Posted on 05/26/2004 3:33:00 AM PDT by kattracks
NEW YORK -- The chairman of a Canadian shipping company was charged with attempting to aid terrorists by sending night-vision goggles and other equipment to the Hezbollah, U.S. officials said Tuesday.Naji Antoine Abi Khalil, 39, of Montreal, who holds dual citizenship in Lebanon and Canada, was charged Monday night and ordered detained by a federal magistrate judge in Manhattan, federal prosecutors said.
Prosecutors identified Khalil as chairman and general manager of New Line Services, an import-export company based in Montreal.
The night-vision goggles probe grew out of Khalil's dealings with a government confidential witness while he was the subject of a long-term money laundering investigation by the FBI's Little Rock, Ark., office, prosecutors said.
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The FBI at work; how much of this would kerry's flip/floppng plan dismantle?
"If convicted, he could face 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine."
That doesn't sound like enough to me.
It doesn't sound like enough to me either.
The destination of the goggles to the site of the Olympics bothers me.
Canada should ask themselves some hard questions, re: whatever it was they must have done in order to make the terrorists hate them. < /sarcasm>
"The destination of the goggles to the site of the Olympics bothers me."
Good catch....I didn't even pick up on that. I am finding myself concerned for the safety of our athletes and I'm sure it's weighing heavily on their minds.
Does the involvement of Little Rock, Ark. not seem a little ... odd?
You noticed?
I suspect he's Catholic; "Antoine" is a very common name among Maronite Christians.
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