MILK SHEIK: BROOKLYN'S ICE-CREAM 'TERROR LINK'

nypost ^ | November 10, 2003

[dennisw]

November 10, 2003 -- The Yemeni owner of a tiny Brooklyn ice-cream shop that took in an astonishing $20 million in six years is suspected of funneling millions to an al Qaeda-linked sheik.

Agents, acting on a tip, learned that $20 million passed through the bank accounts of Abad Elfgeeh's tiny Park Slope shop, Carnival French Ice Cream, between 1997 and early 2003.

[diamondjoe]

"Elfgeeh's lawyer, Dawn Carti, accuses the government of having "a vendetta" against her client."

This is the best she can come up with? Someone needs a new lawyer.

[dead]

That store front just screams "Quality Ice Cream!"

I can definitely see customers spending $20,000,000 there.

[breakem]

what with an extra charge for nuts, cherries, and whipped cream

[vbmoneyspender]

Maybe she believes that Ashcroft owns shares in Baskin & Robbins.

[Dialup Llama]

>The mosque has been identified as a place of worship for terrorists,

Wonder if more than one mosque in the US is like this?

[dead]

Wonder if more than one mosque in the US is like this?

Wonder if more than one mosque in the US isn't like this.

[RightWingAtheist]

I always knew something was up with Ben & Jerry's...

[TRY ONE]

For Ice Cream at the Marble Slab $ 20 million does not go far! A few cones here, a few cones there and wham-o!

[sarcasm]

Osama bin Laden has boasted that hawalas created cracks in the Western financial system that "were as familiar to him and his al-Qaida colleagues as the lines of their own hands," a recent congressional report warned.

In Brooklyn alone, federal prosecutors have charged more than a dozen Arab or Muslim men with transferring money without a license.

An American of Egyptian descent, Alaa Al-Sadawi, was convicted in July of trying to smuggle $659,000 in boxes of Ritz crackers, Quaker Oats and baby wipes stuffed in a suitcase on a flight to Egypt. A Brooklyn man, Mohamed Ali Alriany, pleaded guilty in a separate case in which investigators say he made millions of dollars in unreported transfers to Yemen through his gift shop.

[Mears]

Maybe he really did a great business and the "food police" are behind all of this.LOL

It'a "for the children",childhood obesity you know.

[Catspaw]

It's not the ice cream. It's the very expensive handmade cones that'd allow this ice cream shop to run $20 mil through its accounts.

[Imal]

Oh hey, I know that place! I used to go there for their delicious Jihad Julius, although most people went for the Martyr Mocha or the Shahid Sherbet. They also had a delicious date cake they marketed as the Allah Ack-Bar(tm) to the health food stores in the Village.

Pricey joint, though. I never seemed to be able to get out of there without spending a few thousand riyals...

[Pro-Bush]

-PING-

Al Qaeda ice-cream?

[dennisw]

The old Ritz Crackers box in the suitcase trick. Fools the INS everytime!

[JustPiper]

Pitiful Ping!

[tkathy]

All these charities are sucking money out of our economy and going to fund murder of our soldiers.