Posted on 10/09/2010 7:03:30 AM PDT by LSUfan
A Santa Clara man says that he discovered an FBI tracking device attached to the underside of his car earlier this week and since then, he has received unexpected visits from FBI agents.
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Twenty-year-old Mission College student Yasir Afifi...
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Afifi is a U.S. native who speaks both English and Arabic. His mother is American and his late father was an Egyptian living in the Bay Area, who also served as the head of a local Muslim Community Center. Afifi said he sells computers for Cal Micro and takes frequent trips to the Middle East, where his father lived until he passed...
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1. Was there probable cause or was the FBI just being lazy?
2. What caused him to “find” it?
3. Why wasn’t it better hidden by the FBI?
4. Certainly I can hide a spare key where “normal maintenance” isn’t going to reveal it!
“The suspect should have fedex’d the tracking device to Tiajuana Mexico and kept his mouth shut.”
Snuck it onto one of the Janet Flights from Vegas to Area 51. Now *that* would have caused a stir!
I’m with you.
If you’re a member of a deathcult ‘religion’ that is terrorizing the world you should EXPECT suspicion. Track their cars, their every damn move.
The 9-11 murderers were ‘innocent’ until they stepped on planes too.
At least one judge has ruled they don't need probable cause or a warrant to do this. Since cars are in a public place, using a GPS device is just like having the police follow you around.
The only thing preventing them from tracking ALL vehicles is lack of budget. There is currently no legal restraint.
There is no reason to believe that this guy has a clean record. Most Jihadis have squeaky clean records all the way up until they do something horrible. The fact that his dad was a “respected member of the Muslim community” holds no water with me either. I know of at least two instances in which Jihadis were found to be sons of local Imams at the community mosques here in the USA, including a case in south Alabama of an American citizen who is now fighting for Al Qaeda in Somalia.
Great story here.....
“My plan was to just put the device on another car or in a lake,” Khaled wrote, “but when you come home to 2 stoned off-their-asses people who are hearing things in the device and convinced it’s a bomb you just gotta be sure.”
LOL!!!!
Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/#ixzz11sCOXSDy
I’m not talking about “probable cause” that stands up in court.
What drew their attention to him?
They should have had strong suspicions and used the GPS for “clinching” evidence.
I’m wondering how he found out about it? Given a tip?
Article says he brought his car in for an oil change and the mechanic pointed it out to him.
Yeah...they are all students...doncha know. And they all should be tracked. Don’t bug me with this racial profiling stuff. PC is killing us...........even muslims say there is no such thing as a”moderate” muslim. It’s like being a non-practicing vegetarian.
This Santa Clara MCC is the one that just got a 64 foot tall minaret approved UNANIMOUSLY by the city planning commission....idiots.
“one judge has ruled they don’t need probable cause or a warrant to do this.”
Well,,, there is something fishy about Afifi’s stories. His father was a muzzie bigwig, and was on the official “Watch List.” So was Afifi. Afifi sends money to Egypt, supposedly supporting his two brothers. One of his good buddies posted online about a mall, and a bomb. Afifi travels the Mideast extensively. Lotsa flags with this guy.
He may need to be tracked. But they should have to prove that to a judge.
Modern technology is making police surveillance less and less costly. Tactics like shadowing or staking out that used to be rare becasue of the expense in manpower are now cheap because men can be replaced by inexpensive machines. Unless there are legal constraints their use is going to become widespread.
FBI is right, CAIR is wrong.
“It’s an expensive piece of federal agency property and we need it right now, where is it?” said the agents, according to Afifi.
He said it was in his living room and returned it to the agents
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What? This tracking device only works while attached to a car? Why didn’t the FBI know where it was anymore? Did he disable it? This is the part that makes the least amount of sense to me.
Afifi - check
Student - check
Frequent trips to ME - check
Computer “sells” - check
Head of muslim “community center” - check
“late father was an Egyptian living in the Bay Area” contradicted by “the Middle East, where his father lived until he passed in” - can’t keep his story straight so double/triple check (who passes IN?)
Let’s hope the FBI planted listening devices while in his apartment.
Yes, I agree that it could be a diversion since his story continues to smell. He can't even keep his story straight about his father. So, the garage let him get under the car to change the oil himself - and changing the oil by the exhaust? No, I don't think so. Yet, the msm eats this up and the sheeple follow blindly along.
Ft. Hood - Hasan. Nuff said.
“they should have to prove that to a judge.”
I agree abdo-lutely! And so do my LEO friends. One of the articles I found through links, mentioned a 30 or 60 day warrant to track this guy.
No, he said he saw it and he removed it. See my post #36. His story doesn't pass the smell test. Since when do customers get to go underneath a car on the rack, much less change their own oil. What mechanic is dumb enough to be opening his mouth over tracking devices? If it was some unidentified black box with wires hanging out, the mechanic would be dumb not to be running out the back door dialing 911. But, hey, any time I take two unidentified black boxes with wires hanging out off my car, I always take them home and let them sit on my coffee table for a few days, uh huh.
Yeah, and Rodney King was a "Motorist."
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