TNT Residue Found On Luggage Of Somali Religious Leader Arrested At Portland Airport

KATU-TV ^ | September 9, 2002

[sarcasm]

ping

[dennisw]

wonderful....

[Wolfstar]

Nearly 70% of the big attacks on American interests by radical Islamists over the past 19 years have been perpetrated between September and December. I have absolutely NO DOUBT that they are trying to hit us again this fall or winter.

[Pearls Before Swine]

TNT residue--could happen to anyone.

[freeperfromnj]

There is a lot of scattered activity going on..... and it's only Monday.

[Marylander]

Is he one of those exploding Imams? I don't care what anyone says, I would consider blowing up Portland to be a direct attack on the United States.

[sinkspur]

TNT residue--could happen to anyone.

Yep. Any schmoe could pick up a little trace of explosives just puttering around the mosque. Right?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The guy was leaving town on 9/9 with explosives residue on his stuff. Nothing suspicious here. < /sarcasm >

[tomahawk]

Why are we letting Jihadists into our country? Do we have a death wish?

[Poohbah]

"Hey, Achmed, hold muh suitcase and WATCH THIS!"

[Uncle Meat]

Kariye on Monday pleaded innocent to two felony charges of using false information - including a changed name - while applying for and receiving three different Social Security cards between 1983 and 1995. The federal indictment also alleges that Kariye used an altered birth date in a 1998 asylum application.

Nope,sorry,gotta let him go.Don't want to get nailed for profiling.You get the senior citizen in the wheel chair.I'll nail the one with the walker.Don't let their age fool ya,they only look harmless.

[Shermy]

The guy was leaving town on 9/9 with explosives residue on his stuff. Nothing suspicious here. < /sarcasm >

Also, he was never coming back.

Nothing to see here, move along!

PS. I don't know much about these tests, but recall that some of them trace nitrogen or nitrates - which can be used in those OKC like bombs. People sometimes have false positives on their shoes if they've walked on fertilized lawns, I read.

[Shermy]

Ping.

[chnsmok]

Nearly 70% of the big attacks on American interests by radical Islamists over the past 19 years have been perpetrated between September and December.
Why would this be? Any explanation?

[swarthyguy]

Why was he leaving now, apparently for good. Is something up?

[cinFLA]

Yep. Any schmoe could pick up a little trace of explosives just puttering around the mosque. Right?

You were probably being sarcastic but you may be very close the the truth?

[SarahW]

Saw a group of his "supporters" on Fox...scariest looking brutes you could imagine. Some had an expression, hard to describe, of masked "just you wait, I'll get you" fury.

TNT! I hope that the FBI middle managers won't stand in the way of a warrant to search places he works and lives.

I think its pretty obvious he was getting out of dodge before Sept 11, the second.

[sinkspur]

Why are we letting Jihadists into our country? Do we have a death wish?

Another incident, and I'll wager we're gonna start bootin' these people out of the country, wholesale.

Of course, I'm wonderin', why wait?

[ikka]

The guy was leaving town on 9/9 with explosives residue on his stuff. Nothing suspicious here.

There were other cases where the man involved in terrorism would leave his wife behind, but I can't remember which case it was, exactly...