TAMPA, MONEY LAUNDERING FROM SMUGGLED CIGARETTES AND CARS SENT TO IRAQ AS BOMBS

TAMPA, laundering money from smuggled cigarettes and used cars sent to Iraq. Money laundering plan targets trade-based used cars

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal agencies announced a anti-money laundering strategy on combating trade-based activities as traditional bank transfer avenues are shut down they also will investigate how free-trade zones affect illicit imports and exports (USED CARS).

See my Post; Saturday, May 31, 2008, POLICE SAY SMUGGLED CIGARETTE CRIME RING PUT OUT OF BUSINESS IN TAMPA SCAM, MAYBE NOT SO MUCH, OLD HABITS HARD TO KICK.
Washington Post article, money from the sale of used cars at the al-Nahar car delaership in Mosul, supports Al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks, official DOD document.

Following is some further information concerning the used car dealers in Tampa that appear to link to the financial support of terrorism with "Black Cars" shipped to Dubai for resale.
PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD (PIJ) Muslim terrorist group with ties to al Qaeda Also known as Islamic Jihad. Supported Saddam Hussein in 2003 Iraq war against U.S. Shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, PIJ announced that it was backing Saddam Hussein -- inreciprocity for Saddam's support for Palestinian terroristsin Israel (he had given more than $35 million in cash awards to the families of suicide bombers who had attacked Israeli targets -- mostly civilians).

PIJ showed Saddam its appreciation by staging a March 30, 2003 suicide bombing at a crowded pedestrian mall in the Israeli costal town of Netanya, and proclaiming the act "agift to the heroic people of Iraq.

"In 2003 Palestinian Islamic Jihad announced that it was sending suicide bombers to Iraq to help fight what it called the "American invasion" there. According to Nafez Azzam, the PIJ leader in Gaza and the West Bank, "The Islamic Jihad movement is interested in intensifying attacks in this phase to make it clear to Arabs, Muslims,and the whole world that what is going on here in Palestine is the same as what is happening in Iraq.

"A notable PIJ member was Sami Al-Arian, who headed the organization's North American operations while he worked as a professor at the University of South Floridain Tampa Fl. FBI officials said they believe a nationwide database could help break up far-flung terrorist networks, which are using vehicles stolen and smuggled from the United States.

Bought and sold on the international black market, cars and trucks help fund criminal operations and can be turned into the terrorist weapon of choice against US troops and Iraqi civilians: vehicles packed withexplosives.

The FBI declined to estimate how many stolen US cars have turned up as car bombs in Iraq but said the number is believed to be at least in the dozens (if not hundreds).

VIN cloning Sarasota used car dealer Sergiy Zheleznyak had obtained 36 phony car titles ... In Miami Fl used car dealer Ali Hassan Hammoud who was arrested car theft and VIN cloning.


Bill Warner
Private Investigator
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Sarasota Fl
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