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To: thinden; Wallaby; Fred Mertz
Here's some more on this story. These two seem to have some things in common with another duo who ended up charged with the OKC bombing...except this time, different race.
8 posted on 12/30/2003 7:03:01 AM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: MizSterious; Fred Mertz; Wallaby; honway
"These two seem to have some things in common with another duo who ended up charged with the OKC bombing...except this time, different race."

hold on now.

another st. louis, missouri native, melvin lattimore comes to mind.

lattimore was converted to Islam (cain't memeber his muslim name off hand.
it was reported that lattimore was in OKC around the time of murrah.
it was also reported lattimore (and his credit card) was involved with some of the "9/11 flight students" in the norman area.

questions:
where were these two from in missouri?
wonder if they knew melvin?

20 posted on 12/30/2003 8:52:23 AM PST by thinden
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To: MizSterious; thinden; honway; Fred Mertz; aristeides
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.


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.


29 posted on 12/30/2003 3:38:12 PM PST by Wallaby
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