Posted on 09/07/2006 4:35:46 PM PDT by bannie
Two Bakersfield men are among a trio indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for selling secret defense information and equipment to Yemen, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott said.
Amen Ahmed Ali, 56, of Bakersfield is in custody. He will appear at a hearing at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Bakersfield. Ali is accused of receiving secret defense documents from an undercover government agent and sending them via fax and courier to Yemen, according to a release from Scott. Ali did this between June 25, 2005 and Aug. 31, 2006.
A second Bakersfield man, Mohamed Al-Rahimi, 62, of Bakersfield, remains at large. Al-Rahimi is accused of conspiring with Ali. Ali allegedly received what he believed to be stolen US military equipment and then tried to ship it to Yemen. Al-Rahimi is accused of traveling to Yemen to broker the sale of the equipment.
A third man, Ibrahim A. Omer, 40, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, was taken in custody in Bossier City, La. and will appear in court tomorrow in Shreveport, La. He is accused of conspiring with Ali to ship military equipment, including body armor and chemical protective suits, to Yemen
McGregor Scott, U.S Attorney General, Eastern District of California addresses the media the sheriff headquarters concerning a homeland security arrest in Bakersfield. From left is Scott Brown, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Drew Parenti, FBI, Carl Faller, Assitant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of California and Scott
I guess they are 'local men', in a strictly literal sense.
Amen Ahmed Ali, Mohamed Al-Rahimi, bill clinton, what's the difference? Traitors all!
They seem to have left their hearts in somewhere other than Bakersfield.
They must be Buck Owens' second cousins on his mother's side.
More Muslims of the slime variety being themselves I see.
They were just having a clear the Mosque backroom sale...
No one ever left their heart in Bakersfield.
But your point is well taken - California is full of people who think the place they left is so much better than their adopted state. They tell me so all the time.
My grand kids live here.
;-)
Dang! Just by the names you can tell it's more of those radical Amish folks!
Bakersfield and Ft Worth, both defense industry hotbeds.
ping
Yep, them there's some real good ole boys, yessiree Bob!
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