Terrorist's clothing discovered in Texas?

A strange story. Would they really have a patch in English? Is this just someone's idea of a joke? Or is there more to it? From WND, with thanks to Ruth King:

The discovery in Texas of a jacket featuring an Arabic military badge and an airplane headed toward a tower with the words "Midnight Mission" is fueling fears of a possible connection to terrorism.

According to a Department of Homeland Security morning brief marked "For official use only," a report from Customs and Border Protection noted that on Dec. 23, Border Patrol agents stationed in Hebbronville, Texas, found a jacket with an Arabic patch in a lay-up area on Highway 285.

The jacket is said to have a total of three patches, two sewn on the back, and one on the inside.

The two patches on the back were an Arabic military badge and one with the letters "Daiwa," while the patch on the inside read "Midnight Mission."

This "Midnight Mission" patch features a logo depicting "an airplane flying over a building and headed towards a tower," according to the brief.

The military patch with the Arabic writing shows the image of a lion's head, with wings and a parachute emanating from the animal.

The report notes, "DHS translators concluded that the patch read, 'Defense Center,' 'Ministry of Defense,' or 'Defense Headquarters.' The bottom of the patch read 'Martyr,' 'Way to Eternal Life' or 'Way to Immortality.'"

The brief also states, "The 'Daiwa' patch stands for a corporate company which sells sport fishing products with corporate offices in eight countries including Japan, the U.S., Australia, France, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, and the UK."

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OT~ today’s leftist islamic support news:

The transformation of the left:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16788

Why we Must take back our schools from the left- The NEA and islam:

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/926/CWA/education/

http://yconservatives.com/Zeiger-64.html

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/20/130642.shtml

http://www.dondodd.com/april/091602.html

http://www.cblpolicyinstitute.org/sept11ann.htm

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/000310.php

http://www.blessedcause.org/Righteous%20Out/NEA%20betrayal.htm

http://www.freedom21santacruz.net/issues/Family-autonomy/9-11/news-commentary.html

http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/18589


Teachers fighting back against NEA over islam:

http://www.newbusinessnews.com/story/08190201.html

...and one liberal's response to Any attempt to take back our schools:

'Next, we’ll conservat-ize the the so-called “science” books and tell the kids the truth about evolution: the world is 6,000 years old, the earth is square, pi = exactly 3, the study of foreign languages goes against the Lord ©, WE were meant to rule the mudpeople. And the Jews are the children of Satan.)' ~kj

If this is a JOKE it's in worst possible taste...
Have seen such a logo as described on terrorist Website months ago.

Gary,

What schools are you talking about, our schools here in the United States or yours there in Canada? Isn't the NEA a organization in the United States? How could they be affecting schools in Canada? Good links though.


f.g.

f,g~ thanks. I am born and raised American, from Pennsylvania. I'm sure I can find More than enough Canadian equivalentst tho.

...I hate afterthoughts. I have married a Canadian and currently reside in Ontario :P

Gary,

So you're concerned about how things that are happening in the United States are going to affect your children going to school in Canada? I'm trying to puzzle out why, residing in Canada, you wish to change what we are doing in the United States. Do you have children going to school in the states? I would think it would be more prudent, effective, and acceptable to attempt to change the society and country of which you are a part rather than ones you choose not to live in. But that might just be me I guess. Regardless of whether their opinions line up with mine or not, I do prefer to take care of my own business rather than have people in other countries try to do it for me. I would think that a lot of my countrymen feel the same way.

f.g.

It's a good thing that counterterrorist hunter-killer teams are active. This time around, our guys have assassination clearance. So to all you Jihadis out there, listen up: Don't think that just because you've been captured in the United States, that you're entitled to two hots and a cot, in other words, bed and breakfast behind bars and that we're just going to simply torture your asses, because if some of us spot you, we're going to blow your brains out on sight and NEVER ask any questions. Some of you less-than-humans have no intel value. We'll shoot you on sight...and that's a promise. Death to radical Islam.

f.g.~ I am now citizen to both countries. Is it not in my best interests- and for that matter, everyone else's- to have the education systems of Both countries teaching something other than 'Islam is a religion of peace'? While demonizing all else, to boot.

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In regards that patch- It sounds like a new fad amongst those who are being taught the wrong things in our schools. He probably thought those patches made him 'cool.'

Gary,

I agree that the truth about Islam should be taught but if history is any indication, we won't be teaching much of use about religion in our public schools here in the states. I don't know what the history is of your Canadian school system.

It sounds like a new fad amongst those who are being taught the wrong things in our schools.

You couldn't be serious. That is just plain silly. What the hell are they teaching kids in Canada? Embroidery in Terrorism 101? Texas is a long way for a Canadian teenage terrorist sympathizer to wander don't you think? Most likely it came up from Mexico on some Middle-Eastern back. The border is a damn sieve.

f.g.

*lol* I can see where I am confusing you, f.g. Sorry about that. I've got to remember that, having been born and raised in the US, it is almost always the US I am referring to.

