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.
200 Woggies??? It's dial information, and information is answering every time!
San Antonio Radiologist. Primarilly $
I'm going to go ballistic. This is unf**king believeable.
We also need to get our American programmers (not those H-1B's from Asia and India!!) to hook up the computer systems of the FBI, and INS so that when a Visa expires, someone knows to go look for the person who is now "out of status" and ship them back to wherever they came from.
I have some Arab relatives. (I'm of Middle Eastern christian ancestry myself). Most are in California - and they are a mixed bag regarding allegiance. Some are very anti Israel having had relatives killed in Bierut.... these are the younger ones. Older relatives such as my parents generation are VERY loyal to America and VERY Republican.
I have some Arab relatives. (I'm of Middle Eastern christian ancestry myself). Most are in California - and they are a mixed bag regarding allegiance. Some are very anti Israel having had relatives killed in Bierut.... these are the younger ones. Older relatives such as my parents generation are VERY loyal to America and VERY Republican.
Sounds a little far fetched. Do you believe this?
Is he one of those picked up by the FEDS??? I can hardly believe that an upright Radiologist here in TX was picked up, also. Geez, he has a "lovely wife & children" kind of layout.
"Madam, I am not a nasty little French snoop.
I am a nasty little Belgan American snoop!"
Very anti-Muslim!
Glad to see the "Rubber Hose" Treatment still works.
Overheard outside a cell where the "squealing" was going on:
You didn't read me my rights.
Thats right
Why Not?
You don't have any rights.
Wop=(rubber hose up side the head)
ouch
Wop
OK OK I'll talk
Good Ole CNN
Giving the enemy info.
They have admitted they are soldiers engaged in war against US. They are soldiers in that war, operating in a self-described combat zone, not in a recognisable uniform of the enemy. As such, they could be shot on sight. (NOT ADVOCATING THAT!)
So much for Miranda.
Clinton was president, and there is a long standing "rule" that intel agencies do not kill in friendly countries.
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