Five on small plane detained at Stinson
January 25, 2005 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Homeland Security News
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.
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.
