Threat Matrix: 2009

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[Velveeta]

Thanks for popping in. ;-)

[Oorang]

Thanks for the ping to the new tape Vel.

Interesting that the U.K. has jihadis returning from training in Pakistan and we have Somali's returning from alleged jihad training about the same time. Odd coincidence.

[Oorang]

Guns seized at airport
March 24, 2009

HEBRON - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport on Monday seized an arriving international shipment of 60 pump action 12-gauge shotguns and 177 pistols masked as toys. It was the largest seizure of weapons made by CBP in Cincinnati.

The shipment, marked as “Toys,” was valued at $14,000 and was shipped from Istanbul, Turkey.

Excerpted

http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090324/NEWS0103/303240036

Fanatics 'could use roadside bombs to kill VIPs in Britain'
25th March 2009

Terrorists could use Iraq-style roadside bombs to target VIPs in Britain, officials fear. An attack by a nuclear 'dirty bomb', which spreads radioactive material, is also becoming more likely, according to an official report yesterday.

Excerpted

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164317/Fanatics-use-roadside-bombs-kill-VIPs-Britain.html

[potlatch]

Thank you FARS. Always good articles posted there. Apathy is rampant in dems who have a clue. Most are just uninformed.

[Quix]

THANKS.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[devolve]

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Bumperoooooooo!

[Velveeta]

24 arrested for mortgage fraud schemes (Chicago)

FBI agents have made 24 arrests today in connection with a mortgage fraud investigation they dubbed “Operation Madhouse,” authorities said.....

...

In each of the transactions, the defendants were told that a prospective buyer intended to purchase a property and then default on the mortgage when the deal closed. In reality, undercover agents from the FBI and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development posed as the buyers and as paralegals who helped move the transactions along....

...

The U.S. Attorney’s office has filed mail and/or wire fraud charges against the following defendants:

Mohammed Ali Moallem, 68, Bahidad Javid, 66, Donna Brooks, 41, Louis L. Javell, 36, Aysha M. Arroyo, 32, and Juan Gil, 45, Hakim A. Jaradat, 65, and Robert Goldberg, 88, Babajan Khoshabe, 68, and Sunil Kaushal, 48, all of Chicago;

Abe Karn, 50, and Khalil Qandil, 45, of Oak Lawn;

Hichem Julani, 40, of Palos Park;

Daniel Lietz, 39, of Channahon;

Marwan Atieh, 35, of Tinley Park;

Ruwaida Dabbouseh, 58, of Glen Ellyn;

Khaja Moinuddin, 64, of Bloomingdale;

Mohammed Nasir, 52, of Glendale Heights;

Michael Salem, 63, and Oscar Paredes, 28, of Park Ridge;

Maryam Khan, 29, of Hickory Hills;

James Kotz, 48, of Munster, Ind.;

Siamak Safavi Fard, 50, of East Dundee;

Sunil Kaushal and Noel Parmar, 39, of Skokie.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/03/fbi-makes-arrests-in-mortgage-fraud-probe.html

*oh, and yes the US Attorney is Patrick Fitzgerald

[Velveeta]

First name on the list above: MOHAMMED MOALLEM

18-MAY-05 (2005)

HAMMOND, Ind., May 18 /PRNewswire/ — The United States Attorney’s Office today announced the return of 5 indictments against 20 individuals for conspiracy and substantive acts of shipping, transporting, receiving and possessing contraband cigarettes.....

MOHAMMED MOALLEM, age 65, of Chicago, Illinois;
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4244682/20-Indicted.html

[wideminded]

In each of the transactions, the defendants were told that a prospective buyer intended to purchase a property and then default on the mortgage when the deal closed. In reality, undercover agents from the FBI and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development posed as the buyers and as paralegals who helped move the transactions along....

So basically the FBI and HUD created crimes where none would have existed before by tempting people who wanted to unload their houses to not ask too many questions?

[Velveeta]

Thanks to maggief:

(no link)

Man who helped CIA in Iran gets probation
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, February 12, 2007
Author: Frank Main, The Chicago Sun-Times

In an unusual bid for mercy, a Skokie man awaiting sentencing for smuggling cigarettes recently told a judge that he negotiated with Iran for the release of U.S. hostages in the 1980s.

Habib Moallem , 70, received a sentence of a year’s probation and a nearly $48,000 fine for smuggling untaxed Marlboros from northwest Indiana to Illinois. The sentence was at the low end of federal guidelines, U.S. District Judge Allen Sharp said.

Sharp said his Jan. 11 sentence took into account a written statement by the Iranian exile that he “served his adopted country during the Reagan and Bush administrations negotiating with a hostile Iranian government for the release of hostages and the normalization of relationships between Iran and the United States.”

The judge also considered a letter from W.A.N. Craven, a retired police superintendent of Scotland Yard, who met Moallem 20 years ago in London.

Moallem had been involved in “strategic matters on behalf of the United States related to its relationship with Iran,” Craven wrote.

Jed Stone, the Waukegan attorney who represented Moallem , said his client “paid the price for listening to a family member who went wrong.”

FLED IRAN IN 1979

Moallem ‘s brother, Mohammed “Frank” Moallem , was sentenced to a year’s probation, including six months of home confinement. The 10-member ring reaped $5 million in illegal profits, prosecutors said.

(snip)

20 indicted in cigarette smuggling // Allegedly bought smokes in Indiana to sell in Illinois
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Thursday, May 19, 2005
Author: Frank Main

A two-year federal investigation culminated Wednesday in charges being unveiled against 20 people accused of reaping about $5 million in profits by smuggling untaxed cigarettes into Illinois from Indiana.

Undercover agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives made their first deal with the ring in December 2002, allegedly selling 3,000 cartons of Marlboros to Mohammed “Frank” Moallem , 65, of Chicago, for $6,000. They were transported from Indiana to a liquor store on Irving Park Road, an indictment said.

(snip)

[Velveeta]

My hunch is ongoing investigation:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212609/posts

[FARS]

Another MUST READ

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/geithner-ready-to-sink-dollar-for-obama.html

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

...how much more of this crap is it going to take before the lid blows off?

Bad, bad feeling about all of it....

[WestCoastGal]

Drudge_ReportFLASH: : Obama’s brother falls ill in Kenya... http://www.google.com/hoste...may have cholera http://tinyurl.com/dgnqmz

[airborne]

WTF?

I’m in a wooded area northeast of Harrisburg.

Can you provide a link?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Godzilla]

plaemark

[Palladin]

This was before the internet, so I don’t have a link. It was well-covered by the Patriot-News paper, and would be in their archives, but I doubt if those have been digitized that far back. An inquiry at the State Museum Archives there in downtown HBG. might yield something.

I saw the complex first-hand. It was in upper Perry County. I was with Jack Gaughen Realtor then, and we went up there on inspection, after the muzzies had moved out.

This is still going on in many rural areas of the northeast,as you an see by the reports on “Islamberg”, 100 miles north of NYC.

BTW, it was among the most interesting properties we inspected. Lots of outdoor targets, and shell casings on the ground. It passed for a hunting camp, of which there are many up there.

Another interseting property, also in Perry, was a pornographer’s place. It had a huge ornately decorated master bedroom, with adjoining bath—no wall—and a huge red bathtub! Hard to sell to the average househunter.

[potlatch]

[The President of the European Union has termed the Obama Administration’s chosen economical path as “the roadway to hell”! ]

Some are beginning to see the light.