Great bump sign.
Posted on 02/15/2003 10:55:48 PM PST by disclaimer
FBI alert triggered
by 'Mideast' truckers
Pair reportedly tried to put unleaded gas
into 18-wheeler at Colorado gas station
Two men described as 'Middle Eastern' seen driving a semi-truck that made a stop at a Colorado gas station are the focus of a nationwide alert issued by the FBI, according to a report by KUSA-TV in Denver.
The men driving the 18-wheeler reportedly stopped at a Hess station Thursday afternoon in the town of Byers, about forty miles east of Denver.
The FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force got involved when an attendant saw the men apparently trying to put unleaded gasoline into the truck. The attendant had to tell the pair to use diesel fuel instead.
The men fueled up with the correct gas, paid in cash and then headed toward Interstate 80 in northeastern Colorado.
Few details of the FBI alert, which was released Friday afternoon, have been made available to the media.
The name on the truck is 'Real Transport' and it has a Quebec, Canada, license plate number RS7-116.
Authorities reportedly ran a check on the plate and determined it's not currently registered.
"Chuck Colson of the evangelical American Christian Mission, which ministers to inmates around the country, penned a widely circulated article in the Wall Street Journal charging that "al-Qaeda training manuals specifically identify America's prisoners as candidates for conversion because they may be 'disenchanted with their country's policies'... As US citizens, they will combine a desire for 'payback' with an ability to blend easily into American culture." Moreover, he wrote, "Saudi money has been funneled into the American Muslim Foundation, which supports prison programs," reiterating that America's "alienated, disenfranchised people are prime targets for radical Islamists who preach a religion of violence, of overcoming oppression by jihad." "
Just wait till they get out ... . Bitter, angry and with nothing to lose.
Great bump sign.
IMHO, this must be a stolen truck from the Milwaukee company, and outfitted with a Canadian plate.
Does anyone know if something nasty, being 'trucked' into the U.S. via Mexico might be allowed in easier if it the truck had Canadian plates and papers showing it was returning to Canada? And aren't border agents along the Mexican border searching primarily for drugs? What if the truck was free of all drugs, but had something more dangerous that drug-sniffing dogs would not detect.
A story at: http://mccain.senate.gov/NAFTATRUCKS.HTM
says that not all trucks heading north from Mexico have their driver's Commercial Driver's License (CDL) verified, because they don't have the equipment, and even without those checks, back-ups already exceed 4 hours at some border crossings.
The Byers Colorado employees say the truck left the gas station and headed north on '36', supposedly toward Interstate 80. I would think however that since highway 36 quickly bends and heads EAST, the drivers were trying to avoid weigh stations, and are travelling cross country on smaller roads.
I checked Canadian trucking firms using Canadian search engines and could not find a Real Transport or a Real Transport, Inc. in Canada. I used GOOGLE and several other search engines. FYI.
Marine Inspector is our resident border patrol person--he could probably tell you of he's still on FR.
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