Posted on 10/25/2002 7:35:47 AM PDT by Sabertooth
Edited on 05/07/2004 9:31:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The people at Stuart's Coffee House remember John Allen Muhammad as a quiet chess player who never wanted to be apart from his big, stuffed, heavy U.S. Army duffel bag.
At this point, nobody can prove that the bag Muhammad was lugging around contained the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle that police found in his car when he and 17-year-old John Lee Malvo were arrested at a Maryland rest stop early Thursday. By the end of the day, ballistics tests had tied that weapon to the bloody East Coast sniping spree that left 10 people dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bellinghamherald.com ...
Sabertooth is her biggest fan.
"She said she had come bag and baggage to Bellingham to try and get her son back," Archer said.
But James had immigration problems. When she tried to check into Agape Women's & Children's Home, the mission's lodgings for homeless women, immigration agents were waiting to take her into custody.
REALLY??? Have you ever tried to get an illegal alien busted? It darn near can't be done. Unless, maybe, you have connections inside the INS...
Has that agency been infiltrated?
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid...
Look under Pensacola and/or Cordova Mall.
I saw this, too, katy.
I was taken with how adamant he was that this angle not be disregarded or brushed aside.
I think he will be looking into this and I think Brit agreed with him.
Even Mort agreed that at the very least these guys were acting in sympathy for Al Qaeda if not directly in concert with them.
The address of Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center is 3159 Row Street, Falls Church. Rand McNally StreetFinder brings up the address as "3159 Row Street, Seven Corners -- the site of the Home Depot.
As far as Mohammad is concerned, I would not buy that he used crime to fund his killing as proof he was not a Muslim terrorist. Who taught him to hide in homeless shelters. Cops rarely look for successful robbers in homeless shelters. Successful robbers have no motive for living in a homeless shelter. The object of the normal robbery is to get the dough to live good. A robber jiding in homeless shelters says a lot about true motives.
Low cost, low teck terrorism by militant Muslims is not likley to be funded by Islam. The recruits are taught how to do terrorize.. they are not funded except for plans that require funding. Flight trianing has to be funded. They could not steal and learn to fly airliners at the same time. But robbery is good training for serial killing done for terrorist purposes. Look at it as on the job training.
"The Rev. Al Archer, director of the Lighthouse Mission where Muhammad lived off and on for months, remembers him as a guy who made a good first impression - too good.
"On the surface he was squeaky clean," Archer said. "He was almost too good to believe. I kind of quit believing."
After he got to know Muhammad better, Archer grew so suspicious of his odd behavior that he suspected him of being part of a terrorist organization, and he called the FBI. But that was in October 2001, in the aftershock of the World Trade Center massacre, and Archer doesn't think he got the feds' attention. "I felt they probably threw the note in the trash," he said."
How many similiar tips the first week or so of Mohammed's sniping run in the DC area were trashed by the Politically Corrects screwing up the investigation in Maryland?
Remember this story from this past June?
Thieves break into Tacoma INS office
Dicks says it is 'absolutely' a serious security breach
Tuesday, June 4, 2002
By CHRIS McGANN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
A weekend break-in at the Tacoma office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service not only breached agency security, it also left several important items in unknown hands.
Stolen were a .40-caliber pistol and two clips of ammunition; at least five INS stamps, including an admission stamp and another that allows refugees to enter the United States to apply for resident alien status; an INS badge; a laptop computer; and an assortment of official forms.
That's a big problem, said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., when you consider the tremendous harm inflicted on the United States by people who entered and stayed here using false documents.
"In this era, we have to treat this kind of thing very seriously," Dicks said.
"It's not just a local burglary but something that could have serious implications on national security," said Dicks, who served eight years on the House Intelligence Committee. "I think it could be very useful to somebody in a terrorist group."
Agency spokesman Garrison Courtney said the agency has procedures to minimize the risk.
"It sounds a lot more serious than it is," Courtney said. "Everything that was stolen, besides the gun, we at least have control over and can minimize the damage. The fact that we were burglarized is the main concern."
The stamps were invalidated as soon as agency officials found out about the break-in, so any documents marked with them would be easily identifiable, he said.
"A stamp to us means next to nothing," Courtney said. "We look at many other things to draw the conclusion that the person is allowed to be in the United States."
The badge is next to worthless because INS officials must also carry credentials, Courtney said.
And it is against agency policy to save important information on laptop computers.
"Anything we do on computers we do through a secure line and don't store it on the hard drives," Courtney said.
Burglars hit the office between 1 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday, said Jim Mattheis of the Tacoma police, which is leading the investigation. Police investigators said there were no signs of forced entry, but a locked cabinet were the items were stored was forcibly opened.
The INS has not ruled out the possibility that someone with access to the office was responsible for the theft, Courtney said.
The Tacoma police forensic unit examined the scene for fingerprints, Mattheis said. But so far investigators have no suspects or reason to believe it was more than a routine break-in.
"We're investigating it as a burglary, Mattheis said. "The (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has been notified and they will be kept up-to-date on what we find out."
Charles Mandigo, special agent in charge of the Seattle FBI office, said the agency has no reason to think otherwise.
"If there is any indication that there is a link to terrorism -- we would certainly aggressively pursue it," Mandigo said.
"To date, the FBI is not aware of such a connection."
Dicks last night vowed to get to bottom of the break that he asserted was "absolutely" a serious security breach.
"We are going to talk to INS officials in Seattle and Washington D.C. and tell them that security should be enhanced at the Tacoma offices immediately," said Dicks, adding he thinks the agency "should check all their offices."
This sounds like the Politically Correct Police Chiefs all over Oregon's left wing cities and of course Washington's.
We must not drop this issue. It needs to shouted and posted to wake up other Americans that Policital Correct Police Chiefs may be the most dangerous people in America for most of us and the best protectors of the bad guys.
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