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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20050531.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
May 23, 2005
Release Number: 05-05-31
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OPERATION SQUEEZE PLAY NETS 285 SUSPECTS ON FIRST DAY
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Coalition Forces, in conjunction with the Iraqi Army and Ministry of Interior Forces, have detained 285 suspected terrorists in the western Baghdad district of Abu Ghraib in less than 24 hours.
The massive joint-combat operation involves two battalions from the 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, two battalions from the 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force, three battalions from the 2nd Brigade Special Police Commandos, and Soldiers from Task Force 2-14, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.
Task Force Baghdad officials said the purpose of the operation is to hunt down, kill or capture terrorists who have been staging attacks in the Iraqi capital.
“This is the largest combined operation with Iraqi security forces to date,” said Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, a Task Force Baghdad spokesperson. “The Iraqi Security Forces have the lead in this operation while we perform shaping and supporting roles.”
The operation is still underway.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT: TaskForceBaghdadPAO@id3.army.mil.
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http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/hawalas052305.htm
News Release
May 23, 2005
ICE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ILLEGAL MONEY TRANSMITTERS & UNDERGROUND “HAWALAS” YIELDS 140 ARRESTS & 138 INDICTMENTS NATIONWIDE
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Michael J. Garcia, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), today announced that a nationwide campaign by ICE agents against unlicensed money transmittal businesses and underground “hawalas” has resulted in the arrest of 140 individuals, 138 criminal indictments, and the seizure of more than $25.5 million in illicit proceeds since the enactment of the USA Patriot Act, which requires such businesses to be licensed and registered.
“Over the past two weeks, ICE has shut down a number of unlicensed money transmittal businesses that were responsible for the transfer of millions of dollars to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran," said Assistant Secretary Garcia. "ICE targets these illegal operations because we know that terrorist and other criminal organizations can use these underground businesses to move illicit funds anywhere in the world with no questions asked."
In recent days, ICE has won guilty pleas from two defendants and arrested another on charges of operating unlicensed money transmittal businesses.
On Friday, May 20, Rahim Bariek, 46, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan and resident of Herndon, Virginia, pleaded guilty in Alexandria to operating an unlicensed money transmittal business that wired millions of dollars to Iran, Pakistan, and areas in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban between 2001 and 2003. On November 14, 2001, roughly two months after the 9/11 attacks, Bariek testified before the U.S. Senate about how important it was for “hawaladars” like himself to abide by federal laws governing such businesses. Those who skirt the rules “give all hawala a bad name,” he testified. A subsequent ICE probe revealed that Bariek was operating an illegal money transmittal firm in Virginia that illegally wired $4.9 million to Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Bariek faces a maximum five-year sentence when sentenced on July 29, 2005.
On Friday, May 20, Noor Alocozy, 41, a native of Afghanistan native living in San Francisco, pleaded guilty to federal charges of operating an unlicensed money transmittal business that funneled nearly $1 million to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere. The investigation by ICE, the FBI, DEA, and IRS revealed that Alocozy’s business had been utilized by Jack Idema, the former Green Beret-turned bounty hunter who is currently imprisoned in Afghanistan for allegedly torturing Afghan civilians. During the investigation, Alocozy provided ICE investigators with copies of business ledgers indicating that Idema used Alocozy’s business to send funds from the U.S. to Afghanistan, presumably in support of his quest to capture Osama bin Laden and collect the $50 million reward. Alocozy is scheduled to be sentenced on August 26, 2005.
On May 13, 2005, Eltaib Yousif, 41, a resident of Castro Valley, California, made his initial court appearance in federal court in San Francisco after being arrested by ICE agents on charges of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. According to the indictment, Yousif illegally moved more than $1.5 million outside the country between September 2001 and November 2003. The investigation began after San Francisco ICE agents received a tip from ICE agents in New York about suspicious deposits being made into accounts at Citibank branches there and in the Bay Area.
These enforcement actions result from an ICE investigative strategy that targets the underlying financial systems that terrorist and other criminal organizations may exploit in raising, moving, and storing illicit funds. ICE seeks to deny criminal organizations access to these systems. One system that has repeatedly proven vulnerable to such exploitation involves money transmittal businesses and related hawalas.
For decades, ICE agents have seen criminal organizations use money transmittal businesses to move their illicit proceeds overseas. In 1996, for example, ICE agents executed search warrants on three locations affiliated with Tele-Austin, a small money transfer firm in Queens, New York. Evidence gleaned from these searches helped ICE identify and ultimately arrest the chief New York representative of Colombia’s Norte Valle drug cartel, who had moved $70 million in drug funds to Colombia through these money transfer firms. Subsequent ICE investigation resulted in the indictment in New York last year of the leaders of the Norte Valle cartel, which is believed to be responsible for 50 percent of the cocaine supplied to the United States.