...and I must be off to do other things. Until Immigration comes thru and I am permitted to find a job up here in Canada, I am my wife's best support team.

f.g.:

Among other things, ghastly propaganda regarding the Middle East is being taught, by various means, to Canadian children, from middle school up through university, just as it is in the US.

Christian children are not allowed to mention Jesus in school. Yet, the schools are pushing Islam onto our children. Maybe the schools and the NEA should be sued for unfair discrimination.

The state should not be teaching religion to anyone ever. Cultural studies are one thing, teaching religion is another.

f.g.

THIS SHOULD PUT A LITTLE GAS ON THAT FIRE??

http://counterterror.typepad.com/
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001329.htm
EXCLUSIVE: MORE ABOUT THAT VERY CURIOUS PLANE
BY MICHELLE MALKIN • JANUARY 25, 2005 10:44 AM
In response to my post about the plane of suspected illegal alien Chinese in San Antonio forced down by homeland security officials last night, this tip just came in:
The co-owner of the plane, Afzal Hameed, is president of Alpha Tango Flying Services in San Antonio, which trains pilots and mechanics.
Guess who trained at Alpha Tango Flying Services--which, by the way, caters to Saudi Arabian flight students(!!!!):
Among their clients were three Arab flight students investigated by the FBI, including Al Qaeda operative Abdul Hakim Murad , who was arrested in Manila in 1995 and later convicted in New York of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific, then crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters.
The FBI has been keeping tabs on Alpha Tango since Sept. 11. So, now, a plane co-owned by Alpha Tango's president, who is incommunicado, has been forced down with a planeful of Chinese illegal aliens in the wake of a terror alert involving Chinese illegal aliens.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Update: A little more info about plane owners Afzal Hameed and Alyce Taylor comes from Martin at National Terror Alert. They have been married since 1980 according to Texas public records. FYI, marriage fraud/immigration scams are common among terrorist operatives.
Update II: If you can read Dutch, can you check this out and let us know what it says?
Also, if anyone is familiar with the San Antonio 99s, drop me a line. Reader Chris Powell notes:

