Posted on 02/12/2002 9:06:27 PM PST by Shermy
NBC News has learned that the FBI has arrested two men of Middle Eastern background who were driving Monday night outside the Pentagon in a tow truck. The FBI is investigating the men to see if they have any terrorist connections.
LUCY CALDWELL, a spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police, told NBC News that state troopers pulled the men over Monday at 10:05 p.m. as they were driving on Route 110 by the Pentagon. Commercial vehicles, including tow trucks, have been prohibited from using that road since November, Caldwell said. She added that the men ignored a trooper who was trying to signal them to pull over their truck. A second trooper down the highway was able to get them to stop. He searched the truck and found numerous false identification cards, Caldwell said, including a half dozen drivers licenses from several states with different identities on them. Once the trooper saw the fake IDs, he called in the FBI.
Virginia state police have charged the men, whose names were not released, with traffic violations and possession of false identification. The FBI interviewed them at length Tuesday and, federal law enforcement sources say, still are trying to establish who they are. The sources say they expect the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to file federal charges Wednesday against the men in the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va.
The men were not armed. Bomb-sniffing dogs searched the truck, but found no explosives or explosive residue, Caldwell said.
The arrest took place just two hours after the FBI announced its latest terrorist warning Monday night. The FBI warned the public that an attack might be planned for as early as Tuesday and told the American public to be on the lookout for a Yemeni man and 16 alleged associates.
Attorney General John Ashcroft on Tuesday urged the nation to be on the highest state of alert.
[more on other suspects from other places at link]
I think you should post your find as a new thread. It has enough new details to deserve such.
Truck halted on way to Pentagon
By Richard Sisk
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
WASHINGTON - Two Middle Eastern men carrying fake IDs drove their tow truck past signs barring trucks and headed for the Pentagon until police officers stopped them, the FBI said Wednesday.
FBI agents and Virginia state troopers found no weapons or explosives in the vehicle. They said the passenger flipped a bogus Virginia driver's license out the window as they approached.
The driver also "became visibly upset" when agents found a second phony driver's license hidden in his wallet, FBI agent James Green said in court papers.
In a brief court appearance Wednesday, the driver was tentatively identified as Imad Abdel-Fatah Hamed, aka Imad Nimer. Various IDs he carried listed him as 28 years old.
The passenger carried IDs naming him as Sultan Rasheed Zaabi and Abdulla Rasheed Zaabi. His age was either 23 or 24. He also carried a United Arab Emirates passport with three separate U.S. visas, and was held on immigration charges.
I believe that illegals from the Middle East are an immediate threat and must be found and deported but a draconian roundup of all illegals would not be possible or as productive as concentrating on the followers of Islame.
Let me know when Mexicans start diving planes into skyscrapers and I will join your jihad against them. But until that happens they are on the back burner until the principal issue is dealt with.
French-speaking terrorists jump over the border from Canada. In fact, the WTC bombers came in from quebec and started out in Maine, of all places.
At present it will take a herculean effort just to round up the hundreds of thousands if not millions of Islamics much less believing that we could include the Mexicans too.
Now there is a case for a National ID. Silly me, all this time I have been against a National ID. It would be much more difficult to forge 1 than 6, I guess.
Hysteria is not an mode to be operating in at present. South Carolina has nothing on Chicago when it comes to Mexicans legal or otherwise and they represent no mortal danger in either place. Expensive and sometimes a nuisance but not hoping and working for a chance to destroy everything positive about our civilization. While we shouldn't fall asleep at the wheel neither should we be careening all over the road.
Feb 15, 2002
Truck Driver Released on Bond
ALEXANDRIA - The driver of a tow truck that was stopped when it went past a police checkpoint and into a Pentagon security zone was released on $5,000 bond today.
Imad Abdel-Fattah Hamed, 28, had told police he had not noticed a sign prohibiting trucks from state Route 110 when he was driving Monday night.
When the judge asked Assistant U.S. Attorney John Morton about an arraignment date, Morton replied the case may not make it as far as arraignment.
Hamed, who lives in Manassas, told authorities he was a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Jordan.
All in good time, my dear, all in good time.
So there is every hope we will survive. Dealing with the criminal element in all groups is the essential key to many problems with immigrants.
These chronic complainers can't seem to get it through their heads that the vast majority of the voters are not ultra right wingers and therefore such a movement would be political disaster and lead to total, irrevocable control by the true socialists.
With friends like these who needs enemies?
How do you propose he get anything done without compromising when the Senate is against him and the RATS won't cooperate? Bush's style seems to be work behind the scenes then just win.
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