John Muhammad flew to Antigua August 2002 on fake ID

The Jamaica Observer ^ | various dates | various publications

[Future Useless Eater]

Early August 2002 - In Louisiana, John Muhammad showed his rifle to his first cousin Charlene Anderson, and also asked relatives where to buy ammunition. He eventually bought four boxes of .223 caliber ammo at a store on Hooper Road. Muhammad left his guns and ammunition padlocked in his duffel bag with Anderson for safekeeping while went away for a week. [This because of airport security]. He was then spotted by multiple persons on the island of Antigua shopping for furniture, and making some 'banking' arrangments. [Can anyone recall a certain $10 Million dollar electronic transfer ransom?]

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Muhammad and Malvo
Terrorists' Timeline#3 - Jan 2002 to October

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.... but first, some related info from Timeline #2 ...

• about November 27 2001 - Muhammad was driven by a co-worker to a gunsmith, where he was overheard asking about modifying a rifle so it could be "folded neatly in a small case". On November 30th, the co-worker alerted Bellingham police, the FBI, the Border Patrol and the ATF. Two months later, after nothing happened, she called the same authorities again.

• Dec 19 2001 - Malvo and mother were arrested by INS in Washington state, and detained for one month after the school reported them for not delivering transcripts. A different report says the mother raised a stink when she arrived in Washington state, and thats how the INS got involved.

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• Early 2002 - Muhammad tried to pick up coffee house guitar player Hannah Parks, saying he is a music agent. He always tried to tell her more about Islam than she cares to hear. Others said Muhammad is always distributing Islamic leaflets.

• maybe January 2002 @ Falls Church VA - Muhammad is remembered being seen alone in Falls Church Virgina, "sometime between January and March of this year", in the (Home Depot / Michaels / Fabric Store) shopping complex. He claims to be interested in purchasing on credit, a $5000 embroidery machine for karate uniforms. He visits the same Falls Church store a 2nd time about late August 2002, along time with Malvo.

• Jan 2002 - Muhammad gets an apartment in Tacoma. Neighbors claim they hear gunshots every night throughout the month from the four-plex where Muhammad / Malvo are living. Police later dig up a tree stump that contains bullets matching the Bushmaster .223.

• about January 15 2002 Malvo and his mother are released. They said they had been stowaways on a boat filled with 'asians' and jumped ship in Miami.
  Immigration law says stowaway aliens are to be deported immediately, but this pair was released and given November 2002 deportation hearing dates, even though they are both said to be living in in homeless shelters and were described as likely to abscond. Part of the reason is the border patrol suposedly learned these two were smuggled into this country by Muhammad, and that gives the illegals more rights than a stowaway.
  The mother pays $1500 bail, and soon afterwards disappears, Malvo is released on his own recognisance into Muhammad's custody.

• about late January 2002 @ - An acquaintance from the Bellingham YMCA, Harjeet Singh, was first invited by Muhammad and Malvo for tea across the street at the Community Food Co-op. They hit it off right away.
  Singh noticed that the pair popped vitamins and supplements to build body mass, muscle and strength. When Singh went to the health food store to buy some for himself, he was shocked to see that they cost as much as $50 a bottle.

• late January or early February 2002 - A very well dressed Muhammad visits family in Baton Rouge LA with Malvo, whom he says he is helping travel back to Jamaica. He says that he is in the immigrant import-export business, and helps people in trouble get in and out of the country.

• February 12 2002 - Muhammad is arrested in Tacoma for grocery store shoplifting, released on $900 bail, and is ordered to return March 06.

• February thru April 2002 - For parts of these months Muhammad and Malvo are allowed to live with another man who loans the pair his guns. They are then used in at least two crimes.

• February 16 2002 - 21-year-old Keenya Cook is shot and killed. Muhammad has now been positively linked, using a borrowed gun. Cook lived with her aunt Isa Nichols, whom Muhammad was furious with the summer before.

• March 06 2002 - Muhammad misses his shoplifting court date and forfeits his $900 bail. A warrant is issued for his arrest, valid until the year 2010.

• March 13 - March 16 2002 - Tucson AZ - Muhammad and Malvo go to Tucson and visit Muhammad's sister, Odessa Newell, at her southeast side home, They arrive from Los Angeles on a bus, and are in the Tucson area at least from the 13th to the 16th. They appear to have stayed in southern Arizona thru March 25,
  Muhammad's sister later moves to New Orleans.