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=17053480-D960-4D97-9BF7-04A7492B7271
Plane Forced to Land; Dirty Bomb Link Investigated
LAST UPDATE: 1/26/2005 5:59:09 AM
Posted By: Walker Robinson
Department of Homeland Security officials forced a small plane carrying four apparently illegal Chinese immigrants and a pilot identified as a Mexican national to land at an airport in San Antonio Monday night, officials said today. The immigrants were being held at Stinson Airfield shortly after federal agents forced their plane down.
Update: Four Chinese Nationals Not Linked to Terrorism
Authorities are trying to determine if the four pasengers on board the Cessna 172-P, two men and two women, are linked to a report that several Chinese nationals were attempting to set off a 'dirty bomb' in the Boston area.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A10840-2001Sep22¬Found=true
FBI Knew Terrorists Were Using Flight Schools
By Steve Fainaru and James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 23, 2001; Page A24
Federal authorities have been aware for years that suspected terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden were receiving flight training at schools in the United States and abroad, according to interviews and court testimony.
Three days after the attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III described reports that several of the hijackers had received flight training in the United States as "news, quite obviously," adding, "If we had understood that to be the case, we would have -- perhaps one could have averted this."
A senior government official yesterday acknowledged law enforcement officials were aware that fewer than a dozen people with links to bin Laden had attended U.S. flight schools. However, the official said there was no information to indicate the flight students had been planning suicide hijacking attacks.
"We were unable to marry any information from investigations or the intelligence community that talked to their use of this expertise in the events that we saw unfold on the 11th," the official said.
Connections between terrorists and flight training include the following:
• In 1996, two flight school operators said last week, FBI agents visited them to obtain information about several Arab pilots connected to a Pakistani terrorist eventually convicted of plotting to bomb U.S. airliners.
The flight schools, Coastal Aviation of New Bern, N.C., and Richmor Aviation of Schenectady, N.Y., were two of four that provided flight training to Abdul Hakim Murad in the early 1990s, according to Philippine authorities. Murad was arrested in Manila in 1995 and later convicted in New York of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific, then crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters.
• In 1998, FBI agents questioned officials from Airman Flight School in Norman, Okla., about a graduate later identified in court testimony as a pilot for bin Laden, according to Dale Davis, the school's director of operations.
• This year, the trial of bin Laden associates for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania yielded documents containing several references to flight schools and bin Laden pilots.
• Two weeks before the Sept. 11 attack, Davis said, FBI agents returned to Norman seeking information about another Airman student, a French-Moroccan dropout who had entered the country on a visa sponsored by the flight school. The man, Zacarias Moussaoui, had been detained in Eagan, Minn., on an immigration violation after he tried to purchase time on a jet simulator -- even though he had never flown solo in a single-engine aircraft.
One government witness in the embassy-bombing trial, Essam al-Ridi, testified that he had taken classes and taught at the now-defunct Ed Boardman Aviation School in Fort Worth. Al-Ridi also said that in the mid-1990s, he purchased a used Saber-40 aircraft on bin Laden's behalf for $210,000 in Tucson. Another witness in the same bombing trial, L'Houssaine Kerchtou, testified that he was sent to a flight school in Nairobi and later served as a pilot for bin Laden.
The issue of how U.S. authorities processed early warning signs that terrorists were taking advantage of the flight school system is certain to be examined in the aftermath of the attack. Suzanne E. Spaulding, executive director of the National Commission on Terrorism, a congressionally appointed task force, said, "In hindsight, we can see how all these things [flight school connections] might be relevant and important." But, she said, "it is harder on a day-to-day basis. There is no question that technology could help sort information."
Since the attack, the FBI has extended its investigation to dozens of flight schools coast to coast, including some of the same schools it visited in the years before the attack. According to law enforcement officials and press reports, the 19 suspected terrorists received flight training from at least 10 U.S. flight schools. At least 44 people sought by the FBI for questioning received some flight instruction.
Dietrich L. Snell, who helped prosecute Murad, said that although the Pakistani terrorist attended four U.S. flight schools, it would have been difficult for the FBI to connect the schools to the kind of terrorist attack that occurred Sept. 11.
Murad, he said, had indicated that he wanted to use his flight training to become a commercial pilot until he was recruited by Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, a bin Laden operative who also plotted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
"I think that because Murad had been trained as a pilot it's tempting in hindsight to say that the bureau should have known," said Snell. "But I think they were missing any link that would have connected the flight schools to this kind of terrorism."
The Murad investigation showed that Murad and Yousef were planning to employ five-man teams to smuggle bombs on to 12 planes operated by United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines during a two-day period in 1995. Prosecutors for the U.S. government described the plot as "one of the most hideous crimes anyone ever conceived."
Murad confessed to authorities that part of his planned role in the terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters in Langley.
Richard Kaylor, manager of Richmor Aviation, said the FBI was first alerted to the Schenectady flight school after a Richmor business card was discovered in Murad and Yousef's Manila apartment.
Kaylor said two FBI agents came to interview him about Murad in 1996. He said he provided information about Murad and two other student pilots, both of whom lived with Murad. Kaylor said the three men had come to Schenectady after a stint at Alpha Tango Flying Services in San Antonio.
Kaylor said four FBI agents returned Friday to Richmor to question him about a Turkish student who had received his private pilot's license last year. But Kaylor said it was unclear whether the agents were aware that he had been interviewed five years earlier.
Whether officials at Alpha Tango were also interviewed in 1996 is unclear. The flight school's owner, Hamid Afzal, could not be reached for comment. After the Sept. 11 attack, Afzal contacted the FBI about names on a published list of suspects, believing some of the hijackers might also have taken instruction at Alpha Tango, according to a report in the San Antonio Express-News.
Paul Proctor, the former owner of Coastal Aviation, another school Murad told investigators he had attended, said he could not recall whether the convicted terrorist had received his commercial pilot's license from his facility. But he said he "wouldn't be surprised," because an FBI agent searched his files about the same time agents were visiting Richmor.
Proctor said that the FBI agent never disclosed the purpose of the visit, but that he asked to see the files for students of Arab descent. The agent collected names, passport information and flight training records, according to Proctor. As the agent was finishing, Proctor said, "I made a little comment about hijacking an airplane or terrorism. He said, 'Don't even say that.' That was obviously what he was looking for."
Proctor, whose company ceased operations in 1997, said he had already been suspicious about a specific group of Arab students, two of whom had arrived at the school on North Carolina's coast from New York City in a taxicab. The students already had private pilots' licenses and had come to the school to receive advanced training to fly multi-engine aircraft, Proctor said.
The day after the students completed their training and left, Proctor said, he discovered that a $12,000 instrument radio pack -- including automatic direction finder, navigation aids and transponder -- was missing from one of his single-engine Cherokee Archers. Proctor said he never reported the theft to police because he believed he had little hope of recovering the equipment.
About three years later, FBI agents visited Airman Flight School in Oklahoma to inquire about Ihab Ali Nawawi, a bin Laden associate whose name surfaced during the trial for the 1998 embassy bombings. Dale Davis, the flight school's director of operations, said Nawawi obtained his commercial pilot's license from Airman in the early 1990s, then traveled to another school in Oklahoma City to qualify for a rating to fly small business aircraft.
In testimony during the embassy bombing trial, al-Ridi, the government witness, described Nawawi as a pilot for bin Laden. Al-Ridi testified that he met Nawawi in Khartoum at a time when Nawawi had just graduated from flight school in the United States and had begun to work for bin Laden.
Correspondent Doug Struck and researcher Margaret Smith contributed to this report

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YES A LITTLE GAS ON THAT FIRE??

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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to stay the course to Victory [FREEDOM] to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat give the World Courage to Stand and Fight this Evil Amen