Mohammed Fares, background left, Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Hammad, center, and Mostafa Said Abou-Shahin arrive at the Federal Building for a court appearance Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2002, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo)
Posted on 02/14/2002 4:19:33 AM PST by GailA
All Arabs, or just because the price was right?
You know how anthropologists have determined that the tooth brush was invented in eastern Tennessee?
If it wasn't, it would be called a "teeth brush".
BA-DA-BING! Ouch! That was a good one :o)
I did for about a half year when I first got here myself, due largely to the fact that TN required a 6-month residency before they'd let me have a concealed handgun permit.
So I just kept on driving on my Indiana driver's license, even after it had expired, and used my Indiana carry license. But I wasn't about to go unarmed for half a year. That'd have been a great way to get killed.
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Why? They don't spill as much if they're standing straight up and down....
Bruddddabam, ting!
[Say goodnight, Gracie....]
Sorry, my guitar picker is out of town this week, working in Anniston, Alabama.
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Burned-out car paints broader picture
No pics, but the video link shows the burned out car from many angles. I'd say the car hit the pole at about 15 MPH. Here's the story:
" FBI agents say their investigation has moved beyond corruption at the DMV and into arson.
On Action News Five, we showed you pictures of the car found early Sunday morning. It's driver, Katherine Smith, had been burned to death inside. Witnesses reportedly say the car was on fire before it collided with a utility pole on Highway 72 in Fayette County.
FBI agents say it was no accident and their suspicions grow with new information.
"The entire inside of the vehicle was incinerated," says agent Phillip Thomas. "Yet the gas tank wasn't ruptured. So, that's unusual."
The primary reason for suspicion: Smith's scheduled appointment the next day in Federal Court on charges she conspired to sell false driver's licenses to five men with ties to the Middle East.
"They were going to use these licenses with fictitious names to get additional ID in other parts of the country," says Thomas." The one part of the country also connected to at least one of these men... New York City - and the World Trade Center.
Action News Five received a fax from a New York plumbing company, confirming that one of the men, Sakhera Hammad, had worked in the basement of the World Trade Center several times. He was laid off soon after September 11th.
To make matters more complicated - The FBI can't even confirm exactly who these men are, for sure, admitting that even these names we were given may be false.
"These people are illegal aliens and they can give us any names because they don't have documentation," says Thomas.
see also: Editorial: Alien driver's license law needs tightening
Mohammed Fares, background left, Abdelmuhsen Mahmid Hammad, center, and Mostafa Said Abou-Shahin arrive at the Federal Building for a court appearance Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2002, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo)
Wrong, morons. It needs repealing, and all licenses that can be found that were issued under this legislation need to be revoked.
Notice the Comic Apple also tried to use this incident as a justification for higher taxes, in particular an income tax the idea of which seems to be worshipped by the entire state media corps.
Thanks for the news update and ping, Shermy.
Given this, it makes me wonder if this TN DL scandal doesn't go HIGHER than Smith.
That's AWFUL! I can only hope that the FBI actually does something instead of sticking their heads up their *sses.
The alphabet agencies are treasonous to our republic!
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