Editor’s note: No one has, in the last two years, bothered to check who routed this truck to the middle east and had it modified into an armoured vehicle.
This extreme lack of curiosity on the part of media and law enforcement, in light of the hundreds of fuel hauling trucks transited through Houston to ISIS is telling.
Think “Bechtel Corporation,” the big power in Houston politics as the player here who has kept this quiet.
A Texas plumber whose company pickup truck, complete with logo and contact information, appeared in a photograph with jihadists in Syria has sued the dealer who purchased his vehicle, saying the photo has hurt his business and drawn death threats.
Clearly visible in the photo, on the door of the truck, is the name and phone number of Oberholtzer’s business.
The suit accuses the dealership of failing to follow through on its promise to remove the company label before sending it to an auction house. It was then sold it to a local used-car dealer before entering Turkey in December 2013.
The photo was tweeted a year later by a group called the Ansar al-Deen front and describes the truck as being used against the Syrian government in Aleppo, the lawsuit said.
“By the end of the day, Mark-1’s office, Mark-1’s business phone, and Mark’s personal cell had received over 1,000 phone calls from around the nation,” said the lawsuit.
The lawsuit said the largely harassing calls contained threats of violence, property damage, injury and even death. Some callers sang in Arabic and others yelled obscenities at whoever answered the telephone, it said.
A spokesman for the parent company AutoNation on Monday told Reuters the situation was “very unfortunate.”
“We feel it is very unfortunate that the customer is going through this,” the AutoNation spokesman said. “This vehicle came to us, and was sent to the auction and the markings should have come off at the auction. That did not happen. We feel this is unfortunate.”
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