Posted on 02/20/2003 2:15:10 PM PST by occam's chainsaw
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:21:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
He jumped out of a car driven by border intruders from Mexico when police attempted to pull them over. Tucson police determined that the man was here illegally and was from Afghanistan and took him into custody. They have not released the man's name. The Afghani border intruder claimed that the men had threated to kill him if he didn't pay them more money for smuggling him here. He also claimed that he was here simply looking for work. He has been turned over to the FBI.
That's all the report said - it was brief. I've scoured Tucson and Phoenix news websites and others and have not found the story. If anyone finds the story or has any more info please post it.
This seems to suggest that he did fight in GWI...?
Federal Agents Investigate Possible Terror Threat at Southern Utah Oil Field Feb 20, 2003 12:41 pm US/Mountain
Three schools were in lockdown Thursday as the FBI investigated an incident at a southwestern Utah oil field described as a possible terror threat.
The incident occurred at the oil field on the Navajo Nation in San Juan County. A worker at the oil field in Aneth said two men of possible Middle Eastern descent asked questions about the operation then beat him up.
Investigators are looking to see if the incident is part of a terror threat. Bob Davis, a spokesman for Exxon in Houston said that Exxon is confirming that an incident did occur last night at their Aneth oil production facility around midnight.
The man who says he was attacked was described as an operator at the facility. He was not taken to a hospital for treatment.
The FBI is the lead agency because the incident occurred on the Navajo reservation. The FBI confirmed the investigation and is sending additional agents from Salt Lake City to assist those on the scene.
Both suspects were reportedly armed and were seen leaving the area in a dark colored GMC Yukon with tinted windows and no front license plate.
Schools in Montezuma Creek and one school in Bluff, Utah were locked down Thursday morning. School officials said students were being kept inside while investigators continue to look into the incident. Students should be able to leave school at the end of the regular day.
Emergency management officials said other similar oil facilities have been notified of the incident.
Even without being a terrorist he's just not a kind of immigrant we need. I wonder why there are no regulations on immigration. Like we really need to import car-washers.
Where in the article does it state that the INS had him before?
Border Patrol officials take in Afghan man
Posted: 02/20/2003 – 15:51:06
(Phoenix-AP) -- U-S Border Patrol officials took custody of a man from Afghanistan in Tucson Tuesday. They say he flagged down a Tucson police officer to report that he was being kidnapped by the two men he was with.
F-B-I spokeswoman Susan Herskovits says the agency spoke to the man. He hasn't been publicly identified. Herskovits says he was last in the custody of immigration officials.
Tucson detectives questioned him and the two men he said were kidnapping him. The detectives say the three were actually involved in a money dispute. The Afghan man was apparently supposed to pay for being brought across the U-S- Mexico border, Altieri said.
The men were not arrested. They were turned over the Border Patrol since there was doubt about whether they were in the country legally.
Border Patrol officials took custody of a man from Afghanistan who had flagged down a Tucson police officer to report that he was being kidnapped.
I can confirm we did arrest someone from Afghanistan, but the case is under investigation by us and the FBI; U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Rob Daniels told The Arizona Republic.
FBI spokeswoman Susan Herskovits confirmed Thursday that the agency had spoken to the man, who hasn't been publicly identified. She said he was last in the custody of immigration officials.
Herskovits declined to comment on the FBI's conclusions regarding the man or anything else related to the case.
Police in Tucson picked the man up Tuesday after he flagged down a passing patrol car and told an officer that he was being kidnapped by the two men he was with, said Sgt. Judy Altieri, a Tucson police spokeswoman.
Tucson detectives questioned all three men and determined that they had actually been involved in a dispute over money that the Afghan man was apparently supposed to pay for being brought across the U.S.-Mexican border, Altieri said.
She said police didn't arrest any of the men.
But since there was some question about whether the men were in the country legally, they were turned over to the Border Patrol, Altieri said.
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