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Two Israelis Arrested in east Tennessee Transporting Suspicious Materials
Various local news broadcasts ^ | May 9, 2004 | who knows what evil?

Posted on 05/09/2004 3:51:42 PM PDT by who knows what evil?

My apologies in advance on this story; I just happened to catch this on several different newscasts a few minutes ago, and I am going by memory as best I can. Unicoi County (Tennessee) sheriffs arrested two Israeli men after a high-speed chase down mountain roads in this east Tennessee locale. While the sheriff was in pursuit, local witnesses noticed that materials were being thrown from the truck as it sped by, well over the posted speed limits. These witnesses were able to locate some of these items; one of which included a jug whose contents became "unusually hot" after the ingredients inside were shaken together. (Goes into the "Hey, y'all...watch this" category, WKWE.) Upon arrest, the police noted that the cab of the truck contained a "Learn How to Fly" brochure, along with passports and Florida licenses that "just didn't seem to add up". The Israelis claimed they were "just in the process of moving some furniture up to Boston". The police also stated that these two Israelis are "not being cooperative in any way." The FBI is investigating the nature of the substance in the jug that was recovered, which has been classified as an "inflammable fuel."

My questions:

1. What ELSE was in this (big yellow) 25-foot Ryder truck?
2. If they were travelling from Florida to Boston, what were they doing on a two-lane back road in the mountains of east Tennessee, several hundred miles WEST of Interstate 95; the most direct route from Florida to Boston?
3. What is the volatile substance in the jug, and why did they wish to avoid getting caught with it? (Why else would they pitch it?)
4. Why are they interested in "Learning How to Fly?"
5. Were they REALLY going to Boston, or were they MORE interested in the nearby Nuclear Fuel Services plant, or, G-d forbid, the huge Eastman Chemical Plant, about thirty miles further up the road?

It will be interesting to see if the national media picks up on this.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 200405; 20040509; almaliachnaor; astromid18; ayrabsintennessee; boston; captured; dahan; fl; giat; gloconicacid; homelandsecurity; israelis; marshills; naor; nc; ncarolina; nissangiat; northcarolina; plantation; shmueldahan; unicoicounty
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Well, just out of curiousity, where do they put these cameras? When I'm doing my daily commute on I-95, I'd like to wave at them.
361 posted on 05/10/2004 2:36:50 AM PDT by Amelia (It's the culture, stupid....or the lack thereof.)
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To: HitmanNY
From Johnson City Press
May 10, 2004

By Ron Scalf
Erwin Bureau
rscalf@johnsoncitypress.com

ERWIN — Two Israeli nationals held here without bond in the Unicoi County Jail will appear in Unicoi County General Sessions Court this morning, Sheriff Kent Harris said Sunday. Harris said the FBI ordered him to hold the duo without bond pending an investigation following a high speed chase through a remote area of Unicoi County Saturday afternoon in which the pair reportedly threw several items out of a rented Ryder truck, Harris said

. “They ignored my blue lights for two and one half miles and they were traveling 20 miles an hour over posted speed limits,” he said.

One man’s passport had expired and the other had a fake identification card, the sheriff said. By Sunday morning, Harris had identified the man who refused to give his first name as Almaliach Naor who was in the company of Shnuel Daran, 22, both from Israel and living in Miami, Fla.

“Our investigation has revealed they were on their way to Boston, Massachusetts,” Harris said. “Also, a vial of an unknown substance appears to be some kind of accelerant because when shook, it becomes warm,” he said.

“I enlisted Ed Herndon, our homeland security officer, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol to run (preliminary) tests and the FBI has asked we package the vial up and send it to a crime lab. which we are inthe process of doing.”

A combing of the confiscated Ryder Truck “produced an odor of a liquid on a side panel of some kind that we will also send to the lab,” Harris said. “Other than that, the truck was clean,” he said.

Harris said his department worked through the night on Saturday positively identifying Naor and working with Interpol officials who late last night told the sheriff the two were not on any international wanted lists. Harris said the men entered the United States from Israel in January. It was not known what type of visas they were granted.

