Traveller's agenda a mystery

The Hamilton Spectator ^ | 9/26/01 | Susan Clairmont

[NatureGirl]

Some interesting things to note from this article: The accused had a visa for the U.S., but then stated that he had a (apparently, non-existent) visa for Canada. Remember, he wasn't even headed for Canada in the first place, he was heading for Chicago.

And, of course, all honest travellers carry four passports, all with different names.

Being a Sherlock Holmes fan, I find the idea of the paper with mixed English/Arabic numerals to be highly intriguing. Code, perhaps?

[eureka!]

Very interesting. Thanks for the post...

[GEC]

More likely the combination for an access door or locker some place.

[Travis McGee]

We need to separate and intern all of these spies until we can unravel the truth about them. If that takes years, so be it.

[Cyber Liberty]

Sounds like the key to a code, yes.

[Gracey]

Good Catch!!! This is almost as good as a Clancy spy mystery.

[Betty Jo]

Could it be a Swiss phone number, which looks like this:

00 00 00 00 00

[tracer]

"English numerals" are Arabic numerals. We did in fact get our numbering system from Arabic mathematicians from the first century A.D.

[vidbizz]

How about numbers representing longitude/latitude coordinates for possible targets or flight paths?

[NatureGirl]

"English numerals" are Arabic numerals.

I wondered about that myself. I went to this link:

islam.org/mosque/ihame/Ref6.htm

Our Western method is the top row; fourth row down is the "Modern Arabic (Eastern)" method of writing numerals. As you can see, they are quite different.

[rebdov]

His half of the torn note probably had to match up with the other half of his cohort in Chicago, Detroit, Naipersville, Oklahoma, Texas? How many cells are there? A hundred, thousands? I know we are asked to return to normal life, but most people I know are waiting for the other shoe to drop. The WTC was a sucker punch, and there will be a lot more jabs before the knockout. I think I am being realistic with my concern. There is too much hate to have been vented with only one blow. Unfortunately I do not believe we have nearly enough personel at the borders, or anywhere for that matter, to properly root out all the cells.

[Ann Archy]

Bank Account numbers??? A pece of paper SEWN into pant pockets!! Luthansa SAYS he works for them, but no one knows his real name??? VERRRRRY interesting, and just shows how deeply inbedded they are.

[Ann Archy]

Reuters might say that this man is a "fear engineer".

[NatureGirl]

Luthansa SAYS he works for them, but no one knows his real name???

Oh, good catch! I guess the article should have said that Lufthansa has an employee with one of those names. That wouldn't necessarily mean that it was this fellow's real name, just one of the ones he was using.

Hope Lufthansa is co-operating and doing a little checking on their sales rep. Who is he, and where is he?

[Abn1508]

Password for PGP encryption.

[harpseal]

Agreed.

[Oldtory]

Don't be too sure Gracey, under our legal/refugee system in Canada he will declare himself a refugee and we will release him telling him to return for a hearing.He will then disappear like thousands before him in Canada, never to be heard of again. If the US wants him they should keep an eye on him, you will likely have to abduct him to bring him into court in the US.

[tracer]

Sheesh, another public school myth exploded!!

[patent]

Thanks for the bump. This guy is obviously not interested in talking a whole lot. It seems he wants to drag things out a bit.

[Ann Archy]

He might have KILLED the real owner of that uniform...geesh.