The USA Patriot Act of 2001 enhanced ICE’s ability to combat the international movement of illicit funds through money transmittal businesses by amending the 18 USC 1960 statute. As a result of this law, money transmittal businesses in the United States are required to be registered with the U.S. Treasury Department and to be licensed by the appropriate state authorities.
Since the enactment of the Patriot Act, ICE agents have aggressively targeted unlicensed money transmittal businesses and underground hawalas nationwide, given the vulnerabilities they pose. Some of these cases include the following:
Man Jailed in Connection with Illegal Money Transfer Firm that Moved $100 Million to Pakistan - On April 4, 2005, Farooq Malik, a citizen of Pakistan, was sentenced to 43 months incarceration and three years supervised release following his conviction for operating an illegal money transmittal business and aiding and abetting. The sentence resulted from a 21-month investigation by ICE and IRS agents into illegal money transmitting businesses in New York and New Jersey that began in 2002. Malik, a resident of Astoria, NY, was one of six individuals arrested in June 2003 who were linked to a criminal scheme that routed more than $100 million to Pakistan through an unlicensed money transmitting business known as Access, Inc. of USA, located in Iselin, N.J. Malik operated an illegal money transfer business called Link to Link, Inc. in Long Island, NY, that transferred funds to Access, for subsequent transfer to Pakistan. Several other defendants in the case have pleaded guilty.
ICE Dismantles Illinois Illegal Funds Transfer Firm That Moved Funds to Iran - On March 22, 2005, ICE agents arrested Hossein Esfahani, in Lincolnwood, Illinois, on charges of operating an illegal money transmittal business and transferring funds to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo on Iran. The criminal complaint alleges that Esfahani moved more than $3.75 million to domestic and international locations from his unlicensed money service business in Illinois from 1999 through 2003. The majority of Esfahami’s illegal money transmittals were directed to money exchanges in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Those Dubai money exchanges, in turn, converted the wired funds into Iranian currency and then directed the funds to recipients throughout Iran, according to the complaint. During the enforcement action, Esfahani resisted arrest and ICE agents found a loaded .22 caliber pistol in his house that he was not licensed to possess.
ICE Dismantles Virginia Illegal Funds Transfer Firm That Moved $23 Million to Syria - On March 15, 2005, ICE agents arrested Louay Habbal, 45, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria, for operating an unlicensed money transmittal business located at his Vienna, Virginia, residence. Habbal was arrested upon his arrival at Dulles International Airport in the United States on a flight from Damascus, Syria. The indictment alleges that Habbal operated a business called Mena Exchange that received funds from customers nationwide and deposited these funds in bank accounts in Virginia and elsewhere. After taking a portion of these funds as a fee, Mena Exchange transferred more than $23 million to Syria and other nations between November 2001 and July 2004. ICE agents seized more than $100,000 from the company’s accounts.
Ohio Doctor Charged with Illegally Transferring Funds to Iran - On November 4, 2004, a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, issued a 38-count indictment against Mohammad Anvari-Hamedani charging him with money laundering, illegal exports to Iran, and filing false tax returns. The ICE investigation revealed that Anvari-Hamedani illegally transferred more than $4 million to Iran using bank accounts in the United States, Great Britain, and the United Arab Emirates. In addition, the investigation revealed that funds were also transferred to Iran using a “hawala” scheme using several individuals from various locations in the United States.
Russian Émigré Moves $680 Million Via Illegal Money Service Business - On May 5, 2004, a federal grand jury in Philadelphia, PA, charged Michael Rakita, a local businessman and Russian émigré, with one count of operating an illegal money transmitting business and four counts of money laundering. The indictment alleges that from Jan. 1994 through Feb. 2002, Rakita operated an unlicensed money transfer business that wire transferred roughly $680 million to numerous bank/investment accounts in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. The indictment further alleges that in 2000, Rakita laundered roughly $250,000 in funds that he believed to be the proceeds of health care fraud. The case was investigated by ICE, the FBI, and the IRS.
Woman Affiliated with Guinea Embassy in Washington, D.C. Charged - On Nov. 15, 2004, ICE agents arrested Aissatou Pita-Barry, the owner of Guinex International, Inc. a D.C.-based illegal money transfer business that wired at least $5 million to the Middle East, Asia, and other locations around the globe. ICE agents also seized roughly $100,000 from the company’s bank accounts and $19,700 in cash. Pita-Barry was in the United States on a Diplomatic Passport that authorized her only to work at the Guinea Embassy. As part of the investigation, ICE agents learned Pita-Barry allowed customers to make direct deposits into Guinex business accounts for transmittal overseas. According to the complaint, Pita-Barry typically charged a 10 percent fee for these services, but would charge less if “big” money was deposited for transfer.
