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| FBI Raids Middle Eastern Owned Service Stations |
| 2006-02-22 |
| Link goes to a TV station's website. TV 8 News has learned the FBI and local law enforcement authorities are conducting a statewide raid of service stations and businesses owned by Middle Easterners. Agents executed search warrants today at businesses from Tallulah to Ruston and in Monroe. The FBI says the raids are part of "an ongoing criminal investigation." Police sources tell TV 8 News the raids target possible money laundering and counterfeiting in connection with suspected domestic terrorist activity and homeland security. TV 8 News will have details at 5, 6,and 10. The recent Ohio arrests and now this... coincidence? Related? |
| Posted by:Laurence of the Rats |
| #26 Lets not be having any talk of "swarthy middle eterners" here this evening. Rascist overtunes, etc. |
| Posted by: Besoeker TROLL 2006-02-22 20:50 |
| #25 A guy can't even pay another person an honest complement these days, lol. Sheesh. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-22 23:42 |
| #24 lol! gives us insight into his self-image. Nuck off, loser. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-02-22 23:36 |
| #23 Heh, You really did pick the right nym, y'know? |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-22 23:29 |
| #22 Will someone please get .com a tissue? |
| Posted by: Nuck Fozzle2168 2006-02-22 23:28 |
| #21 "I try to get out, but they drag me back in!" /channeling Michael Corleone Thanks, tw, sniff. Actually, I am in flux. I've said most all I feel I need to say about the bad road ahead and who we should be focused upon. BTW, I have a personal message for you: You post your own thoughts, you contribute relevant facts and some terrific bits that I'd never hear anywhere else, you can soothe or mock with equally devastating dexterity (lol), you nail pretenders to the wall as well as give generously - when there is nothing to gain from it, and you aren't afraid of anyone, heh. That's class! I hope you never tire of the 'Burg - it needs you! I'm glad I've "met" you. :-) |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-22 22:41 |
| #20 fine - make fun of the lisp |
| Posted by: Apu 2006-02-22 22:38 |
| #19 #7: who are you calling swarthy middle eaterner? MMMM, ok "Swarthy Esquamaux of Asian descent" Will that do? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-02-22 22:16 |
| #18 Nobody's buying it. |
| Posted by: Jack Bauer 2006-02-22 22:16 |
| #17 I believe you, .com. But then I'm innocent and gullible, and even corrected my vision isn't quite 20/20. Feel better yet? ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-22 22:16 |
| #16 Lol, I know, al AP! I'm trying to project the new me, kinder and gentler and all that shit, but I dunno if anyone's buying. Might be too late, after 3 years, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-22 21:38 |
| #15 Watch out, .com, yer due for a fatwa. LOL! |
| Posted by: Al-Aska Paul 2006-02-22 21:37 |
| #14 we've electronically redacted this for security |
| Posted by: FBI guy 2006-02-22 21:35 |
| #13 I've searched the Buffalo News website, as well as one of the local tv stations, and can't find anything about this. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-22 21:22 |
| #12 We should burn the Buffalo Embassy! |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-22 21:20 |
| #11 Update from the same site: The FBI is conducting a large scale investigation into north Louisiana convenience stores with ties to the Middle East. As TV8's Gina Swanson reports the Department of Homeland Security is in on the sting operation involving stores in at least four parishes. They seized evidence by the box full. The FBI on Wednesday searched at least a half dozen convenience stores in North Louisiana. All with ties to the Middle East. The probe led agents to stores in Tallulah, Lake Providence, Monroe and Ruston. Law enforcement sources confirm that the stores are suspected of involvement in money laundering or counterfeiting. The Department of Homeland Security has sent agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or Ice, to work the case. At each station, agents seized boxes of evidence and retrieved at least one weapon. Police sources say at least some of the gas station operators are from Yemen. ...The investigation reaches beyond Louisiana. TV8 news has confirmed the FBI and department of homeland security Wednesday also raided stores in Buffalo, New York. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-22 21:18 |
| #10 apparently the ultimate cash cow: pole dancing, isn't paying off for our burqa-clad beauties..wonder why? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-22 21:11 |
| #9 Tricky one to call, overall. Cash business = opportunity for tax evasion and a lot of other stuff. OTOH, service businesses that need long hours but not necessarily high skills are also a classic way for many honest immigrants to build equity and join the middle class here. Mom, pop, kids work for very low hourly wages and slowly build ownership. When they've paid off their loans they help someone else in their community / family with starting capital. It's the American dream / opportunity in action. But for sure it could also be a cover for money laundering etc. on the part of some. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-02-22 20:45 |
| #8 7-11's tomorrow? |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-02-22 20:45 |
| #7 who are you calling swarthy middle eaterner? |
| Posted by: Apu 2006-02-22 20:33 |
| #6 Now that you mention it, all the gas stations around Mobile are also manned by swarthy, middle easterners (Who seem to be decent folks) Gawd, I never even thought of the Gas Stations as a counterfitting ring, but what a perfect distribution system, you'd have to stick to counterfiting 20's, but what a system |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-02-22 20:31 |
| #5 Well, sure it's a profiling issue, but raised by all the ruckus about the port thingy! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-02-22 17:50 |
| #4 Link is down (Rantburger'ed?). I wonder if the targets are really all 'middle eastern' owned or if they are 'muslim' owned... I can will imagine the MSM wanting to turn this into a 'racial profiling' issue... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-02-22 16:02 |
| #3 all the stations in my area are run by middle easterners |
| Posted by: Elmiting Gluger1772 2006-02-22 15:38 |
| #2 Perhaps coincidence, perhaps linked... possibly executed successively to keep the targets from bolting at the news of the other arrests. (Yes, I'm not even guessing here). I wonder how much of the information on which the arrests were based came from military/NSA intelligence? That would be the true triumph of the whole thing -- Bush's people forcing the various services to share information and work together to achieve results. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-22 15:26 |
| #1 Damn! Most of the stations in my area seem to be run by "Middle Easterners". |
| Posted by: Spot 2006-02-22 14:46 |