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| Man held in Pakistan sez he's American | |
| 2005-10-30 | |
| Pakistani border guards have arrested a man who claimed to be an American citizen for entering Pakistan illegally from neighboring Iran, an official said Saturday. The man, identified as Essa Jesus, 56, was arrested late Friday in Taftan, a southwestern Pakistani town near the border with Iran, said Akbar Lashari, a senior official with Levies, a police force responsible for security along the border and in tribal parts of southwestern Baluchistan province. "He had no visa. When he was interrogated, he said that he is a tourist from America and a resident of Alabama," Lashari said. Lashari said the man could speak Urdu, Pashtu and Persian — languages spoken mainly in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said it had no information about the arrest in Taftan, about 435 miles southwest of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, the man said he lost his American passport and other documents in Iran five years ago. "I came to Pakistan to go to the American Embassy and get my passport," he said. He said he was a former restaurant waiter in Alabama and left the United States 40 years ago, going first to London, then India, and then traveling in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
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| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #8 who the third baseman on the 1967 Cleveland Indians was. I thought knowing the answer to that question was a sure sign someone was a Soviet spy. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-30 21:14 |
| #7 Give the guy the American test. Yeah, let me hear him say, "Walla Walla Washington". And then let's see if he knows who the third baseman on the 1967 Cleveland Indians was. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-10-30 20:43 |
| #6 Fort Rucker. Where I got my first ride in the gunner's seat of a snake. An E-Ticket ride beyond belief, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-10-30 17:54 |
| #5 Not just the Peanut Capital U2. It's the home of the wiregrass shadow government. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-30 17:37 |
| #4 Hey isn't Dothan the peanut capital of the world? Essa Jesus? Give the guy the American test. |
| Posted by: Ulins Uleremble5747 2005-10-30 15:49 |
| #3 It'll all be appearing in the end. |
| Posted by: Come to Dothan 2005-10-30 12:37 |
| #2 If the gentleman is from Alabama, the Dept. of State officer may well not be able to understand his English, unless he, too, is from that part of the South. ;-) But goodness! wandering for forty years so far from home! And how on earth did he survive for five years without papers in Iran? Does nobody find that the least bit queer? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-30 12:09 |
| #1 Wo would have thunk the son of the big guy came back to his chosen people in Alabama! He did however, go where he would have been needed most, Iran. This is sounding like a Monty Pithon Skit. Jesus lived in a single wide in Alabama, realized they were unsaveable, and move to Iran. |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2005-10-30 09:15 |