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Home Front: WoT
2 held on terror charges in Ohio
2006-08-10
MARIETTA, Ohio - Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.

Deputies stopped Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, 20, and Ali Houssaiky, 20, both of Dearborn, Mich., on a traffic violation Tuesday. They found the flight documents along with $11,000 cash and 12 phones in the car, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
damn presbyterians
Prosecutor Susan Vessels declined to say how the phones, cash or flight information involved terrorism.
"I can say no more. Put it together yourselves, geniuses in the media"
Abulhassan and Houssaiky admitted buying about 600 phones in recent months at stores in southeast Ohio, said sheriff's Maj. John Winstanley. The men said they sold the phones to someone in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb.
Do they want the phones or the SIM cards?
Investigators going through the car after the pair were pulled over in Marietta, about 90 miles southeast of Columbus, also found a map that showed locations of Wal-Mart stores from Ohio through Kentucky, Tennessee and into North and South Carolina, Vessels said. FBI spokesman Mike Brooks in Cincinnati said his office was notified about the arrests and an agent was investigating.

A message seeking comment was left Wednesday evening with Ray Smith, a public defender who represents Abulhassan. Houssaiky did not yet have an attorney, Vessels said.

Abulhassan and Houssaiky did not speak at a hearing Wednesday in Marietta Municipal Court in which a judge set their bond at $200,000, Vessels said. Another bond hearing was set for Thursday. The charges allege the two laundered between $5,000 and $25,000, Vessels said. A conviction carries a maximum 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Posted by:Frank G

#17  Amen. Lately I trust most muzzies before I trust PCUSA.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-10 16:49  

#16  --damn presbyterians--

The way the hierarchy of CPUSA has been for the past couple of decades, don't put it past them.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-08-10 11:49  

#15  Just deport them anyway. If they can't play well with their new neighbors, then they go home.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-08-10 11:47  

#14  This Dearborn enclave is a real and growing menace. I know authorities monitor these bastards as best they can, but I think this operation ought to be shutdown. Tell them to deport themselves or face detention in large desert camps. They're desert lovers anyway aren't they. Michigan is a totally foreign environment and we ought to help them correct it.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-08-10 11:25  

#13  I know the area well. Live and let live folk, very private. They won't appreciate plotters against America in their backyard. If these scum avoid conviction and escape without buckshot in their rears, they can consider themselves lucky. If they end up in jail, it will have all the markings of a circus act: bearded ladies, three-legged jugglers, and money-laundering terrorists. Quite the spectacle for locals.
Posted by: Jules in the Hinterlands   2006-08-10 10:25  

#12  Hmmm ... first this, add to the missing Egyptian "students," and now the early-moring news of massive bomb plot directed at passenger planes.

If civilian passenger planes could talk: "Why do they hate us?"
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden   2006-08-10 09:30  

#11  From Dearborn, y'say?
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-08-10 09:17  

#10   What's with the Wal*Mart maps?

I'll wager that's where they are buying their prepaid cell phones
Posted by: Steve   2006-08-10 09:07  

#9  Marietta College has a decently well-known petroleum engineering department that attracts a number of students from the ME. These guys may not have raised an eyebrow among the locals, especially since classes will be starting shortly. That said, 600 phones would be enough to make even the locals say, "but don't y'all have a phone in your room?"
Posted by: IG-88   2006-08-10 08:59  

#8  The judge agreed to let them go on a $200K bond??????? WTF? Someone send that Judge's name over O'Riley and let him explain that one!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-08-10 08:48  

#7  Right after the NSA tracing of phone calls placed to suspected overseas terrorist numbers was exposed by the New York Times, there were reports of muslim men buying dozens of prepaid cell phones at a time. This was probably the time before prepaid cell phones had to be registered. Now that cell phones have to have a name in order to work, I wonder why no one did a computer match to discover so many phones under their names.

maximum 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine
That is sure deter the little jihadis.
Posted by: ed   2006-08-10 08:36  

#6  What's with the Wal*Mart maps? Wal*Mart customers in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina should be told to be on the lookout for furners with funny accents. They'll know what to do.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-10 08:32  

#5  I have worked in that area at times. Osama and Ali would tend attract attention. Local law enforcement would probably be more alert to "strangers" than say the Feds.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-08-10 08:30  

#4  Damn Buddhists.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2006-08-10 08:29  

#3  Southeast Ohio? I figure they went there because they thought the "hicks" would be less likely to catch them.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-08-10 08:25  

#2  Correction Terrorism terrorists
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-08-10 08:15  

#1  Abulhassan and Houssaiky admitted buying about 600 phones in recent months at stores in southeast Ohio, said sheriff's Maj. John Winstanley. The men said they sold the phones to someone in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb.

Waaaa, 600 cell phones. Find out who is using them. Terrorism are getting into the hinterlands of Ohio.
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-08-10 08:14  

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