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Posted on 08/10/2006 8:35:59 AM PDT by newgeezer
Dearbornistan terror arrests:
Flight docs and 600+ tracphones
Busted (hat tip: Paul):
Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.
Deputies stopped Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, 20, and Ali Houssaiky, 20, both of Dearborn, Mich., on a traffic violation Tuesday and found the flight documents along with $11,000 cash and 12 phones in their car, Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks said.
It wasn't clear what significance the airline information might have. Assistant County Prosecutor Susan Vessels declined to comment on whether the manifests were for upcoming flights or those that already flown. She also would not give the origin or destination of the flight or flights.
FBI spokesman Mike Brooks in Cincinnati said his office was notified about the arrests and had an agent investigating.
Abulhassan and Houssaiky admitted buying about 600 phones in recent months at stores in southeast Ohio, said sheriff's Maj. John Winstanley. They sold the phones to someone in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, Winstanley said.
Vessels declined to say how the phones, cash or flight information involved terrorism.
Investigators going through the car after the pair were pulled over in Marietta also found a map that showed locations of Wal-Mart stores from Ohio through Kentucky, Tennessee and into North and South Carolina, Vessels said.
Flashback: Wal-mart, cellphones, suspected terrorism. Ring a bell? It should. Remember this from January:
Federal agents have launched an investigation into a surge in the purchase of large quantities of disposable cell phones by individuals from the Middle East and Pakistan, ABC News has learned.
The phones -- which do not require purchasers to sign a contract or have a credit card -- have many legitimate uses, and are popular with people who have bad credit or for use as emergency phones tucked away in glove compartments or tackle boxes. But since they can be difficult or impossible to track, law enforcement officials say the phones are widely used by criminal gangs and terrorists.
...Law enforcement officials say the phones were used to detonate the bombs terrorists used in the Madrid train attacks in March 2004.
...The FBI is closely monitoring the potentially dangerous development, which came to light following recent large-quantity purchases in California and Texas, officials confirmed.
In one New Year's Eve transaction at a Target store in Hemet, Calif., 150 disposable tracfones were purchased. Suspicious store employees notified police, who called in the FBI, law enforcement sources said.
In an earlier incident, at a Wal-mart store in Midland, Texas, on December 18, six individuals attempted to buy about 60 of the phones until store clerks became suspicious and notified the police. A Wal-mart spokesperson confirmed the incident.
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I hear hockey is big with the folks up in Michigan!
"I know many will slam me for this"
I won't. I have felt this way ever since 9-11 opened my eyes. That would have been the perfect time to close the borders and deny visas to citizens of suspect nations. I live very close to Dearborn, MI. and am trying to get prepared for anything that may happen in the Detroit area. IMO, it's time to go door to door in Dearborn and round-up all of the illegals and visa over stayers.
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I just read that they were selling the phones to an "individual" who wanted the chips inside. The "individual " payed them $5 more than the cost of the phone for all phones bought. Unbelievable!
I wonder what the confluence of recent events (UK Airline plot, 11 Eqyptians in US, this event) is really leading to? I'm sure there are many other cells making movements. I pray to God we get them all. And what about Hezbos'-Iran-Syria involvment? Is a MOAB in their future?
...and stupid 'RATs in Connecticut just voted in peacenik moonbat Ned Lamont in Tuesday's primary...
T-12 days?
And hunting and gun collecting, too.
No "slamming" from me, either, Mike...
Yes, just call me Shadow Osama Dancer.
You'll get no "slam" from me.
But I would venture to guess that in the time it took you to type that post the state dept. issued a couple of hundred visas to "students" and the like from Saudia Arabia, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria...
Good point(s)."Bigotry"?I've often wondered why the so-called "peacefull muslims" don't turn these terrorists in.They(terrs)don't function in a vaccum.They need support once they get here.That necessitates infrastructure and support by muslims currently in the US.The cold hard fact is that muslims who know or suspect these people of being terrorists simply do nothing.The word fellow traveler comes to mind.Kick the bums out.Islam and Christianity don't mix.
As I'm watching the coverage of the British raid and hearing all these explanations...the one that pops up is that the young Muslims are being indoctrinated in these Mosques. IT'S TIME TO SHUT THESE MOSQUES DOWN. I don't care what the polical ramificaions are. If we are serious about protecting Americans, this must be done...I don't care what the ACLU says, WE MUST HAVE BALLS or we will have nothing.
Right you are.
Now, I want to know who told the NYT. Said person or persons should be charged and convicted of treason, and hanged by the neck until dead.
No slam from me. I saw this and more first-hand in Iraq. The mosques are their safehouses. Pave them all.
I agree. Round them up, ship them back to the sh!t hole that they originated from..... At the very least, profile every single one of them!
"Watching" several million enemy aliens is completely impractical, and would impose tremendous burdens on the rest of us.
They don't need to be watched. They need to leave.
Yes, and that is the most important first step. No more student entries, no more tourist entries, no more flights to or from Muslim countries to the US. Sorry, Americans will have to fight elsewhere to do business and travel. And the space no more Muzzie students in our universities will free up space for American students.
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