A third man in the apartment in Canada was Mohamad S. Mostafa, wanted in California on charges of conspiring to sell counterfeit baby formula, court records here show.

Here's the baby formula again.

Yikes! I'd almost forgotten about the baby formula case. How innocent we were just that recently. *sigh*

Too bad that the Palestinian baby formula racket was exposed by the Washington Post - it's not in the archives.

I wonder if we can find a link to the Secretary of State's office under Lyin' Ryan? lol

I think the Post article reported on a baby formula scheme with a VA-IL connection.
How about this one?

Fencing Stolen Baby Formula

How about the actors names, interesting?

Hmmm, interesting. I believe that there was also a Texas connection in the original Post article.

Didn't CNN make a big deal about US blowing up a "baby food factory" that we maintained was a chemical site?(Iraq)

Here's an oldie:

Stolen U.S. baby formula headed for Iraq?

Didn't know that baby formula was such a hot crime item.
Wonder why those associated with these crimes are from the same background?

I recall reading that powdered baby formula has a military application as a lubricant.

Here's some more:

FEDERAL JURY CONVICTS FOUR INDIVIDUALS ON CHARGES OF TRADEMARK COUNTERFEIT, CONSPIRACY FOR RESELLING INFANT FORMULA

And another:

Deputies target formula thefts

All actors with islamic backgrounds, FUBAB!

Here are some more CHICAGO terrorism suspect stories:

Man arrested in connection to terrorist plot sought trucking job

Wednesday, October 17, 2001

By Mike Robinson

The Associated Press

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A man arrested in Burbank in connection with the terrorism investigation applied for a driving job with a Summit trucking company, according to a company official. Nabil al Marabh, 34, applied for the job on Aug. 20 but was turned down, the executive said. The U.S. Customs Service has discovered financial transactions between al Marabh and Raed Hijazi, a suspect in the failed plot to kill Americans in Jordan during the millennium celebration, law enforcement officials have told The Associated Press.

"He was driving on a ticket," Michael Parise, president and owner of Container Express Inc. of Summit, said.

Such a job would have given al Marabh, who had a Michigan commercial drivers license that enabled him to haul hazardous materials, access to a truck.

Authorities have expressed concern about so-called hazmat licenses for terrorists who might use them to haul explosives. Al Marabh, according to authorities, had asked for five duplicate licenses for himself in the past year.

Parise said the FBI had looked into al Marabh's application for the truck driving job. FBI officials declined to comment.

"I cannot comment on any ongoing investigation, which is what this is," FBI spokesman Ross Rice said.

Al Marabh, who was on the list of people the FBI wanted to question after the terrorist attacks, was arrested at a liquor store in Burbank last month on an Immigration and Naturalization Service request and a Massachusetts warrant issued in March charging him with a probation violation involving a stabbing.

He was transferred to New York after several days of questioning.

Al Marabh was caught by U.S. border authorities trying to enter the United States with a fake Canadian passport in June. He was handed over to Canadian authorities and later released on bail posted by his uncle. He failed to show up for his Sept. 13 court appearance.

About two weeks after the attacks, police in Toronto searched three residences and business linked to al Marabh.

Parise said he spoke with al Marabh for only five or 10 minutes. He said there was no possibility that he would have hired al Marabh.

Parise said al Marabh lacked the required motor vehicle report telling how many tickets he had received. He said that such a report on al Marabh arrived on Sept. 28 from Michigan and showed many violations.

Federal agents raided a Detroit house on Sept. 17 in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Al Marabh's name was on the mailbox but he was not there.

Two other men found in the house and a longtime Chicago resident, Youssef Hmimssa, whose documents allegedly were found there, are now under indictment on identity fraud and other charges. Al Marabh was living in Hickory Hills when agents arrested him.

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October 18, 2001

BY MICHAEL SNEED CHICAGO SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

CICERO, ILLINOIS

Sneed is also told less than a week after the attack on America, an AT&T worker informed a Cicero cop he had just been to install a phone in an apartment that was occupied by four Arabs, who had maps of Chicago on the walls and directions to the Sears, Hancock and Prudential buildings. But they had no furniture, only a mattress.

