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Home Front: WoT
"Texan" arrested after saying he sought bin Laden bounty
2005-02-18
Authorities said a Texas man told agents at Detroit Metropolitan Airport that he was headed to Syria to try to claim the $25-million bounty on Osama bin Laden.
Syria? Boy, I never would have thought of looking there!
He was arrested on charges of making false statements to federal investigators.
They can't take a joke, but they can arrest the joker
Matt Mihsen, of Sansom Park, boarded a Northwest Airlines flight in Dallas on Tuesday en route to Detroit, the Netherlands and Syria, according to a federal criminal complaint. Customs and Border Protection officers questioned him at the Detroit airport. Mihsen, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Syria, told agents he was on his way to the Middle East to investigate the illegal sale of uranium by extremists.
So, he's Syrian living in Texas, not a native Texan.
Posted by:Steve

#5  he could have been going too syria then too iraq too fight our troops
Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864   2005-02-18 5:30:47 PM  

#4  Sounds like he was prepared. Just possibly he knows something. Binny in Syria wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-02-18 4:03:35 PM  

#3  Yeah, those stun guns don't work too good without the ammunition...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-02-18 4:03:08 PM  

#2  My take is either he's a nut or perhaps a not-to-bright syrian want-a-be jihadi. Better he's off the street either way. If he made it to Syria, he could have been kidnapped and made out to be a CIA agent.
Posted by: Steve   2005-02-18 3:59:57 PM  

#1  OK, this guy was funding his own anti-Jihad expedition and on his way to Syria. From the details we have been given, I fail to see the big issue. At worst he gets his neck cut in Bekaa, and at best he collects the bounty or locates some of Sadam's lost WMD. =)
Posted by: Mac Suirtain   2005-02-18 2:33:45 PM  

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