2 Europeans say they're the men sought by FBI for behavior aboard a ferry last summer

Seattle Times ^ | May 5, 2008 | Sara Jean Green

[onetimei]

Two European business consultants have identified themselves to U.S. officials as the men who were being sought by the FBI after crew members and riders reported their unusual behavior aboard a Washington state ferry last summer.

The men, both citizens of a European Union nation, appeared at a U.S. Embassy two weeks ago and identified themselves as the men pictured in photos released to the media last summer, according to a news release issued today by the FBI's Seattle field office. The release did not identify the men or the city where the embassy is located.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"For someone who rides the ferry every day, taking photos of the car deck is pretty unusual — but not so for "a guy who rides it one time in his life," Gomez said. "Their story makes sense, their story has validity... It was perfectly normal once we learned what was going on."

For someone who rides the ferry to make attack plans, it makes perfect sense also!

But we all know (Jimmuhhh R you listenang?) moooseslimes never lie. Especially when there's Kahlua at the bar!

[The SISU kid]

WA ping.....

[onetimei]

The original articles on this topic from last summer can be found here, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885232/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885247/posts

[JSteff]

“Where these gentlemen live, they don’t have vehicle ferries. They were fascinated that a ferry could hold that many cars and wanted to show folks back home,” FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs said Monday.”

Strange, in several places in Europe (Baltic Sea, Norway, Denmark, and Britain, etc) they have ferries that hold several hundred cars.

So their story does not make sense.

[MHalblaub]

“So their story does not make sense.”

Just think and ask yourself why they identified themselves.

Who did taken the pictures for this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Ferries?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Angry Lutherans, no doubt.

[Sherman Logan]

30 years ago I rode these ferries and also took pictures of the way they loaded the cars.

At the time, I was from MO and had never seen anything like that even though the ferries had been around a long time elsewhere in North America.

Possibly these guys are from Munich or Slovakia and unfamiliar with ocean-going ferries.

[GOP_Proud]

In 1999 I took a car trip through New England with a friend. We took a car ferry across Lake Champlain from Burlington, VT. I had never been on a car ferry (I was almost 50 yrs old) and I was facinated by it.

No one got out of their cars so we thought you weren’t supposed to. We sat there complaining that we couldn’t get good pictures from inside the car. When we got home and talked to people about it they told us we should have gotten out of the car and gone to the rail but we would tell them no one else did so we didn’t.

Then we were reminded that it was late April and very cold. The ferry was probably full of locals who do this everyday and just want to get across with no desire to stand on the rail in the cold. We felt so dumb.

So, I can understand wanting to take pictures of things you’ve never seen before, but others find it mundane and uninteresting.

[TalonDJ]

Yes, 4 or a few more places in a whole continent. It is entirely possible they never went to those places or at least never did while driving a car.

When I visit other countries I take pictures of everything in sight. Nothing odd about that.

[vox_freedom]

It would be helpful to know a bit more about these two “business consultants” and why they inspired FBI interest. What was their business in Seattle? Why did it take so long to put the truth to what they were doing in taking pictures on the ferry and causing security concerns?

[Hatteras]

"Where these gentlemen live, they don’t have vehicle ferries. They were fascinated that a ferry could hold that many cars..."

Of course. Why they look quite "fascinated"...

[MARTIAL MONK]

Those look like something that you would find on a fairy.

[sionnsar]

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[weef]

“Where these gentlemen live, they don’t have vehicle ferries. They were fascinated that a ferry could hold that many cars and wanted to show folks back home,” FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs said Monday.”

This is the funniest thing I've heard today. Agent Robbie Burroughs if you're reading this you're a freaking rube. God help this country if this is what we have protecting us.

In other news, the FBI reported today the 9/11 hijackers had never seen an airplane's cockpit before and just wanted to try flying the planes for a bit.

[Sopater]

"We are just a couple of European Union citizens who come from a culture much different and less advanced than yours. Your amazing technology frightens and confuses us. Sometimes, the honking horns of your traffic makes us want to jump out of our BMW and run to the nearest boat just to get away. However, with your elaborate ferry system, we found that your traffic only followed us onto this strange and fascinating device. The horseless carriages seemed to follow and persue us without fear of sinking into the dismal abyss that is Puget Sound. But there is one thing we do know, your MSM will believe any poorly contrived story as long as it supports their agenda that the FBI is guilty of racial profiling under the guise of homeland security. Therefore, we have nothing to fear."

[VA40]

I would feel better (maybe) if they identified which EU country they were from. I find it strange to hide behind “EU”, as if we’re too stupid to realize.

[Libertina]

the two "business consultants" Oh for pity sakes!