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Terrorist/Spy Hiding Behind the Steering Wheel of a Freightliner
Family Security Matters ^ | 04/03/07 | Mark and Renee Taylor

Posted on 04/03/2007 6:46:25 PM PDT by captjanaway

Trucker Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban is what trucker/terrorist-wannabe, Mohammed Yousef Mullawala dreamed he could be. Mullawala is facing deportation on various charges, including suspicious activities surrounding his brief attendance at the Nationwide Tractor Trailer School in Rhode Island. Unlike Mullawala, Shaaban was the real deal – a terrorist spy hiding behind the steering wheel of a big truck.

The story of Shaaban is as captivating as it is unsettling. The Palestinian-born Russian-educated Shaaban settled in Greenfield, Indiana, with his family and worked as a truck driver for CLM Freight Lines in nearby Indianapolis. According to reports, his commercial driver’s license was issued under an alias – Shaaban Hafed. Also using the alias of “Joe Brown”, Shaaban portrayed himself to be a typical trucker – if, of course, your typical trucker has ties to Saddam Hussein’s intelligence network, Mukhabarrat, and travels to Iraq to negotiate contracts worth millions.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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1 posted on 04/03/2007 6:46:27 PM PDT by captjanaway
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To: captjanaway

ICE?


2 posted on 04/03/2007 6:47:49 PM PDT by GitmoSailor (Cold War Vet==Is it Bush's fault Yet??...Please help this Fourum Now!..Before its to late!!!...)
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To: captjanaway

He’ll get three weeks with the ankle thingy.


3 posted on 04/03/2007 6:50:17 PM PDT by Ieatfrijoles (Incinerate Riyadh Now.(Request shot splash))
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To: captjanaway
He would have been viewed as a poor illegal alien worthy of amnesty if he had come through the Mexican border posing as an illegal immigrant.
4 posted on 04/03/2007 6:57:06 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: captjanaway; All
Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, Who?

Anybody ever hear of this guy before in the MSM?

5 posted on 04/03/2007 7:21:22 PM PDT by Pontiac (Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
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To: Pontiac

Don’t you think his name would give them a clue as to his ambitions? Oh I forgot they were to busy checking the 85 year old grandma trucker! How silly is this? Lets not offend the Muslim now!


6 posted on 04/03/2007 7:26:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (ID RATHER BE HUNTING WITH DICK THAN DRIVING WITH TED)
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To: ronnie raygun
Lets not offend the Muslim now!

Yah, we know how nasty they can get when they are offended.

Just look at those flying Imams. They sued people.

And that Van Gogh guy who made that unflatering movie about Islam in Holland, he got killed buy an offended Muslim.

Let’s never offend another Muslim. Let’s not take the chance of offending another Muslim in this country.

Let’s deport every single foreign born Muslim. At least that way we will reduce the chances of offending any of the Muslims.

7 posted on 04/03/2007 9:13:58 PM PDT by Pontiac (Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
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To: captjanaway

My father who is almost 67 has a part time job as a CDL examiner after being a line driver most of his life, we had a long discussion about reporting foreigners to the FBI as they were attempting to get a CDL. Where I live (Alaska) the trucking industry is a well know sort of family, we hear that so an so flipped his rig or is working for somebody else on the slope. And foreigners would really stick out up here. But just after 9/11 I was carrying and keeping my eyes open for suspicious drivers especially hazardous loads. I hope the FBI is aware of how many of these Islamofascists are on the road, driving a garge truck, propane, or a schoolbus.

I am beginning to think internment camps like after Pearl Harbor may be a neccesity. Or we put monitoring bracelets on all Muslims, don’t they understand they are NOT welcome here!


8 posted on 04/03/2007 9:31:25 PM PDT by Eye of Unk
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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://indianapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel06/intelligence012506.htm

LOCAL MAN CONVICTED OF WORKING
WITH FORMER IRAQI INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

INDIANAPOLIS, IN-Susan W. Brooks, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today that Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, also known as Shaaban Hafed and Joe H. Brown, age 53, who formerly resided in Greenfield, Indiana, was convicted of six counts, including: Conspiracy, Acting as a Foreign Agent without Notification, one violation of the Iraqi Sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Unlawful Procurement of an Identification Document and Unlawful Procurement of Naturalization. The jury hung on one IEEPA count. The conviction follows a 2 ½ week trial that began on January 9, 2006 in the United States District Court before the Honorable John Daniel Tinder.

