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2003-12-29 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Steve 2003-12-29 9:32:44 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Phillipine news website adds:

Both Americans are of Middle Eastern descent and married to Filipinos, one intelligence official told Reuters, adding that James Stubbs also uses a Muslim name, Jamil Daud Mujahid. He is on the U.S. watch list.

Intelligence sources said Michael Ray Stubbs works in a state-run, high-security nuclear and biological research facility in the United States. what the f....? If the Homeland Security boys aren't zeroing in on guys like this, what are they doing??????

"These guys had slipped through the tight U.S. watch list but we were lucky to get them here," a senior naval intelligence official told Reuters. "The Americans were completely taken by surprise when informed about the arrest of these two men."

He said the brothers were looking to buy property and had met regularly in the Philippines for the past several years.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2003-12-29 10:00:01 AM|| 2003-12-29 10:00:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 and are undergoing "tactical interrogation."

Is that like "getting to know a rubber hose?"

Posted by ScottAK 2003-12-29 10:01:17 AM|| 2003-12-29 10:01:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "He said the brothers were looking to buy property"

Foreigners are not allowed to buy property in the Philippines

Posted by Lizzel 2003-12-29 10:05:30 AM|| 2003-12-29 10:05:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Foreigners are not allowed to buy property in the Philippines

If their wives are locals, couldn't they purchase it in wives names?

Posted by Steve 2003-12-29 10:18:50 AM|| 2003-12-29 10:18:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 What is it with American terrorists and Filipino brides?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-29 11:19:18 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2003-12-29 11:19:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL I love it when Americans go off the deep end! The State department probably gave the travel plans of the brothers to the Filapino CIA. Thats a trick I hadn't seen used in years. You let the bad guy (U.S.) travel (flee) to a country that: A) will use torture to get information and B) will extradite them when they are through. Believe me they will want to come back to America, even in chains.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-29 1:33:08 PM|| 2003-12-29 1:33:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I know a few sailers who have past through the Phillipines,personally know one Phillipino lass.
Sure was a pretty,little lady.

Posted by raptor 2003-12-29 2:00:02 PM|| 2003-12-29 2:00:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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