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| Russia dumps lunette for flirting with Bad Guys... |
| 2003-01-29 |
| Russia on Wednesday deported an American woman suspected of having contacts with Islamic extremists, the Federal Security Service said. A duty officer at the service identified the woman as Megan McRee and said she was placed on a flight to Los Angeles. "Get out and stay out!" The Russian airline Aeroflot confirmed that a passenger by that name was en route to Los Angeles. Officials at the U.S. Embassy could not immediately be reached for comment. "I dunno. I just came on. I'll leave a note for the night shift guy..." According to the security service, the woman had lived in a neighborhood of Moscow for a long period without registering her visa as required by law. The FSB also said she had made contact via the internet with a number of Islamic extremist organizations and proposed various "scenarios" for terrorist actions in the United States. But the state-run TV Rossiya channel later broadcast a report saying that the woman had attempted to contact al-Qaida and the Islamic Brotherhood. The report did not specify what sort of responses she may have received. "Thank you for your enquiry about assisting al-Qaeda in its plot to take over the world. At present we don't have any openings for someone with your qualifications, but we will keep your resume on file for six months, and if anything opens up we'll contact you..." The Rossiya report also said the woman had told authorities she had left the United States several years ago because she was being persecuted by the CIA and that she had lived in Romania before coming to Russia. I'll bet the Romanians were so-o-o-o-o sad when she left... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 woooooboy! I bet Mr Cowan isn't really the one on Fox all the time? He was cleverly replaced by a clone after blowing his cover to Ms Mensa.... What a nutcase! I'm just not real happy we got her back - how many productive FBI/CIA/Secret Service people will be tied up responding to her frantic calls daily? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-01-30 08:44:21 |
| #5 Is this the Bill Cowan she referred to in her letter? |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-01-29 17:27:43 |
| #4 A google search on Megan McRee turns up a bunch of links with an email in the .ru domain. They're mostly posts to a "vulnerability" mailing list. The ones I've seen were about safeguarding credit card payment info. This site http://www.associateprograms.com/search/Lifestyle_and_Society/singles/index2.shtml has a link to http://www.islamicpersonals.com which was submitted by Megan McRee. Well, this is ugly. I couldn't figure out how to embed the URLs. The normal method wouldn't work. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2003-01-29 16:56:24 |
| #3 ... and I read on. Amazing! Mensa girl actually needs a tin foil house. With the windows painted black. This is must reading for fans of American crazies. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-01-29 15:47:00 |
| #2 Nice letter. I think Mensa girl better get an EXTRA LARGE tin foil hat... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-01-29 15:09:44 |
| #1 There's more to this story...read this letter while I go look up more on Ms. McRee. Guess where she lived in the States...that's right, Oklahoma City. |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-01-29 14:18:13 |