 Monday, May 10, 2004
Two Israeli men
to appear in Unicoi County General Sessions
Court By RON SCALF NET
News Serv  ERWIN
- Two Israeli Nationals held here
without bond in the Unicoi County Jail will appear
in Unicoi County General Sessions Court Monday
morning Sheriff Kent Harris said
Sunday.
Harris said the FBI ordered him to hold the duo
without bond pending an investigation following a
high speed chase through a remote area of Unicoi
County Saturday afternoon in which the pair
reportedly threw several items out of a rented
Ryder truck, Harris said. "They ignored my blue lights for two and one
half miles and they were traveling 20 miles an hour
over posted speed limits," he said. One man's passport had expired and the other had
a fake identification card, the sheriff said. By
Sunday morning, Harris had identified the man who
refused to give his first name as Almaliach
Naor who was in the company of Shmuel
Daran 22, both from Israel and living in Miami,
Florida. "Our investigation has revealed they were on
their way to Boston, Massachusetts," Harris said.
[Website comment: The
normal route for a van from Norrth Carolina would
be up I-95] "Also, a vial of an
unknown substance appears to be some kind of
accelerant because when shook, it becomes warm," he
said. "I enlisted Ed Herndon, our homeland
security officer and the Tennessee Highway Patrol,
to run (preliminary) tests and the FBI has asked we
package the vial up and send it to a crime lab
which we are in processing of doing." A combing of the
confiscated Ryder Truck "produced an odor of a
liquid on a side panel of some kind that we will
also send to the lab," Harris said. "Other than
that the truck was clean," he said. Harris said his department worked through the
night on Saturday positively identifying Naor and
working with Interpol officials who late Saturday
night told the sheriff the two were not on any
international wanted lists. Harris said the men
entered the United States from Israel in January.
It was not known what type of visas they were
granted. Harris said Naor told FBI agents he was carrying
a fake identification card to "get into clubs in
Miami." The sheriff declined to answer other
questions concerning the investigation that is
on-going. Records at Unicoi County jail indicated Naor and
Daran will face charges Monday on counts of
criminal impersonation, reckless driving and lying
to authorities about throwing items out of the
rented truck which they rented a short distance
away in Mars Hill, N.C. Harris said the men told
authorities they were moving furniture. Following their arrest Saturday afternoon, the
sheriff said he "had a sick feeling" when he found
a "Learn to Fly" brochure in the truck especially
since the county is home to the Nuclear Fuel
Services plant not far from downtown Erwin. "This is still a very suspicious case," Harris
said Sunday as he reiterated the comment he made
Saturday concerning the matter: "We're living in a
very different time. We all need to be vigilant
when it comes to homeland security." Website note: we request readers to
keep their eyes open for follow-up stories on this
incident. 
Our
dossier on The Mossad, Israel's Intelligence
service-
A
history of Mossad's overseas bungling -
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Israelis with
fake docs arrested in Tennessee, 'how to fly'
leaflet found! Were seen to toss something else
out of Ryder truck, FBI called in
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Apr 2004: Two
Mossad agents in Auckland court on NZ passport
forgery charges
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Oct 2001: Six
Israelis stopped in Midwest by police traveling
in groups of three in two white sedans found to
have maps of Forida nuclear plants, released
when they showed Israeli passports
 - "Thought
they were M&Ms" Former
Israeli minister Gonen Segev indicted for
smuggling 30,000 'Ecstasy' tablets, faking
passport
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Oklahoma
City bombing, 1995
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