• March 21 2002, ~ 2:15pm - Tucson AZ - Jerry Ray Taylor, 61, is killed by a single rifle shot fired from a distance, while practicing chipshots alone at Tucson's Fred Enke Golf course. This is one mile from the sister's home where Muhammad and Malvo were staying. The bullet was not recovered, but police believe Muhammad and Malvo are linked by other evidence.

  Malvo boasted to a Mr. Singh around May or June that he and John Muhammad, killed two men in the spring, robbing them and hiding their bodies. No other golfer has been found, but police think he may have been referring in the 2nd case to Albert Michalczyk, 72, who was shot in the chest while playing golf in Clearwater, Fla., in May.

• Mar 25 2002 - near Tucson - A credit card is stolen from the purse of the greyhound bus driver while she drives from Nogles to Flagstaff Arizona. The northbound bus picked up Muhammad and Malvo, and a manifest shows they were listed under the name Williams. The credit card gets used in Tacoma ~ april 9th.

• about April 09 2002 - Tacoma WA - The stolen credit card is used to buy gas in Tacoma, Credit card company notifies card-owner on April 11th. It is later used in October by Muhammad and Malvo to try to ransom $10 Million dollars, and presumably transfer it electronically out of the country.

• April 2002 @ Muhammad asked his friend Singh if he knew where he could get a silencer for a gun.

• about April 2002 @ Tacoma WA - Muhammad visited his old Army buddy, Holmes, for the first of 3 times this year, and showed Holmes two rifles. They had an AR-15 assault rifle that fired .223-caliber ammunition, as well as another rifle,
  Muhammad referred to Malvo as his "associate", and called him "Sniper".
  Holmes saw them a 2nd time about June. That time, the AR-15 had a telescopic sight. Muhammad also had a book on how to make a sound suppresser for the rifle. "Can you imagine the damage you could do if you could shoot with a silencer?" Muhammad allegedly asked Holmes.

• mid to late May 2002 @ According to Mr. Singh, Muhammad left town for a few weeks in late April or early May. After he returned, he showed Singh a booklet on silencers, and a threaded chrome pipe that Muhammad hoped to make into a silencer.
  Muhammad said he and Malvo were planning to shoot a fuel tanker to cause a big explosion.
  They wanted to 'hide in the woods, shoot and disappear,'
  They also wanted to shoot and kill a police officer, then blow up more police at the officer's funeral home.
  Malvo also bragged about killing two golfers in Arizona.
  He stopped seeing Muhammad after this, and avoided his phone calls.
  Singh told police and the FBI these things in June. They did not question him in detail, as they did not seem to believe him.

• May, June and July 2002 - Muhammad and Malvo reside full-time these months with the man who loans them guns. They do not leave the state for good in June as Newsweek reported.

• Between May 1 - May 4, 2002 - Muhammad or Malvo fire at least two shots into the holy shrine of the Tacoma Jewish Synagogue with another borrowed gun. No one is injured.

• June 01 2002 (or the morning of June 02) - A break-in occurred at the Tacoma INS. Stolen were: at least five INS stamps, including an admission stamp, and one that allows refugees to enter the US and apply for resident alien status, an INS badge, an assortment of official forms. a laptop computer, a .40-caliber pistol and two clips of ammunition,

• July 20 2002 - A .22 caliber Magnum handgun was stolen at a gun show in El Paso, Texas. This gun is later confirmed used by Muhammad/Malvo in multiple robberies and killings. It is found after a Sept 21st murder in Montgomery AL.

• roughly August 01 2002 - Muhammad and Malvo arrived by bus in Baton Rouge tired, hungry and haggard, and visit with many relatives over one or more days. He asks relatives where to buy ammunition and eventually buys four boxes of .223 caliber ammo at a store on Hooper Road.
  * Muhammad appeared dangerously delusional according to his cousin - Anderson, and she is eventually showed that his duffel bag contained a rifle and ammunition. She asks him to leave the next day, but agrees to hold his padlocked duffel bag for safekeeping for a week.

