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Palestinian Money-Laundering Ring in Cincinnati

Fri, Oct 3, 2003 at 8:37:20 pm PDT

A Palestinian money-laundering operation that used drug addicts and thieves, and allegedly shipped money to the Middle East to fund terrorist operations, has been busted in Cincinnati. (Hat tip: Zee.)

Omran Saleh (pictured, below) was among 23 people arrested, most of whom are of Palestinian descent, Thursday, WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Brian Hamrick reported.

According to officials, Saleh, who has a home in Canton, in northeast Ohio, and an apartment in North Fairmount, led a group of people who paid drug addicts to steal specific items. The items were then sold in 10 convenience stores owned or operated by Saleh, Hamrick reported.

Nine of the stores are in Cincinnati -- including Westwood, Over-the-Rhine and North Fairmount -- and the 10th store is in the Canton area, officials said.

"It's an extensive operation," Cincinnati police Chief Tom Streicher said at a news conference Thursday.

Added Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen: "This is the thickest and biggest indictment I think I've ever seen."
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1 fiery celt  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:40:34pm

The extensive tenticles of Islamic terrorism is just beginning to be revealed....

2 Jewels (AKA Julian)  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:42:09pm

hmmm....quickie mart :)

3 Michael Demmons  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:44:10pm

Ok. This is important. But for God's sake, Charles. Go to bed! Or go party or something!

4 evariste  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:49:20pm

Sweet. Thank Allah there weren't 19 of them, I was getting sick of that number.
Now will the fine law enforcement community please turn its fucking attention to the muslims of Chicago?

5 quark2  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:52:58pm

We're going to see more and more of this in the coming months. People are going to be dismayed when they realize we are sitting on top of a 'smoking gun'. These people have been infiltrating for the past 15 to 20 years. Our military and judicial folks are going to working a hell of a lot of overtime. It's time that private citizens start making lists of the local small stores, motels, service stations that muslims are running. Not all but a lot of them are going to be found complicit.

6 Joel  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:55:19pm

Oh those fine, upstanding Palestinian people. Let's give them a nation of their very own.....

7 quark2 evariste's blogmom  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:55:58pm

@4 evariste

Hi cutie. :)
Hey I found your translations of that wacky website very interesting. Are you still promoted lt.lizardoid?

8 zee  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:59:03pm

Thanks for the hat tip, Charles.

It seems they only set the bond at one million, seems kind of low...

9 K.  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:59:42pm

Zach Cohen is on his way. I wonder if their defense will be something like: "well, you see, Hamas isn't really a terrorist organization. And Israel is evil! eeeeeeevil I tell ya!!

10 Robert Crawford  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:02:03pm

Uh, Charles, they weren't busted in Cleveland -- they were busted in Cincinnati. Hamilton County, where they were indicted, is Cincinnati. Westwood, North Fairmount, and Over-the-Rhine are all neighborhoods in Cincinnati. Heck, the story you link to is off a Cincinnati's TV station's site.

The location mentioned in some video in that story, 12th and Vine, is just a block north of where I work.

Heck, go north two blocks and 2 1/2 blocks west and you get to where my Dad grew up and where my grandparents lived when I was a kid.

The Cleveland link is that the guy responsible lived near Cleveland and had one store there.

11 rusta  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:03:09pm

I hate Illinois Islamofacist

12 hans ze beeman  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:03:37pm

...and in Germany, we have our Jihad schools too:

The terrorist organisation Al Qaeda had connections to the Saudi financed King Fahd Academy (König-Fahd-Akademie/Elementary School) in Bonn, Germany, as revealed by the German TV program "Panorama".
Several islamic fundamentalists with Al Qaeda connections had moved to the Bonn area in 2002 to be close to the academy. The academy has 465 students, of which 195 have German citizenship. According to Panorama, students were taught to be prepared for Dschihad. Students were told: "Muslims have to subject themselves and all other humans to the will of Allah". They are taught just 1 hour of German per week, but 6 hours of Arabic and 8 hours of religion.

Right under our very noses...

13 andreaSF  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:03:49pm

LOL! they didn't give me no free cigarettes

14 evariste, quark2's blogchile, with a Paul on top  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:05:01pm

Why, thank yu', maw! Ah reckon ah am, but ah'm a lizard fuhst, an a lyootenant after, but a cyard-sharpin' gentleman lizard a'tall times.

