The men arrived in New York on July 29, and almost immediately disappeared. The FBI issued the nation-wide alert on the 5th of August.
Also note this post by Fitzcarraldo on the 8/8 ME Live Thread
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/9639284/detail.html
Foreigner Found With Prepaids, Cash In Murrysville Is Held By Feds
POSTED: 11:05 am EDT August 7, 2006
UPDATED: 2:39 pm EDT August 7, 2006
GREENSBURG, Pa. -- A man from the Republic of Georgia is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison after he and another man from that country were found with 15 prepaid cell phones and $4,200 in cash, police said.
The Tribune-Review reported that Malkhaz Zakutashvili, 53, was held through the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Murrysville police said the federal agency told police not to hold the second man, Zurabi Maisuradze, 25.
Police said the men were questioned just before 8 p.m. Saturday because their van, which did not have a permanent registration plate, was stopped in a lane of traffic in the Franklin Plaza parking lot.
The men said they were immigrants, but each displayed Michigan driver's licenses, police said.
Zakutashvili told police he was in the country illegally, Tappe said. Maisuradze claimed to have a visa, but he said he had forgotten to bring it with him.
The prepaid cell phones, which the men had recently purchased in Monroeville and Murrysville, were found inside the van. Also in the van were a laptop computer and global-positioning software.
A bomb-sniffing dog found nothing suspicious in the van, which had no seats or wall paneling inside, police said.
The men said they were on the way to Philadelphia and had visited a local drug store to buy batteries, police said.
More info by posted by me -
"It was a 2006 van, but it was all gutted out," Tappe said.
The dog found nothing, Tappe said.
snip
Tappe said the federal agent who investigated, Richard Nicoloff, did not ask Murrysville police to confiscate any of the items from the van.
"They didn't want the laptops or the cell phones," Tappe said. "That surprised me ... Just with the activities, and what they were doing, I'm surprised they let Zurabi go without questioning him."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/s_465047.html
"Shoot On Sight"?
Why are we admitting ANYBODY with a visa from a muslime country. We should be rounding them all up and deporting them, not issuing them visas.
Clearly they are all Coptic Christians who just got lost while hitching a ride to the Billy Graham Crusade.
Might want to pick these guys up before August 22.
Could this be what these Egyptians are up to?
I suspect a pyramid scheme
What I want to know is how does the Egyptian government feel about this?
They all went down to Georgia to vote for Cynthia McKinney...
(hey, it's topical)
All suspects born during the years of Reagan and Bush I
How about releasing their PHOTOS!!! Their names can change 100 times within a few days.
Due to the sick liberal obsession with diversity and multiculturalism the USA will continued to be flooded with people who want to kill us. Liberals are more worried about not offending the enemy than they are about the next 911.
I love the warning from the FBI, "Approach Missing Egyptians with Caution" Yet they won't show us what they look like. I'm flying next month and for crying out loud I want to know if one of the guys is getting on the same plane. I sure can't rely on the Homeland Security people to do it for me.
Check all Chuckie Cheeses. Look for the birthday group firing shots in the air.
Rush said today in announcing the missing 11 mussies, that it was too bad there weren't carrying Viagra or the Customs people who have tracked them for sure!
Right On........your government at work.
They will NOT be 11 of them together....maybe 2 or 3 together but certainly not 11....much harder to catch.
..but if you see a group of 20 year olds walking around like the above, notify your local FBI office
Doogle