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Posted on 09/01/2006 8:57:29 PM PDT by nwctwx
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/060913WashDC.htm
September 13, 2006
"Leaders of Nationwide Illegal Alien Employee-Leasing Conspiracy Plead Guilty
Defendants brought in more than 550 illegal workers and laundered more than $20 million"
NEWS RELEASE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON - Two leaders of a nationwide employee-leasing conspiracy that used hundreds of illegal aliens throughout the United States pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra in the Southern District of Florida, and third defendant was sentenced, the Justice Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today.
Jaroslaw Sawczuk, 39, a Polish citizen formerly of Coral Springs, Fla. and Jozef Bronislaw Bogacki, 43, a native of Poland and naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Clearwater, Fla. pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to transport, house and otherwise encourage illegal aliens to remain in the United States, and to commit visa, wire, mail, and tax fraud, and money laundering.
Judge Marra sentenced a third defendant, Pavel Preus, 39, a Polish citizen residing in Pompano Beach, Fla., who pleaded guilty to similar charges on September 13, 2005. Preus was sentenced to 37 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $950,000 for unpaid payroll taxes.
Remaining defendants Lucia Kanis, 31, a Slovak citizen; Ivan Kanis, 39, a Slovak citizen residing in the Slovak Republic; and Andor Pikali, 37, a Slovak citizen who resided in Coral Springs, are federal fugitives, at large, and believed to be overseas.
Bogacki pleaded guilty to six counts, Sawczuk to three, of a 26-count indictment that alleges from 1995 to the present, the defendants conspired to provide unauthorized workers, mostly East Europeans who had entered the United States on tourist visas, to American companies with whom the defendants had contracted to provide legally authorized foreign workers.
The indictment alleges that more than 550 illegal aliens were brought into the United States by the defendants. According to the indictment, the alien workers obtained tourist visas to enter the United States and were employed illegally in the midwest and southeastern United States on farms, in dairies and in factories. The defendants contracted with American employers to provide workers, for whom the defendants were to pay payroll taxes and workers' compensation deductions. During the course of the conspiracy, the defendants failed to pay $6 million in payroll taxes and laundered in excess of $20 million.
The remaining defendants face maximum penalties of up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $500,000. In addition, the government is seeking forfeiture of the defendants' assets. A forfeiture hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 at 9 a.m. Bogacki and Sawczuk's sentencing is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 15, 2006."
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http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/060911sanjuan.htm
September 11, 2006
ICE agents seize more than 2 tons of cocaine in Puerto Rico
Greek-flagged vessel arrives at port of San Juan with more than 4,900 pounds of cocaine
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today the seizure of more than 4,900 pounds of cocaine on board the Greek-flagged vessel M/V Sierra Express at the port of San Juan. The seizure was part of Operation Caribbean Corridor, an investigative/law enforcement initiative by ICE, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and United States Coast Guard (USCG) in the Caribbean Basin.
The M/V Sierra Express docked at the port of San Juan at approximately 1:00 p.m. on Sep. 10, 2006. The vessel's last port of call prior to arriving to San Juan was Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
During a required inspection of the vessel, a K-9 unit of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) alerted on several boxes of printing paper inside one of the containers of the Sierra Express. The container was subsequently transported to the examination facilities of CBP where a thorough search revealed the presence of numerous kilo-size packages of a white powdery substance that when tested reacted positive for cocaine.
Through the Caribbean Corridor Initiative, ICE, along with the FBI, DEA, and the USCG, have been able to intercept tons of narcotics and illegal merchandise destined to United States, said Lydia St. John-Mellado, special agent in charge of ICE investigations in San Juan. Our CBP partners have the technology, resources and intelligence to detect any type of contraband coming to the United States from abroad and will continue working with ICE and other Caribbean Corridor Initiative agencies to prevent these massive quantities of drugs from reaching the streets of Puerto Rico.
No arrests were made during this seizure; however, ICE as well as other Operation Caribbean Corridor participating agencies continue with the investigation.
Puerto Rico Police Department and San Juan Municipal Police officer participated in this seizure.
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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hezbollah_scouts_e.htm
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September 11 , 2006
"Hezbollahs Shiite youth movement, The Imam al-Mahdi Scouts, has tens of thousands of members. According to captured documents, they are indoctrinated with the principles of radical Iranian Islam. That indoctrination includes the personality cult of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and Hezbollahs battle legacy; national Lebanese symbols are minimized."
