Confessions of a Federal Confidential Informant Stolen Cars From Detroit, Tampa, NYC, to Dubai in Support of Terrorism, FOX NEWS CORROBORATES

FOX NEWS DEC 27, 2025...Muslim Crime lords turn Motor City into car-theft supermarket for Middle East buyers: ‘Somebody's getting paid’. An uptick in international organized crime groups smuggling stolen vehicles from the Motor City to countries in the Middle East is alarming law enforcement officials looking to crack down on the thefts, as experts say criminals are leveraging juveniles to do their dirty work. In September, eight men were indicted in federal court for allegedly operating a car theft and international smuggling operation in Detroit, Michigan, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said in a news release. According to the 12-count indictment, the eight suspects conspired among themselves and others to coordinate the deliveries of stolen vehicles at one of four commercial or industrial lots throughout the Detroit metropolitan area. Once the vehicles were delivered, prosecutors said the men would pack at least two of the stolen vehicles into shipping containers and send them to nearby port cities by freight or rail. The suspects have been identified as Haydar Al Haydari, 41, of Garden City; Karar Alnakash, 43, of Detroit; Abbas Al Othman, 42; of Dearborn Heights; Mohammed Al Hilo, 36, of Detroit; Moustapha Al Fetlawi, 46, of Dearborn Heights; Terrill Davis, 33, of Detroit; David Roshinsky Williams, 32, of Harper Woods; and Mohammed Al Abboodi, 35, of Detroit, according to federal prosecutors.

Confessions of a Federal Confidential Informant Stolen Cars, From June of 2002 up to and including September of 2007, William Edwards worked as a Confidential Informant (CI) for the Bureau of Immigration Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security in the Tampa Fl area, his job was to obtain information on an assortment of used car dealers who linked to a convicted terrorist supporter and who appeared to be sending vehicle’s of all types into Dubai UAE & Jeddah Saudi Arabia where brokers forwarded the vehicles (or sold them) on to Iraq in support of terrorism. 

Over the course of the investigation into the Muslim used car racket in Tampa it became apparent that the majority of the vehicle exporters were Iraqi refugees and some of them helped organize the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, others showed up in Tampa after an aborted, CIA-supported Iraqi coup in 1996. Although they presented a serious threat to his regime, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was able to suppress the rebellions with massive force and maintain power, as the expected intervention by the United States (CIA and DOD) never materialized. 

The Iraqi refugees (car dealers) who arrived in Tampa Fl after the 1991 and the 1996 Iraq uprisings had been left to hang out to dry by the CIA and the US DOD which never intervened. The Tampa Iraqi used car dealers who were exporting vehicles, operated out of the Port of Tampa, Jax Port Fl and the Port of Savannah GA, vehicles were purchased at salvaged auto auctions and or from street hustlers of recent stolen vehicles. Stolen vehicles were disassembled, the engine and transmission taken out and then shipped with the hull of the vehicle packed in shipping containers as “auto parts” and sent to Dubai UAE.

As such the U. S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the various U.S. Ports do not check the “VIN” (vehicle identification number) of exported “auto parts” and upon receiving the “auto parts” in Dubai (were whole industries exist to do just such work, including welding back together vehicles that had been cut apart) the vehicles are reassembled and sold at 2 to 3 times the retail that is obtainable in the USA, older vehicles were shipped into Iraq to be used as car bombs, during 2003 to 2005, see FBI report here that indicates that at least dozens of USA cars have been used as car bombs in Iraq. 

A long time terrorism associate and used car dealer in Virginia is convicted terrorist bagman Abdurahman Alamoudi who also ran a used car dealership in Virginia, ALAMOUDI WAS THE OWNER OF THE SHIRLINGTON AUTO MART-USED CAR LOT IN ARLINGTON VA. Abdurahman Alamoudi did federal time for his involvement in a scheme to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah (now King) of Saudi Arabia. Abduraham Alamoudi: confessed to his involvement in the plot as part of a plea bargain with US authorities. The founder of the Pentagon's Muslim chaplain program was Abdurahman Alamoudi, who convicted as a terrorism financier. Alamoudi was caught with $340,000 in cash, 34 bundles of sequentially numbered $100 bills to be used to pay terrorists to kill the Saudi Crown prince (now King), money indirectly from the same Jeddah Saudi individuals linked in the Iraq Study Report who are funding al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. Alamoudi was brought to Tampa Fl in 2005 to testify against Sami al-Arian, Alamoudi was booked into the Hillsborough County Jail on 7/19/2005 and stayed there until 11/01/2005, but never went to Court to testify against his buddy Al-Arian? 

Some three million vehicles are stolen throughout Asia, Africa, Europe and North America each year, worth an estimated US$21 billion (euro15.4 billion). CI William Edwards was able to put together an international network of linking Car Importers & Exporters from around the world who in turn all shipped vehicles (sometimes stolen) to Dubai UAE and or Jeddah SA for re-export to Iraq for sale or to be used as car bombs, the “Cars Became The Cash” for terrorists in Iraq, no money needed to cross the borders.