Harris said Naor told FBI agents he was carrying a fake identification card to “get into clubs in Miami.” The sheriff declined to answer other questions concerning the investigation that is ongoing.

Records at Unicoi County jail indicated Naor and Daran will face charges today on counts of criminal impersonation, reckless driving and lying to authorities about throwing items out of the truck, which they rented a short distance away in Mars Hill, N.C. Harris said the men told authorities they were moving furniture.

Following their arrest Saturday afternoon, the sheriff said he “had a sick feeling” when he found a “Learn to Fly” brochure in the truck, especially since the county is home to the Nuclear Fuel Services plant not far from downtown Erwin.

“This is still a very suspicious case,” Harris said Sunday as he reiterated the comment he made Saturday concerning the matter: “We’re living in a very different time. We all need to be vigilant when it comes to homeland security.”

362 posted on 05/10/2004 3:44:22 AM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)
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To: don-o
“Also, a vial of an unknown substance appears to be some kind of accelerant because when shook, it becomes warm,” he said.

They were stupid enough to shake it? What if it was a vial of something like mercury fulminate?

363 posted on 05/10/2004 3:49:13 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: VaBthang4
Why no description of race? Nationality means nothing...it's paperwork presented...what is their race?

this's the logical rational for ethnic profilng, which IS NOT 'PC'....

364 posted on 05/10/2004 4:24:35 AM PDT by 1234 (Border control or IMPEACHMENT)
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To: don-o

Harris said Naor told FBI agents he was carrying a fake identification card to “get into clubs in Miami.” The sheriff declined to answer other questions concerning the investigation that is ongoing.

Move along folks nothing to see here.

365 posted on 05/10/2004 5:04:53 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: OXENinFLA
Move along folks nothing to see here.

Whatever. I believe that these two goobers are going to be guests of the county for quite a spell.

I wonder if they were supposed to meet someone who maybe has the ammonia nitrate?

366 posted on 05/10/2004 5:14:09 AM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)
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To: don-o
I get that there's something not right here. I haven't really read into the specifics of this but what did they have in the truck?

Move along folks nothing to see here.

Is a way of saying "yes" there's something wrong and we aren't being given the whole story from the media or Gov't.

367 posted on 05/10/2004 5:22:35 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: don-o
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&filter=0&scoring=d&q=Shmuel+Dahan&btnG=Search+News


A relative perhaps??????

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368 posted on 05/10/2004 5:29:49 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: who knows what evil?; MeekOneGOP; devolve

25-Foot RYDER TRUCK ping!


369 posted on 05/10/2004 5:36:46 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
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To: who knows what evil?; don-o; Mo1; StriperSniper; threat matrix; Howlin
http://www.wcyb.tv/newsread.asp?newsid=4381

Two Israeli men have been arrested after evading Unicoi County, Tennessee sheriff`s deputies, driving eratically on a two lane highway, and littering.

But, there may be more to their apprehension than that. Sheriff Kent Harris says the stories they`ve been telling investigators simply don`t add up.

The two men led authorities on a three-mile high speed chase in a rented moving truck. Lt. Ron Arnold says one of the men had a fake Florida i.d. and passports found didn`t add up.

The FBI is now testing a bottle thrown from the truck during the pursuit. Robert White, the community member who found the bottle, says it had a powder and liquid in it. Sheriff Harris says the substance didn`t test for any type of drug, but did for a fuel source.

The driver, 23-year old Samuel Dahan and passenger 19-year old Almaliach Noar claim they were delivering furniture and were headed to Boston, Massachusetts.

Authorities found a couple of "learning to fly" business cards during a search of the moving truck. Both men are being held in seperate cells pending a bond hearing Monday morning. Investigators have determined both men are living in the United States legally.

370 posted on 05/10/2004 5:37:43 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: prairiebreeze
Yes and this morning I see they were actually captured and arrested. This will feed the conspiracy theorists that Israelis were behind 9/11.
371 posted on 05/10/2004 5:41:16 AM PDT by Peach
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To: MindBender26
Any local rabbi can tell in 30 seconds if they are Israeli or Islamic. Hebrew speech patterns, etc.

"Did you get the trace, Rabbi?"