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Amnesty report accuses Hizbullah of war crimes
The Guardian (UK) ^ | September 14, 2006 | Staff
Posted on 09/14/2006 2:53:50 AM PDT by John Carey
Hizbullah militants broke international humanitarian law during the recent conflict with Israel, an Amnesty International report concluded today. The report said Hizbullah had violated law by firing thousands of rockets into Israel and killing dozens of civilians during the fighting.
The human rights group called for a UN investigation into violations committed by both sides during the 34-day conflict, but the report published today focused on the actions of the Lebanese militant organisation.
Hizbullah launched nearly 4,000 rockets into northern Israel during July and August, killing at least 39 civilians. The firing of rockets into urban areas violated international law calling for distinction between civilian and military targets, Amnesty said.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060914-123850-9564r.htm
"'These people want to kill us'"
By Guy Taylor
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 14, 2006
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24401
"CBCs 9/11 Slanders"
By Stephen Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 14, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "It was the Canadian Left at its absolute insensitive and appalling worst.
On the eve of the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies, the leftist, anti-Bush Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadas national public broadcaster, aired an outrageous and disgraceful documentary on a Sunday news program regarding half-baked 9/11 conspiracy theories that only served to insult the memories of those who perished that tragic day.
Titled 9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracy, the only fascinating thing about the CBC show was its complete absurdity and the fact that it actually made it to air.
On the conspiracy side, it featured a young, budding film-maker whose online documentary portrays the destruction of the World Trade Center towers as the result of a bomb in the basement, demolition explosives planted beforehand throughout the buildings, and the airliner crash, which, it claims, was not enough in itself to topple the towers. According to this masterpiece of misleading fiction, the Pentagon was also hit by a missile, not by an airplane; and the passengers of United 93 didnt crash into a Pennsylvania field, but disembarked at an airport.
This is a widely downloaded internet conspiracy film that is being translated into different languages. The CBC swallowed it whole."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24400
"9/11, Five Years Later: A View from Europe"
By Bruce Bawer
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 14, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701212/posts
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=columnists&alt=&trh=20060914&hn=36501
KERIM BALCI
09.14.2006 Thursday - ISTANBUL 13:49
"Zulfikar Coup"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Shiite axis has now extended westward over Iraq and Lebanon. Its no longer a situation whereby Iran used to extend revolution to the Islamic world; Iran is now extending itself."
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New Al Qaeda message threatens France
Paris - Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has threatened France with attacks by an Algerian terrorist group, French media reported Thursday.
According to a transcription of a video released earlier this week, al-Zawahiri announced the official alliance between al Qaeda and the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), and threatened that it would be a 'thorn' in the throat of the French.
'Our soldier sheikh..., Osama bin Laden, has charged me to announce that the GSPC has joined al-Qaeda. We pray to God that they become a thorn in the throats of the American and French crusaders and their allies,' al-Zawihiri said in the video, which was primarily concerned with the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The substance of the video statement was made public on Monday.
Al-Qaeda messages directly targetting France are rare. The last one dates back to 2004, when bin Laden criticized the French for banning the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in public schools.
The GSPC was created at the end of the 1990s by dissidents of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and in September 2005 declared France to be 'public enemy number one, enemy of our religion, enemy of our community.'
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1201373.php/New_al-Qaeda_message_threatens_France
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Possible Airline Bomb-Plot Material Found in the U.K.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
LONDON British police are investigating several suspicious "items" discovered close to a highway that could be related to the plot to blow up airliners, Sky News reported Thursday....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213828,00.html
Police Find 'Terror Items'
Updated: 17:42, Thursday September 14, 2006
Explosives officers are investigating several suspicious "items" discovered close to the M40 motorway.
Scotland Yard has so far refused to discuss what the items are or whether they are linked to any on-going operation by its Anti-Terrorist Branch.
But they are not thought to be explosives.
Sky News has been told that several "bags" have been found and that they could be connected to the alleged plot to blow up airliners......
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1234019,00.html?f=rss
Still photos from Zawahiri's latest tape with English subtitles:
http://www.minbar-sos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=872
Ayman al Zawahiri makes very specific references and attacks President George Bush for not accepting the truce offered by Osama bin Laden. He urges all Muslims to take up jihad, to make use of every opportunity to take revenge on America for its imprisonment of Sheikh Umar Abd al-Rahman, a reference to Abd al-Rahman who is imprisoned for his role in the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
"The days are pregnant and will bear new events God Willing"
1) Warnings and more warnings
2) A Truce offer
3) An invitation to convert to Islam
4) Indication that the truce and invitation to convert was not accepted. They now believe that they are justified in launching another 9/11 or worse.
Stat safe and vigilant!!!
Steve
Thank you very much nw for pointing to this article.
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