Posted on 07/27/2004 6:19:21 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A driver stopped on an Iowa highway this month was found with flight-training manuals, Arabic documents and night-vision goggles, and he told troopers he knew of terrorist plans to shoot up trains in San Diego, according to court papers.
Michael Wagner, 44, of San Diego, said he had knowledge of terrorist activities and people and groups tied to al-Qaida and the Taliban. Wagner also said that he knew about things in the Muslim communities in San Diego that would interest federal authorities.
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this is interesting!
Kinda sounds like he is trying to get out of trouble, We will see...
Clearly this story was planted by the Republicans to take the spotlight off of John Kerry
Watch the press ignore this for the most part.
A state trooper stopped the sport utility vehicle Wagner was driving on July 14 after the trooper noticed he was not wearing a seat belt. Wagner told the officer he had no identification and gave a false name. The vehicle license number was "suspicious," court documents said.
The officer called a canine unit to search the SUV and found flight-training manuals, flight-training software, three bulletproof vests, night-vision goggles, a night-vision scope for a rifle, a telescope, a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, a bag of ammunition and marijuana residue in the ashtray.
Also found in the vehicle were numerous pages of literature and documents with Arabic printing, court papers said.
Some of the items were hidden inside a hollowed-out computer hard drive, the papers said.
Wagner told police that the vests were for his children for protection after Sept. 11 and that the night-vision goggles belonged to his son, who was a paintball enthusiast. ...
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(And to top it off he seems to be a bit of a pervert around kids.)
FYI
Hmmmm? One of the new non-middleast-appearing terrorist recruits, perhaps?
Could be a plant with dis-information....remember how Mc Veigh was stopped with a missing number plate.....now the missing seat belt.
Deserves-a-Bump.
Marijuana? Night vision goggles? Sounds more like the guy's a bit loose in the noggin, and might not be some terrorist mastermind.
Sounds like a Threat-Matrix thread/Northeast Intelligence Network type who REALLY has gone off the deep end in playacting that he's fighting/investigating terrorism.
The timing of this story is interesting. :o)
You mean some 'lilly white' like McVeigh, perhaps?
yeah, I was thinking more like Alex Jones with a screw loose.
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