TOLEDO -- A federal grand jury has indicted three Toledo-area men for terrorist activities. Prosecutors say the three conspired to wage a "holy war" against the United States and coalition forces in the Middle East. The indictment was unsealed Monday.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says it was work by the F.B.I. and the Toledo Joint Terrorism Task Force that led to the indictments. If the three are convicted on the most serious charges, the suspects could be sentenced to life in prison.
An indictment isn't a conviction, but it does give one pause to consider...
In related (but may not be specifically connected)
The Treasury Department yesterday ordered American banks to freeze assets of an Ohio-based group the government says funnels money to the militant organization Hamas. The organization, KindHearts of Toledo, was connected with the Hamas-affiliated Holy Land Foundation and the Al Qaeda-affiliated Global Relief Foundation, the Treasury Department said yesterday
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I drove past this place this morning and was curious that the whole parking lot was taped off and there were 2 TPD cruisers parked, blocking the entrances.
It may have nothing to do with the above thread, it could simply be money fraud or something similar... to get the FBI and FDLE involved. however the photo in the article has an officer wearing a FBI JTTF jacket.
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Breaking News: FBI Raids Middle Eastern Owned Service Stations
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 12:42:35
TV 8 News has learned the FBI and local law enforcement authorities are conducting a statewide raid of service stations and businesses owned by Middle Easterners. Agents executed search warrants today at businesses from Tallulah to Ruston and in Monroe. The FBI says the raids are part of "an ongoing criminal investigation." Police sources tell TV 8 News the raids target possible money laundering and counterfeiting in connection with suspected domestic terrorist activity and homeland security. TV 8 News will have details at 5, 6,and 10.
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I drove past this place this morning and was curious that the whole parking lot was taped off and there were 2 TPD cruisers parked, blocking the entrances.
It may have nothing to do with the above thread, it could simply be money fraud or something similar... to get the FBI and FDLE involved. however the photo in the article has an officer wearing a FBI JTTF jacket.
Federal raid could result in terror charges against Tampa man
an ABC Action News report 02/22/06
TAMPA - A local convenience store owner went before a federal judge Wednesday, just hours after FBI agents raided his home and store.
Agents with the Joint Terrorism Task Force spent hours going through Britt's Grocery Deli on North Rome in Tampa, taking out boxes of financial records, receipts, and journals, and taking store owner Hassan Qasem into custody.
TAMPA - The owner of a convenience store on Sligh Avenue was arrested Wednesday after he was accused of illegally sending $53,000 to people in Yemen through a Michigan travel agency.
Authorities also accuse Hasan Qasem of illegally transferring $83,500 to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and to Luxembourg.
The FBI searched Britt's Grocery Store and arrested Qasem on charges that he sent money overseas in a manner designed to avoid government scrutiny.
Qasem's wife, Mary, said she did not know about the charges and does not know anyone in Yemen. She said she and her husband, who is of Palestinian descent, have nothing to hide. "We don't know anything," she said. "We'll have to figure it out and see what's going on."
Mary Qasem said the FBI came to the store and the couple's nearby house about 7 a.m. Wednesday and stayed until 11 a.m. searching the premises. As of late afternoon, she had not heard from her husband, who she said has lived in the area since 1977.
"We try to lead a clean life," she said.
Qasem was being held in Orient Road Jail, without bail.
FBI spokeswoman Carol Michalik said the agency's Tampa office executed search and arrest warrants in cooperation with the Detroit FBI. Michalik said no further statements would be released to the media.
According to an FBI affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, an investigation determined that Qasem structured financial transactions triggering reports to the government by financial institutions, which are required to alert the government to transactions of more than $10,000.
The affidavit by FBI Agent Matthew G. Smith says Qasem transmitted cash this way to people in the West Bank, Luxembourg and Yemen.
The affidavit lists nine wire transfers from 2002 to 2004 to Nablus in the West Bank and to Luxembourg, each for $8,500 or $9,500.
It says Qasem provided $53,000 to Arabian Horizon Travel and Tourism in Dearborn, Mich., from March to June 2004. The agency is the exclusive ticketing agent in North America for Yemen Airways, an airline owned by the Yemeni and Saudi Arabian governments, the affidavit says.
The affidavit gives several examples of what the FBI says were efforts to evade the $10,000 reporting requirement. For instance, the affidavit says Qasem purchased two checks from SunTrust Bank on March 19, 2004. The checks, purchased four minutes apart, were for $5,373 and $4,670, a total of $10,043.