FARC Money Launderer Convicted - In 2003, Libardo Florez-Gomez was convicted of operating an unlicensed money remitting business and sentenced to 18 months incarceration. Florez-Gomez had arrived in Miami on a flight from overseas in October 2002. Upon his arrival, border inspectors discovered that he had failed to declare approximately $182,000 worth of Eurodollars. Inspectors also found documents that appeared to be from the Colombian government. Those documents and subsequent investigation by ICE determined that Florez-Gomez was a major financier for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a designated terrorist organization. Florez-Gomez was later charged with operating an unlicensed money transmittal business and convicted.
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http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/sanjuan052305.htm
News Release
May 23, 2005
OVER $1 MILLION SEIZED AND 8 ARRESTED IN ICE INTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING BUST
Millions of U.S. dollars laundered through the Black Market Peso Exchange
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that a four-year ICE investigation dubbed “Operation Wave Runner” has resulted in 11 indictments and eight arrests involving a complex drug money-laundering scheme that covered the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and South and Central America.
The eight individuals arrested are charged with violating Title 18, United States Code (USC), Section 1956 and 982 for their alleged membership in several money laundering and drug trafficking organizations operating out of Puerto Rico. The indictment alleges that the individuals are responsible for laundering millions of U.S. dollars through the Black Market Peso Exchange scheme.
The Black Market Peso Exchange is a decades-old money-laundering infrastructure that is estimated to handle billions worth of illicit dollars annually. It is among the primary means by which Colombian drug cartels convert their U.S.-based drug dollars into “clean” pesos that they can use in Colombia.
The arrests occurred Friday in the municipalities of Vega Alta, Carolina, Gurabo, Bayamon, San Juan, Puerto Rico and New York City, New York. Those arrested are:
Luis Lopez Birriel, 41, U.S. citizen
Jean Negron Lopez, 27, U.S. citizen
Angel M. Sierra Rivera, 31, U.S. citizen
Elie M. Rivera Adorno, 30, U.S. citizen
Alex Navarro Jimenez, 31, U.S. citizen
Rafael Flores Mejia, 54, Dominican national
Eutacio Caceres Cabrera, 36, Dominican national
Manuel Alcantara Galvan, 45, Dominican national
To date, ICE has forfeited 14 domestic and international bank accounts and seized at least $1,323,583 in connection to the case.
"This operation combined the best investigative techniques of ICE and Puerto Rico state and local law enforcement agencies to dismantle these money laundering organizations,” said Leo I. Morales, acting ICE special agent-in-charge for Puerto Rico. “Those who seek to use Puerto Rico as an operating ground for their illicit activity need to think twice. We are committed to identifying these money launderers and to ensuring that they are brought to justice.”
All of those arrested are in U.S. Marshals custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting the outcome of their case.
Penalties for the money laundering offense range from a fine of no more than $500,000.00, or twice the value of the property involved in the transaction, whichever is greater, or imprisonment of 20 years, or both.
The public is reminded that an indictment contains only charges and is not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial and the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Henwood is prosecuting the case. The ICE investigation into the case is ongoing.
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http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/2005/05/feds-capture-illegal-aliens-working-as.html
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
"Feds Capture Illegal Aliens Working as Security Officers for Philadelphia Government"
by Jim Kouri, CPP
OFF TOPIC and ON THE NET...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=15957_US_Sharia_Watch&only
http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000103.htm
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2644
"A Conspiracy Theory Spreads Polio"
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
May 24, 2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1410004/posts
"Zarqawi supporters post get-well messages on Web (Seems like media sad as Zarqawi wounded)"
Yahoo ^
Posted on 05/25/2005 2:10:21 AM PDT by iso
By Andrew Hammond
13 minutes ago
DUBAI (Reuters)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410001/posts
"Russia launches war against 'spies'"
Jane's Intelligence Digest ^ | 2005 May 19
Posted on 05/25/2005 2:01:23 AM PDT by Wiz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409999/posts
"China expands its southern sphere of influence"
Jane's Intelligence Review ^ | 2005 May 23 | Matthew Wheeler
Posted on 05/25/2005 1:56:34 AM PDT by Wiz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409655/posts
"Daily Terrorist Round-Up 5/24/05 (285 Iraq Terrorists Captured in 1 Day; Pakistan & Spain Arrests)"
5/24/05
Posted on 05/24/2005 12:41:04 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004165.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22qal3ah%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05050110.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
CHRISTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS CLAIM THAT SAUDIS SHRED BIBLES, YET LITTLE IS HEARD ABOUT THIS DISRESPECT TO GOD'S HOLY WORD
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
SAUDI ARABIA (ANS) -- While emotions have been stirred in the Middle East over erroneous reports of the US military desecrating a copy of the Koran, little attention is paid to the disrespect given to copies of the Bible where the Word of God is not welcome.
Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com International Editor, in a May 19, 2005 story writes that Bibles found in the possession of visitors to Saudi Arabia are routinely confiscated by customs officials, and in some cases copies allegedly have been put through a paper shredder, according to religious rights campaigners.
Goodenough says: "Reports from the Islamic world of the abuse of Bibles and other items important to Christians emerge from time to time, but generally have little impact -- in contrast to the wave of Muslim anger sparked by a Newsweek report, since retracted, of Koran desecration by the U.S. military."
"The Muslims respect the Koran far more than Christians respect the Bible," says Danny Nalliah, a Sri Lankan-born evangelical pastor now based in Australia.
Goodenough says that during the 1990s, Nalliah spent two years in Saudi Arabia, where he was deeply involved with the underground church.
"It's a very well-known fact that if you have a Bible at customs when you enter the airport, and if they find the Bible, that the Bible is taken and put in the shredder," Nalliah said in an interview with Goodenough this week.
"If you have more than one Bible you will be taken into custody, and if you have a quantity of Bibles you will be given 70 lashes for sure -- you could even be executed," Nalliah said.
Nalliah had not himself seen a Bible being shredded, but said the practice was widely acknowledged among Christians in the kingdom.
Abuse of Christians and their symbols was not restricted to the destruction of Bibles, Nalliah added.
A friend of Nalliah's, a fellow Christian in Saudi Arabia, told Nalliah of witnessing a particularly unpleasant incident involving a Catholic nun.
Nalliah's friend had been in the transit lounge at the airport in Jeddah -- the gateway to Mecca, used by millions of Hajj pilgrims each year -- when a nun arrived at the customs desk.
"Some fool [travel agent] had put her on a transit flight in Jeddah. You don't do that to a Catholic nun, because she's going to be tormented," said Nalliah, adding: "They opened her bag, went through her prayer book, put the prayer book through the shredder...took the crucifix off her neck and smashed it, tormented her for many minutes."
Eventually another Muslim official objected to their conduct, came across and "rescued" her, pointing out to the customs officials that she was not entering the country but only in transit and would be leaving on the next plane, Goodenough quotes Nalliah as explaining.
Briefed beforehand about the risks, Nalliah said he did not carry a Bible when he arrived in the kingdom in 1995. Subsequently, however, he took possession of hundreds of Bibles that had been smuggled into Saudi Arabia to be used by believers there.
Nalliah said he had a close call one morning when armed members of the notorious Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice -- the religious police, or muttawa -- hammered at his front door at 1 a.m.
With 400 smuggled Bibles "sitting on the dining room table," Nalliah believed his life to be in serious danger. "That was a crime equal to rape, murder, armed robbery, and in Saudi Arabia you get the same punishment," he said -- the death penalty.
Nalliah said he had prayed earnestly and, in what he could only describe as a miracle, the men left without entering his home.
BIBLES CONSIDERED 'CONTRABAND'
Claims of Bible desecration in Saudi Arabia have been made by others, Goodenough says.
"One Christian recently reported that his personal Bible was put into a shredder once he entered customs," the late Nagi Kheir, spokesman for the American Coptic Association and a veteran campaigner for religious freedom in the Middle East, wrote in an article several years ago.
"Some Christians have reported that upon entering Saudi Arabia they have had their personal Bibles taken from them and placed into a paper shredder," the U.S.-based organization International Christian Concern said in a 2001 report.
Goodenough said that in its most recent report on religious freedom around the world, the State Department made no reference to Bible destruction, but said they were considered contraband.
"Customs officials routinely open mail and shipments to search for contraband, including...non-Muslim materials, such as Bibles and religious videotapes," the State Department report said. "Such materials are subject to confiscation, although rules appear to be applied arbitrarily."
Goodenough reports that in a 2003 report on Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent watchdog set up under the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act, said: "Customs officials regularly confiscate Bibles and other religious material when Christian foreign workers arrive at the airport from their home countries initially or return from a vacation."
Goodenough's inquiries about the legality of Bibles and about the shredder claims, sent to the Saudi Embassy in Washington and the Saudi Information Ministry in Riyadh, were not answered by the time Goodenough's article went to press.