15 K.  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:07:57pm

"I'm surprised because they never gave me no free cigarettes," a local bumpkin said. "I'm happy they're closed down."

Heh. Yeah, good riddance.

16 Robert Crawford  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:08:03pm

I also absolutely love the whining about the local stores being closed. At least in Cincinnati, the stores were located in neighborhoods that were involved in the rioting in 2001 -- that's why there aren't many stores in the area!

That goes double for the 12th and Vine location. A few blocks south there's a bakery, a deli, and a produce stand. A few blocks north and west and you reach Findlay Market.

17 Morgan  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:09:14pm

Here is a story about a mural painted outside of a store owned by a Palestinian in Ohio. Take a good look at it.

"In the past, Ayad's signs have portrayed Jews as monkeys and pigs, and repeated canards such as Jews control the media and Jews were behind the 9/11 terror attacks."

The local community continues to support the business, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the murals.

[Link: www.clevelandjewishnews.com...]

18 Oswald Czolgosz  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:11:01pm

Now, look into what's going on in Detroit.

Wherever you gave a large Muslim population, these gujys hide behind the good Muslims, blending in with them.

19 quark2 evariste's blogmaw  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:13:46pm

@14 evariste quark2's blogchile, with a Paul on top


*LMAO!

How tall is that Paul on top?

I just read the comments on Bill Whittle's last essay, he's catching Charles on the class of trolls attracted. I mean they are wild !

20 J.D.  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:14:04pm

Sounds like the group from our fair city. Oh, and one in North Carolina. Their defense has always 'played the race card'. The old guy was about to be brought up on charges a couple of years ago but not before he 'travelled to the West Bank and died of a heart attack'. That's the last we heard about him.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A federal grand jury has indicted four men on charges they received interstate shipments of stolen property.

The four are Mohammed Said Shalash, his sons Tareq Shalash and Ziyad Shalash, all of Lexington, and a cousin, Mohamad Shalash of Cincinnati. They were indicted Oct. 4 on violating the federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, the indictment said.

The men allegedly received a number of loads of merchandise, including breakfast cereal, haircare products, facial tissues, diapers and cleaning products, all stolen from interstate tractortrailer shipments.

Police exposed the scheme through undercover sting operations, negotiating with the men to sell the merchandise, the indictment said. The investigation involved authorities in Memphis and Ohio, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and FBI, according to the indictment.

The men allegedly operated their scheme through two Lexington businesses -- Unity Wholesale and United Trading Co., the indictment said.

In January 1999, Mohammed and Tareq Shalash were among four men sentenced by a federal judge to probation, along with a $100,000 fine imposed on the family's Lexington grocery store, for their parts in a conspiracy that distributed $40 million worth of repackaged baby formula.

Investigators in the earlier Lexington case said the formula was bought at below-cost prices from merchants who used it to attract shoppers to their stores. It was then repackaged so it appeared to have come directly from the manufacturer, investigators said. A wholesale store then sold the repackaged formula to other wholesale groceries across the country at higher prices, investigators said.

Mohammed and Tareq Shalash were each sentenced to three years of probation in the earlier case, with four months to be spent in home detention. U.S. District Judge Karl S. Forester fined each man $10,000.

The $100,000 fine was levied against the Shalash family grocery, Lexington Wholesale Co., for pleading guilty to one felony count of trafficking in counterfeit goods. Mohammed and Tareq Shalash pleaded guilty in October 1998 to single misdemeanor counts involving the repackaged formula.

And this is just one of the instances.

21 Robert Crawford  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:15:03pm

#18, Oswald -- what's going on in Detroit?

22 FH  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:16:18pm

"No, I don't hate Jews, I only show them to be animals and pediphiles because I don't like what Israel is doing."

Sick Bastard. I would try and get a boycott going on that store if I lived nearby.

23 Gary Bruce  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:17:04pm

Interesting how many arrests are being made of Islamo-fascists in the past several weeks. But without any news conferences or statements from the Administration.

Perhaps we don't wanna upset the Soddies... I read this earlier in the week.

"After assuring the world that it would continue pumping enough oil to ease prices from the $30 range, OPEC surprised world markets by announcing, effective in November, a production cutback of 900,000 barrels per day. This cutback comes at a time when most experts are expecting worldwide demand for oil to increase..."