Those two checks were sent to Arabian Horizon, along with a business check for $8,957, bringing the total to $19,000, for transmittal to Yemen.
An attempt to reach the travel agency late Wednesday was unsuccessful.
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The FBI is conducting a large scale investigation into north Louisiana convenience stores with ties to the Middle East. As TV8's Gina Swanson reports the Department of Homeland Security is in on the sting operation involving stores in at least four parishes.
They seized evidence by the box full. The FBI on Wednesday searched at least a half dozen convenience stores in North Louisiana. All with ties to the Middle East. The probe led agents to stores in Tallulah, Lake Providence, Monroe and Ruston. Law enforcement sources confirm that the stores are suspected of involvement in money laundering or counterfeiting. The Department of Homeland Security has sent agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or Ice, to work the case. At each station, agents seized boxes of evidence and retrieved at least one weapon. Police sources say at least some of the gas station operators are from Yemen. An Arab country located just south of Saudi Arabia. ULM history professor John Sutherlin believes the arab heritage of the convenience store owners could make them a convenient target for terror suspects.
"Anytime Arab or Muslim people are involved people immediately think it must be terror related or have some connection to 9-11," Sutherlin says.
The investigation reaches beyond Louisiana. TV8 news has confirmed the FBI and department of homeland security Wednesday also raided stores in Buffalo, New York.
Gina Swanson TV8 news.
So we so far have isolated incidents in Ohio, Florida, New York, and Louisiana. all within a day or 2
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Facing Charges of Aiding Terrorism
WTAP News
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Twenty-year old's Ali Howssaiky and Osama Abulhassan are facing charges of money laundering to aid terrorism. This comes after a traffic stop Tuesday led police to thousands of dollars in cash, several disposable cell phones and instructions of how to obtain private flight information. Police also found a list of flight passengers in the car.
"It also had information about airport checkpoints, and what would be accomplished there, so this is a little bit unusual," Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks says.
Sheriff Mincks also says the disposable cell phones are especially important, because it appears their final destination was supposed to be overseas.
"They are digital and can be used to detonate car bombs," he says.
Two laundered money for Hizbollah -Ohio prosecutor
CHICAGO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Two 20-year-old men arrested in Ohio were being held on Thursday on charges of money laundering on behalf of Hizbollah, authorities said.
The two men, Ali Houssaiky and Osama Abulhassan, of Dearborn, Michigan, were apprehended on Tuesday in Marietta, Ohio, during a traffic stop and found carrying $11,000 in cash, 12 cell phones, airline passenger lists and information on airport security, a spokesman for the Washington County prosecutor's office said.
Authorities said the men admitted to buying hundreds of telephones and reselling them in Dearborn.
A map marking Wal-Mart stores from Ohio to South Carolina was also found in their sedan, a spokesman said.
Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit with a large Arab-American population, has been a locus of U.S. investigations into money-raising on behalf of Hizbollah and Hamas, both groups that are on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.
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Three Middle Eastern Men Found With 1000 Cell Phones
Aug 11, 2006 11:59 AM EDT
(TV5) -- Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro. Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three. The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register. They also paid cash.
An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects were headed towards Bad Axe on M-81 where there is another Super Wal-Mart.
The three men were described as being of Pakistani descent but live in Texas. Police say the three, ages 19, 22, and 23 appear to be naturalized citizens. One man was driving while the other two were in the back opening the phone packages with box cutters throwing the phones in one box, batteries in another and the packaging and phone charger in another container. The suspects had 1000 other cell phones in the van. There was also a bag of receipts showing that someone was in Wisconsin the day before.
The phones were Nokia Tracfones selling for $20 at Wal-Mart. For your twenty dollars you receive a phone charger and 40 minutes of airtime. The phones do not have to be registered with a name. Also discovered was a laptop with store addresses and store logos.
The men have been "cooperative, upfront, not hiding" anything according to police. They also told officers they get stopped frequently and say they buy the phones for $20 and sell them elsewhere for $38. They sell them without the packaging or charger.
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That sounds like a profitable business, throw away all the accessories and charge twice the price... after all it isn't like you could get these at your own walmart.
But someone ought to let them know that they could buy bulk from a wholesale distributor... Imagine all the time they'd save instead of driving around the country buying phones 3 at a time in cash.
Right.... Nope, nothing to see here.
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