The short list of arrested and or convicted or on the run International Car Importers & Exporters compiled by CI William Edwards includes;
1). Abdurahman Alamoundi…. Shirlington Auto Mart, Arlington VA USA.
2). Camil Assaf …Tampa Fl USA
3). Abdalla Deiab………………Tampa Fl USA
4). Sheik Abbas Harake…..Beirut used car dealer
5). WASSIM MAZLOUM OWNS TWO USED CAR LOTS IN TOLEDO OH USA.
6). & 7). In Tampa are still under Federal Investigation.
8). Adnan El Shukrijumah ….Miramar Fl USA, Al-Qaeda terrorist now dead.
9). Pierre Robert…car dealer in Tangier Morocco
11) . Khalid Abu-al–Dahab Silicon Valley CA USA
12) Mohammed Ramez Sultan Munich Germany.
13). Abu Salem and Dawood Ibrahim, Kings of Cars, Dubai UAE.
14). Imad Yarkas, a Syrian-born used car dealer (importer) linked to 9/11.
15). MOHAMED ATTA WAS A USED CAR DEALER IN HAMBURG By Peter Finn..9/11 pilot now dead
16). MAMOUN DARKAZANLI–CAR IMPORT/EXPORT COMPANY; HAMBURG GR
17). Mohamad Reda Tabbara Export of Stolen Vehicles, “Black Cars” to Dubai.
18). Hossein Esfahani operated three ChicagoWest Side auto dealerships
19). MANSHA KHAN, MOHAMMED DITA, NAVEED PARVEZ, London UK.
20). MOHAMED YOUSEF AL-NAGHI, exclusive BMW importer Jeddah SA.
21). ABDULRAHMAN HASSAN SHARBATLY, dealer Ferrari, Porshe Jeddah SA
22). SharifF Omar Cottonwood Heights Utah, links to brother in Iraq & al-Qaeda.
23). Ashraf Seleman of NJ vehicles shipped to Dubai and Africa. 

SPECIAL INTEREST; Used Car Dealer Osama Sam Mustafa was born in the US, owned multiple car related business's in San Diego CA area prior to 9/11 Al-Qaeda terror attack on USA. 9/11 hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi works at his gas station while living in San Diego where other suspected Islamist militants work. The Texaco gas station, Sam’s Star Mart, is owned by Osama “Sam” Mustafa. In 2003 Osama Sam Mustafa moves to Tampa Fl and opens up a used car dealership, a car repair shop and Sam's Towing. Osma Sam Mustafa immediately becomes involved with the 'used car racket' shipping cars to the Middle East. Two Bay Area Men Convicted of $17.8 Million Tax Fraud; One Had Ties to 9/11 Investigation, MAY 16, 2012. In a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday, Osama "Sam" Mustafa, 47, and Khaldoun "Tony" Khawaja, 48, along with Khawaja's brother, Muawia "Mike" Abdeljalil of Virginia, are accused of stealing Social Security checks, filing false tax returns and lying to the federal government.

SPECIAL INTEREST; Mohammed Al-Galal aka Mohamed Galal aka Mohamed Jalal obtained and sold multiple vehicles in a online scheme to Defraud and also was charged with Grand Theft Auto over the past 20 years. Orlando Fl used car dealer Mohamed Gala also posts fake online ads on the internet of cars for sale, cars he does not have or own. Orlando Used Car Dealer Mohamed Galal aka Mohamed Jalal spent 10 months in Federal prison on his 2002 conviction for Social Security card fraud, see Orlando Sentinel article click here. Mohamed Galal aka Mohamed Jalal obtained at least 6 false Social security cards Mohamed Galal had/has passports from Egypt and Kuwait. Used car dealer Mohamed Jalal aka Mohamed al-Galal plead guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to Social Security card fraud in 2002, he had at least 6 Social Security cards that he obtained in 1999 to 2000 that he used to apply to different flight schools (prior to 9/11/2001). This is a bad guy selling used cars on the internet.

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 U.S. troops: vehicles packed with explosives, Car Bombs.. The FBI declined to estimate how many stolen U.S. cars have turned up as car bombs in Iraq but said the number is believed to be at least in the dozens. “A car bomb is the absolute favorite delivery method of terrorists,” said Special Agent Ryan Toole of the FBI’s Major Theft Unit in Washington. “Tracing that VIN is very, very important” to identifying where the vehicle originated or determining how it ended up in terrorist hands. Toole said American-made vehicles are particularly attractive to terrorists in places such as Iraq. Forensics specialists there have identified some bomb-rigged cars as vehicles that were swiped off American streets and sold overseas by criminal gangs and organized crime syndicates.The used car investigation into certain Tampa (Iraqi) used car exporters is ongoing and has been taken over by the FBI due to the obvious links to terrorism. 

Confessions of a Federal Confidential Informant, a private investigator in Florida has documented his concerns about the use of stolen vehicles to finance terror networks and as vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs). In an article CI William Edwards published on Word Press, he states, 'Trafficking and smuggling of stolen vehicles are mainly the work of structured and sophisticated global criminal groups. Such huge profits can be used by criminal organizations to strengthen their activities and support terrorism, while destabilizing developing nations at the same time". Commercial vehicles and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are inviting and deceitful vehicles for terrorists as these vehicles can transport heavy loads of explosive materials
and pass through security checkpoints undisturbed. In many cases, terrorists reinforce the suspensions on these commercial vehicles and SUVs to carry a heavier load of explosives to the target location. This is done so the vehicle does not appear to be low to the ground, thus alerting law enforcement or military personnel to the awkwardly overloaded vehicle.  “Confessions of a Federal Confidential Informant. Stolen Cars From Tampa to Dubai in Support of Terrorism”.


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