• roughly August 10 2002 @ Muhammad returns to Baton Rouge and picks up his rifle and ammo. (Where did they go? and why did he need to leave his rifle and ammo? ... [PLANE-TRIP!] )

• August 2002 @ Antigua - Residents remember seeing Muhammad on the island in August. The St John's Home Office Depot manager Samuir Doumith, remembers him asking about rattan furniture. Another witness remembers him making some 'banking' arrangements. [Can anyone recall a certain $10 Million dollar ransom?]
  * Island officials have no record of Muhammad entering or leaving. But Muhammad has 20 fraudulent ID's in his wallet when he is arrested, and knows how to slip in and out of Antigua under false identies.
  * The 'furniture' recollection implies that Muhammad planned to escape there. The 'bank' sighting suggests that Muhammad had enlisted help to electronically transfer the $10 Million out of the country into foreign banks via the island of Antigua. Muhammad has a history on Antigua with con-men, forgers, and scam artists. [Some people even suspect that Muhammad may have been acquainted with the Al Queda shoe bomber Richard Reid, who was ticketed to Antigua on Dec 22 2001 ]

• Mid-to-late August 2002 @ Falls Church VA - "Near Summer's end" [I assume that means August] Muhammad and Malvo were clearly remembered being seen

  for a 2nd time in Falls Church Virgina, in the (Home Depot / Michaels / Fabric Store) shopping complex. The first time was roughly January 2002.

• August 2002 - There seem to be several reports of Muhammad sightings both in Camden NJ, and Baton Rouge throughout August. I'm sorry but I haven't compiled those here yet ... they apparently ping-ponged between NJ and Louisiana throughout August. (And note: the quickest route between DC and LA passes by (1/2 hour to the west) of Bassett VA.

• August 15 2002 @ Basset VA - Jennifer Short vanished August 15, the day her parents were killed in their home. Both died from a single gunshot wound to the head; a spent .22-caliber shell casing was found near each body. Jennifer's body was found 30 miles away in a swamp in North Carolina.
  [ Muhammad/Malvo had apparently been in Virginia in August but their whereabouts on the 15th are still unknown. If this was done with the .22 Magnum stolen on July 20, it should be easily matchable, and we should hear something soon? Alabama police found Muhammad's .22 Magnum after the Sept 21 killing, and it may now be in Maryland]

• late August 2002 @ Tacoma WA - Muhammad and Malvo shop for a car with a very "big trunk",
  Late this summer, just before school started, John Muhammad and Lee Malvo showed up at Todd Paulson's auto repair shop in Tacoma. [Tacoma schools started on September 4th]. Muhammad wanted to buy a certain 1965 white Lincoln Continental in good condition. Muhammad seemed interested in only one thing. "He wanted to know how big the trunk was" For three days, Muhammad and Malvo dropped by but, at $2,500, finally concluded the car was out of reach. Within days, they would choose a car on the other side of the country for $250 and convert its big trunk into a sniper's lair.

• September 05 2002 , 10:30pm - Clinton MD - Paul LaRuffa, owner of Margellina Restaurant, was shot six times at close range, just after he got into his car, but survives. LaRuffa, was shot with a .22 caliber handgun. Like other murder/robberies, this shooting occurred just after closing. The shooter escaped with $3000 from the restaurant, and the owner's Sony Vaio laptop computer. The restaurant is located near the home of Muhammad's ex-wife Mildred.
  This shooting has been linked to Muhhamad/Malvo, who are later arrested with Mr. LaRuffa's laptop in their blue Caprice. Ballistics also matches this .22 caliber handgun to another shooting/robbery in Clinton MD, on Sept. 15th.

• September 11 2002 - New Jersey - Three people appear involved, registering a newly purchased blue Chevrolet Caprice (former POLICE CAR), at the exact time and date of the WTC attack. Muhammad and Nathanial Osbourne co-register the car, while a third person phones in a bomb threat.

• September 14 2002 closing time - Silver Spring MD - The shooters try out their sniper car for the (first?) time outside Hillandale Beer & Wine store on a Saturday night. The store clerk, Rupinder Oberoi, is shot once in the chest and survives, and the bullet is too fragmented to match with later shootings. But police later confirm this shooting is linked to Muhammad/Malvo. A 19-year-old clerk at the nearby Safeway grocery store told police he saw a dark-colored Chevrolet Caprice leave the parking lot immediately after the shooting. "It was like an old police car" the witness said.

• September 15 2002 - Clinton MD - Brandywine Liquors owner is shot in the stomach at closing time with a small caliber handgun and is robbed. Victim survives. The bullet matches the .22 caliber handgun linked to Muhammad & Malvo.

