New details on the New Jersey murders

January 31, 2005

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A close friend of Hossam Armanious and relatives of the family murdered in New Jersey have revealed the following:

Shortly after the murders, members of the Egyptian consulate went to visit the family to encourage them to keep quiet. And many family members have obeyed, saying nothing to reporters or anyone else. However, two family members and another Copt viewed the bodies at the funeral home. One of these eyewitnesses said that he clearly saw that the family members had not suffered stab wounds to the throat, as the prosecutors report states, but rather the following:

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Christians stalked on Islamic website

January 31, 2005

The New Jersey man brutally murdered with his family was just one of a number of Christians systematically tracked by a radical Islamic website because they debate Muslims on the popular Internet chat service PalTalk.com.

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Missouri Charity Investigated for Terrorism Ties

January 30, 2005

A federal judge has ordered the government to turn over classified information about a Missouri charity accused of ties with terrorism.

U-S District Judge Reggie Walton gave attorneys two weeks to hand the files over.

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Gulf Cartel Threatens FBI Kidnappings

January 28, 2005

Valley authorities are on alert tonight after the FBI San Antonio office receives “credible information” of a threat to kidnap agents and kill them.

The Gulf Cartel is believed to have massed armed men, with visas and passports, along the border to come into the United States and kidnap two FBI agents.

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Zarqawi Men Nabbed as Iraqi Expats Vote

January 28, 2005

Authorities in Iraq have arrested two close associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, including the chief of the terror mastermind’s Baghdad operation, the government said Friday, two days ahead of historic elections that extremists have vowed to subvert.

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Passengers subdue man on Southwest flight

January 27, 2005

Passengers aboard a Southwest Airlines flight helped wrestle a fellow passenger to the floor Tuesday night after he tried to force his way into the cockpit, law enforcement officials said.

The incident happened aboard Flight 2161, which was traveling from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to West Palm Beach, Florida.

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“Jihadists” living in Oregon, FBI says

January 26, 2005

The FBI knows of “jihadists” who have trained in terrorist camps in Afghanistan and are now living in Oregon, the agency’s Oregon chief said in an interview with The Associated Press yesterday.

“We don’t have an imminent threat that we’re aware of. But I will say this: We have people here in Oregon that have trained in jihadist camps in bad areas. In the bad neighborhoods of the world,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Jordan.

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Federal officials say plane not related to possible terror plot

January 25, 2005

Four Chinese illegal immigrants and a Mexican national apprehended Monday night at Stinson Municipal Airport do not have any terrorism links, federal authorities said today.

The single-engine plane that they were flying in was one of two planes that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was monitoring Monday night as part of an ongoing investigation into human and drug smuggling operations in South Texas.

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Five on small plane detained at Stinson

January 25, 2005

Four immigrants and a pilot were detained after a Homeland Security Department division helped surround their plane at Stinson Municipal Airport on Monday night.

The five are being investigated in connection with a smuggling operation involving Chinese nationals, said Capt. Jeff Humphrey, San Antonio police special operations commander.

The five had been flying in a single-engine Cessna 172P south of San Antonio.

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An interesting sidenote from Michelle Malkin….The co-owners of the plane according to public records is Afzal Hameed, president of Alpha Tango Flying Services in San Antonio, which trains pilots and mechanics. Michelle also reports the plane is co-owned by Alyce Taylor.

Guess who trained at Alpha Tango Flying Services–which, by the way, caters to Saudi Arabian flight students(!!!!):

Among their clients were three Arab flight students investigated by the FBI, including Al Qaeda operative Abdul Hakim Murad , who was arrested in Manila in 1995 and later convicted in New York of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific, then crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters.

The FBI has been keeping tabs on Alpha Tango since Sept. 11. So, now, a plane co-owned by Alpha Tango’s president, who is incommunicado, has been forced down with a planeful of Chinese illegal aliens in the wake of a terror alert involving Chinese illegal aliens.

Update: A poster on Free Republic has informed us that according to Texas public records, there is a Afzal Hameed and Alyce Taylor that were married in Texas, in the 1980’s.

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Suspected ‘dirty bomb’ tipster held, questioned

January 25, 2005

A man suspected of phoning in a bogus tip that Chinese chemists planned to detonate a “dirty bomb” in Boston was detained in Mexicali yesterday and questioned by U.S. and Mexican officials.

Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinones, whom the FBI had identified Friday as a person sought for questioning, was taken into custody by Mexican state judicial police, said Dan Dzwilewski, chief of the FBI office in San Diego.

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