From 1995 to 2003 Agents for Terrorist Organizations like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda roamed Tampa-Sarasota area

From 1995 to 2003 Agents for Terrorist Organizations like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda roamed Tampa-Sarasota area. The Iranian regime is a state sponsor of terror, and al- Qaeda is a terror organization. But Tehran's ayatollahs are Shi'i Muslims and al-Qaeda are Sunni. There is some truth in the suggestion that Iran's connections to al-Qaeda are often largely overlooked. The Shi'i-Sunni sectarian split is seen as making any collaboration between the two a non-starter, but. However, there is evidence of engagement on some level. For example, Osama bin Laden met with Imad Mughniyah, a senior member of Hezbollah Iran, in the early 1990s. It is thought that al-Qaeda subsequently received explosives training from the Hezbollah group. Furthermore, Iran facilitated al-Qaeda members' travel in and out of Afghanistan prior to 9/11. Senior al-Qaeda leaders close to Osama bin Laden fled there after the invasion of Afghanistan, before being placed under a form of house arrest by early 2002. Shia and Sunni terrorist organizations will work together in an united front against America, still do. Iran, it has been discovered, allowed Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists to transit it's country from Iraq to Afghanistan and back for safe haven.

As an example: On April 22 the RCMP, the Canadian Mounties, arrested two Islamist's, Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier. At the direction of al-Qaeda members in Iran, these men planned to derail a passenger train from Toronto, as it passed over Niagara Falls en route to New York City. Chiheb Esseghaier, a Tunisian-born doctoral student, traveled to Iran on a trip that was directly relevant to the investigation of the alleged plot, the officials said. When they announced the arrest of Esseghaier and his alleged co-conspirator, Raed Jaser, Canadian police said the two men had received “direction and guidance” in the plot from “al Qaeda elements in Iran.” On May 9 American authorities arrested Ahmed Abassi, an associate of these men in the United States, who also supported al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate. Now, had their terror plot succeeded, American and Canadian civilian casualties in New York could have been catastrophic.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) and the Patriot Act was a work in progress in the Tampa, Sarasota, Venice area in 2002. This article is about the impact of the amendments to FISA made by the USA PATRIOT Act and how critical they are to the government’s ability to successfully prosecute the war on terrorism and prevent another attack like that of September 11 from ever happening again. From early 1995 to late 2003 there was a multi-agency investigation into a syndicate of Palestinian and Saudi Arabian men in the Tampa- Sarasota area that linked to support of terrorism. During this time frame 1995 to late 2003 major international terrorist organizations such as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) under Sami Al-Arian in Tampa, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) under Osama Sam Mustafa in Tampa and San Diego and Al-Qaeda with agents Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al-Shehhi and Imam Muneer Arafat in Sarasota that all operated openly.

WASHINGTON, D.C.April 2006—Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a specially designated terrorist organization, in violation of U.S. law, the Department of Justice announced. Al-Arian was arrested by the FBI on Feb. 20, 2003 following the return of an indictment by a federal grand jury in Tampa, charging him and several co-defendants. In a closed proceeding before a federal magistrate at U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida last week, Al-Arian pleaded guilty to Count Four of the indictment against him – a charge of conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. “Al-Arian has now admitted providing assistance to help the Palestinian Islamic Jihad—a specially designated terrorist organization with deadly goals—as the government has alleged from the start.” In the plea agreement, Al-Arian admits that he was associated with several organizations, including the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s. He also admits that co-defendants Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, Bashir Musa Mohammed Nafi and Mazen Al-Najjar were associated with PIJ. The investigation was conducted by a Task Force led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with assistance from (ICE), the Internal Revenue Service and state and local law enforcement officials, among others.

In the Tampa - Sarasota area several multi-international scams were run to finance terrorists and terrorism in the Middle East. Baby formula scam and WIC, stolen baby formula sold in convenience stores with buy back from WIC. Shoplifters had been zeroing in on powdered baby formula, sometimes clearing shelves of dozens of cans at a time. The thefts are the sign of a surprising black market in the innocent yet expensive white powder that comes packed in cans decorated with baby rabbits and teddy bears. The substitute for mothers milk is a favorite target for fraud, with government aid recipients trading it for cash. Much of the stolen goods later appears on the shelves of small corner stores in Tampa, where formula that legally costs as much as 13.50$ a pound sells for a few bucks less.


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