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Terrorist
Hoax
The damage done
While the
media was running with this hoax, before the Pakistani jeweler
brought it to their attention that his wherabouts was known,
ambitious politicians, notably N.Y. senator Hillary Clinton were
raising the level of hysteria about the leaky Canadian border
and pointing to a First Nations reserve in Quebec as the possible
entry site for the supposed "persons wanted for questioning."
Once the hoax was exposed and the FBI removed the page from its
website, the hysterical Canada bashing continued . It continues
still.
FBI calls off search
for five men
Associated Press and Canadian
Press, Globe and Mail, January 7, 2003
Washington - The FBI has called
off a U.S.-wide search for five foreign-born men amid questions
about the reliability of the tipster who told authorities the
men were smuggled into the United States last month, possibly
from Canada.
A law-enforcement official,
insisting on anonymity, said Tuesday that the names of the men
and their photos will be removed from an FBI Web site. A message
to local police agencies telling them the search was off was
being transmitted Tuesday, the official said.
The FBI issued the alert, along
with photos, on Dec. 29, seeking the public's help in locating
the five men who were believed to have entered the U.S. around
Christmas Eve. The tip reportedly came from Michael John Hamdani,
jailed in Canada since October on charges related to immigrant-smuggling.
At the time, the FBI acknowledged
that it was not certain that the names and birth dates released
with the photos were correct, or that the men had even entered
the country.
That concern was underscored
last week when a Pakistani jeweller, Mohammed Asghar, came forward
to say his photo had been wrongly included among the wanted group
and speculated that it might have been stolen by document forgers.
Despite misgivings, the law-enforcement
official said, the FBI decided it was better to alert the public
than keep the information secret. The official said the tip in
some ways matched up with other intelligence officials had received
pertaining to document smuggling.
The FBI decided last week against
releasing another batch of 14 names and faces reportedly provided
by Mr. Hamdani because they were of dubious quality.
Canadian charges of forging
passports and traveller's cheques were dropped against Mr. Hamdani
last week, clearing the way for him to be taken to New York to
face 1996 forgery charges. He is charged with trafficking in
forged travel and identification documents.
Mr. Hamdani was expected to
appear in a U.S. court on Tuesday, according to his Canadian
lawyer, Deepak Paradkar.
"I expect him to be extradited
tonight or tomorrow morning," Mr. Paradkar said Monday night.
He would neither confirm nor
deny whether Mr. Hamdani was the informant. But Mr. Paradkar
also said he didn't believe Mr. Hamdani would have lied to authorities
as was reported Monday by ABC News.
"I don't believe my client
would have misled authorities ... knowing he would have to face
the full legal might of the U.S. government," Mr. Paradkar
said.
Law-enforcement officials say
Mr. Hamdani might have fabricated the names in a bid to receive
a lighter sentence in the U.S. case.
Having Mr. Hamdani in U.S.
custody will enable authorities to question him more thoroughly
about an alleged smuggling ring that provided phony passports,
fake traveller's cheques and other documents.
The FBI has been extensively
questioning people in Pakistan, where a sophisticated document
forgery ring has been operating, officials say.
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