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

LEO sources | MB26

[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.

[concerned about politics]

Travel agent? How obvious. But, before the attack, who would have thought? I'm glad he's busted!

[MindBender26]

Ital off

[jejones]

Of course, acronyms are context sensitive. I'd always seen LEO = Low Earth Orbit, but in this context, I'm sure that it is, as someone else said, Law Enforcement Officer(s).

[EggsAckley]

Gives a whole new meaning to the term "Miami Vice."

[Petronski]

Everyone should freep the Long Island Cablevision flag banner here.

[SocialMeltdown]

Does everyone remember the Egyptian pilot who committed suicide?

Remember how the Egyptians fought tooth and nail to deny the fact that any Muslim would commit suicide or take 100's of people with him.

Remember the futile calling out by members of the crew to stop the suicide dive?

Was that incident a practice run?

[Dog]

Oh no....they had a damn travel agent....jeesh!!!!

[gfactor]

Drug profits, particularly heroin, finance Taliban!

The taliban has the most effective anti-opium production policy in the world -- using islamic law. I frankly believe that the taliban are no-compromise types on their morality, and worked on poppy eradication even though it was economically beneficial to afghanistan. for all that, they got kudos from the WOD types.

[spald]

This is a very good find, MindBender. Thanks for the post.

[Clemenza]

Strange. One doesn't see too many Arabs in Florida. I guess they did such a great job of blending in!

[Lowcountry]

How many will vote for Janet Reno to come in, run a thorough investigation, issue supoenas and root out the criminals? Yessiree, Janet to the rescue!

[MindBender26]

Stop accepting the pro-drug pusher, pro-Taliban PR that has been pushed by liberal media for years. Wake up.

Stop trying to change the subject. This is a war for America, not your supposed freedom to be able to inject junk into your arm. 5000 Americans didn't die so you could sniff coke!

[Paradox]

Wow, scary... I know of a middle eastern fellow who has lived in this country for a long time (20 years) who has been in the travel agency business. I also know that he harbors some anti-american feelings.. hmmmm I better shut my mouth..

[MindBender26]

No, that was one psychotic.

[map]

...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. They are infecting our campuses.

[flwilliams]

I thought you guys might be interested to read this account of September 11th from someone who was basically at Ground Zero: It seems some madmen decided to rename my neighborhood "Ground Zero" ... In fact, if you've been watching NBC camera shots from across the Hudson River the last few days ... you've probably seen my apartment complex as a dark outline against the smoldering remains of the World Trade Center. His entire story is posted at: http://www.ncrepublicans.com

[Dog Gone]

I have mentioned this once before, but I'll say it again. In general, you can get arabs to talk once they are in custody. They do very poorly under interrogation and often will spill their guts.

It's obvious to me, based simply on the number of arrests, and some reports of material witnesses being cooperative, that this remains the case.

Islamic commandments aside, they're squealing like pigs.

[TrueBeliever9]

FYI

[Hatteras]

I'm also hearing that the doctor in Texas was a major figure in the organization. True?

[tommytrifecta]

in answer to your question about the cia read this it is the best article I've seen on the subject: http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001160