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January 25, 2005
On " More about that very curious plane
Topics:Last night on WOAI San Antonio News (via Michelle Malken):
(...) "Department of Homeland Security officials forced a small plane carrying four apparently illegal Chinese immigrants and a pilot identified as a Mexican national to land at an airport in San Antonio Monday night, officials said today. The immigrants were being held at Stinson Airfield shortly after federal agents forced their plane down.
Authorities are trying to determine if the four pasengers on board the Cessna 172-P, two men and two women, are linked to a report that several Chinese nationals were attempting to set off a 'dirty bomb' in the Boston area."
Today from Michelle Malken:
The co-owner of the plane, Afzal Hameed, is president of Alpha Tango Flying Services in San Antonio, which trains pilots and mechanics.
Guess who trained at Alpha Tango Flying Services--which, by the way, caters to Saudi Arabian flight students(!!!!):
Among their clients were three Arab flight students investigated by the FBI, including Al Qaeda operative Abdul Hakim Murad , who was arrested in Manila in 1995 and later convicted in New York of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific, then crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters.
The FBI has been keeping tabs on Alpha Tango since Sept. 11. So, now, a plane co-owned by Alpha Tango's president, who is incommunicado, has been forced down with a planeful of Chinese illegal aliens in the wake of a terror alert involving Chinese illegal aliens.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Update: A little more info about plane owners Afzal Hameed and Alyce Taylor comes from Martin at National Terror Alert. They have been married since 1980 according to Texas public records. FYI, marriage fraud/immigration scams are common among terrorist operatives.
Believe it or not, there's more...
Hat tip - Jawa Report
A 'rough' translation(not the best but better is coming) of the Dutch Article Michelle mentions in her post is below (I have already sent the translation to Michelle by email):
Newly Updated and cleaned up a bit with originally untranslated words translated by Zacht Ei.
A flying school at Rotterdam Airport has proven to be since April from several extremist Moslem countries in the Middle East harassed with applications for pilot training. The requests done by e-mail to be originating from pakistan, Algeria, Libya and the United $arab Emirateses: states where Islamic terrorist organizations recruit such as those of Osama bin Ladin(Dutch word for drawers) warriors, or sympathizers enjoy large-scale financial support.
Approached the pilot school, the city of Rotterdam Aero, have club to the devastating terror wave of last Tuesday in America never consider email message on the foreign applications. Now the aviators say will transfer copies of the e mail message urgently to the internal security service (BVD).
governing board member K. in the field: Honestly it was said I that e-mailtjes up to last Tuesday entirely forget. We have never discussed also. Now we look at of course complete differently against this matter. Our governing board finds it even this way suspected that we make all applications to the secret service available.
Five, written in English request substantive striking agreements show.
The writers present themselves all as young students who have followed are interested in the pilot training PPL (for sport aviators), by Cpl-opleiding as a basis for flying with jet planes in commercial aviation..
The first application reached the city of Rotterdam Aero club on 20 April last the writer who calls himself ' Hussain Asif Jafri asked to the fly school then send information on both pilot training course(training, education, course) to an address in the Pakistani Karachi. In a Second, early June e-mail written under the name ' Kashif Azfal ' an address gives someone up in Noord-Pakistan accompanied of a mobile phone number. To be e mail address notabene(exclamation or "for crying out loud") are preceded personally by the word ' extremist '.
Tightly a month later ' Shabab Attarzadeh ' with a PO Box number in Dubai (United $arab Emirateses) contact aviators the rotterdamse. Under the same name proves have been asked in February 1997 at the Swiss airline company Crossair for toesturing(to have something sent to you) of scale models of planes for a another PO Box number in Dubai.
A day later, on 3 July last, is the ' Hamza Abdelkarim ', from algiers in Algeria, which wants know everything concerning the pilot training in Rotterdam. The last request comes media august of one ' Issa Mansoer '. These claim the theoretical part of sport aviator training PPL in its thuisland Libya have followed and give up to practical experience in Rotterdam do to want.
Systran via Zacht Ei (provided translation for words missed by Systran)
Posted by Hyscience at January 25, 2005 2:46 PM
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