[TADSLOS]

Looks like we bagged another one.

[Bikers4Bush]

"Steve Ingraham, an assistant U.S. attorney, said he did not believe Sillah had any ties to terrorists."

In that case Steve should be fired and we need to get an assistant U.S. attorney in there who has half a brain.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

But I have to show a "Government-issued ID" to get on my regular flight that I take every week- where the gate agents and flight attendants know me!

These ID's are worthless- there are probably MILLIONS of phony DL's, passports, SS cards, even Military ID's floating around this country.

Some form of national ID is on the way, like it or not.

[Teacher317]

From the title, I was thinking it was going to be about a 19 year-old at a bar. Now I feel better.

[End Times Sentinel]

QUICK! SOMEONE CALL THE ACLU! THIS MAN’S RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED!

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Salvation]

, five different Indiana drivers licenses, five different Social Security cards and nine blank passports from the Republic of Guinea,

Enough eveidence for my brain.

[Judith Anne]

"Associate federal public defender Nancy Joseph said Sillah has a wife in the state of Washington and suggested that Sillah be confined to his wife's home and be electronically monitored."

Oh, THAT will help. Sure thing. /sarc

[Mitchell]

Ousman Sillah is apparently a prominent anti-government attorney in Gambia -- do a search in Google for that name. Is this the same person?

[BraveMan]

Man Arrested, Indicted For Carrying False IDs

Ousman Sallih Stopped At Mitchell International Last Week
Posted: 9:53 a.m. EST March 13, 2002
Copyright 2002 by TheMilwaukeeChannel.com

MILWAUKEE -- A man arrested last week at Mitchell International Airport because he was carrying numerous forms of false identification cards and thousands of dollars in cash was indicted Tuesday on a number of federal charges.

Authorities said Ousman Sallih was supposed to catch a flight last Thursday to Newark, N.J. Now he sits in a Wisconsin jail.

National Guard Spc. Brian Pagliaroni was on duty Thursday at Mitchell International Airport when a security screener tipped him off to a suspicious passenger.

"A screener came up to me and asked me what I would do in an instance if somebody came through with a large sum of money and a bunch of passports," Pagliaroni said.

Pagliaroni alerted police and they went searching for Sallih, who they caught up with in Concourse D before he boarded his flight.

"He was very, very nervous, very skiddish about what was going on," Pagliaroni said.

Federal documents state that a screener noticed passports wrapped in newspaper and money stuffed in envelopes in Sallih's baggage.

The indictment said that Sallih initially refused to let screeners check his luggage.

When they searched him later on, the indictment said Sallih had $44,000 in cash and that he carried numerous forms of false identification: drivers' licenses from Indiana, Social Security cards, and passports, some of them blank, from countries like Guinea and Pakistan.

Authorities said Sallih told them that he used the false ID in a tax refund scheme.

"It could be consistent with a tax refund scheme, but the fact that these names are names that could also be used in East Asia or the Middle East raises concern," said Francis Schmitz from the U.S. Attorney's office.

A grand jury handed down a number of indictments Tuesday against Sallih, including identity fraud.

Authorities are not sure if anyone else is connected to this case, and they're also trying to determine if Sallih is his real name and where exactly he's from.

Sillah will be arraigned in federal court later this week.

If convicted, Sillah could be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison.

[Twiceborn]

Personally, I never leave the house with less than $50,000 in cash in my pockets and a bunch of fake ID's... doesn't mean I'm up to something... /sarcasm

[piasa]

Whatever happened to this Ousman Sallih guy?