San Antonio break-in sparks FBI involvement: police

[bananas]

Source: Reuters

Five foreign men were arrested during a courthouse break-in early on Wednesday and police said they found photographs of public buildings, water systems and malls from various U.S. cities in their van.

The men, at least three of whom were in their 20s, will be questioned by a joint terrorism task force including the FBI and immigration authorities, officials said.

<snip>

She said all five were Moroccans.

<snip>

A military intelligence convention is underway at the city's Convention Center several blocks away, with top intelligence officials including White House officials set to speak, but investigators didn't say whether there was any connection.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/19/us-texas-crime-break-in-idUSTRE79I3BX20111019

[Avalux]

1. Yes, everyone's all worked up here. From local news:

Bexar County sheriff's officials responded to a burglary alarm at 1 a.m. and found two men walking outside the building, sheriff's officials said.

The men, who are in their 20s, were detained after sheriff's officials determined they broke into the building through a door on the fourth floor, sheriff's officials said. Three men were located inside the building and two were found outside near a recreational vehicle.

The RV contained several documents and proof the men had been traveling across the country for some time, sheriff's officials said.

Investigators said the men, all in their early 20s, are not U.S. citizens and told investigators they came into the country on Sept. 11, but it wasn't clear what year they entered the country. Investigators also determined two of the three men are on the FBI's watch list. Their names have not been released.

http://www.ksat.com/news/29526902/detail.html

[bananas]

2. Several photos at San Antonio local news site

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Feds-investigating-break-in-at-county-courthouse-2225724.php

[truthisfreedom]

3. Ahh, I was wondering when the Moroccans would be retaliating for us taking their oil.

Argan oil, that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argan_oil

[leveymg]

4. Moroccan and US intelligence are presumed to be allies.

See, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-praises-moroccos-comprehensive-counterterrorism-approach-and-international-cooperation-to-combat-rising-al-qaeda-threat-in-sahara-61686527.html

Some of the most notorious CIA "black sites" and GWOT torture facilities were in Morocco. See,

#
Black site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_siteCached - Similar
You +1'd this publicly. Undo
Recently, the term has gained notoriety in describing secret prisons operated by ... of secret prisons operated by the CIA during a speech on September 6, 2006. .... in allied Middle Eastern and Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Morocco, ...
#
CIA still has video, audio footage from interrogation at secret prison ...
thehill.com/.../114663-cia-still-has-interrogation-footage-from-secret...Cached
You +1'd this publicly. Undo
Aug 17, 2010 – secret prison, according to the AP. The CIA still has audio and visual recordings of interrogations from a secret prison it financed near Rabat, ...
#
Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program - TIME
www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1546119,00.htmlSimilar
You +1'd this publicly. Undo
Oct 13, 2006 – After U.S. officials long refused to confirm the CIA's secret detention of terror ... He was questioned in Morocco by CIA officials and then flown to ...

This is odd.

[BetsysGhost]

5. Mark Time Link

is bad, broken.

thanks for the info though.