ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) -- Three stowaways who boarded a freighter in Panama were caught as they ran from a ship docked at Port Elizabeth. A fourth fourth drowned after jumping into the water to try to elude authorities.
The men, whose identities were not released, got off the freighter Hanjin Wilmington Wednesday afternoon, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the seaport...
Authorities Nab 11-Thousand Fugitives In 24 States (11/2/06)
11,000 !!!!!
(CBS / AP) PHILADELPHIA Nearly 11,000 fugitives, including sex offenders, gang members and others wanted on a variety of charges from kidnapping to weapons offenses, were swept up last week in a 24-state operation, the Justice Department announced Thursday...
"Throughout the United States more than 10,000 fugitives are off the street. Many of these fugitives were sexual predators and unregistered sex offenders making this the largest round up of its kind in American history," said Asst. U.S. Attorney Linda Hoffa....
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"Panama's Security Chief: al-Qaida Is Here"
News Max ^ | March 20, 2005 | Staff
Posted on 03/20/2005 4:28:29 PM PST by yoe
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Al Qaeda Terrorist Spent Time In Honduras
La Tribuna, Tegucigalpa ^ | June 30, 2004
Posted on 06/30/2004 1:01:47 PM PDT by Shermy
Warning: touched up Babelfish translation from the Spanish
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-He planned attacks against the Panama Canal: State Security
One of the terrorists tied to the Al Qaeda network much sought by United States authorities was in the national territory for several days after planning attacks on the Panama Canal, Minister of Security Oscar Alvarez revealed yesterday.
The civil servant elaborated his statements, when referring that the possible presence of international terrorists is investigated, brought into the country by Mafias that deal with undocumented people.
"We can verify the presence of Middle East terrorists in our country", asserted Alvarez, then criticized that "many people do not believe or do not want to believe in their eagerness to keep Honduras like an island, isolated fropm the global world".
For this case, he detailed that one of the most ruthless terrorists of Al Qaida, identified as Adnan Guishair ale Shukri Jumah (38), who is also called Yafar Al Tayar, was seen in a "coffee net" of the capital, commanding/posting messages to its partisans.
"He is a man of Egyptian origin, that soon detected in Panama and here in Honduras in a coffee net to him", the minister pointed out, to indicate that Policia Internacional (INTERPOL) and the government of the United States corroborated their identity.
"According to teh groups of Intelligence, this one tried to put explosive devices in the Panama Canal to affect the traffic of boats in the zone", aimed.
Oscar Alvarez does not know the true objective of Adnan Guishair
Al Shukri Jumah in the country, but indicated that "Honduras has one of the most important ports of the Central American region and, therefore, we are alert so that the zones are not affected that improve the national economy".
"It is assumed that his high Al Qaida criminal was in Panama, trying to organize a criminal act and, later, he passed by our country, but already totally he was identified", assured.
RECRUITMENT "they are arriving in the country legally or illegaly, through the borders, mainly of Nicaragua, soon they infiltrate into the country to move like common and ordinary people in the sense that one can go away to the coffee net to communicate with other terrorists", he added.
He lamented that there have been recruiting young in the country, to place explosive devices in a place of Central America or the United States. "it is not that it is a forceful fact, but the information has been spilled by reliable informants, therefore we are working arduously in the investigations", indicated.
"these are not inventions of the minister of Security, I want the people to realize the possibility exists that our country is being used like platform of the international terrorists".
He indicated that by the head of the terrorist, authorities of international Intelligence offer the amount of five (5) million dollars.
"the international Middle East terrorists want to infiltrate terrorists into the United States and Central American region, or to attempt against the allies or such American", she said.
In this sense, the civil servant indicated that every day they make operative special of criminal intelligence to give with the whereabouts of that type of people.
"we do not want to bring anxiety to the Honduran people, but one does not discard that they are trying to commit terrorist acts in the country, in vista to the lent aid (?) to the nation of the United States", deduced.
Oscar Alvarez noted that the creation of an antiterrorist law is urgent that allows that the special and operating groups of justice, execute forceful actions against those delinquents.
"we are giving pursuit him to foreigners who are in the country in functions that we could see them like attempts form support battalions to sectors that would be interested in terrorist acts", he concluded.
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Thanks for the post and link to this article, all4one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730468/posts?page=67#67
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1 Dead, 3 Caught in N.J. Port Chase (NJ - 11/2/06)
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) -- Three stowaways who boarded a freighter in Panama were caught as they ran from a ship docked at Port Elizabeth. A fourth fourth drowned after jumping into the water to try to elude authorities.
The men, whose identities were not released, got off the freighter Hanjin Wilmington Wednesday afternoon, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the seaport...
Link to Full Article
Thank you, all4one. Much appreciated.