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Orlando-Based Egyptian Travel Agent, Now Held In Jail, Seen As Key Player In Terrorist Movements.
LEO sources | MB26

Posted on 09/19/2001 11:14:48 AM PDT by MindBender26

An Orlando based Egyptian national, who owns a Florida travel agency, is now seen by federal agents as a key to terrorist travel into and throughout the US.

The man, who was arrested by FBI agents on Sunday, is being held in a local county jail. The jail is used to house federal prisoners in transit, as there is no federal jail in this area. The suspect's house has been thoroughly searched by federal agents and is now secured by them.

Officials close to the investigation believe the man was a key to terrorist movement into and through the United States in the weeks and months leading up to the attacks on New York and Washington. The hijackers were seen in Florida just before the explosions last week and there are additional reports that the terrorists took the same flights as those seized a week before the hijackings, in an apparent “dress rehearsal” of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Security at the jail is extraordinarily tight, with federal agents openly armed with MP5 submachine guns in and around the jail.

Central Florida has been a hotbed of terrorist activity, with many of their pilots trained here. In addition to the pilots, the current head of Islamic Jihad went “underground” as an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa for three years in order to escape a Mossad death squad. Reports have circulated for years that the Islamic Jihad leader, Ramadan Abdallah, used Moslem flight students as his own private air taxi service as he traveled from Tampa to visit Moslem Student Associations and other fundamentalist groups on campuses throught the country.

More to come on this.


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1 posted on 09/19/2001 11:14:48 AM PDT by MindBender26
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To: MindBender26
Sounds like time for Florida to clean house down there.
2 posted on 09/19/2001 11:17:45 AM PDT by RetiredArmy
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To: RetiredArmy
The flight school suspected of supplying the air taxi service is NOT Embry Riddle, but another with even stronger ties to Middle East.
3 posted on 09/19/2001 11:19:30 AM PDT by MindBender26
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WOW! Great find, MB26!
4 posted on 09/19/2001 11:19:33 AM PDT by dixiechick2000
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To: dixiechick2000
Thanx. We do what we can.....
5 posted on 09/19/2001 11:20:13 AM PDT by MindBender26
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To: MindBender26
Mind Boggling article.

Where oh where have our U.S. security agents been? With the billions with spent for CIA, FBI, where have they been??

6 posted on 09/19/2001 11:20:14 AM PDT by Gracey
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To: Gracey
Fighting the war on (some) drugs. Killing Americans they don't like....that sort of thing.
7 posted on 09/19/2001 11:22:37 AM PDT by KeepUSfree
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To: MindBender26
But, of course, we *mustn't* doubt the true allegiance of Muslims/Arabs in this country.

/sarcasm off

8 posted on 09/19/2001 11:23:05 AM PDT by BlueLancer
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To: Gracey
Looking for pirated CD's and video's....just like they were told to do by the previous administration.
10 posted on 09/19/2001 11:23:16 AM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: MindBender26
Who is LEO services?
11 posted on 09/19/2001 11:23:20 AM PDT by Gracey
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To: Gracey
services = sources
12 posted on 09/19/2001 11:23:40 AM PDT by Gracey
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The best part is that Ramadan Abdallah lived and taught here openly, under his own name, for three years, openly involved with pro-fundamentalist group called W.I.S.E.

Thought is that he was here because MOSSAD had hit the three other Islamic Jihad leaders, but couldn't kill Ramadan Abdallah here in US, especially under Clinton. (This was 94-97 timeframe)

13 posted on 09/19/2001 11:24:15 AM PDT by MindBender26
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To: Gracey
The DOJ spent 8 years investigating collegiate sports team names to determine if they were offensive to native Americans.When they weren't checking out right wing extremists (i.e gun owners, church goers).
14 posted on 09/19/2001 11:24:27 AM PDT by LarryLied
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To: Gracey
LEO - Law Enforcement Officers, the gun and badge set.
15 posted on 09/19/2001 11:25:25 AM PDT by MindBender26
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To: KeepUSfree
Don't try to change subject. Drug profits, particularly heroin, finance Taliban!
16 posted on 09/19/2001 11:26:40 AM PDT by MindBender26
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To: MindBender26
Florida....I'm thinking of moving to someplace like....say....Montana. ;-)
17 posted on 09/19/2001 11:27:25 AM PDT by DJ88
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>>Central Florida has been a hotbed of terrorist activity, with many of their pilots trained here<<

How many voted for Gore?

18 posted on 09/19/2001 11:27:50 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: BLueDogDemo,Secret Squid,golitely,LSJohn,Judge Parker,Wallaby,honway,Uncle Bill
FYI
19 posted on 09/19/2001 11:27:52 AM PDT by OKCSubmariner
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To: MindBender26
Ramadan Abdallah, used Moslem flight students as his own private air taxi service as he traveled from Tampa to visit Moslem Student Associations and other fundamentalist groups on campuses throught the country.

Time to clean out those little rat nests too!

20 posted on 09/19/2001 11:29:08 AM PDT by holyscroller
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