• September 21 2002 @ about 12:05am, Atlanta Georgia - Ballistics tests show that a .22-caliber Magnum pistol recovered by Alabama police fired the shots that killed Million Waldemariam, 41, outside Sonny's liquor store in Atlanta around midnight. Muhammad and Malvo have been positively linked.

• September 21 2002 @ closing time - Montgomery Alabama - Muhammad / Malvo and a presumed a 3rd person commit a hold-up outside an ABC Beverages liquor store as the doors are being locked. A clerk is shot in the back of the head, it glanced off and exited her cheek. She survives. [this was probably the low-power .22 bullet] The manager is shot in the back and dies. One of these women were shot with the high-powered .223 Bushmaster. Police arrive and see Muhammad rummaging thru a purse, holding the handgun. No one saw anyone holding the .223 Bushmaster. A third person assists their escape using the blue Chevrolet Caprice. The .22 caliber Magnum was dropped in a chase, and found under leaves in October.

• September 23 at 6:35 p.m. - Baton Rouge LA - Hong Im Ballenger, 45, was shot once in the head after she closed her beauty shop and was getting into her car; She died instantly.
  The bullet has been positively ID'ed to the .223 Bushmaster rifle. Seen running from her car was a black man 130- to 140-pounds who stands about 5 feet 2 inches tall.
  [But Malvo is 5'7" according to his fellow student basketball players, and they KNOW such things! Was Osbourne with them? Osbourne appears to be shorter, and he is said to weigh 120 lbs!]
  The man was picked up by the dark blue Chevrolet that had earlier been parked across the street from the shooting. Killers got $1000 from her purse that she was going to deposit in the bank.

• September 28 2002 2:58pm - Gulfport Mississippi - Police report seeing their parked, empty, blue Chevrolet Caprice with New Jersey plates NDA-21Z as they investigate an unrelated crime. The police find the vehicle is not wanted.

• October 1, 1:30am - Fairfax County - Police see the blue Caprice and run their plates. No action taken.

• October 1 - Killers return to the Silver Spring area and are apparently pumped up to kill more. They probably get rest, and scope out their plan of attack. It is interesting to note that there is a Mohammed residence (apartment #5) at 3974 Bel Pre Road, [this is the same address as the last shooting]. Nation of Islam converts often change their last names to Mohammad, and the shooters know them to be sympathetic or co-conspirators themselves.

• October 2 - Killers spend the day planning their hits, and by 5pm start their shooting spree one block from the apartment, at the Michaels store. [Police should check if the store clerk almost killed had ever met John Mohammad, Lee Malvo, or anyone living at the Bel Pre apartments]

• Another shooting will later occur TWO blocks from the apartment, at a gas station.

• ...many more shootings occur around DC. [to be expanded later]
  you can easily find these details elsewhere

• Police are convinced the shooters must live nearby, since so many shooting occur in close proximity and shooters know the area very well.

• October 23 - The last fatal shooting will occur directly outside the apartment on Bel Pre road. Mohammad, who frequently rides busses in that area, probably knew, and has been angered in the past by the driver or one of his co-workers.
  The 35-year-old Jamaican-born bus driver was Conrad Johnson.

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• October 21 - Nathaniel O. Osbourne, a 26-year-old Jamaican illegal alien, and the killing car's co-owner, is said to have arrived today in Flint Michigan from Camden NJ.
  One woman who interviewed Osbourne for a sales position on Oct 23 said he appeared wierd: He slouched in his chair, was barely audible when he spoke, and left during the interview to use the bathroom.
  According to his application, he did not graduate from high school or attend college. He listed his hobbies as "musician and soccer player." He said he has sales experience, and experience directing groups of people "during musical sessions."

  
  He was arrested as a material witness on Oct 26th. Freepers here all shout CHECK OUT DETROIT! which has a huge muslim population.
  It turns out there IS a Johnnie Muhammad who lives or lived in Detroit. A database firm says that person is:

  John A Muhammad,
  Age 41,
  Detroit Michigan.

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  Now I know many of you will speculate on a Lansing murder, so here is my research on that one...

  

• June 23 2001 - A suspicious sniper shooting occurred in Lansing Michigan last year. A black woman, Bernita White, age 41, is shot thru the heart by a high-powered rifle from a wooded area 100 yards away. The bullet is never found. Bernita, who is a member of a baptist church, filed for divorce a month earlier.
  [ She probably spent a great deal of time as her marriage broke up, with her mother who lived in Detroit. You can draw your own conclusions, but we don't know yet that Muhammad was in Detroit or Michigan in June 2001. ]

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[Travis McGee]

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[FITZ]

Immigration law says stowaway aliens are to be deported immediately, but this pair was released and given November 2002 deportation hearing dates, even though they are both said to be living in in homeless shelters and were described as likely to abscond.

