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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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To: Dog Gone
As long as you have three of any group under arrest and seperated, with knowledge they will not get back together, they will open up.

200 Woggies??? It's dial information, and information is answering every time!

41 posted on 09/19/2001 11:46:11 AM PDT by MindBender26
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To: Hatteras
I'm also hearing that the doctor in Texas was a major figure in the organization. True?

San Antonio Radiologist. Primarilly $

42 posted on 09/19/2001 11:47:14 AM PDT by MindBender26
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To: MindBender26
...Abdallah here in US, especially under Clinton.

I'm going to go ballistic. This is unf**king believeable.

43 posted on 09/19/2001 11:50:30 AM PDT by Gracey
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To: MindBender26
LEO Thanks. My brain now remembers.
44 posted on 09/19/2001 11:51:28 AM PDT by Gracey
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To: MindBender26
I see this is all going on in your back yard. I won't ask where you get your data.
45 posted on 09/19/2001 11:52:20 AM PDT by Gracey
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To: Gracey,DoughtyOne,JohnHuang2,lawgirl,MJY1288
We need to contact our Congress Critters and tell them to pass President Bush's nominees - we need to get all the Clinton appointees OUT of the INS, and the Visa and Passport offices.

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.

46 posted on 09/19/2001 11:54:34 AM PDT by TruthNtegrity
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To: BlueLancer
we *mustn't* doubt the true allegiance of Muslims/Arabs in this country.

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.

48 posted on 09/19/2001 12:00:45 PM PDT by Gracey
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To: BlueLancer
we *mustn't* doubt the true allegiance of Muslims/Arabs in this country.

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.

49 posted on 09/19/2001 12:00:46 PM PDT by Gracey
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To: KeepUSfree
Killing Americans they don't like....that sort of thing.

Sounds a little far fetched. Do you believe this?

50 posted on 09/19/2001 12:03:44 PM PDT by Gracey
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To: MindBender26 others
CNN reporting 100 planes to be deployed to Middle East Region soon!
51 posted on 09/19/2001 12:04:38 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: MindBender26
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.

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.

52 posted on 09/19/2001 12:06:15 PM PDT by Gracey
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To: Gracey
To paraphrase Agatha Christe, speaking as her character Herocule Periot....

"Madam, I am not a nasty little French snoop.
I am a nasty little Belgan American snoop!"

53 posted on 09/19/2001 12:07:06 PM PDT by MindBender26
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To: Gracey
I have a sister-in-law in St. Louis from Iran part of a family who used to work for the Shah. Very pro US and Orthodox Christian .

Very anti-Muslim!

54 posted on 09/19/2001 12:07:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Dog Gone
"they're squealing like pigs."

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

55 posted on 09/19/2001 12:08:16 PM PDT by DeaconRed
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To: Gracey
Neg. Ramadan Abdallah fled US to take over Islamic Jihad about 4 years ago.
56 posted on 09/19/2001 12:08:56 PM PDT by MindBender26
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"CNN reporting 100 planes to be deployed to Middle East Region soon!"

Good Ole CNN
Giving the enemy info.

57 posted on 09/19/2001 12:10:36 PM PDT by DeaconRed
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To: MissAmericanPie, xzins, dennisw, Lent, BenF
This guy was wanted by Israel for murder -- while he was teaching college students in the USA!
58 posted on 09/19/2001 12:10:57 PM PDT by TrueBeliever9
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To: Voter#537
Seriously, they are not protected by Miranda or any such law.

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.

59 posted on 09/19/2001 12:12:15 PM PDT by MindBender26
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To: TrueBeliever9
This guy was wanted by Israel for murder -- while he was teaching college students in the USA!

Clinton was president, and there is a long standing "rule" that intel agencies do not kill in friendly countries.

60 posted on 09/19/2001 12:13:51 PM PDT by MindBender26
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