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The owner of a Texas dry cleaning business who was arrested in October had fraudulent CIA credentials, various weapons and camouflage items including raid gear, according to a federal search warrant obtained by NBCDFW.com.
Until his Oct. 2 arrest, Azeez Al-Ghaziani, 30, owned a dry cleaner in the city of Hurst.
Someone called Hurst police to report a damaged pickup parked behind his business.
When officers arrived, they saw what appeared to be fraudulent military identification cards inside the vehicle, police said at the time. They also found several guns and ammunition.
Police called in federal agents, and Al-Ghaziani's vehicle and business were searched later that day. He was arrested on a charge of tampering with a government document.
An agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service offered new details about the case in an application for a search warrant of Al-Ghaziani's computer, which is now in FBI custody.
The warrant was approved by a judge and executed last month.
According to the warrant, authorities found a number of suspicious items in Al-Ghaziani's pickup and business, including:
- fraudulent CIA credentials;
- Department of Defense military credentials;
- assorted digital camouflage items;
- body armor carrier;
- raid jacket with duty belt;
- and half-gram of white powder which tested positive for methamphetamine.
Al-Ghaziani's attorney, J. Warren St. John, declined to discuss why his client would have such things but did dispute the agent's information.
"The majority of the allegations aren't true," St. John said.
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The NCIS agent noted in the court document that he is assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, but there are no allegations Al-Ghaziani was involved in any terrorist plot.
Al-Ghaziani, a one-time soldier in the U.S. Army, is from Fort Worth, his attorney said.
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If he's dumb enough to keep this stuff in a truck outside then he deserves whatever happens to him.
I mean, dude, really! don't you have an attic, or a basement or a ... box ??
Isn't it supposed to be the other way around; the CIA agent with fake businessman credentials?
The meth and the CIA credentials are definitely a a problem, but the other stuff does not sound all that unusual for someone who is ex-military. Were the DoD military credentials really fake or were they his from when he was in the service or possibly current reserve ID. Many people who leave the military stay in an inactive reserve status for a time and would still have military ID. As for the weapons, I mean come one, this guy is in Texas. Having a weapon when you live in Texas is pretty common. He will need to explain the fake CIA credentials and the meth is a problem for him, but the rest of the stuff does not sound all that strange for someone who is ex-military living in Texas.
Never know, this guy could have been planning something horrible. Glad they caught him and are taking care of it.
Just another example of the Obama Administration hassling the small business man/job creators. This is pretty much normal for Texas.
Workingpoor - if your comment is not meant to be sarcastic and jocular, I'm glad I don't live in Texas. In other civilized parts of the country people with fake CIA and Military Id's along with large caches of weapons, and stashes of meth are not so common that they leave their contraband lying around for others to find. Of course, it's well known that Texas is heavily populated with various kinds of brigands, megalomaniacs, and ego driven paranoid gun freaks. So maybe it's not so strange after all. Although I don't think Obama had much to do with his arrest.
Since he's impersonating a spy - interrogate him like one..
I think his fantasy just turn into a nightmare.
He probably fantasized that he would get a government job. Nixon had the plumbers to go to ..... Obama should have cleaners to take you to.
Morning Bill,
Maybe launding illegal monies?
GA Tracy from B'bados
Seems the FBI shoulda had his number on the "$$$ Laundromat Scheme" and maybe they will find that info on his confiscated computer.
Off to Gitmo with him to await his military trial...FOREVER!!!
Has anyone else noticed how many stories like this have appeared in the news in the past few years? What has our military created, a large group of home-grown "terrorists"? What type of "de-programming" is being done to retrain these trained killers to resume a "normal" life, especially with today's high number of PTSD military members? The Second Amendment is very clear in the minds of many Americans, despite the rulings of the Conservative SCOTUS rulings on the Amendment (bold portion is my emphasis and was part of the dissent on the SCOTUS recent rulings):
I agree with your statement, but I also agree with the majority of the SCOTUS in the emphasis:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
The "well regulated militia" you note is actually the PEOPLE. The framers understood the need for an armed citizenry to ensure the SMALL government did not morph into a despotic or tyrannical overpowering and controlling government.
