Authorities Arrest (Egyptian) Men With NYC Maps, Video

ABC News ^ | 7/26/2005 | Richard Esposito

[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.

[M. Espinola]

"Isn't that kind of close to W, DC? :-("

Yup, right across the river.

[Pride in the USA]

Nothing much can be added to all the excellent comments about this latest threat to our security. Very, very scary. How many more incidents, or as in this case, near incidents have to happen before the libs and the Democrat wackos unite with us to really win the war against terror? How can they blame all the terrorist attacks committed worldwide by Muslim extremists in the last 45 years on President Bush, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, oil or our support for Israel?

[grey_whiskers]

No, they should be booked on conspiracy charges and interrogated for the next nine months while wearing Oprah Winfrey's panties on their heads.

Now THAT'd be cruel and unusual punishment.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

A 19 year old civil/chemical engineer? That's pretty young.

Probably a student intern. . .
"studying the biomechanical and sociological effects of random thermal-induced oxidative shock fronts"

"...on infidels"

No cheers, unfortunately.

[grey_whiskers]

I guess I would side with caution though. Not that big of a deal though to have $8000.00 among FOUR people.

But in CASH? In New York City?

Nobody is that naive...

[Selene]

The Ahmed addition to the name is a give away.

[Cougar66]

Way to go JTTF. Nice one.

[Selene]

>The chances of that happening were made even greater through Bloomberg's no-profiling policy.

Bloomber's an idiot

[Cougar66]

Someone seemed to think that these guys were dirty and they were. That tip paid off.

[Cougar66]

then one day when abdullah met mohammed, and they knew it was much more than a hunch, that this group could somehow form a terror cell, the newark bunch. thats the way

[Cougar66]

you're right. I posted a link the other night about that. Dont ask policy for street vendors. If they arent terrorists they would have been selling dirty water hotdogs and rat-kabobs on NYC streets.

[doug from upland]

Good work by citizens to pay attention.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Clearly deportation for something like this, is too light.

[HiTech RedNeck]

We don't know what Egypt may have (wink wink) promised.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"We don't know what Egypt may have (wink wink) promised."

Very true. It might even be interesting to try that 'fake flag' routine, complete with false news reports....

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Matter of fact, Egypt isn't very happy with terrorists right now. It's reported that they even prayed for London all over Egypt.

[csvset]

These may be the same 5 guys that escaped from Brooklyn

I thought the same thing. Hmm... No telling how many Islamic " TerroRats " are scurrying around subway tunnels.

[bboop]

What does Ahmed mean, then?

[sheik yerbouty]

Deport them to "Allah".

[sheik yerbouty]

A generic term for a jihadist..