"No, darn it, they stopped speaking after 20 seconds!"

372 posted on 05/10/2004 6:22:18 AM PDT by Sender (<a href="http://www.democrats.org/">Miserable Failure</a>)
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To: Happy2BMe
25-Foot RYDER TRUCK ping!


373 posted on 05/10/2004 6:45:28 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is ONLY ONE good Democrat: one that has just been voted OUT of POWER ! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: OXENinFLA
Investigators have determined both men are living in the United States legally.

Fascinating. On the 11:00 local news, it was reported that they had tourist visas.

374 posted on 05/10/2004 6:46:28 AM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)
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To: Husker24
And there was a story here in Washington state very similar to this one. Some men, supposedly Israelis, moving furniture in a truck in the wee hours of the morning and attempted to cross the border into Canada as I recall it.
375 posted on 05/10/2004 7:17:20 AM PDT by MarMema ("Hamtramck is going to be a pioneer city for the whole United States.")
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To: who knows what evil?; Husker24
Israeli's alibi

"The MadCowMorningNews has learned that the elderly woman who (supposedly) provided the two Israelis arrested in Oak Harbor Washington with their alibi has—just one week later—moved, or disappeared, and cannot be found to corroborate her account.

In Oak Harbor, Washington, Fox News reported last week that two Israelis with altered passports were apprehended in a rental truck containing traces of TNT and plastic explosives on a state highway running past the home of a fleet of U.S. electronic spy planes, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

According to an FBI spokesman in Seattle, local police had pulled the Israelis over for speeding, and then became suspicious after one of the men was found to be in possession of an altered passport and the other was unable to produce any identification other than an Israeli driver's license." <>More at the link. Too, too wierd.

376 posted on 05/10/2004 7:21:33 AM PDT by MarMema ("Hamtramck is going to be a pioneer city for the whole United States.")
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To: MarMema
Israeli's alibi "The MadCowMorningNews has learned that the elderly woman who (supposedly) provided the two Israelis arrested in Oak Harbor Washington with their alibi has—just one week later—moved, or disappeared, and cannot be found to corroborate her account. In Oak Harbor, Washington, Fox News reported last week that two Israelis with altered passports were apprehended in a rental truck containing traces of TNT and plastic explosives on a state highway running past the home of a fleet of U.S. electronic spy planes, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

That MadCowMorningNews site is TOTAL nutter site, and that news story was debunked by Ashcroft.

Kinda surprising that a FReeper would look to such a nutball site for "news."

377 posted on 05/10/2004 7:40:00 AM PDT by veronica (Sen. Robert Bryd has seen more hoods than Iraqi prisoners ever wore....)
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To: m18436572
You talk too much, when you finally figure out that the nuclear fuel from the NFS plant or the ammo from the Holston Defense Plant , or when the chemicals needed for the gas masks are still arriving on time and still within specs,(all within 50 miles of that truck when it was stopped) have you a big bite of this cracker sandwich. You think you are better than I because you are from farther north? I have a dollar that says that if the power and water goes off, your life expectancy is measured in weeks.
378 posted on 05/10/2004 7:41:07 AM PDT by ShadedDawg (Screw'em all but 6- save them for pallbearers (politicians) poli-many ,tics -bloodsuckers)
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To: veronica
The point remains that the two men, Israelis supposedly, were arrested in a similar situation. Rental truck, speeding etc.

There is something wierd about these supposed Israelis and trucks going on.

That was just the first link which showed up when I tried to find the story on google.

379 posted on 05/10/2004 7:46:08 AM PDT by MarMema ("Hamtramck is going to be a pioneer city for the whole United States.")
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To: MarMema
The point remains that the two men, Israelis supposedly, were arrested in a similar situation. Rental truck, speeding etc.

In fact, the story morphed into a story about the men being Arabs, then was denied as being anything significant by Ashcroft himself.

The one time a man in a truck did manage to inflict catastrophic damage, he was homegrown terrorist, and not Jewish - McVeigh.

380 posted on 05/10/2004 7:51:51 AM PDT by veronica (Sen. Robert Bryd has seen more hoods than Iraqi prisoners ever wore....)
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