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Sniper suspect sold fake passports, ran immigration scam
The Jamaica Observer ^ | 10-27-02 | MICHELLE FAUL

Posted on 10/27/2002 3:18:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The rented house where Muhammad lived in Antigua.

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) -- During his strange sojourn on this Caribbean island, John Allen Muhammad was a friendly mechanic, an itinerant salesman and reportedly a purveyor of Antiguan passports to people looking to emigrate illegally to the United States.

The prime suspect in the US sniper shootings that terrorised residents in the Washington D C area also allegedly used a falsified birth certificate to obtain an Antiguan passport.

Randy Nelson's pick-up which Muhammad repaired.

When Muhammad's life started unravelling last year, he chose as a refuge this former British colony where the chief of police is accused of bribery and corruption, and a young girl has accused the prime minister and his brother of having sex with her and paying her for drug deals.

The island is also a place where passports can legally be bought under a so-called "economic citizenship" programme.

Muhammad, who obtained an Antiguan passport on July 4, 2001, allegedly presented a falsified birth certificate from New Orleans, Louisiana, claiming his mother was from Antigua.

WALKER... this is a stain on the name of Antigua

Lt Col Clyde Walker, Antigua's chief immigration officer, said it was clear the birth certificate was falsified.

"Even though he is not an Antiguan, this is a stain on the name of Antigua and we need to investigate this fully," Walker said.

Keithly Nedd, who lived in the house where Muhammad rented a room, said the 41-year-old US Army veteran also had a scam involving Jamaicans flying to the United States on the return tickets of people who flew to the island legitimately. Muhammad would organise papers or a passport for a would-be migrant in Antigua, usually Jamaican, to use the return ticket.

NEDD... says Muhammad had a scam involving Jamaicans flying to the US

"A lot of people just came to him, gave him their birth (certificate) and he would just get them passports within days," Nedd said Friday.

Once, Nedd said, something went wrong, and police detained Muhammad at the airport, took him to the police station and held him for several hours before he was released. He said Muhammad had been trying to get a Jamaican on a flight to the United States.

"I raised hell in the (passport) office," said Nedd, who went to challenge officials in mid-2001, "but they denied my allegations and statement, they said it was not possible."

Neither police nor government officials could be reached immediately for comment yesterday.

The passports allegedly sold for between US$1,000 and US$1,500.

"He told me he could get passports, any type of papers, and that he could get people into America," said Randy Nelson, a 35-year-old supermarket manager and barbershop owner who was a neighbour of Muhammad.

Nelson said he was "shocked but not that surprised" when he heard Muhammad, who converted to Islam after joining the Army, was the prime suspect in the shootings that left 10 people dead and three wounded.

"The very first time I met him, right here on this porch, he pointed his hand like a gun at a man standing in the windows of the hospital over there and said he could take out a man, could hit anybody, from that range," Nelson said, indicating a building in the distance.

He said they were talking about guns because Muhammad told him he was in the US Army and had worked with the FBI and CIA.

Antigua is also where Muhammad reportedly met John Lee Malvo, the 17-year-old Jamaican arrested with him Thursday in Fredricksburg, Maryland. Nedd said Muhammad organised papers that allowed Malvo's Jamaican mother, Una James, to reach the United States illegally.

Although Muhammad's passport was issued in 2000, Antiguan officials said he first arrived on the island in May last year. They had no record of his departure. Nelson said he last saw him in March.

Nelson and the principal of a school where Muhammad enrolled three of his children described Muhammad as a man who would repair a car or truck without payment, bring gifts from the United States and take neighbourhood kids on early-morning runs.

Greensville Primary School Principal Janet Harris described him as "very compassionate and genuine".

She could not understand how he could be the sniper who warned "Your children are not safe anywhere, at any time", after shooting a 13-year-old child. The boy survived.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Maryland; US: Virginia; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: antigua; immigration; ins; jihadinamerica; jihadnextdoor; passports; sniper
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To: TopQuark
"We have not done anything to dismantle that institution and continue to tolerate the perveyors, such as Farakkhan, Jesse Jackson, etc."

I regretfully have to agree with you. I think we should put Jesse Jackson in jail just because of the things he says. Those things he says are dangerous! They should be outlawed, and people should only be allowed to speak things that you and I like!
21 posted on 10/27/2002 7:28:14 PM PST by BiffSchneider
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To: BiffSchneider
"If he's actually in AQ's employ in some way, why does he have to sell those passports and hold up liquor stores?"

Who said that he HAD to?

22 posted on 10/27/2002 7:33:49 PM PST by Southack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Diversity and Political Correctness are so charming..../s
23 posted on 10/27/2002 7:34:43 PM PST by Libertina
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To: TankGurrrl; aristeides
The Jamaica Observer:

Last night the Jamaican foreign ministry confirmed that a youngster named Lee Boyd Malvo had emigrated to "another Caribbean island" in 1998, at the age of 13, which would make him the same age as the boy who has been at the centre of one of America's most sensational crimes and manhunts ever.

