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Drug-raid jumper was suspected terrorist (Canada)
Vancouver Sun ^ | August 14, 2003

Posted on 08/14/2003 8:03:50 PM PDT by Shermy

Pieces of identification with different names were found in a West End apartment after a man with possible terrorist links plunged to his death Saturday when he tried to jump from his balcony to escape a drug raid.

Vancouver police spokeswoman Constable Sarah Bloor said the man, who was the sole resident in the seventh-floor Burnaby Street apartment, had a number of IDs with different names.

Neither Vancouver police nor the RCMP would confirm the man's identity, but based on a B.C. driver's licence, Vancouver coroner Nic Snyckers identified him Wednesday as Mohammad Saleh Aramesh, with a birth date of July 21, 1972, making him 31. Vancouver police say the victim was 21.

Mohammad Aramesh is listed in an online phone directory as the occupant of the apartment at 1650 Burnaby Street.

Aramesh was also identified by his friend Rob Arbab Wednesday as the man who died when he fell seven storeys while trying to jump from his balcony to another balcony to escape police who entered his apartment.

Arbab said he last saw Aramesh a week ago Wednesday when his friend stopped by for a hot dog in East Vancouver to say goodbye.

"He had an airplane ticket leaving for Pakistan. He was supposed to go [today]," Arbab said. "He was excited about going to see his newborn son for the first time. He said he was going to bring his family here, his wife, his daughter, his mother and father."

Arbab said he has heard media reports that allege Aramesh was linked to selling drugs to funnel money to al-Qaida.

"That would surprise me. In the last seven to eight months, he's changed. Everybody has their own secrets, but I can't see him with terrorism. Selling drugs, I don't know," Arbab said.

Aramesh has lived in the Vancouver area on and off for the last decade, according to Arbab. Two years ago, Aramesh left Canada to stay with friends in Norway for a year. When Aramesh returned to the Lower Mainland in 2002, Arbab said he noticed a change in his friend.

"I can't say exactly how he's different. But he was different when he came back," Arbab said.

RCMP Corporal Pierre Lemaitre said he could not discuss if there is a connection between the dead man and two Pakistani men being held on possible immigration violations in Seattle after their names came up on a "no-fly" list when they tried to buy one-way tickets. One of the men, the Seattle Times reported Wednesday, had a B.C. driver's licence and was planning to fly to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.

Any speculation at this time is premature, Lemaitre said.

"We're trying to determine right now and confirm if this person was linked to a group or groups," he said Wednesday. "We don't know."

Lemaitre said the lead investigators in the case are members of INSET, the Integrated National Security Team, an RCMP and municipal police unit formed after the U.S. terror attacks, with a mandate to investigate national security issues.

"They focus on the criminal activity of individuals or groups linked to terrorism," Lemaitre said. "This file belongs to INSET and by their true nature of doing national security investigations, they don't discuss ongoing investigations."

The search warrant issued to look for drugs at Aramesh's apartment has been sealed by the courts.

Because the man died while in police custody, a coroner's inquiry is being conducted in conjunction with a Vancouver police investigation.


TOPICS: Canada; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedacanada; aramesh; drugraid; norway; seattle; terrorism; vancouver; wodlist

1 posted on 08/14/2003 8:03:51 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: quidnunc; Alberta's Child; swarthyguy; marron; Grampa Dave; aristeides; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Ping.
2 posted on 08/14/2003 8:05:23 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Thanks Shermy
3 posted on 08/14/2003 8:06:24 PM PDT by cmsgop (If you Spinkle When You Tinkle,...Be a Sweetie and Wipe the Seatie......)
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To: Shermy
Mohammad was a jumper. Darned shame, that.
4 posted on 08/14/2003 8:17:15 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Leave Pat, Leave!")
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To: Shermy
Thanks for the heads up!
5 posted on 08/14/2003 8:32:57 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Shermy
[Pieces of identification with different names were found in a West End apartment after a man with possible terrorist links plunged to his death Saturday when he tried to jump from his balcony to escape a drug raid. ]

Good. That will save me the trouble of killing him if I were to bump into him on US territory.

6 posted on 08/14/2003 8:43:47 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Shermy
When charitable forms of fundraising fail, the thinking terrorist turns to drugs.
7 posted on 08/14/2003 8:47:41 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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To: Alamo-Girl
Thanks for the heads up!

Or down.

I almost said "thanks Canada" before it became clear from the article that anti-islamo-terrorism was not an objective of their operation. Had he lived, they probably would have given him a passport and dropped him off at the US border.

8 posted on 08/14/2003 8:53:32 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Shermy
Good thing the SOB couldn't fly!
And Corporal Pierre Lemaitre of the mounties! You must be kidding!
9 posted on 08/14/2003 9:32:27 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Shermy
This appeared on the Seattle news this evening. He attempted to climb to the balcony of another apartment and slipped.
10 posted on 08/14/2003 9:33:31 PM PDT by CWOJackson (The World According to Garp isn't that bad when compared with The World According to Todd.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Definitely!
11 posted on 08/14/2003 9:33:48 PM PDT by Righty1
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To: Shermy
What of the dudes who were grabbed at SEatle Wed night-both bought tickets one way cash to JFK & were visiting at the airport. Very Arab. Foreign pasports. Glen Beck reported.

Just another isolated incident.
12 posted on 08/14/2003 9:40:13 PM PDT by GatekeeperBookman ("impossible and radically idealist notions" * please inquire for clarification.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Sadly, you have a good point. Thanks for the reply!
13 posted on 08/14/2003 9:49:47 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Shermy
Does he still get his raisins? Errr, virgins???
14 posted on 08/14/2003 11:05:14 PM PDT by Tamzee (I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight...... Rita Rudner)
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To: Shermy
A realted story and commentary:

www.colbycosh.com/#mufo

15 posted on 08/15/2003 12:17:19 AM PDT by TheMole
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To: okie01; *Wod_list; jmc813
When charitable forms of fundraising fail, the thinking terrorist turns to drugs.

Defund terrorism---relegalize drugs!

16 posted on 08/15/2003 6:39:49 AM PDT by MrLeRoy (The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
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WOD Ping
17 posted on 08/15/2003 7:32:48 AM PDT by jmc813 (Check out the FR Big Brother 4 thread! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/943368/posts)
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I wonder if he knew Paracha?
18 posted on 08/15/2003 9:39:45 AM PDT by Betty Jo
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