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| Shah showed how he could use his prayer beads to strangle a man |
| 2005-06-03 |
| A man now charged with planning support for al-Qaida showed an undercover F-B-I agent how he could use his prayer beads to strangle someone. An F-B-I complaint gives more details about the 2004 meeting in Plattsburgh between the undercover agent and New York City jazz musician Tarik Shah. The 42-year-old Shah was charged May 28th with conspiring to provide support to al-Qaida, along with a Florida doctor. Both are being held without bail. The complaint says the undercover agent chose the Plattsburgh location for security reasons. It also says Shah allegedly showed an interest in training with explosives, firearms, A-K-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. The case is still under investigation. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 A magazine (People will do nicely) and a few heavy rubber bands will raise no eyebrows. Then you just roll it up into a tight cylinder about a inch in diameter and fasten the rubber bands at each end. Makes a nice truncheon, or you can drive the end into someone's throat. Pop the bands off and the weapon goes away. |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-06-03 15:46 |
| #2 Had an aunt could kill you with her dumplings .. they were that dense. |
| Posted by: anon 2005-06-03 14:23 |
| #1 Prayer beads? Amateur! I believe it was Rantburg's own Jarhead who takes off his shoelaces once he's settled into his seat on the airplane, and ties them together to make a neat garrot... just in case. Not to mention the sock-full-of-coins cosh, and the 60 mph buns. Shoot, my high school biology teacher told stories of sharpening his belt buckle, but then he'd lived in a bad neighborhood, unlike this spoiled son of a Malcom X bodyguard. Even Mr. Wife, who admittedly is not as soft-hearted as I, tells of once, in his youth, stopping himself before quite tearing out the throat of a fool who was harassing his (Mr. W's) then-girlfriend. To tell the truth, he was overtrained at the time, which is no doubt why he was able to stop. He is still pleased that I am not the type to get him in such situations... ;-) And I imagine that a great many Rantburgers can tell even more interesting stories that don't require something so obvious as prayer beads. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-06-03 13:36 |