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Thread ID: 9008 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2003-08-13
2003-08-13 23:34 | User Profile
See also this related story in Zuckerman's rag. I smell a Russian (Jewish) mob angle to this, and possibly a "blood diamond" one as well.
[url=http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/108760p-98287c.html]NY Daily News: Bust 9/11 missile plot[/url]
From Reuters, available online at: [url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/329224.html]http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/329224.html[/url]
Last Update: 13/08/2003 22:50
U.S. Jew among 3 nabbed in plot to smuggle missile
By Reuters
NEWARK, New Jersey - An American Jew was among three suspects nabbed for allegedly attempting to smuggle a missile to terror groups operating inside the United States in order to down commercial aircraft.
But the smuggling attempt was in fact a sting operation orchestrated over the past 18 months by U.S., Russian and British authorities.
Terrorism-related charges were leveled on Wednesday against a British arms dealer who praised Osama bin Laden and thought he was smuggling into the United States missiles, federal prosecutors announced.
Two other suspected accomplices to the plot, inlcuding Yehuda Abraham, who is Jewish, face conspiracy charges, the prosecutors said.
"This morning, the terrorists who threatened America lost an ally in their quest to kill our citizens," U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie told a news conference on the plaza of the federal courthouse in Newark, New Jersey.
Moments earlier, two of the three suspects appeared before a federal magistrate amid tight security at the courthouse, where authorities spelled out charges against them.
Hemant Lakhani, identified as a well-known British arms dealer, was accused of providing material support to terrorists and of illegal weapons dealing, Christie said.
A second man, Moinuddeen Ahmed Hameed, was charged with illegally transmitting money to help finance the plot, Christie said. A third, Abraham, was due to appear later on Wednesday in federal court in New York on similar charges.
Lakhani was arrested on Tuesday in Newark after trying to sell a Russian-made shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile to FBI informants posing as extremists who wanted to shoot down a large commercial airliner, officials said.
The missile was intended "specifically for the purpose of shooting an American airliner out of the sky," Christie said.
Meanwhile in London, police said they searched two sites at the request of U.S. authorities in the sting operation. No arrests were made, and officials declined to say where they were carried out.
Lakhani, wearing a rumpled striped shirt, bowed his head and said nothing during his court appearance. A lawyer representing Lakhani later declined to comment to reporters.
The charge of providing support to terrorists carries a possible 15-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine, while the weapons charges could mean 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
Lakhani and Hameed were each given a court date for later this month to determine if they might be released on bail.
According to a criminal complaint, the sting began in December 2001, when officials learned about Lakhani from an informant.
They used the unidentified informant to contact Lakhani, a British citizen born in India, and investigators said they audiotaped and videotaped 150 conversations between the two men. Lakhani made a number of anti-U.S. remarks during those talks, it said.
"He on many occasions referred to Americans as bastards (and) Osama bin laden as a hero who had done something right and set the Americans straight," Christie said. Bin Laden's al Qaeda group is blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
"Mr. Lakhani knew full well what he was doing, why he was doing it, and ... he very clearly expressed his sentiments toward this country and its citizens," he said.
The informant pretended to Lakhani that he represented a Somali group that wanted to purchase an anti-aircraft missile, the complaint said. The Somali group told Lakhani they would pay $85,000 for a sample missile and promised to purchase 50 more later.
The complaint said Lakhani told the informant "ours is a much higher quality" surface-to-air missile that those were fired in November 2002 at an Israeli passenger plane taking off from Mombasa, Kenya, but did not hit the aircraft.
The third suspect, Abraham, took a $30,000 partial payment on behalf of Lakhani, it said.
Another payment of $500,000, which the U.S. Attorney said was 10 percent of the price, was in the works to purchase the additional missiles.
Hameed, who is from Malaysia, was only brought into the scheme in the last couple days to handle the larger payment, but money never changed hands, it said.
