clearvision Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 AFP:Two US men were arrested at John F. Kennedy international airport, police said Sunday, declining to confirm a newspaper report that they were headed to Somalia to join an Al-Qaeda group."Two arrests were made Saturday night at JFK airport as part of an ongoing investigation," deputy police commissioner Paul Browne said, without providing details.The Newark Star Ledger, a daily in the New Jersey suburbs, reported the suspects were about to board planes to Egypt with plans to travel to Somalia to join with an extremist group there.The Ledger said the New Jersey men, Mohamed Hamoud Alessa 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, are both US citizens and quoted neighbors as saying they went to school in the United States."As of this moment I am only able to confirm that two arrests took place last night," an FBI spokeswoman told AFP."Please understand due to the sensitivity of this matter this is the only information we are able to release at this time," she added, saying a statement may be released later in the day.Mary Laboeria, who lives three houses down from the Almonte residence, said she was surprised by the alleged ties to terrorism."I'm shocked. He graduated in our school system," she told the paper. "It really hurts. We don't need it." -------I'm all for stopping terrorists, and hopefully they have some real stuff on these guys, but some of this stuff gets scary as to what you could be arrested for these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 clearvision I'm so confused. I thought we were not supposed to use the "T" word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Why didn't they sneak across the border into Mexico, and take a plane to Somalia from there? Oh.....right. Illegal immigration into Mexico is not permitted. They'd be arrested, jailed, deported, robbed or killed. Could we please just exchange those Coach tickets to Egypt, for First Class to Bagram, A-stan? What? American citizens? Naturalized & revocable, anchor baby or genuine home-grown terrorists citizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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