I wonder how the families of the innocent murdered feel about these criminals being allowed to stay. It's not like they were here in this country to work hard, they were low-lives allowed to stay when they should have been sent back.

[cookcounty]

Interesting enough to bump.

[Sacajaweau]

Excellent. Thank you.

Just little comments.

Can we track Richard Reid further?? Would love to catch him in Florida or Antiqua at the same time as the 9-11 creeps and/or these guys. Watching these two guys run all over the place gives me the same impression as the Atta gang AND the anthrax scenario.

The Sept 21 killing implicates a third party.

These two spent a lot of time with his relatives. Wonder if he was passing them some bucks?? Too many visits with too many relatives doesn't make them look very innocent to me. (Regardless of what they are saying.)

[Sacajaweau]

No doubt the guy was into Islam from various witnesses. Sure hope someone has some of their literature (or it's in their car).

Malvo is said to have visited libraries. Was he using them for chats?? Didn't Atta use libraries??

[Plutarch]

bump

[bvw]

Osbourne interviewed Friday by Trentonian reporters. The 26 year old Jamacian is a singer and loves music.

Osbourne said his music was not exploitative. "It's an inspiration from God," he said. "I don't abuse the system."

Hmmm ... his music is "not exploitive" and "don't abuse the system" yet is inspired by God. What kind of music could that be?

[joesnuffy]

Racist Liar thief rapist murderer child spouse abuser homosexual bully dead beat dad violent ill tempered dangerous malingerer goldbrick meanspirited backstabbing low life insane extortionist devout muslim...

[bvw]

That's a mouthful but even then not near a full list.

[Eva]

Great job of putting this time line together!

[Grampa Dave]

This gets better all along.

You have the basis for a great spy type novel based on your John Muhammud time lines.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping!

This gets better each day re going back on his trail.

I get the feeling that this is only the tip of the iceberg of the real story behind the mass murderer John Muhammud!

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Dec 19 2001 - Malvo and mother were arrested by INS in Washington state, and detained for one month after the school reported them for not delivering transcripts. A different report says the mother raised a stink when she arrived in Washington state, and thats how the INS got involved.

Immigration law says stowaway aliens are to be deported immediately, but this pair was released and given November 2002 deportation hearing dates, even though they are both said to be living in in homeless shelters and were described as likely to abscond. Part of the reason is the border patrol supposedly learned these two were smuggled into this country by Muhammad, and that gives the illegals more rights than a stowaway.

Muhammad appeared dangerously delusional according to his cousin - Anderson, and she is eventually showed that his duffel bag contained a rifle and ammunition. She asks him to leave the next day, but agrees to hold his padlocked duffel bag for safekeeping for a week.

I wonder how many immigration lawyers are involved here. Why can’t these predators be sued by the families of the dead? Why can’t these b@st@rds be publicly identified as public enemies who profit as public defenders with our tax money letting loose criminals in our society? Don’t ask your politicians for help because they are mostly predatory lawyers. It’s going to take mobs to weed these b@st@ards out. We need photographs and stories circulating the Internet identifying these b@st@rds.

[blam]

This is real good for an engineer. <>

[afraidfortherepublic]

Wow! Are the authorities arware of all this?

[Sacajaweau]

This is real good for an engineer!!

You forgot to mention a "FLORIDA" engineer.

It's like a dream!!

I guess there's exceptions to everything.

[aristeides]

No doubt the guy was into Islam from various witnesses.

Muhammad drank beer in the mornings at a bar in Bellingham (and sometimes added whiskey). At one sports bar in Montgomery County, MD, he not only ordered a beer for himself, he tried to order a beer for Malvo.

I wonder how serious a Moslem he was.

[aristeides]

Have you noticed the Washington Post's reports that the staff at the YMCA in Silver Spring, MD saw Muhammad and Malvo work out several times in late August and early September? Have you noticed the report in last Sunday's Washington Post that a woman in Silver Spring observed the two in their dark car driving slowly along her block in late September, after the heat broke? You might want to add those things to your chronology.

[Consort]

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