“We applaud the hard, fine work of the jury. This was a very complex case and the jury saw evidence and heard testimony from witnesses unlike evidence in any other trial that’s ever been held before in the Southern District of Indiana,” said United States Attorney Susan Brooks. “There were difficult legal concepts to grasp and we are so pleased with the outcome of this trial. We thank the jury for devoting their time to this case and their careful consideration of the evidence during deliberations.”

“It is our hope that this trial sends the message that even here in the Heartland of America, there are some individuals who have blended into our cities, small towns, and neighborhoods, who seek to harm the United States and threaten our national security. When the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies receive allegations that these types of individuals are in our midst it is their duty and responsibility to investigate the allegations. It is also incumbent upon the federal law enforcement community to use all tools available, including those provided in the USA PATRIOT ACT. Some of those tools were used in this case: the tearing down of the wall between intelligence personnel and criminal investigators and the use of delayed notice search warrants. National Security Letters were also used in this case. These tools were used by the FBI to protect our country. We are proud of the FBI’s efforts in this case. We also thank Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration for assisting the FBI and our office in this case,” said Brooks.

“The charges of Conspiring with and Acting with Foreign Agents and the Iraqi Sanctions violations involve serious violations of federal law. Our national security is constantly threatened by foreign intelligence services and their assets who wish to enhance their strategic position against the United States by using persons in the United States to their advantage,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Keith Lourdeau. “Had Shaaban been an actual Iraqi Intelligence Officer or in actual possession of intelligence information, he would have been charged with espionage in addition to the charges for which he has been convicted. The FBI will aggressively pursue those individuals who seek to provide sensitive information to hostile governments.”

Federal law requires individuals - other than diplomats, consular officers, and attaches - who agree to act as an agent of a foreign government to register with the Attorney General. Shaaban never registered as an agent of Iraq, yet in 2002 and 2003 when he lived in Indianapolis and Greenfield, Indiana Shaaban agreed to act as an agent for Iraq. As an unregistered agent for the Saddam Hussein regime, Shaaban committed the following acts:

* traveled to Baghdad in late 2002 where he offered to sell names of U.S. intelligence agents and operatives to Iraq for $3 million dollars.

* sought to gain Iraqi support to establish an Arabic television station in the United States that would broadcast news and discussions that would be pro-Iraqi.

* sought to enter into a “Cooperation Agreement” where he would be paid a fee by Iraq to organize volunteers to act as human shields to protect Iraqi infrastructure during the war.

* broadcasted messages of support for the Iraqi government on Iraqi media stations that advocated support for Iraq and encouraged others to forcibly resist the United States and others who opposed Iraq.

The travel to Iraq was also a part of the violation of the Foreign Agent Notification Act, as well as a violation of International Emergency Economic Powers Act [IEEPA] in effect at the time. In 1990 before Iraq invaded Kuwait, then President George H.W. Bush declared a national emergency with respect to Iraq and, under IEEPA and the Iraqi Sanctions Regulations, banned travel and any transactions with Iraq unless authorized by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control. These sanctions were continually in place until May 2003 when certain sanctions were lifted and it was not until July 2004, when the President declared that the national emergency with Iraq was over.

The two IEEPA convictions establish that in late fall 2002, Shaaban violated that criminal statute, when he, without authorization, traveled to Iraq and attempted to provide services to Iraq by selling names of U.S. intelligence operatives. While in Iraq, Shaaban met with members of the IIS, or Iraqi Intelligence Service. The IIS, known in Arabic as the Da’irat al-Mukhabbarat al-’Amma, or the Mukhabbarat, was the foreign intelligence arm of Iraq. The missions of the IIS included foreign intelligence collection (the gathering of information regarding the intentions of foreign governments), counterintelligence (the detecting of efforts by foreign governments to gather intelligence about the Iraq), and the collection of information regarding individuals and groups considered hostile to Iraq.

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9 posted on 04/04/2007 2:52:35 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Note: The above press release is dated January 25, 2006.


10 posted on 04/04/2007 2:55:15 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Thanks Cindy- I think there was more evil going on in the Indiana-Illinois area than people could imagine.


11 posted on 03/31/2009 11:30:17 PM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa

You’re welcome piasa and ditto.


12 posted on 03/31/2009 11:35:09 PM PDT by Cindy
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