THE KORAN VS. THE BIBLE
After Nalliah left Saudi Arabia in 1997, he went to the U.S. and took part in the lobbying effort on Capitol Hill in support of what eventually became the International Religious Freedom Act, signed into law the following year, Goodenough wrote.
According to Goodenough, Nalliah heads an evangelical ministry in Australia, where late last year he and a colleague became the first people to be found guilty under a controversial state religious hatred law, after Muslims accused them of vilifying Islam during a post-9/11 seminar for Christians.
Nalliah said this week it did not surprise him that Muslims have reacted strongly to the claims that U.S. interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay base, where terrorism suspects are held, had thrown a Koran into the toilet, Goodenough said.
He writes that while Bible scholars say the Bible is written by men who were inspired by God, Muslims believe the Koran is "the copy of an original that is sitting in heaven, and has been sent down [by revelation to Mohammed]."
The book is seen as something sacred in itself, Nalliah explained, its words having come "directly from Allah. That's why they are so mad when they think something [unseemly] is being done to the Koran."
For instance, a Muslim will never keep a Koran at ground level, Nalliah told Goodenough.
The Pentagon says a January 2003 memo issued to U.S. personnel at Guantanamo Bay instructed them to "ensure that the Koran is not placed in offensive areas such as the floor, near the toilet or sink, near the feet, or dirty/wet areas," Goodenough reports.
He writes that even in Western societies, Nalliah noted, copies of Bibles could often be found in witness boxes of courts, ready for use when witnesses are sworn in. But the Koran will generally be kept in safe storage elsewhere, covered in cloth, to be brought in when required by a Muslim witness.
Nalliah said such reverence for the Koran stood in stark contrast to some Muslims' feelings about the Bible, however.
Nalliah also said the Koran was "confusing" on this score. In places (e.g.: sura 29:46-47) it appeared to urge Muslims to respect the Bible and those who believe in it; elsewhere it exhorts them to fight those who don't accept Islam until they pay tribute and accept inferior status (sura 9:29-31).
According to author and Islam scholar Robert Spencer, "a devout Muslim might very well mistreat a Bible, because traditional Islamic theology regards it as a corrupted and unreliable version of the genuine revelations that were given to Moses, Jesus, and other Prophets."
Spencer noted that in sura 9:30 the Koran says those who believe Jesus is the Son of God are under Allah's curse, Goodenough writes.
Spencer adds: "Throughout history, most Muslim theologians have held that the New Testament has been tampered with since it teaches that Jesus is the Son of God."
Goodenough says that some of the more notorious reported incidents of Muslims abusing Christian symbols implicate Palestinian radicals, including the trashing of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002; and the desecration of Maronite churches in Damour, Lebanon in 1976.
He adds that in the Damour episode, Yasser Arafat's PLO killed more than 500 of the Christian town's inhabitants before turning it into a stronghold, and used the interior of the St. Elias church for a shooting range, according to published accounts.
**This article was based on a story written by Patrick Goodenough of CNSNews.com and has been edited for use on this news service. The original version appeared on www.CNSNews.com. Every effort has been made to maintain the factual accuracy of Goodenough's original piece.
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, CA. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in Sept., 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410022/posts
"8 injured as car smashes day care"
The Dallas Morning News ^ | 25 MAY 2005 | HOLLY YAN and JASON TRAHAN
Posted on 05/25/2005 3:23:39 AM PDT by rdb3
8 injured as car smashes day care
Bystanders rush to scene, lift vehicle off screaming children
12:25 AM CDT on Wednesday, May 25, 2005
By HOLLY YAN and JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
Richard Howell thought all the children were dead.
LOUIS DeLUCA / DMN
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Myeshia Parker comforts 2-year-old Ariah at the scene.
A car had careened into a huge plate-glass window under the rainbow-colored sign of the Dream House Learning Center, transforming a play area for 60 children into a chaotic mess of broken glass and overturned tables Tuesday afternoon.
The barbershop owner and his brother, Pierre Caldwell, rushed in to help.
One young girl, pinned under the car, screamed, "Please don't let me die! Please take the car off my leg!" Another girl under the car whimpered from her injuries.
The car's engine was still running, with hip-hop music blaring from the radio."
I wonder if he fell asleep at the wheel?
My pleasure, Oorang.
You're probably right about that.
Terrorist Organization Claims To Execute Skokie Businessman
The Al Qaeda front organization of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi claims on its Web site that it has executed 58-year-old Neenus Khoshaba
http://www.nbc5.com/news/4527740/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65172
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