Posted on 10/22/2009 1:02:40 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
At 8 a.m. Sunday the population of Kinsman, Ill., stood at 109. An hour later it nearly doubled, as upwards of 100 federal agents and police swooped in on the tiny, rural community. And no one seems to know why.
The law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, immigration officials and state police, surrounded an Islamic meat plant in Kinsman, cordoning off the area and briefly detaining the plant's handful of employees.
The FBI isn't saying much, and the county sheriff is mum too, leaving Kinsman's residents mystified. The bust, in a town that has no local police force, involved dozens of vehicles, a pair of snipers and a helicopter flying overhead, witnesses said — but it ended without even a single arrest.
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See Vince Flynn’s latest novel.
What do you mean? Was there a similar event in fiction?
hmm...bad tip?
Waiting for the other shoe...
illini ping
Halal if I know...:)
Colonel, USAFR
Let’s just say it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the headline.
To quote Clarence Oddbody - Now that Obama’s president,
“You’re going to see a lot of strange things around here from now on”
Sounds like somebody got outa town at 06:00.
Action ordered by Obie’s Justice Dept. I smell a lawsuit. ACORN needs money now that the govt. has cut them off.
ACORN scarcely needed a gimme lawsuit to get dough. Congress only cut them off for a single month. Yep they are back on the government teat at full flow in November.
Money laundering for terroist organization?
ML/NJ
Fox News reporting?
Didn’t Zero or someone say Fox News was only opinions and not news.
Well, I can’t believe this story then. /s
Islamic Slaughterhouse
missing persons investigation?
For more on the story - the plant is owned by Middle Easterners, one of the owners had his house in Chicago raided and other locations also were raided, and there are three nuclear plants nearby. As one comment said, “You don’t need 2 helicopters, 100 agents, Homeland Security, County police, and 30 squad cars for a couple undocumented workers.” The comments at links are eye openers.
http://www.newstin.com/rel/us/en-010-019287057
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/10/fbi-raid-chicago-mans-home-meat-packing-business.html
http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2009/10/19/98658403/index.xml
I was actually thinking of something along those lines. What better way to get rid of a body than in a meat grinder. And, why have the airborne snipers if you didn't think there was something dangerous inside - like a murderer. To my knowledge, ICE doesn't usually have air support when conducting these slaughterhouse immigration sweeps, like the several at Hormel plants last year.
From one of your links...
"“Basically, all the FBI can say is it’s a very sensitive criminal investigation that’s ongoing,"
As you point out, rounding up Mexicans for deportation is never described as "a very sensitive criminal investigation".
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