Terrorism cops bust man at tunnel (NYC)

New York Daily News ^ | 10/15/2004 | Michele McPhee

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Can't find any updates to this story.

Sounds like a sleeper to me.

[bitt]

'"I ain't telling you nothing," he said,'

sounds like he has a good ear for the local dialect...

[ProudVet77]

"I ain't telling you nothing," sounds like a local to me.
Or an insurgent from da Bronx.

[NonValueAdded]

I dunno, maybe they should call the FEC instead. Sounds like some RAT walking around money or campaign contributions to me.

[Joe 6-pack]

What are the odds this joker's name has a hyphen and at least one "z"?

[rocksblues]

Sounds like a sleeper to me.

I second that!

[Bars4Bill]

"I ain't telling you nothing," he said

Safe to guess he was educated here in the States.

[Calpernia]

Remember the Weehawken car bomb?

[livius]

Or native born, like the Portland would-be Islamic terrorists.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Nothing to see here folks. The ACLU will be along shortly to free this innocent man......

;)

[luvbach1]

Shouldn't it have been: "I aint telling you nuttin'"?

[cmsgop]

I wonder how belligerent he was for the Cops to get him out of the car and search his A$$, Good Nab NYPD!

[Pearls Before Swine]

What are the odds this joker's name has a hyphen and at least one "z"?

Not enough info to tell. Could just as easily have been a Middle American meth dealer from the info given.

[Calpernia]

>>>I dunno, maybe they should call the FEC instead. Sounds like some RAT walking around money or campaign contributions to me.


What makes you think the two are removed?

(ref: left + Mid East terrorism)

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

If you need a few dots to connect, start by tracking the 527s.

[Sociopathocracy]

We'll probably send him home where he can take a few hostages.

[MEG33]

I immediately thought drug money..who knows? I hope they find out.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Could just as easily have been a Middle American meth dealer from the info given."

I could be wrong, but I'd think a hot-shot 25 y.o. drug dealer w/ access to $40K would be driving something a little flashier than an '88 Ford (to impress the chicks, 'ya know...think about when you were 25!) and the passport thing sounds a little suspect to me as well.

[ProudVet77]

That did make me pause, by I figured it was in DaNY Daily News (I used to work there), the spell checker fixed it for them. And since ain't is typical Brooklyn/Bronx speak, and it was spelled correctly it slid right through.

[Fireone]

Note to self: Don't carry my fake passport in the pickup anymore.

[Calpernia]

>>>I immediately thought drug money

And that has nothing to do with terrorism????

Afghanistan, Opium and the Taliban

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST
U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.

A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.

"We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies.

A State Department official said Thursday all the information the United States has received so far indicates the poppy crop had decreased, but he did not believe it was eliminated.

Last year, Afghanistan produced nearly 4,000 tons of opium, about 75 percent of the world's supply, U.N. officials said. Opium -- the milky substance drained from the poppy plant -- is converted into heroin and sold in Europe and North America. The 1999 output was a world record for opium production, the United Nations said -- more than all other countries combined, including the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam.

The Taliban, which has imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controls, has set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops.

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Read more here:

http://opioids.com/afghanistan/

Then search for South America to see the pick up in the hypothetical created slack from Afghanistan.