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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 7 19:03:01 2008 Authorities busting a suspected ID thief in Brooklyn stumbled upon a possible terrorist nest full of al Qaeda news clippings, chemical manuals and weapons literature, sources told The Post yesterday.Cops made the disturbing find Thursday evening after a landlord found the photocopied IDs inside the apartment of a former tenant on Classon Avenue in Prospect Heights and dialed 311. The tenant, Hisham Khaleel, 35, had been evicted. Responding officers found 13 copied licenses, all of which appeared to belong to customers from the Vanderbilt YMCA on East 47th Street in Manhattan, where Khaleel worked briefly as an unarmed security guard. They also found news clippings about al Qaeda, literature on chemical purchasing and processing, an owner's manual for a Beretta handgun, a reference guide for modern airplanes, a video on rifle-shooting fundamentals and a sniper's manual. Cops also uncovered lab glassware catalogs and a book, "Hostile Planet: The Essential Guide to Surviving Natural Disasters, Pandemics and Terrorist Attacks." Khaleel's former co-worker Pierre Andre Leonard, 35, said the suspect worked for six months on the 3-11 p.m. shift. "He didn't hang with the crew," he said, adding that Khaleel seemed to disappear one day. Khaleel was awaiting arraignment last night in Brooklyn Supreme Court on charges of criminal possession of stolen property and unlawful possession of personal identification. However, sources said the materials found in the apartment had piqued probers' interest, and a full-scale investigation was under way. According to federal court filings, Khaleel has been a frequent - if unsuccessful - litigant. A 2005 lawsuit against the staffing company Metro One Loss Prevention Services alleged that he had been discriminated against on the basis of his Egyptian background when he was let go. The suit was dismissed, as was a nearly identical claim against the US Postal Service, where Khaleel worked from 2001 to 2004. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 7 20:24:10 2008, in response to Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 7 19:03:01 2008. That's an invasion. Think it's all right to suspend (not ban, like the EU just did) the writ of "you have the body" in cases like this? |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Oct 7 20:56:05 2008, in response to Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 7 19:03:01 2008. Another bumbling wannabe terrorist. Real terrorists...aren't so easily captured. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 7 20:58:41 2008, in response to Re: Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Oct 7 20:56:05 2008. That's almost proud-sounding. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 7 22:27:19 2008, in response to Re: Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 7 20:24:10 2008. The debates distracted me, because I just found some interesting pieces about what the Gitmo judge is doing in regards to your question. |
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Posted by Hoghead on Wed Oct 8 03:16:38 2008, in response to Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 7 19:03:01 2008. This situation also illustrates the problem when offices of various entities think they need to copy drivers' licenses for identification purposes. Various New York YMCAs are guilty of that. If you need to identify someone, fine to look at the license--but, there is no legitimate reason to copy the license. |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Oct 8 09:21:16 2008, in response to Re: Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Oct 7 20:58:41 2008. Not proud-sounding...terrorists sophisticated enough to plot, plan and execute serious operations don't leave clues to their intentions lying around. The government trumpets the capture of these low-level, inept characters, but when was the last time we grabbed a big shot here?Old-fashioned detective work is what nabs big-time terrorists, not some landlady calling 311... |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Wed Oct 8 17:44:08 2008, in response to Re: Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Oct 8 09:21:16 2008. It doesn't take a complicated bomb, or that much ammo to create a national tragedy. |
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Posted by daDouce Man on Wed Oct 8 18:06:53 2008, in response to Re: Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Oct 7 20:56:05 2008. Real terrorists consider bumbling wannabees to be expendable. |
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Posted by daDouce Man on Wed Oct 8 18:08:43 2008, in response to Re: Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Wed Oct 8 17:44:08 2008. Sometimes all it takes is a well placed rumor. |
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Posted by daDouce Man on Wed Oct 8 18:11:47 2008, in response to Re: Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Oct 8 09:21:16 2008. Sometimes it seems that terrorists allow the low-level, inept characters to be captured to take the spotlight and pressure off of them. |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Oct 8 19:26:20 2008, in response to Suspected ID thief leads to Brooklyn Terror Nest, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 7 19:03:01 2008.  My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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