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2007-05-31 Home Front: WoT
Man claiming to be terrorist arrested at bar
LOGANSPORT — Logansport police responding to a theft report at local bar Tuesday ended up contacting the FBI because the man they arrested claimed to have terrorist ties.

Police were called at 10:22 p.m. to Polsi’s Bar at 1139 Erie Ave. to investigate the theft of a woman’s cell phone. The victim told police she had left her purse and cell phone on a table when she left the bar, and when she returned, her cell phone was missing. When she recovered it, she discovered a 20-minute international call had been made to Morocco at a rate of $5 a minute.

When police arrived, they questioned the man outside the bar, telling him he would have to pay for the phone call. The man reportedly told investigators he had no money and then began yelling obscenities and threats. Police say the man yelled he was with the terrorist group al-Qaida and he was going to kill Americans, including the police officer who was questioning him.

On the way to jail, police reported the man somehow got the handcuffs from behind his body and began thrashing about in an effort to exit the moving vehicle. The police officer stopped the vehicle and shot chemical spray into the man’s eyes.

Patrons of the bar later found obscenities written in French and a message in what appeared to be Arabic.

Police booked 37-year-old Hamid Faiq of Logansport into the Cass County Jail on charges of theft and intimidation, both class D felonies, and public intoxication and disorderly conduct, both class B misdemeanors.

A report was made to the Department of Homeland Security and Faiq’s information was passed onto the FBI, which placed a hold on Faiq until agents arrive today to interview him.

LPD Detective David Kain offered no comment on the credibility of the threat, but he said law enforcement must fully investigate all such comments. Police said Faiq had been in the area at least three years.
Posted by Phomolet Slinenter8071 2007-05-31 00:47|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 "37-year-old Hamid Faiq of Logansport"

What the F**K ! What is a camel molester doing in Logansport ? I've been there a few times, maybe even in this bar. Between these scumbags and the Mexicans we are being overrun. Definitely prefer the Mexicans to these bastards. I wonder if they over stay visas or are they coming across the southern border too ?
Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-31 01:39||   2007-05-31 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I hear Guantanamo just got a vacancy....
Posted by tu3031 2007-05-31 09:31||   2007-05-31 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Can we make this guy an idiot of the day candidate?

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2007-05-31 09:46||   2007-05-31 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Police said Faiq had been in the area at least three years.

Citizen, visa holder or illegal? If either of the latter, make him pay the lady's phone bill and the cost to clean up his obscenities written in the bar, then expel him back to Morocco. If a naturalized citizen, strip him of that just for claiming to be Al Qaeda, then expel him back to Morocco. If a born citizen (which I doubt, for some reason), convict and jail him -- after making him pay the lady's phone bill -- for both the theft and the terrorist threat. And in all cases pointedly examine every contact of his for the last four years, however slight the acquaintance, to check whether any of them have a connection to Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups... keeping him imprisoned until that's done. Let all who knew him come to regret the acquaintance.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-31 09:55||   2007-05-31 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 The police officer stopped the vehicle and shot chemical spray into the man’s eyes.

Congratulations, dipshit! You win a prize.
Posted by Catherwood">Catherwood  2007-05-31 10:21||   2007-05-31 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 According to my buddy whose parents live near Bloomington, there is a huge mosque that's been built on the south side of Indianapolis in what used to be a corn field. He sees it when he gets of I-465 and heads south to Bloomington. Perhaps this muzzie is part of a local cell, got drunk and started shooting his mouth off. Man, times sure have changed since I grew up in Indy.
Posted by remoteman 2007-05-31 13:45||   2007-05-31 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Of all the possible pick-up lines, that one never entered My mind.
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