Israeli men arrested after high-speed chase in Unicoi County

[JAT]

No bond was set Monday for two Israeli men who were arrested after leading the Unicoi County sheriff on a high-speed chase in a rented moving truck.

Shmuel Dahan and Almaliach Naor were in court Monday, but a bond hearing was not held because they are waiting for help from the Israeli consulate, according to Unicoi's deputy court clerk, Sheri Lunceford.

Dahan, 23, is charged with reckless driving, littering, false identification and evading arrest. Naor, whose age was not given, faces charges of false identification and evading arrest.

The truck, rented from a Ryder office in Mars Hills, N.C., was being held in the county garage pending an FBI investigation, officials said.

Police said they are also being investigated by the FBI. Phone calls left with the FBI's Knoxville office Monday were not immediately returned.

The incident began late Saturday afternoon when Unicoi County Sheriff Kent Harris noticed a rental truck traveling at a high speed along former U.S. Highway 23, a lightly traveled highway near the North Carolina state line.

"I was really concerned because the driver would not stop after I flashed my headlights for nearly three miles," Harris said. "He was weaving back and forth, and I was wondering what a large (rental truck) was doing on the two-lane highway late Saturday afternoon instead of the faster I-26 Interstate."

William B. Lawson, one of the lawyers appointed to represent the Israeli men, said they rented a truck and planned to haul furniture, but accidentally got off the interstate and got lost.

The sheriff said he saw the men throw something from the truck while they were being pursued. Officers scouring the area later found a vial containing an unknown substance along the roadway, he said.

Lawson said the vial contained a "fuel source," but he added that it hasn't been identified and authorities were treating it with caution.

Once the men were apprehended, officers also found a "Learn to Fly" brochure in the truck, leading Harris and others to express concern about security at the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin.

"I got a sick feeling when I saw it," Harris said.

Dahan also gave authorities a fake Florida driver's license issued in Plantation, Fla., he said, while Naor produced a fake identification card.

http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/p...00&cachetime=5

Gee, I wonder if this story from the AP will get picked up by the network media in the U.S.

[DngrMse]

Originally posted by JAT



Gee, I wonder if this story from the AP will get picked up by the network media in the U.S.

First they complain when it is'nt on the wires, (I checked, it [b]was[/i] on the wires), and now they complain that the networks are'nt running it.


Here's a clue: If this turns into a real story, the networks will run it.

[JAT]

Like they did the story about the 150+ Mossad agents arrested, several of them living next door to some of the 9/11 hijackers?

BTW, what is not real about the story I originally posted?

[Snouter]

The media is still obsessing over a pic of two guard dogs barking at a naked Muslim terrorist apparently.

Hopefully, this will get some coverage when the media can stop the insanity for a few minutes.

[Ed Toner]

Searching just ONE name, I found this:

Shmuel Dahan is a Likud spokesman.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3618725.stm
The plan is opposed by some factions in Likud, who see withdrawal as giving in to pressure from Palestinian militants.

Several cabinet ministers have said they will not support it without US backing.

[Janus]

DA JEWS! DA JEWS!

[coral100cor]

Of course it is more important then palestinian shooting pregnant woman with her 4 little daughters in the head one by one from close range.

[mike75]

Originally posted by coral100cor
Of course it is more important then palestinian shooting pregnant woman with her 4 little daughters in the head one by one from close range.

things happen like that all over the world, why should we only consider news that comes out of israel?

[coral100cor]

Originally posted by mike75


things happen like that all over the world, why should we only consider news that comes out of israel?

Or news about israelis, like their speeding?

[mike75]

Originally posted by coral100cor
Or news about israelis, like their speeding?

did i ever say this was a news evert worthy of coverage?

[drunken hearted man]

Originally posted by coral100cor


Or news about israelis, like their speeding?

Hmm, there appears to be a little more to this than just speeding, though, doesn't there?

My question is why it bothers you so much to see any articles whatsoever posted about Israel or Israelis? Start your own thread if you'd rather talk about palestinian gunmen, don't de-rail this one.

[coral100cor]

Originally posted by drunken hearted man


Hmm, there appears to be a little more to this than just speeding, though, doesn't there?

My question is why it bothers you so much to see any articles whatsoever posted about Israel or Israelis? Start your own thread if you'd rather talk about palestinian gunmen, don't de-rail this one.

Whats bothers me is overemphasis on Israel in a negative way, a subject that I see as related to this thread.

[Janus]

Originally posted by coral100cor


Whats bothers me is overemphasis on Israel in a negative way, a subject that I see as related to this thread.

Lets see - fake IDs, Ryder truck (# 1 vehicle for terrorist shenanigans), vial of "fuel source" that was ditched, nuclear plant & want to see the consulate. Yep, sounds like Mossad.

[JAT]

Originally posted by coral100cor


Whats bothers me is overemphasis on Israel in a negative way, a subject that I see as related to this thread.

The U.S. mainstream media is highly favorable towards Israel. Turn on a televitz in the U.S., and you'll see nothing but praise for Israel, and their struggle against the "evil-doing Palestinian Islamo-fascists" or whatever ZOG is calling them these days. the televitz trains the sheeple to think of Israel as our "only democratic ally in the Middle East", and therefore a very important element in the U.S.'s international politics.

This message board is one of the few places in the U.S. that we can attempt to bring some balance to issues involving Israel. So, what shall we discuss next, the torture of Palestinians? The enslavement of Eastrern European women who answered seemingly benign ads for secretary work? The selling of U.S. military secrets to China? Gee, what an ally...

[Kyle Gridley]

Originally posted by coral100cor


Or news about israelis, like their speeding?

Pretend for a moment that instead of Israel, the men were from Iraq or Afghanistan. How much coverage do you think the story would get then?

[JAT]

CNN this evening had nothing about this story.

[coral100cor]

Originally posted by Kyle Gridley


Pretend for a moment that instead of Israel, the men were from Iraq or Afghanistan. How much coverage do you think the story would get then?

Pretend they were Canadian or Rumanian?

[tam]

The majority of highspeed chases are hardly EVER on CNN or anywhere. I'm sure it'll show up on 'Americas wildest car chases' soon enough though..

Originally posted by Kyle Gridley
Pretend for a moment that instead of Israel, the men were from Iraq or Afghanistan. How much coverage do you think the story would get then?

You're at WAR with iraq and afghanistan, not with Israel, BIG difference. Or at least, the US in general isn't at war with israel, you guys obviously are...

[DngrMse]

Originally posted by JAT


BTW, what is not real about the story I originally posted?

If it turns out to be more than a couple of dopers getting caught, then it will be on the news. The only reason you are 'bothered' by it is because the two in the van are Israelis.

[coral100cor]

Originally posted by tam




You're at WAR with iraq and afghanistan, not with Israel, BIG difference. Or at least, the US in general isn't at war with israel, you guys obviously are...

Read in israeli newspaper that the sherif got suspicious they are going to blow up some sensitive object, so these guys here are not the only ones confused about were from terrorists are coming from...