Russian authorities who worked in the sting provided an inert missile that was shipped to the United States. Lakhani was arrested when he tried to retrieve it at a Newark hotel, authorities said.
2003-08-14 00:33 | User Profile
**This looks a lot like a case of intrapment to me. I mean FBI pays the guy 85,000 to go buy the missile; they send him to Russia to buy a fake missile from some Russians working for the FBI; so he can sell the missile to the first guy working for the FBI. ** :dung:
I bet the Feds will make Yehuda a deal and let him off or maybe he will jump bail and move to Isreal.
The whole thing looks like a cheap stunt to make the Morons of America love Big Bother!
:gun: :gun: :gun: :gun:
Feds Suck!
2003-08-14 00:58 | User Profile
I agree Faust. Is it just me, or does the FBI always try to act like they're in some hollywood action flick? In fact the FBI tries to promote a hollywood-like image, just read any book by ex-FBI agents they're hiliarious if not ridiculas! :lol:
2003-08-14 14:34 | User Profile
perun1201,
They just said guy was short of money too.
A cheap stunt to make the Morons of America love Big Bother!
2003-08-14 15:50 | User Profile
The jews are laying the ground work for one of their attacks
2003-08-15 08:23 | User Profile
Swiftsource
Jewish Telegraph Agency, Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Jew nabbed in missile sting
A U.S. Jew was among three men nabbed in a missile sting linked to terrorist arms dealings.
Yehuda Abraham is one of three men arrested after one tried to sell a surface-to-air missile to FBI informants posing as terrorists who wanted to shoot down a commercial airplane. Abraham is expected to face charges that he illegally transmitted money to finance the scheme. Abraham is a jeweler from Manhattan, according to several news reports.
See David Irving: A Radical's Diary
David Irving says: Why was this fact removed from later TV news bulletins? And, did you read this in your local newspaper - if not, why not? CNN identified the British-Indian, and in later bulletins suggested the two gem-dealers were of Afghan origin! A correspondent tells me: CNN or Fox gave a shot of a man, identified as a friend of the gem dealer, saying, "I can't believe it, I am shocked; He is a big supporter of Israel and very prominent in his synagogue." Yes, it will be interesting to see how they talk their way out of this one. As another correspondent, inspired by my Radical's Diary writes this evening. Check the ABC TV news item, he says: "Interesting how eager they are to identify the ethnicity and nationality of the suspect arrested in New Jersey -- but not the two 47th Street 'gem merchants'."
[url=http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/08/nabbed.html]http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/08/nabbed.html[/url]
2003-08-15 17:47 | User Profile
I guess that this story, and the race of the criminals, will vanish from the mainstream press very shortly. Just as the Israeli "movers" celebrating as the world trade center toppled, as did the "art students" infiltration exercises, as did the amdocs affair, as did the LeBelle Affair, as did the USS Liberty, as did the Lavon Affair, as did the Israeli movers in Cloud Croft New Mexico. Ah, the sweet taste of a free press and government ââ¬Åby and for the peopleââ¬Â.
2003-08-16 00:23 | User Profile
Hello,
The LeBelle Affair was when a disco frequented by American servicemen was attacked resulting in a few deaths and several injuries c. '86. Mossad had a pretty advanced electronic disinformation campaign which they used to falsely portray the Lybians as responsible which resulted in the US launching bombing raids which killed several dozen Lybian civilians. It was latter discovered that leftist terrorist group (Action Direct) was responsible but they were never punished.
2003-08-16 19:03 | User Profile
This story reminds me a little of the Israelis caught selling ammo to Palestinians.
This people aren't ethnocentric - that would require some kind of morals. They're money-centric. Jews would deal in lampshades if they could turn a profit.
2003-08-17 02:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Hugh Lincoln; "Jews would deal in lampshades if they could turn a profit.
Hugh, you must have E.S.P.. Check [url=http://ahilim.tripod.com/]this [/url] out. :th: