Two Israeli nationals arrested in Tenn.

[RPankn]

Posted on Sun, May. 09, 2004

Two men arrested after high-speed chase in Tennessee

Associated Press


ERWIN, Tenn. - Two Israeli men who led the Unicoi County sheriff on a high-speed chase in a rented moving truck were placed under arrest and are being investigated by the FBI, local officials said.

Shmuel Dahan and Almaliach Naor, both from Israel, were being held without bond Sunday afternoon at the Unicoi County Jail. The truck, rented from a Ryder office in Mars Hills, N.C., was being held in the county garage pending an FBI investigation, officials said.

Dahan is charged with reckless driving, littering, false identification and evading arrest, while Naor faces charges of false identification and evading arrest, an officer with the Unicoi County Sheriff's Department who would not give his name said Sunday.

An investigation by the FBI is ongoing and more charges are possible, he said. A woman who answered the phone at the FBI's Knoxville office said there was no one available to answer questions about the arrest.

The incident began late Saturday afternoon when Sheriff Kent Harris noticed a rental truck traveling at a high speed along former U.S. Highway 23, a lightly-traveled highway near the North Carolina state line.

"I was really concerned because the driver would not stop after I flashed my headlights for nearly three miles," Harris said. "He was weaving back and forth and I was wondering what a large (rental truck) was doing on the two-lane highway late Saturday afternoon instead of the faster I-26 Interstate."

Harris said he saw the men throw something from the truck while they were being pursued. Officers scouring the area later found a vial containing an unknown substance along the roadway, he said.

Once the men were apprehended, officers also found a "Learn to Fly" brochure in the truck, leading Harris and others to express concern about security at the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin.

"I got a sick feeling when I saw it," Harris said.

Dahan also gave authorities a fake Florida driver's license issues in Plantation, Fla., he said, while Naor produced a fake identification card.

Harris subsequently contacted the FBI, the federal Bureau of Tobacco and Firearms and other local authorities to look into the situation.

"We're not overreacting," Harris said. "We have a responsibility to protect the citizens of Unicoi County and that's what I'm going to do at any cost. I'd rather overreact, if that's what you call it, than be sorry later."


Link: www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/8627949.htm?1c

[RPankn]

Suspicious Men Arrested

Date 9 May 2004

Two Israeli men have been arrested after evading Unicoi County, Tennessee sheriff's deputies, driving eratically on a two lane highway, and littering.

But, there may be more to their apprehension than that.

Sheriff Kent Harris says the stories they`ve been telling investigators simply don`t add up.

The two men led authorities on a three-mile high speed chase in a rented moving truck.

Lt. Ron Arnold says one of the men had a fake Florida i.d. and passports found didn`t add up.

The FBI is now testing a bottle thrown from the truck during the pursuit.

Robert White, the community member who found the bottle, says it had a powder and liquid in it.

Sheriff Harris says the substance didn`t test for any type of drug, but did for a fuel source.

The driver, 23-year old Samuel Dahan and passenger 19-year old Almaliach Noar claim they were delivering furniture and were headed to Boston, Massachusetts.
Authorities found a couple of "learning to fly" business cards during a search of the moving truck.

Both men are being held in seperate cells pending a bond hearing Monday morning.

Investigators have determined both men are living in the United States legally.


Link: www.wcyb.tv/newsread.asp?newsid=4381

[Moses]

This will be suppressed like the ones in New Mexico and New Jersey (that we know about). It looks to me like the Israelis may very well be responsible for 9/11 after all. They certainly had motive and opportunity.

[Moses]

Oh yes. And the Anthrax attack. But that is obvious.

[RPankn]

Mossad and Moving Companies:
Masterminds of Global Terrorism?

June 2, 2003: The other day I was scanning the news reports and came across a rather mundane item that really got me to thinking. It simply read:

Cloudcroft chief stops Israelis with suspicious cargo
By Michael Shinabery Staff Writer, Alamogordo Daily News

CLOUDCROFT, NM -- That they were speeding through the school zone first got his attention.

That they had Israeli driver's licenses and expired passports made him suspicious.

Cloudcroft Police Chief Gene Green stopped the 2-ton van on Thursday, for speeding. Initially, Green thought the truck was commercial because of exterior markings. But when he found it was out of Chicago, he asked for documentation such as logs books and manifests.

"They said this is a U-Haul truck and handed me a rental agreement (for) in-town delivery only in Illinois, (which) had expired two days before," Green said. He called for backup, and Otero County Sheriff's Deputy Billy Anders, who patrols the Sacramento Mountains, arrived, along with Capt. Norbert Sanchez and Det. Eddie Medrano.

"We got them out and started digging a little deeper," Green said, "got permission to search the truck. They claimed they were hauling furniture from Austin to Chicago." When officers advised the men they were not exactly en route from one town to another, Green said the two men claimed they were Deming bound. "But they couldn't give us an address in Deming they were going to," he said. "Once we got into the truck, they had some junk furniture I wouldn't have given to Goodwill."

Also inside the vehicle were, Green said, "50 boxes" they claimed was a "private" delivery, but the men insisted they had no "idea what was in them."

