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5 Plead Innocent in Tenn. ID Case (Middle Easterners)
(AP) ^
| March 6, 2002, 10:38 PM EST
Posted on 03/06/2002 7:13:00 PM PST by Dallas
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Five Middle Eastern men pleaded innocent Wednesday to federal charges that they tried to illegally get Tennessee driver's licenses.
The defendants were arrested Feb. 5 along with Katherine Smith, 49, a Tennessee driver's license examiner who died five days later in a car fire authorities say was intentionally set.
A medical examiner's report on the cause of her death is pending, and authorities are still investigating.
Kahled Odtllah, 31, Sakher Hammad, 24, Mostafa Said Abou-Shahin, 25, Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Hammad, 31, and Mohammed Fares, 19, are charged with conspiring to illegally produce identification documents. They face up to five years in prison.
Defense lawyers have said the men traveled to Memphis from New York because they heard it was easy to get driver's licenses in Tennessee, where Social Security numbers are not required.
Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: tnlicensescandals
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posted on
03/06/2002 7:13:00 PM PST
by
Dallas
To: Dallas
I cannot type what i am thinking right now. I no longer consider any Arab innocent of a terror act here anymore.
To: RaceBannon
I know what you mean....
What bugs me, is everyone seems to be afraid to seriously address our immigration policies...
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posted on
03/06/2002 7:42:44 PM PST
by
Dallas
To: Dallas;*TN License Scandals
Bump to index
To: Fish out of Water
It is perfectly ALRIGHT to LIE to a infidel.
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posted on
03/06/2002 7:59:38 PM PST
by
GailA
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