My money's on you, Bender.
What better cover for Islamists than that of Jews. I wouldn't put it past them. BTW, I agree, NO ONE would use the old road except locals unless they had a reason.
Do you think we will ever find out or, if the intent were malevalent would reports be surpressed to avoid a panic?
I think you're on to something. I can see Palestinians adopting Jewish-sounding aliases so Israel will be blamed for their deeds. A lower-probability scenario is that these are actual Israelis who converted to Islam (rare but not impossible.)
Any bets these are phony names for two Islamics?
Good catch. I'm sure the police or local news wouldn't have any idea who Shmuel Dahan is. This is obviously a political statement by would-be Arab terrorists. Someone needs to contact the local media there with this.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/04/03/News/News.24064.html
Shmuel Dahan is also the name of the Likud's spokesman's son.
He would be about 23 yrs old now. The same age as the guy picked up in Tenn.
Taken into custody in the incident were Israeli nationals Shmuel Dahan and Almaliach Naor. In the wallet of 23-year old Dahan, an Israeli military veteran living in Miami Beach, police discovered a “Learn to Fly in Florida” business card.
"I got a sick feeling when I saw it (the business card)," Kent Harris, Sheriff of Unicol County in Tennessee, told the Associated Press, expressing concern about the proximity of the nearby Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin.
“Its the nation’s sole provider of fuel for the Navy’s nuclear subs,” he explained in a phone interview Monday evening.
the ‘learn to fly in Florida’ business card is that of Nissan Giat, also an Israeli military veteran, he said, as well as a free-lance flight instructor in the Miami area, working out of the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.
“These guys aren’t terrorists, they belong to the Israeli military,” he protested, in a telephone interview Monday night.
Witnesses saw the men throw something from the truck while they were being pursued, said the sheriff. Officers scouring the area later found a vial containing an unknown substance along the roadway.
Police said the liquid in the 12-ounce plastic container was thick, like liquid drain cleaner. Because of slowness at the State Crime Lab, Harris said it has been sent it to a nearby private lab to be tested.
“It looks like weed killer, but with a little bit of grain in it,” Harris says when it was shaken, the thick liquid in the vial became warm.
A lawyer representing the Israeli men, William Lawson, said the vial contained a "fuel source," but added that it hasn't been identified and authorities were treating it with caution.
Almaliach Naor and Shnuel Daran requested the Israeli Consulate also be notified of their incarceration.
the investigation was halted Wednesday, after the men were released from Unicoi County Jail to the custody of federal officials from the INS, where they face only a deportation hearing.