Firefighters Discover Brooklyn Terrorist Sympathizers
Charles Johnson
Wed Apr 27, 2005 at 9:23 am PDT • Views: 344
When firefighters conducted a routine inspection of a market in Brooklyn, they discovered a cache of stolen airbags—and walls covered with newspaper clippings about Osama bin Laden and beheadings.
Don’t worry, though. Authorities say there is no evidence of terrorism.
April 27, 2005 — Firefighters found more than 200 vehicle airbags believed to be stolen in the back room of a Brooklyn supermarket, where newspaper clippings about Osama bin Laden and beheadings in Iraq covered the walls, authorities said.
The firefighters from Ladder Co. 123 conducting a routine inspection, discovered the air bags — which sell for about $750 to $1,000 each — at the Superior Food Market at 1503 St. John’s Place in Crown Heights. Firefighters notified cops, and the FBI-NYPD joint terrorist task force was called in to search the building.
Authorities, however, did not believe they had stumbled onto a terrorist cell, even though the room contained some materials that could be used to fashion pipe bombs, sources said.
A few people were taken into custody, but police were waiting for the results of another search before deciding if they’d be charged.
Audeh Hamdan of Brooklyn owns the three-story building, which has 11 outstanding code violations on file with the city, records show. Hamdan, 53, of Brooklyn, served jail time in the late 1970s and early 1980s for arson, reckless endangerment, weapons possession and conspiracy, according to the records. He could not be reached for comment.
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