At that point, the officers called for drug-sniffing and bomb-sniffing dogs. The men were turned over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and U- Haul recovered the truck.

Contents of the boxes remain unknown, pending investigation.

Well, don't that just beat all? Another "moving company" with Israeli drivers with bad papers, and nobody even noticed...

Well, I noticed.

Not only did I notice, I remembered the strange story about a similar event:

On May 7, 2002, local police authorities pulled over a Budget rental truck in Oak Harbour, Washington near the Whitney Island Naval Air Station. The driver and his passenger were Israeli nationals, one of which had entered the country illegally. The other had an expired visa. Tests performed on the vehicle revealed that there were traces of TNT on the gearshift and RDX plastic explosives on the steering wheel. But no actual explosives were reported to have been found in the truck. [Fox News, 5/13/02]

A report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the following day reported that the FBI performed follow-up tests on the truck which turned-up negative. One source speculated that perhaps the original tests had actually detected just cigarette residue, and not explosives. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5/14/02, Jerusalem Post, 5/14/02].


Continued here: www.cassiopaea.org/cass/globemovers.htm

[Moses]

And no one ever hears any more after the initial story. And of course it was the phoney moving company front connected to the 9/11 incidents. (They were cheering as the towers collapsed).

[Moses]

Try posting todays story on SC and see what happens.

[RPankn]

Moses said:

This will be suppressed like the ones in New Mexico and New Jersey (that we know about). It looks to me like the Israelis may very well be responsible for 9/11 after all. They certainly had motive and opportunity.

I don't see why theorizing that Sept. 11th was MIHOP instead of LIHOP is still too "tin foil." After all, these were the people who brought us Iran-Contra. There's still just too much left unanswered about that day and al-Qaeda's subsequent behavior (i.e., attacking only Iraq coalition countries instead of all those involved in Afghanistan, attacking other Muslims, the penchant for symbolism and specific numbers on attack dates (9/11, the Bali bombings happening exactly one year and one day after Sept. 11th, the Spain bombing happening 911 days after Sept. 11th, etc.)).

[Moses]

They were too ready with their propaganda campaign telling us we are now Israel, and implementing the police state measures modeled after Israel, etc. etc. They seem to have had the whole thing worked out to the last detail, before hand. That's why Woodward published his disinformation book.

[calabi-yau]

I smell a gefilte fish.

[RPankn]

The two men make an appearance Monday morning in Unicoi County Sessions Court. ( Ron Scalf / Johnson City Press)

Lawyers appointed for 2 Israelis

By Ron Scalf
Erwin Bureau
[e-mail]

ERWIN — Two Israeli nationals being held here without bond on a variety of charges placed over the weekend were appointed lawyers Monday by Unicoi County General Sessions Court Judge David Shultz.
Almaliach Naor and Shnuel Daran, Tel Aviv, Israel, requested the Israeli Consulate also be notified of their incarceration. Naor told Shultz he could only speak Hebrew. Daran, who speaks both Hebrew and English, acted as a translator for Naor during the proceedings.

Erwin attorneys William Lawson and Kent Garland were appointed to represent the men. Lawson will represent Naor, while Garland was appointed Daran’s lawyer.

Unicoi County Sheriff Kent Harris arrested the two men after a rented 25-foot Ryder truck failed “to stop for my blue lights and they were speeding and swerving on Highway 352 in Flag Pond.” Harris said he finally pulled the truck over nearly three miles down the mountain at the Temple Hill community.

Harris said he found a false Florida driver’s license under Naor’s passenger seat. Harris also said one of the two threw out a vial containing some type of accelerant. The two deny throwing anything out of the truck, but Harris said he has a witness who said the men threw out several items.

The discarded vial was found by Unicoi County Sheriff’s officers who combed the area following the two men’s arrests.

Harris said after testing the vial locally it was sent to an FBI lab. “We’re still working with the FBI on the case,” he said.

At the request of Assistant District Attorney General Fred Lance, Shultz did not set bond at the brief morning hearing. However, he said he would consider the matter later Monday or today after the Israeli authorities were notified.

Harris said late Monday he was traveling to Mars Hill, N.C., to search a storage building the pair had rented from Triple A Storage, 1393 U.S. Highway 19. “We found a receipt in their truck, and we’ve received permission to inspect it,” Harris said. “One of the suspects will accompany us over there.”<br>
Harris said upon further investigation, the Ryder truck was rented in Plantation, Fla., not Mars Hill, N.C., as previously thought. At the direction of the FBI, Harris said the vial has been sent to the director of Emergency Management for Tennessee in Sevierville. He said federal authorities had ruled out any federal charges, “unless the liquid in the vial is an illegal substance,” Harris said. State charges “are still intact,” he said.

Harris said he talked to an official at the Israeli Consulate’s office in Atlanta Monday afternoon, who in turn spoke to Daran, 22, and Naor, 19.

“He wanted to know how they were being treated,” Harris said. “Because of their religion, they are asking to be fed a special diet and we are complying with the request.”<br>
Both men are expected to appear in Sessions Court today for a bond hearing.


Link: www.johnsoncitypress.com/default.asp?SectionID=DETAIL&ID=34466

[Moses]

A forged drivers license isn't a federal offense?