Seattle Times, 10/27:

While in Antigua, Muhammad had lived with his three children, two girls and a boy, in St. John's, the island's capital. Malvo apparently was already known to Muhammad, who introduced the boy as his son, neighbors said.

On Monday, immigration officials plan to search for any record of Malvo's obtaining a passport in Antigua. So far, they have been unable to find any record of his arrival on the island.

"We can't find anything on the other guy, the 17-year-old, nothing at all," said Antigua's chief immigration officer, Lt. Col. Clyde Walker. "That means he might have come in under some other name."

On April 14, 2001, immigration inspectors at the Miami airport stopped Muhammad because they thought he was using false documents. Inspectors also thought Muhammad was trying to help two Jamaican women enter the country with fake documents.

Two months after the airport incident, Malvo entered the United States with his mother, Una James, arriving south of Miami aboard a cargo ship with other undocumented immigrants.

That places Malvo's arrival in the states in June, 2001. He enrolled in a Ft. Myers, FL school on 8/13 (beginning of school year), and disappeared on 10/16/01. According to the Naples Daily News, 10/25, “Malvo and Muhammed are believed to have rented a home at 2510 Broadway in Fort Myers from owner Antoine Eveque."

I haven’t seen any reports yet that definitely place Malvo and Muhammad together in Antigua, but if someone else has, let me know.

Muhammad was also arrested for false ID leaving Antigua on March 11, 2001, (bound for LA via Miami), per the Seattle Times. According to the Antigua police, he escaped from jail. (Right!)

I have a feeling Muhammad was in and out of Antigua and Jamaica for years, greasing a lot of palms along the way.

24 posted on 10/27/2002 7:47:51 PM PST by browardchad
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To: BiffSchneider
If he's actually in AQ's employ in some way, why does he have to sell those passports and hold up liquor stores?

Perhaps he was aiding people, who would normally come under scrutiny if they tried to enter the US the legal way, to get within our borders?

Just a possibility.

Also, the liquor store in Alabama yielded no money so I haven't seen much evidence that he actually made a living by robbing, but of course it could be that such evidence will come to light eventually.

25 posted on 10/27/2002 7:57:03 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: BiffSchneider
They should be outlawed, and people should only be allowed to speak things that you and I like!

Take a deep breath, you're hyperventilating there.

26 posted on 10/27/2002 7:58:29 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: TexKat
Mohammad was in Antiqua from 3/2000 to June 2001

He was in and out of Antigua during that time period, e.g. arrested at Antigua airport, 3/11/2001; arrested at Miami airport, 4/14/2001 (both for false docs -- and released/escaped both times).

There has also been other witnesses at Antiqua Home Depot and an Antiqua bank that have reported seening Mohammad as resently as August this year.

It seems that everyone saw Mohammad during that time. He was also seen in Camden, NJ, hanging out with Osbourne. Both sightings could be true, since he was running illegals out of Antigua for years, it looks like. I believe Fox said today that Osbourne's been here since '94, and he's illegal -- another grateful Muhammad customer, who "owed" him, of course (or whom he threatened to turn over to the INS - as if that would bring any consequences whatsoever.)

27 posted on 10/27/2002 8:06:14 PM PST by browardchad
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To: Southack
Look at the info here http://www.highclearing.com/

There are at least three possibilites:
1. He sold passports, stole credit cards, shot people to get a payoff, and did all those other things because he's just a crook. He might have had other motivations, but him being a crook is the predominate motivation.
2. He was being paid by AQ all along, but he only did #1 because it was fun for him.
3. He was actually working for AQ (or the CIA or the FBI), and #1 was just a cover.

My money's on #1. He might have been an AQ sympathizer, but that doesn't mean he was paid by them (or anyone else).
28 posted on 10/27/2002 8:13:09 PM PST by BiffSchneider
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To: TexKat
Nelson and other persons say Muhammad came into contact with Malvo because of an affair he had with Malvo's mother, Una James, who was living in the community of Villa about four miles from Ottos, where Muhammad lived.

What publication is this from?

29 posted on 10/27/2002 8:24:54 PM PST by browardchad
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To: anymouse
Thanks for the heads up!
30 posted on 10/27/2002 9:03:44 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: browardchad
The Jamaica Observer

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20021027T010000-0500_34283_OBS_THE_ANTIGUA_CONNECTION.asp

31 posted on 10/27/2002 9:37:25 PM PST by TexKat
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To: browardchad
Anyone have a timeline of his movements yet?
This is subject to change (subject to, inevitably will). But I'm going to make a go at it.

1978 -1985 John Mohammad joined the Louisiana National Guard

1985 - Enlisted in the army after separating from 1st wife Carol Williams. Wife reported Muhammad was having an affair.

1988 - Divorced from 1st wife

1988 - Married 2nd wife, Mildred Green, who had been having affair with while he was married to first wife.

