds of equipment.
Your federal government at work protecting you...
Nobody wants to acknowledge the 600 pound guerrilla in the room.
Where did the money come from? That stuff isn’t cheap.
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The (supposedly) Hawaiian born American?
The Chicago born American?
The Panamanian born American?
I just can’t believe it. Those poor Syrians are all saints. This can not be true. /s/
It was just a joke about TSA ignoring 600 pounds of weapon laden luggage while making people throw away their shampoo bottles.
And it was a pun on guerilla/gorilla.
Oh, the humiliation of having to explain a lame joke.....
Well I feel the same! I was joking about Obama, Clinton and McCain smuggling supplies to extremist rebels.
Well at least it's a more direct route than shipping them thru Libya.
Yep, I missed your joke, too. I don’t think either of us should quit our day jobs to become comics.
Wait a minute, he is being charged but Obama isn’t? Were they both not providing materials & weapons to those fighting against Assad? So why is Obama getting a pass?
Revoke his citizenship and expell him from the country
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