A delicate game is being played out in the shadows.

24 fiery celt  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:21:32pm

evariste,


The CUBS WIN!!!

Too bad Harry and Jack Brickhouse aren't alive to see
this!
-------------------------------------------------- ------------

In 1908, the Cubs won the World Series. Since then:

10. Radio was invented so Cubs fans could hear the misery.

9. Four states were admitted to the Union.

8. The atomic bombs were dropped.

7. Television was invented so Cubs fans could see the misery.

6. The United States went through two world wars, two wars in Asia and two wars in the Persian Gulf.

5. Five flag poles erected at Wrigley Field for the purpose of holding a World Series flag, have decayed and been replaced without ever holding such a pennant.

4. The NFL, NBA and NHL were formed and Chicago teams won championships in each league.

3. Men landed on the moon.

2. Harry Carey was born, lived and died.

1. Hundreds of boys were born, raised, played inept baseball for the Cubs, retired and died of old age.

You all know what has been said if the Cubbies win the Series....
The end is Nigh... ;-)

25 CharlesH  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:21:41pm

#21

It's Detroit, so my guess is the Muslims radicals are stealing cars and selling the parts.

26 Morgan  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:22:20pm

#22

The mural is in a predominantly African-American community. They likely support it. After all, its not hate speech if Jews are targeted.

27 evariste  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:25:54pm

#17 Morgan. I am now a fan of arson. I was not before. But if that thing burns, I will cheer like the Cubs won the World Series.

28 CharlesH  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:28:04pm

#24

The Red Sox are in too!? I knew I should have paid more attention to baseball! Quick, somebody get me my gun! If the worlds going to end I want too kill Arafish first!

29 CC Señor  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:32:32pm

#23 Gary Bruce

Charles Krauthammer addressed the oil production cutback in his article Friday:

These mistakes were serious, but have they cost us the peace? The media cover the sabotage of the oil pipelines. This is perfectly reasonable. It is news and it produces dramatic pictures. But the undramatic story is that Iraq is producing over 1.6 million barrels a day, more than three-quarters of 2002 production levels. Last week OPEC unexpectedly cut its production quotas -- boosting oil prices and rattling world markets. Why? Because it sees Iraqi oil production coming on line and seriously threatening world prices. Pictures show the sabotage story; OPEC has already acted on the production story.
30 Charles  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:33:39pm

Cleveland ... Cincinnati ... what's the difference?

(OK, OK. I know there's a difference. One has 9 letters and one has 10...)

31 Veng  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:41:23pm

And notice they breed like rabbits:

Ayad, a father of eight who lives in North Olmstead, has said ...

I've noticed this in stories from the Paleo areas in Israel.

32 Gary Bruce  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:41:42pm

CC Senor:

Thanks for closing the circle for me.

33 evariste  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:41:55pm

Charles, mocking the homes of the Fudgesicles and the Bungles respectively I see...
Well, anyone got a retard joke? I mean, if we're talking easy pickins. And da Bears are fair game.

34 Vero  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:48:01pm

Cleveland ... Cincinnati ... what's the difference?

210 miles

Cleveland is the home of Dennis and other such left wing nut jobs and is the most leftist city in Ohio lot of good it does em since we don't have one single Democrat in any State wide seat

we in Cincinnati, on the other hand have our very sane alumni like Jerry Springer

our water doesn't burn here in the Southern part of the State - our Bengals, while the worst team in football, still beats the Browns just like they did last week

Down here when we say "keep off the grass" when mean the front lawn

35 Ben F  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:48:09pm

Is the phrase "Palestinian descent" redundant in the same way that "making aliyah to Israel"?

The proper term for a child of a Palestinian father (or, under the most recent draft constitution, a Palestinian parent) is a Palestinian; describing such a person as of "Palestinian descent" makes as much sense as describing a dog as being of "canine descent." It's true but silly. The progeny of dogs are dogs; the progeny of Palestinians are Palestinians. (Just as, unlike any other population, the children of Palestinian refugees are refugees.)

Perhaps "descemt" is being used in the article in a normative sense? Again, based on empirical data, it's redundant.

