INS, FBI investigate trespassing at Timken (Canton, Ohio)[two middle eastern men crash gate]

The Repository (Canton, Ohio) ^ | April 10, 2002 | LORI MONSEWICZ Repository staff writer

[ResistorSister]

The longer they talked to the deputies, the more their explanations changed.

“In further interviewing the suspects, they had conflicting stories as to what their objective was and for whom they actually worked,” Swanson said.

Yet, they let them go. Great!

F.Y.I.:
The Timken Company
Men arrested in Detroit once lived normal lives in Canton
Associate of two terror suspects sought info on Canton's water system

There is already a "terrorist connection" in the area...wouldn't you think the authorities would be more concerned?

[AmericanVictory]

Clearly they were intent on blowing up the NFL Hall of Fame and covering themslves in exploded pigskins.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Front bumper tests????

[ResistorSister]

Don't joke about football...it is scared in, Canton. ;-)

[ResistorSister]

How do you crash your truck through gates for legitimate reasons?

I am wondering the same thing.

[ResistorSister]

Front bumper tests????

Checking security test?

[ResistorSister]

scared=sacred

[WolfsView]

You got that right sister, GO BROWNS!!!!

[Robert_Paulson2]

roflmao...

how bout this: Arab terrorist inflitrators test?

[Lion's Cub]

Don't recognize the second name, but I think we've come across Faiq Arshad Farooqi before. I don't have time to check all my files now, but if I find it later, I'll ping you.

[FreedomPoster]

The pair’s equipment included a laptop computer and a map,

Let's hope someone is smart enough to get an image of the hard drive, before these guys are let go. And then go through it with a fine tooth comb.

Better yet, don't let them go. If they aren't citizens, they have proved themselves too stupid / too sneaky / unworthy of staying in our country. Jail them an appropriate time for trespassing, investigate them for wrongdoing, jail them longer if any is found, then deport.

[ResistorSister]

They have already been let go.

I bet they did not get an image of the hard drive.

[FreedomPoster]

They have already been let go.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are such idiots, bent on assisting in our own destruction. And no, the primal scream didn't make me feel any better. What the He!! are Ridge and Ashcroft doing, if guys like this don't get a hard look before being released?

[FreedomPoster]

Want to bet that they show up for the court date? I bet they don't, and I'll give you 5-1 odds.

[TomGuy]

Faiq Arshad Farooqi

Long lost cousin to Amjad Hussain Farooqi?

Just another "innocent" incident involving Middle East/Islamic--but we don't want to profile or create suspicion. (end sarcasm)

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old news article:

Pearl case: no clue to Farooqi

TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 22: The district police and investigating agencies have failed to find any clue to Amjad Hussain Farooqi involved in kidnapping of Daniel Pearl.

Farooqi has three nick names - Imtiaz Farooqi, Haider and Mansoor Hussain.

Police had arrested his two brothers Muhammad Javed, Muhammad Amer and two relatives Muhammad Mohsin and Muhammad Ilyas a week ago to find the whereabouts of Farooqi. They were kept at some unknown place while police raided different places on their reports across the country without any success.

A source disclosed that Farooqi had no contacts with his parents or relatives and nobody knew about his whereabouts.

When this correspondent visited Farooqi's Chak 687/27-GB, Gujjran Wali, a couple of days ago no one from his family or relatives was present in the village. His father and younger brother had gone with a 'tableeghi jamaat' on a 40 days 'chilla'.

Villagers said they had heard some eight months ago that Farooqi had been killed in Afghanistan in a war against the Northern Alliance. But six months ago, he suddenly appeared in the village for a day and had resolved a dispute between two football teams. They also informed this correspondent that the house of Farooqi was built some 40 years ago when his grandfather had sent money from abroad. The house developed cracks due to flood water some 15 years ago and since then the family could not get it repaired.

His brother Muhammad Amer, now in police custody, has done MSc and is running a private middle school in the village. His family has only 17 acres of land in a bordering village of the district near river Ravi.

Farooqi was married three years ago and has a two-and-a-half-year-old baby. His in-laws live in Chak 478-GB, Samundri, Faisalabad district. Police had arrested 10 other villagers who were released after the preliminary probe.

Villagers did not believe when this correspondent told them that Farooqi had allegedly played the role of go-between in Pearl's kidnapping.

Farooqi had never introduced himself as worker of any religious organization, but he had gone for jihad in Kashmir and Afghanistan, they added.

[ResistorSister]

Thanks for the primal scream...my coffee was not waking me up.

anyway...They won't voluntarily show up for court. Hopefully...someone is following them.

[ResistorSister]

Faiq Arshad Farooqi IS from Pakistan...but don't worry...he is on our side. :-O

[FreedomPoster]

Oh, and BTW - I know what Ashcroft has been doing, in answer to my rhetorical question above. He was on Letterman last night.