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Missing Jordanian Air Marshal Found Aboard Amtrak Train
2002 WCJB-TV20 ^
| 3/25/2003
| The Associated Press
Posted on 03/25/2003 6:31:00 PM PST by Willie Green
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(Jacksonville-AP) -- A Jordanian air marshal, reported missing when he failed to show up for a Royal Jordanian Airways flight, was found yesterday on an Amtrak train in Jacksonville.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents conducting a routine drug sweep of the train spotted Ali Ahmad Al-Omari who had been sought since failing to show up Saturday for a Royal Jordanian Airways flight in Chicago.
Airline officials, fearing foul play, contacted Chicago authorities, who contacted the FBI.
Al-Omari told authorities he was traveling to Miami to visit friends.
Bill Hurlburt, a spokesman for the FBI, said Al-Omari hadn't requested asylum and wasn't in any terrorism case.
Hurlburt said Al-Omari was detained by the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection because he does not have immigration status to stay in the United States.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 200303; 20030324; airmarshal; airmarshall; aliahmad; aliahmadalomari; alomari; amtrak; homelandsecurity; jacksonville; passengertrain; railways; rja; train
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To: lewislynn
paranoia based upon actual occurances is being realistic. You fear the guy on the train, fine, your perogative. I fear the killers who break into people's homes to protect them from drugs, whether or not they have any.
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03/26/2003 8:51:28 AM PST
by
breakem
To: discostu
There's a brilliant joke in here somewhere. Only if we are in a nation of morons.
Wait.
OK. How about if we are in a nation where all the morons are obligated to become diplomats or bureaucrats?
To: Willie Green
"he was traveling to Miami to visit friends"
I'm sure he was. That's what we were afraid of.
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posted on
03/26/2003 9:30:03 AM PST
by
SarahW
To: Thinkin' Gal
But the reporter on FOX News just made a reference to gorilla tactics, go figure. No, that's just what they do to your checked luggage < /AMERICANTOURISTER >
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03/26/2003 9:30:27 AM PST
by
gridlock
(And how many Divisions has Belgium? Fewer than the Pope, I would reckon.)
To: Magic Fingers
Just a sec. I heard on the radio something about a Herion bust But I think it was at a bus not a train station.
Let me track down the story
To: OXENinFLA
http://wokv.com/news/local_1.html Bus Station Drug Bust
Narcotics detectives net a suitcase full of heroin during a bust at the Greyhound bus terminal on Pearl Street.
Arrested is Carlos Quiceno from Rhode Island. A detective approached the 49-year old and asked to search his suitcase. Quiceno agreed, and a K-9, Rosie, sniffed out five kilos of heroin.
Quiceno told police the "Smack" was headed from Orlando to New York City.
To: Willie Green
Bill Hurlburt, a spokesman for the FBI,
As in Hurlburt from the train.
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