90s - Active in Nation of Islam

1990 Based in Germany.

1991 In the Gulf War

1992 - 1993 Fort Ord

1994 - Discharged from army.


1994-2000 - More than one residence address shows for Tacoma Washington.

1994 - Joined Oregon National Guard.

1995 - Discharged from Oregon National Guard.

1995 - Claimed to have been bodyguard at the million man's march.

1995 thru 1998 - Partnership in Karate School.

1998 - Second wife filed for divorce.

3/2000 - John Williams takes his 3 children from school and takes them to Antiqua without their mother knowing.

6/2001 - Returned to Tacoma,where sometime after this he enrolled the 3 children in school in Billingham, Washington under false names.

8/2001 - Applied for government assistance, which brought LE down on him.

8/31/2001 - Police seized the 3 children and return them to their mother on 9/4/2001

9/10/2001 - John Mohammed and Nathaniel Osbourne purchased the Caprice in Camden NJ, where John Mohammd worked as a cook at the All Nations Restaurant.


8/2001 - 10/2001 - John Malvo attended Cypress Lake High school in Ft. Meyers,Florida

10/2001 - 1/2002 Mo and Mal live at Lighthouse Mission.

10/2001 - 12/2001 - Malvo attended school in Billingham, Washington, could not continue due to failure to provide transcripts.

2/2002 -Mohammad investigated for shoplifting in Tacoma.

7/2002- Mo and Mal takes in a 3-day trip to New Orleans, Louisiana.

8/2002 - Mohammad sited in Camden, New Jersey.

8/2002 - John Mohammad wass sited at Home Depot and at a bank in Antiqua.


To Be Continued

32 posted on 10/27/2002 9:41:41 PM PST by TexKat
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To: BiffSchneider
You remark undescores that which is wrong with the state of our people today: even conservatives think in terms of gov't, politics, and Constitution. All of these are product of our values. In our society we always have debate, we had institutions such as church, do instance. When and who last time organized a protest against the hiring practices at major universities, where departments of English, Philosophy, and Sociology are almost entirely devoid of conservatives?

Where is the moral opposition of the prominent church leaders to perversions of Farakhan adn Jackson? (Some began to emerge and is becoming more vocal, but this is only recent)

In sum, you said, sarcastically, about forbidding free speech --- I did not. When you awake to the fact that there is life besides law, you'll understand better what I said.

33 posted on 10/28/2002 6:53:54 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Related: INS is the root cause of the flood of illegal immigrants in this country. Here's proof,
34 posted on 10/28/2002 6:55:25 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: TexKat
Do you know if he was living in Tacoma in June 2002?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/693817/posts
35 posted on 10/28/2002 7:07:57 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: gubamyster
bttt
36 posted on 10/28/2002 8:22:39 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: freeperfromnj
This is subject to change (subject to, inevitably will). But I'm going to make a go at it.

1978 -1985 John Mohammad joined the Louisiana National Guard

1985 - Enlisted in the army after separating from 1st wife Carol Williams. Wife reported Muhammad was having an affair.

1988 - Divorced from 1st wife

1988 - Married 2nd wife, Mildred Green, who had been having affair with while he was married to first wife.

90s - Active in Nation of Islam

1990 Based in Germany.

1991 In the Gulf War

1992 - 1993 Fort Ord

1994 - Discharged from army.


1994-2000 - More than one residence address shows for Tacoma Washington.

1994 - Joined Oregon National Guard.

1995 - Discharged from Oregon National Guard.

1995 - Claimed to have been bodyguard at the million man's march.

1995 thru 1998 - Partnership in Karate School.

1998 - Second wife filed for divorce.

3/2000 - John Williams takes his 3 children from school and takes them to Antiqua without their mother knowing.

6/2001 - Returned to Tacoma,where sometime after this he enrolled the 3 children in school in Billingham, Washington under false names.

8/2001 - Applied for government assistance, which brought LE down on him.

8/31/2001 - Police seized the 3 children and return them to their mother on 9/4/2001

9/10/2001 - John Mohammed and Nathaniel Osbourne purchased the Caprice in Camden NJ, where John Mohammd worked as a cook at the All Nations Restaurant.


8/2001 - 10/2001 - John Malvo attended Cypress Lake High school in Ft. Meyers,Florida

10/2001 - 1/2002 Mo and Mal live at Lighthouse Mission.

10/2001 - 12/2001 - Malvo attended school in Billingham, Washington, could not continue due to failure to provide transcripts.

2/2002 -Mohammad investigated for shoplifting in Tacoma.

7/2002- Mo and Mal takes in a 3-day trip to New Orleans, Louisiana.

8/2002 - Mohammad sited in Camden, New Jersey.

8/2002 - John Mohammad wass sited at Home Depot and at a bank in Antiqua.


To Be Continued
37 posted on 10/28/2002 11:07:52 AM PST by TexKat
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To: thinden; honway; archy
# 15, 24, 27, 32
38 posted on 10/30/2002 2:14:10 AM PST by Lion's Cub
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