36 d  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 7:55:47pm

"Cincinnati," not "Cincinatti," Charles. ;)

I guess this Saleh guy won't be attending the Palestine Solidarity Conference at Ohio State in a few weeks...

37 CC Señor  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 8:00:23pm

Cincinnati, Cleveland, I can't get over the Canton connection. How's that for alliteration? But, Canton, football, Limbaugh, conspiracy (another C)? Naw, can't be.

38 El Rayra  Fri, Oct 3, 2003 9:27:54pm
#5 quark2 10/3/2003 08:52PM PST
... It's time that private citizens start making lists of the local small stores, motels, service stations that muslims are running. ...

-SPLUTTER - bu-buh-but that's McCarthyism!
/LLL Seethe

(McCarthy was 95% right, btw. So was his #2 Man, Robert Kennedy - suck that, Lefties)


And just what the sam hell is going on in Ohio, anyway?? Cleveland, Cincinnati, the ISM hate-fest (next weekend?)

Semi-OT - this month's National Geographic has an extensive article about the Saudis. I skimmed it at the newstand, there's a lot of information in it, mostly known to LGF'ers, no big revelations that I could see. But still a good overview. Maybe a way to wake some folks up.

39 Robert Crawford  Sat, Oct 4, 2003 5:17:51am

And just what the sam hell is going on in Ohio, anyway?? Cleveland, Cincinnati, the ISM hate-fest (next weekend?)

We're not highly visible, being part of "flyover country", so the idiots can flourish with little attention paid to them. Hell, some of our idiots are real winners, too.

40 flick  Sat, Oct 4, 2003 5:47:42am

I'm going to email a copy of this article to the police dept. of the big city I used to live in.

There's a "neighborhood store" there, in a semi-ghetto part of town, which does this. I reported it in writing years ago, to no avail, possibly because the former proprietor was friends with a cop (who has since been fired, because he was a crackhead). Former proprietor was murdered - unsolved and suspicious.

His relatives took over the store. They buy shoplifted items from junkies, and put the stuff on their shelves to sell. A business like this is a big nuisance in a 'hood, as it's surrounded by junkies and drug dealers at all hours.

I don't know where their money ultimately ends up. BUT....

Interestingly enough, the proprietors are middle eastern of some type. And their relatives had a similar store, in another semi-ghetto part of town, that got busted for buying food stamp cards.

41 Donna V.  Sat, Oct 4, 2003 6:01:51am

My office's fax number is one number off from the local FBI fax number and from time to time we get their faxes. I always call them, let them know, resend the fax to their field office, and shred my copy. Well, on Thursday morning, I found a 20 page fax sent by one FBI field office to the local one on our machine. I don't think I'm breaking any laws by noting that the fax pertained to the activities of a individual with a Arabic name and contained a long list of convienence stores (none of them in Ohio, or Wisconsin for that matter - this character is operating in a completely different part of the country.)

I called the field office and told them that, once again, we had received one of their faxes. The young woman who answered the phone seemed alarmingly indifferent - she asked me to resend it, and when I said, "And I'll shred my copy," she said "Uh, oh yeah, why don't you do that?"

Maybe the info wasn't as "hot" as I assumed it was. On the other hand, I'm rather irritated that this keeps on happening (although I can't resist reading the FBI faxes when they come in - they're far more interesting than the stuff that usually gets faxed to me.) I mean, they're lucky that their mis-sent faxes end up in the hands of a patriotic American. Imagine this stuff being sent to CAIR headquarters or some mosque by mistake.

42 Cornholio  Sat, Oct 4, 2003 10:05:46am

"they never gave me no free cigarettes"

43 Cornholio  Sat, Oct 4, 2003 10:12:47am

Donna V #41

Imagine this stuff being sent to CAIR headquarters or some mosque by mistake.

But just imagine the circus if CAIR received a fake "fax" intended for law enforcement outlining the plans to arrest all CAIR officials for funding terror. Arrests to occur at 7:00 A.M. the next day :)

44 Joshua  Sat, Oct 4, 2003 1:31:31pm

End the financial support of Jihad through their vast funding and recruiting network. All jihadis are one: HAMAS is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, as is Al-Qaeda, it is a proxy of Hezbollah, and is supported financially by Iran and formerly Iraq, we must stop them all or we cannot stop Islamism as a world movement.


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