The FBI was called and interrogated the men, one of whom was a cabdriver. A second group of FBI agents was summoned, who bowed when they entered, took off their shoes and knelt while questioning them.

The shocker: The men, who lived at the end of a hall, had cut a peephole into a wall in their apartment so they could see down the "entire hallway,'' said the source.

I think Gore has a Chicago connection.

It seems like they have specialized - I wonder how many Arab illegals are in the United States?

Arrest all the cabbies in Canada and we will nab them all.

Interesting story. There's a Citgo gas station at roughly 171st and Wolf Road in Orland Park. I used to buy gas their frequently, as they were on average 10 cents a gallon cheaper than anyone else. Up until a month before the bombing, it was run by two middle-eastern men. It closed about mid-august and hasn't been open since. Product is still on the shelves, electricity is still on, it's as if they closed up one night, and never went back.

I wonder ...........

I would phone in a tip about that Citco station

The baby-formula angle is disturbing, in light of the anthrax scene.

bttt

bttt with another article (August '99):

Kuwait impounds dhow with baby food from Iraq
[With Iraqi children reportedly starving, Iraq smuggled baby food OUT of the country.]

Suspects were living illegally in Alberta
Austere apartment in Fort McMurray contained false documents, hearing told

By Jill Mahoney

The Globe and Mail (Canada), October 23, 2001, pg. A7 http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20011023/UINVEN

EDMONTON -- Two men under investigation for links to the terrorist attacks in the United States were living in Canada illegally when they were arrested in the northern Alberta city of Fort McMurray.

The two, along with a third man who was also arrested earlier this month, shared a sparsely furnished apartment containing documents bearing various names. All three are accused of immigration offences and are being held in an Edmonton jail.

The documents -- which include travel papers, credit cards, cheques and driver's licences -- are of interest to the continuing investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, federal lawyer Sylvia Rapaj said at an Immigration and Refugee Board detention review hearing last week.

A statement by Constable Bruce Thornton filed with the IRB supporting the link to the terrorism investigation says release of further details may endanger the "security aspect" of the investigation and put lives at risk.

The FBI has not confirmed the men are wanted in relation to the terrorist attacks. None of the three, who deny any involvement, faces charges in relation to the strikes.

At least two of the men, who have several aliases and gave the names Emad Jamal Hassan and Mohamadkhair Salah, used false documents to gain entry to Canada, Ms. Rapaj told the hearing.

When Mr. Hassan arrived in Calgary in August, he presented a Jordanian passport and a U.S. resident alien card, which was invalid because he had been deported from the United States after serving a jail sentence for fraud.

The 33-year-old, who attended aviation programs while living in the United States, told the hearing he did not know his admission to Canada was illegal. He said he gave his passport and alien card to an airport customs agent and answered questions truthfully.

Mr. Hassan is wanted on a U.S. arrest warrant for a parole violation.

Mr. Salah, 42, entered the country as a visitor late last year via Vancouver on a Swedish passport he bought from another man. When he made a refugee claim to stay in Canada, the hearing heard, he told immigration officials that he no longer had the passport. However, the document was found during a search of the Fort McMurray apartment.

Mr. Salah, who applied for refugee status in Canada in late 2000, moved to Fort McMurray in April, 2001, and worked as a taxi driver. He told investigators he studied electrical engineering in the United States, where he lived for several years.

He was charged with trafficking in counterfeit goods under a different name, but allegedly fled to Jordan. His company allegedly sold large amounts of baby formula that did not meet U.S. standards.

René Mercier, a spokesman for the Immigration Department, said yesterday he could not comment on the specifics of the cases.

The two men and Yousef Al-Amleh, a 34-year-old recent refugee claimant, lived quietly in Fort McMurray in an apartment they shared with a fourth man.

Mr. Hassan, Mr. Salah and Mr. Al-Amleh were arrested on Oct. 12 after officials ran Mr. Al-Amleh's fingerprints and found they matched those of a man known as Yousef Hassan who is sought by U.S. authorities for bank and food-stamp fraud. American officials say the two Mr. Hassans are brothers.