Posted on 11/03/2001 5:16:48 AM PST by Les_Miserables
Local Atlanta radio has reported this morning that a Mid-Eastern male was arrested after checking into a hotel near the CDC. He was reportedly in possesion of 8 to 10 different IDs. If true I suppose the arrest is most likely due to an alert citizen report. We can bag these guys if we keep our eyes open and ignore PC ant-profiling nonsense. Please append any confirming info as this is all I was able to capture from the news brief and it has not been repeated as yet.
Police hold one of six men from room near CDC
01:45 ET
Associated Press Newswires
Copyright 2001. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Authorities are holding one of six men who booked a room near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a charge of credit card theft.
The man identified as Abu Abdullah Qastalani, 20, "is either a terrorist or a thief," DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan said.
"If he's a terrorist, he's the feds' problem, and if he's a thief, he's DeKalb's problem," Morgan said.
Security around the CDC has been intensified since Sept. 11. Authorities were alerted to the six after almost $1,000 in hotel bills at the Emory Inn and Conference Center across the street from the CDC were charged to a phony credit card.
They were arrested Oct. 5. The FBI questioned them, but there were no grounds to hold the other five. A new anti-terrorism law that went into effect three weeks later allows detention of immigrants for up to seven days without charges.
Qastalani and the others flew to Atlanta from Paris on tickets purchased on a fraudulent credit card. Morgan said Qastalani, who claims to be a British citizen born in Pakistan, has had passports with multiple identities and was holding credit cards in eight names.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is investigating his background.
The men told authorities they had come to Atlanta to move heavy equipment into a restaurant. A U-haul truck they had rented was in the hotel parking lot.
LOL
I thought them suckers were 'sposed to be A-rab. Fire ants is bad an all, but.....:^)
He's like Roseanne: suffers from multiple personality disorder. And, just like hers, they're all miserable sumbitches.
If, after the interrogation, It is determined he is a spy, he should be executed. Period.
I am sick of not wanting to offend someones' sensibilities, feeding our enemies, and the PC war. Yes, we are at war - kill people and break things until we are not.
Peggy Noonan had it right in her column just a couple of weeks ago, the one about racial profiling.
There are several CDC sites in the Atlanta area, and I am sure that they are keeping very good watch of them. A couple of nights ago (halloween, come to think about it), I saw the Gwinnett SWAT team on the road. I don't know where they were headed, but my first thought was how close we were to one of the CDC buildings.
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