An armed populace is called citizens. An unarmed populace is called subjects.
One more point you might want to consider. The same court that upheld the RIGHT of the people to bear arms, has ruled that the police do NOT have an obligation to protect you, just to investigate a crime AFTER THE FACT. So in reality, the US Supreme Court has told the American people, your security and safety is your own responsibility, it is NOT the governments job to do that.
Maybe he was fantasizing about going fort hood shooter?
He just couldn't make a clean get a way
The ruling was a little more narrow than that. The case was Rock v. Gonzales. The "Rock" is the City of Castle Rock, about 20 miles south of Denver. The ruling was that Jessica Gonzales did not have the right to sue Castle Rock for failing to protect her and her children from an estranged husband against whom she had a restraining order. Regardless, the net effect is the same.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
GM Denver..
I never heard of that one. I was referencing one BASSAI had noted.
Regardless, the courts HAVE told people... Tough $hit... you're on your own. Of course they've done so in a much more politically correct and judicially prudent manner.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1976377/posts
Gonzales was another instance where the dirt bag should have started the killing by taking his own life.
His fantasy was not illegal until he made fake papers , everything else is LEGAL in USA. FREEDOM!!!!!!
Actually, one can make all the "fake" stuff one wants to. Of course when they try to USE it, then it's another story.
Not like the fake Illinois Driver's Licenses they pass out on Cinco de Mayo in Chicago.
I hear the mosquito hawks are gonna be brutal this year .....
This is what the CIA operatives do everyday.
another muslim terrorist...off with his head...make a martyr out of him...
Sounds to me that they caught a future terrorist. Good going
That's what I'm thinking. This may not just be a crazy guy, but part of something bigger. Similar to when they caught that one guy taking flight training before 9-11 and he said he would skip the landing class. Little did they know it was part of a bigger plot.
He's not a terrorist, according to his lawyer. He's just nuts!
Nuts but fantasizing about being a terrorist maybe?
Just a front for laundering money for terrorist?
I would say he needs to clean up his act though.
Look just becouse of his name that does not mean he is a terrorist.
These days though his name does mean you have to take a good look though. I know there have been random whack cases in the US over the years, but these days with the rising of Islamic extremism along with their sworn duty to kill "infidels" we have no choice but to profile.
While I was reading through the list of items that he had I got the thought as to wondering if a half gram of methamphetamine is part of the standard CIA field operatives toolbox. He had everything else to play the part so there must have been a reason for the meth.
Maybe to dope the prisoner during an interrogation, or something..
He probably had it so when he got a trip to Rio he could pass it out to the ho's at his hotel.
Just like a real goobermint employee.
This is Texas I would bet having fake credentials and guns are more common than not.
What exactly are "assorted digital camouflage items"?
Camo skivvies, designed to make it look like he's naked?
LOL, the word "digital" is throwing me off. It could be those camo skivvies
GM TFNJ... as others noted... new avatar. I like pork rinds, but that old avatar was very slick...
I thought the same thing then realized they were obviously talking about camo outfits. The military had been using a "digital" pattern, little boxes slightly changing color between them, kind of like when new TV's pixelate on bad signals.
Fortunately, saner heads have prevailed in the military and they have finally recognized and understand that little boxes of varying colors don't occur naturally and those that wear that outside tend to stick out like... well man made things, which make them targets. So, back to the traditional camo stuff.
Guess the other one was a hit. I will put it back, though after this one which shows the holiday spirit.
I know they are working of full invisibility camo where your eyes see the background instead of the person in front of you. Not sure if any of that was in this guy's possesion though. Either way, this guy could be a nut job, or there could be more to this. I hope they are thorough in this investigation.
Sounds like he needs a new lawyer. He just admitted that SOME of the allegations ARE true. I wonder which ones he concedes are true? False federal credentials would seem to be a pretty serious thing.
Either the guy's a nut or a terrorist.
Maybe he met up with some cartel guys and is smuggling drugs?
Obama probably gave the guy the credentials for a campaign contribution.
@Rober34, Grow up already! You lost get over it, move on! @George, You have real issues, seek help fast! That goes for the idiot that agreed with you also!