Posted on 07/26/2005 11:25:23 AM PDT by Pyro7480
July 26, 2005 — Five Egyptian men with maps of the New York City subway system and video of New York landmarks have been arrested by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Newark, N.J., ABC News has learned.
FBI and law enforcement officials told ABC News the five men — four illegal immigrants and one law enforcement fugitive — were arrested Sunday night following a tip to the Newark Police Department. In addition to the subway maps and video, the men had train schedules and $8,000 in $20 and $50 bills.
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Just heard on WABC that locations were circled on the maps. In this day and age, we have to err on the side of caution.
Ping, cal..
These damn terrorists are giving Chemical Engineering a bad name.
Could be nothing but usually after a while in a place you don't need to circle stations on a map anymore.
Combine with this....
A Sudanese citizen has also been charged in the case. Khalid Fadlalla works at the organization's New York office.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1450945/posts
Hmm.
No one appreciates good humor anymore.
they should be sent to Gitmo, but DOJ doesn't have the political courage to do it.
ping
It is probably best to deport them at this time. The Egyptian Government is livid with the bombing at Sharm El Sheik, and is looking to question suspicous persons. Their Government probably has domestic files on them anyway. I don't think they will exactly be given "leighs" upon their arrival in Egypt.
They're only here to blow up the things Americans won't.
Check with the local Iman.
Fruit vendor ping...
Good! We need to raid and then interiorly monitor every single one of them.
Thanks for the heads up...seems like there's an awful lot going on under the radar...
But you were visiting Cape Cod at the time. :-)
From your comments, it's pretty clear why you are Lonesome in Massachussets.
Thanks for the Ping!
ROTFLMAO.
They're big tippers??? ;-)
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 26, 2005; Page B05
FBI and Homeland Security agents raided the Northern Virginia office of a Saudi-based charity that has been under scrutiny for possible terrorist ties and detained one of its employees on immigration charges, officials said yesterday.
The Muslim World League office in Falls Church had also been searched in 2002 in a dramatic series of raids of Muslim organizations in Northern Virginia. The charity has not been charged.
Abdullah Alnoshan, 44, a Saudi citizen who worked at the charity, was arrested at 6 a.m. Friday at his house in Alexandria, according to officials of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland Security.
Agents working through a joint terrorism task force searched his home and then his office at 360 S. Washington St. in Falls Church, officials said. They removed computers, photographs and immigration documents, said Allan Doody, special agent in charge of the ICE office.
Alnoshan was charged with immigration fraud. According to an affidavit in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Alnoshan had been sponsored by the Muslim World League for a work visa to do public relations and religious work. Instead, he served as director of the charity, the document said.
Also charged in the case was Khalid Fadlalla, a Sudanese citizen who works at the Muslim World League office in New York. Fadlalla, who also was arrested Friday, had signed the forms petitioning for a work visa for his Saudi colleague, according to court documents and officials.
Ashraf Nubani, an attorney involved in the case, said Alnoshan plans to plead not guilty.
In recent years, U.S. officials have filed immigration charges against hundreds of people whose names have emerged in the course of terrorism investigations.
U.S. agencies have been investigating the Muslim World League for years because of suspicions that it knowingly or unknowingly provided funds to Osama bin Laden. A senior Treasury Department official, Stuart Levey, told a Senate hearing on terror financing this month that the Muslim World League and a few other Saudi charities "continue to cause us concern."
The Muslim World League has strongly denied providing any support to terrorism.
Staff writer Jerry Markon contributed to this report.
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