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.
Great Memory!!!! You're right on!!
On a slightly related note-I read a book last year by a former Mossad Agent (sorry, don´t remember the name) but I remember him stating that the embassies where contacted almost daily by Arabs coming in off the street wanting to work for the other side...
NO, don't shut your mouth. Too many of us have been minding our P's & Q's.
We'd better speak up from now on, if we care about our country and our precious children & grandchildren...ps also, ourselves. :-)
They have been with the State Dept. visa issuers and the INS, who have made certain that nobody overstayed a visa.
Drug profits, particularly heroin, finance Taliban!
I live in Florida. This is a very easy going/ diverse/transient place. A natural for terrorists to live in anonymous suburban tracts while they plan their mass murders.
In no way am I surprised that these MidEast killers chose Florida for their roost. This is not to tar all of Florida. Some parts of Florida are redneck (not meant pejoratively) and solid American.
But not where I live
I've know of others from Iran (at work). They and their families lost everying when the ayatolla came into power during the Carter administration. They LOVE our country, and cry for their homeland, Persia, and how repressive it's become.
Are you serious? No Miranda rights? I guess because this is war?
I wonder how long they can keep these, these..... I don't know what to call them... BASTARDS!!!
Why not, they forgot to contribute to his campaigns?
I thinkyou're confused . . the Taliban is the US government's partner in the War on Drugs. We gave them $43 million just earlier this year. How can the Taliban be a drug pusher when they're Drug War partners with the United States government? Unless. . .
Thank you, I needed to hear this. Did congress just pass this law??? I'm proud of them if they did. Thanks
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