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  • Cell Mates? (FBI find weapons, $34,000, passports, and a gruesome Arabic videotape in Memphis)

    04/16/2005 6:00:36 AM PDT · by Brian Mosely · 108 replies · 3,818+ views
    Memphis Flyer ^ | 4/15/05 | John Branston
    O n April 4th, nine FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Raleigh home of a convicted felon named Rafat Jamal Mawlawi, a Syrian with dual citizenship in the United States. Mawlawi is suspected of organizing a scam to illegally bring Moroccan men into the United States by arranging sham marriages and engagements to women from Memphis. What the FBI found was much more troubling: a hidden stash of loaded weapons and ammunition clips, $34,000 in cash, two pictures of Mawlawi shouldering a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, a gruesome videotape of war casualties with Arabic text and voiceover, and more...