Thanks to Oorang on The Threat Matrix on FreeRepublic.com for the ping to this article.
“Khaled Nawaya, a flight instructor”
Guilty.
Poor man, must be so stressed out.
UPDATE:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2216482
“Syrian carrying $880,000, Hezbollah ring, 9/11 videos, stopped at Canadian border
‘I feel great. It’s an experience for life. It’s one of these things’”
Frank Luba, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009
SNIPPET: “VANCOUVER — Don’t cross the Canadian border with almost a million dollars that you fail to declare — especially when you also have a Hezbollah ring and a Palestinian scarf in your possession.
Khaled Nawaya found that out the hard way when he was arrested Oct. 6 at the Douglas border crossing in Surrey, B.C., and had to spend a month in detention while being investigated as a security threat.
He was released on Thursday with a long list of conditions after a hearing before the federal government’s Immigration Division member Lynda Mackie. He remains to have no status in Canada.”
SNIPPET: “About $800,000 of Mr. Nawaya’s stash, which is still in the Canadian government’s possession, was in Canadian gold coins purchased by Mr. Nawaya’s brother, who lives in Texas. There was another $70,000 in cash and about $10,000 in his pockets,
Further compounding the situation was his possession of a ring with the Hezbollah emblem. Mr. Rankin said the ring was one of two specially made by Mr. Nawaya’s brother.
Hezbollah is a militant group fighting Israel’s presence in Lebanon. Canada considers it a terrorist group.”
Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html
Let's not jump to conclusions....
“Khaled Nawaya, a flight instructor,”
Doesn’t this just give us all a warm fuzzy feeling?
By the way, in a later article he has been freed.
“Man arrested at B.C. border with ‘terrorist resources’
Were these “resources” walking around and talking with a veteran?
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Look people, not all Muslim flight instructors with Syrian passports crossing borders with a million bucks in gold and cash and Hezzbollah rings and 9/11 videos are terrorists!
domestic jihad bump
A great example of the difference between “smarts” and “common sense”.
...Upon moving to the U.S. he earned two degrees, in professional aeronautics and management....so he must have some smarts BUT...Crosses the border with $800,000 gold stash,Hezbollah ring, Palestinian scarf, 9/11 DVD’s...
GOD IS GREAT
BEER IS GOOD
PEOPLE ARE CRAZY
YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID
Things seem to be heating up ... ;-(
JUNE 2, 1999 : ( CANADA : VANCOUVER HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST M H DBOUK CONVERSES WITH COCONSPIRATOR/BROTHER-IN-LAW ALI ADHAM AMHAZ-----see IMAD MUGNIYEH {see LEBANON, US MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING, ETC})/// Bell [Kenneth Bell, a U.S. Justice Department lawyer prosecuting a Hezbollah cell that uses Canada as a base] said what convinced him of Mr. Mugniyah's involvement in Canada was a fax intercepted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service -- a message sent by Mohamad Hassan Dbouk, a Hezbollah agent in Vancouver, to his boss in Lebanon, Hassan Laqis.
"Dbouk sent one of these Palm Pilots to Laqis and the closing line to this was, 'I want you to know that I will do anything I can for you and the father, and I mean anything,' " Mr. Bell said. He believes the term "the father" referred to Mr. Mugniyah.
Later, in a telephone conversation monitored by CSIS agents, Mr. Dbouk admonished his alleged accomplice and brother-in-law, Ali Adham Amhaz, a resident of Burnaby, B.C., for mentioning the name Haj Imad on the phone.
"What a terribly dangerous thing to say," Mr. Dbouk said in the June 2, 1999, conversation. "Would anyone bring up Imad's name here or in any other country and stay alive?"
A CSIS report on the conversation said Mr. Dbouk referred to Haj Imad as "the whole story" and advised Mr. Amhaz to deny knowing the man. "Dbouk cautioned Amhaz to be careful and to pretend to know nothing," CSIS wrote.
Mr. Bell said he believes the Haj Imad mentioned in these exchanges is Mr. Mugniyah. According to Mr. Mugniyah's FBI "most wanted" poster, he uses the alias Hajj.
--------- "Leading terror suspect tied to Canadian cell: Imad Mugniyah: Academic fears operations could be launched 'in and from' Canada,' " BY Stewart Bell, National Post Tuesday, November 12, 2002 or- "Tehran's Terror Master," by Patrick Devenny, Front Page Mag, 5/26/2005
Iran Hezbollah bump in honor of Obama’s Iran deal
update: never mind the hezbollah ring , looks like he’s cleared for takeoff