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Trucker Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban is what trucker/terrorist-wannabe, Mohammed Yousef Mullawala dreamed he could be. Mullawala is facing deportation on various charges, including suspicious activities surrounding his brief attendance at the Nationwide Tractor Trailer School in Rhode Island. Unlike Mullawala, Shaaban was the real deal – a terrorist spy hiding behind the steering wheel of a big truck. The story of Shaaban is as captivating as it is unsettling. The Palestinian-born Russian-educated Shaaban settled in Greenfield, Indiana, with his family and worked as a truck driver for CLM Freight Lines in nearby Indianapolis. According to reports, his commercial driver’s...

Saddam Hussein had a secret torture room built in the basement of the Iraqi mission to the United Nations in New York’s Upper East Side, it has been reported. The Iraqi dictator ordered the installation of the “detention room” inside the five-story building at 14 East 79th Street when he rose to power in 1979, two unnamed Iraqi officials told the New York Post. “It was a dark room. The doors were reinforced in a way that nobody could break in or out. You didn’t need to soundproof it,” one official said. The other official added: “You’re not going to...

Interrogators Think They Have A Wolf In Shepherd Clothing A GPS Device and $30,000 Raise a Few Eyebrows At a Desert Checkpoint "The suitcase, the money, the book, the GPS with the grid positions of U.S. troop movements. Sheepherders don't carry that stuff around" Twenty miles west of Samawah, Iraq -- Four Iraqis cruising the barren desert in a white Toyota pickup at noon, came across a U.S. military checkpoint set up here to catch spies helping coordinate sniper attacks on U.S. convoys. As those convoys advanced toward Baghdad, 140 miles to the north, U.S. forces were focused on protecting...