Fox News Reports Arrest of Afgani Wanted Since 1997

Fox News | 7/7/02 | Randy Lormand

[lormand]

Fox News is just reporting the arrest of an Afgani national wanted here in the US since 1997. He was found with a electrical wire and other suspicious devices hidden under soda bottles.

[lormand]

Coordinated law enforcement perhaps? Works for me!

[F16Fighter]

Whoa, big news. Now if the other 2,000,000 other Islamic terrorists already in the country with electrical wire and a flight plan can also be apprehended, we will all be safe.

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[ChadGore]

Any Names ? Doczawahari ?

[1tin_soldier]

I'll call my aclu friend and have her begin planning some candlelight vigils for this poor misguided souls civil rights (gag).

[SelmaLee]

If it is the same guy, his name is Mohomad Omar Popal according to the article at readingeagle.com/re/news/10090 17.asp

[Righty1]

But if they win the diversity lottery they are OK!

[F16Fighter]

You have an ACLU "friend"?? BLEEECH! Must be a "platonic" relationship, eh? ;-)

[F16Fighter]

The "diversity" lottery still can be "won" by declaring yourself a 43 year old "student", or through the sieve we call a the Mexican-border.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Whoa, big news. Now if the other 2,000,000 other Islamic terrorists already in the country with electrical wire and a flight plan can also be apprehended, we will all be safe.

Sorry we can't have this. All the flight instruction schools will be bankrupt in no time.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

Fox News Reports Arrest of Afgani Wanted Since 1997

The word is Afghan. "Afghani" is a form of currency OR a foreigner who traveled to Afghanistan and joined the fight against the Soviets.

[F16Fighter]

What does Homeland Security do when our friendly neighborhood Islamic "businessman" in hundreds of American towns and cities decide that want to buy out flight instruction schools at cut-rate prices?

[IamHD]

Federal Agents Nab Afghan Man Stopped in Pennsylvania







Sunday, July 07, 2002


READING, Pa. — An Afghan man in the country illegally was arrested in Reading and whisked away to Philadelphia by federal agents, police said.


Mohomad Omar Popal, of Kabul, Afghanistan, had been wanted by federal authorities since 1997, police said. He was stopped by an Exeter Township officer on Saturday while driving toward Philadelphia, about 50 miles away.

Popal was in federal custody Sunday and could not be reached for comment; it was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents declined to comment.

Patrolman Kurt E. Unterkoefler said he arrested Popal after the U.S. Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force in Washington, D.C., informed him that the man has been wanted since 1997. He told police he has been living in Reading.

Two INS agents went to Exeter from their headquarters in Philadelphia upon learning that Popal was there, Unterkoefler said.

"We usually take INS detainees before a district justice and they sit in Berks County Prison until the INS picks them up," Unterkoefler said. "In my experience it was very unusual for them to say they were coming right out for this guy."

The agents searched Popal's truck, which appeared to be loaded with about a dozen cases of soda, Unterkoefler said. He said he found several car batteries, adhesive solvents and electrical wiring under the soda.

"When I saw a Middle Eastern man driving a heavily loaded pickup towards Limerick [nuclear power plant] I became a little suspicious," Unterkoefler said. "The bumper was almost touching the ground."

He said the truck posed a traffic hazard and that the vehicle's registration had expired. Popal presented an expired international driving permit that listed his home address as Kabul, Unterkoefler said.

[Scutter]

Check the contents of the soda cans.

[Dialup Llama]

His name was Popal. He was arrested with a pocket fishing pole and a combination rotisserie and toaster over powered by a 60 watt light bulb.

[Dialup Llama]

"When I saw a Middle Eastern man driving a heavily loaded pickup towards Limerick [nuclear power plant] I became a little suspicious," Unterkoefler said. "The bumper was almost touching the ground."

Profiling. Gotta let him go.

[abner]

Does anyone have a picture of this guy??

I would love to see a photo. This is in my neck of the woods.

[per loin]

Soda \So"da\, n. [It., soda, in OIt., ashes used in making glass, fr. L. solida, fem. of solidus solid; solida having probably been a name of glasswort. See Solid.] (Chem.)
(a) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
(b) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.