Philippines to Deport Two U.S. Brothers

Associated Press ^ | 30 December 2003 | HRVOJE HRANJSKI

[Steel Wolf]

Check out the photo in Post 13. Look familiar? Seems like they finally got around to busting him.

[Steel Wolf]

Abdeljalil was arrested in September in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga on charges of having an expired visa. After he was interrogated, he was ordered deported.

*whistles innocently*

[MrNatural]

Our tax dollars at work :)

[MrNatural]

..as a classicist I guess he had to toss in a Hoplite or two.

Right. He's written books about nothing but Hoplites. :)

Myself, I find that area of his writing kind of difficult to stay with; probably because I don't have a real depth of knowledge about that era. All his other writing, with examples from times I'm more familiar with, are greatly interesting. He is truly a thinker whose work will long outlive him.

[MrNatural]

Ooops - My #24 should have posted to another thread; no idea how it came out here...!

[Fred Mertz]

The brothers, born in Missouri, would be deported to the United States as "undesirable aliens...

I almost missed the Missouri connection. I'm afraid we'll get little more from the media about these two, plus FR isn't much for serious research these days. Thanks for the ping.

[aristeides]

Vice Adm. Ernesto de Leon, Navy flag officer in command identified the alleged terrorists as James Carlo Stubbs Jr., 56, alias Jamil Daud Mujahid, and his brother Michael Ray, 55, both African Americans.

So I guess that initial report of their being of Middle Eastern descent was wrong.

[Wallaby]

Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil has a Filipino wife, also -- in fact, he has two of them!

Mohammed Jamil Khalifa was an "unindicted coconspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

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Philippines says al-Qaida suspect and associate of bin Laden's brother-in-law arrested By TERESA CEROJANO, Associated Press Writer The Associated Press October 23, 2003, Thursday, BC cycle MANILA, Philippines A Jordanian suspected of being an al-Qaida operative and of helping channel funds to the group's terror operations in the Philippines has been arrested, immigration officials announced Thursday. Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil - believed to be a close associate of Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law - was arrested in the southern city of Zamboanga on Sept. 25 on charges of having an expired visa. He was being interrogated, and Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo said he could face criminal charges. She described Abdeljalil as the "point man" of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, a Saudi businessman married to one of bin Laden's sisters. Philippine officials accuse Khalifa of helping establish al-Qaida's terror cell in the Philippines in the late 1980s and early 1990s, using a charity organization to funnel money to the Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremist group. After Khalifa left the Philippines in 1994, Abdeljalil took over his businesses on the main southern island of Mindanao, Domingo said.

She cited a military intelligence report that Abdeljalil was in constant touch with Khalifa, whose whereabouts are unknown. U.S. justice authorities identified Khalifa as a threat to U.S. security and listed him as an "unindicted coconspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. U.S. justice authorities identified Khalifa as a threat to U.S. security and listed him as an "unindicted coconspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In 1994, he was arrested in San Francisco and deported to Jordan, where he was acquitted for lack of evidence on charges he was involved in terrorist bombings earlier that year. The intelligence report said that before his capture, Abdeljalil represented Khalifa in business transactions and signed documents on his behalf. He was also trying to sell land in Zamboanga owned by Khalifa and his Philippine wife, Alice Yabo, Domingo said. She claimed that Abdeljalil's house in Zamboanga was used as a safe-house and meeting place for al-Qaida members operating in the southern Philippines, and that his Zamboanga-based construction firm was a front for funding the terror group's activities here and abroad. She said the Jordanian, who has two Philippine wives, obtained a temporary resident visa from the immigration bureau in October 1995, but failed to extend it when it expired in October 1998.

[Wallaby]

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