Man arrested at airport with $12 million in phony checks, terrorism task force investigating

nj.com | 7/19/02 8:57 AM

[Cultural Jihad]

Yup. Cash would be one story. But checks... who on earth is he going to give them to?

Me thinks he was a buyer of the scam notes as alluded to in the story.

[tet68]

Are we SURE he's not from Nigeria?

[piasa]

see the link in 59

[piasa]

Oops, my mistake... it's right here:

http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:rpe30z49QTkC:www.amina.com/news/071998.html+%22+Anvar+Akhmad+Inus+Bakar+Shishani+and+Khamzat+Shishani+%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[piasa]

Maybe they use the things as IOU placeholders in a pecullar Islamic underground loan system. Or maybe he was just trying to use them to impress hookers.

[cake_crumb]

My duh...sorry. I see it now.

Note to self: do not surf when going brain dead from tiredness.

[Anticommie]

He is a foriegn national, Muslim, probably Arab (judging from his name), with a wife in the Airline business. He's carrying around 12 million in fraudulent checks.

We need to do some ethnic cleancing and then resettle part of Michigan, there is just to many ragheads there.

[piasa]

Here is a Shishani from Detroit who was interviewed in Jordan:

Rifat Shishani -- a blond man of 45 who speaks English well after years of living in Detroit -- told a pair of reporters and their Arabic translator, "There's no way we'll let you go without having dinner with us."

http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:Pkwqos2E3u8C:www.kafkas.org.tr/english/DIASPORA/_A_People_Apart_in_Jordan_.html+%22Shishani+%22+detroit&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Shishani might mean Jones or Smith in Chechen, though.

[cake_crumb]

Good find. May be coincidence...or may not be. That Jordanian connection along with the Chechan thing is VERY interesting, though.

Save the URL and pertinant info to another reference file I'm doing on recent arrests.

[Johnny Crab]

Kalifornia's governor replies:

THIS IS JUST AN ISOLATED INCIDENT and A COINDIDENCE.

And don't forget to vote GRAYOUT for KING of KALIFORNIA....

[cake_crumb]

That was supposed to be savED, past tense, the info to the reference file I'm doing.

Also, I forgot to thank you. Thanks. Past my bedtime. Have a good night.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well one thing sure. There's nowhere he can get away with spending them, because nobody takes a check that big without having recourse if it bounces.

[texasbluebell]

Well, look here. More in the WashCompost about this, at a new post.

U.S. Holds Suspected Al Qaeda Trainee

U.S. Customs agents have arrested a Jordanian-born man who was allegedly carrying $12 million in false cashier's checks, alarming counterterrorism officials who said the suspect may have been trained in al Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan.

U.S. officials said the name of Omar Shishani, 47, who was detained Wednesday as he arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Indonesia, appears on a watch list of people trained in Afghanistan by al Qaeda. Shishani's name turned up in documents captured in Afghanistan, sources said.

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[Bernard]

D N C. If you need a mailing address, check the main man in Harlem.

[Cindy]

A Very Interesting Discussion on FREE REPUBLIC.com regarding an AP article --- "MAN INDICTED FOR PHONY CHECKS, SAYS HE HAS AL AL QAIDA INFO (DETROIT, OMAR SHISHANI)" (072402)

[Shermy]

Ping. 1st thread.