Posted on 12/08/2005 7:31:19 AM PST by Sub-Driver
JFK Screeners Find Bomb Residue, Let Man Go Man Released After Positive Explosives Test At JFK Image
Scott Weinberger Reporting
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(CBS) QUEENS A man's sneakers tested positive for explosives at JFK airport. The sneakers were confiscated, but the man walked free. However, federal screeners didn’t tell any member of law enforcement what happened for days.
The man used the name Gamal Badawi with U.S. immigration officials last Friday at JFK airport. At the time, authorities were unable to use the computerized system that takes a visitor's fingerprints and checks it against various databases, including the terror watch list. As a result, Badawi’s documents checked out against the information locally available at JFK.
Federal sources told CBS 2 that Badawi passed through U.S. Customs and went into the airport to connect to a Delta flight to Iowa via Chicago. As he went through security, a Transportation Security Administration screener pulled Badawi out of the line.
Suspicious Sneakers
Badawi was wearing high-top sneakers that, CBS 2 was told, had tape around them and rubber-bands sticking out of them. The screener told Badawi to take off his sneakers. They were then checked for explosives, and airport sources told us that the reading for explosives was off the charts. "The highest ever," one federal source explained.
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Special. Just special.
We've got a burger-flipper mentality delivering security at our airports.
sure it wasn't garlic paste?
So what will set off the exposive detector?
Yeah but they worked me and grandma over good when they found her curling iron. See, the system does work.
criminal negligence.
Yeah. They will probably get three days off for punishment... three PAID days off.
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Yes, and the documents will find their way to the same file as "Able Danger".
Now we cant offend our muslim friends I mean what would they say if we only arrested muslims with bomb residue on their shoe's. <<<<<<<<sarcasm
Yeah then will be reinstated with back pay by the union and then will be given a liftime pension for stress.
I'm glad we federalized screeners, now they are top notch and know what they are doing..they must we pay them more/sarcasm
With Larry, Moe & Curley in charge of Homeland Security; it's nothing short of a miracle that we haven't had another terrorist attack in America since 9/11.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
People, do you really not understand what happened here.
Yes, they found the residue.
Then they let him go.
THEN THEY PUT HIM UNDER SURVEILLANCE.
Several Days later...They leak it out, and look to see who reacts...
And the guy's name was "Gamal" ?
I'm sure if this guy's name was Joe Smith he would have been detained. My pastor last month was detained and put in a holding cell last month for having a vegetable knife in his carry-on. It was over 4.5 inches long, so it was considered a weapon. It was in his carry-on, so it was considered a concealed weapon. He is older and doesn't fit the profile of a Mideast terrorist at all.
Next time maybe he wont be so sloppy.
The TSA are federal employees. No consequences for incompetence.
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