Posted on 08/16/2006 2:42:50 AM PDT by Man50D
The Department of Homeland Security is bracing for waves of terror suspects numbering in the tens of thousands boarding planes bound for the U.S. from foreign airports like Heathrow over at least the next 10 years, according to internal agency documents reviewed by WorldNetDaily.
And more shockingly, DHS admits it won't be able to intercept them all. Thousands each year will get past no-fly-list screening checks – even under proposed new rules to improve procedures to vet high-risk passengers.
"Even under the best circumstances, not every individual will be intercepted prior to boarding," says the April 2006 DHS report titled, "Passenger Manifests for Commercial Aircraft Arriving in and Departing from the United States."
A table in the report shows the number of annual antiterror-watchlist "hits" rising 12 percent from an actual 22,000 in 2004 to an estimated 24,545 in 2015. DHS predicts its customs agents will be able to block only 90 percent of the high-risk passengers from boarding U.S.-bound flights, leaving more than 2,000 entering the U.S. each year.
The number who slip through the security net could be even higher if airlines don't agree to a proposed new regulation requiring them to transmit passenger data before in-bound flights take off from overseas airports. Under current rules, manifests are sent to customs officials after the international flights have already departed. Officials don't have enough time to vet and "intercept high-risk individuals prior to boarding an aircraft," the report says, and their only recourse is to try to divert flights in midair.
By then it might be too late. Al-Qaida planned to board suicide bombers of mostly Pakistani descent on 10 jetliners bound for the U.S. from London. The plot, disrupted by British authorities, was set to go into operation this month.
Even under the proposed new passenger reporting rules, however, the DHS report says "it is nearly impossible to implement a regulation that captures 100 percent of the high-risk individuals that fly."
Customs officials at the national targeting center in Washington complain they still are not able to vet foreign passengers from a uniform watchlist. They have to check several scattered over different agencies. The 9/11 Commission recommended that DHS consolidate databases into one master list. It is one of several recommendations that have not been implemented.
Predicted watchlist hits for air carriers over next 10 years
In the following Department of Homeland Security document, "Hits" means number of terror suspects the U.S. government expects to attempt boarding airplanes flying to the U.S. during that year. "Stopped" means number of terror suspects prevented from boarding aircraft. And "Not stopped" means number of terror suspects who will enter the U.S., despite airport security screening.
Year Hits Stopped Not stopped
2005 - 22,220 - 19,998 - 2,222
2006 - 22,442 - 20,198 - 2,244
2007 - 22,667 - 20,400 - 2,267
2008 - 22,893 - 20,604 - 2,289
2009 - 23,122 - 20,810 - 2,312
2010 - 23,353 - 21,018 - 2,335
2011 - 23,587 - 21,228 - 2,359
2012 - 23,823 - 21,441 - 2,382
2013 - 24,061 - 21,655 - 2,406
2014 - 24,302 - 21,872 - 2,430
2015 - 24,545 - 22,090 - 2,454
Note: Actual watchlist hits in 2004, the latest data, totaled 22,000.
They forgot to add the catagories: Muslim and Non Muslim.
I think it is time for the world to wake up and understand that the fountain of global terrorism is Islam. The current flood of terrorist attacks will not cease in our life-time and will probably last for at least a hundred years. Until followers of Islam undergo the type of pain and self-destruction that Western civilization experienced prior to the Reformation, the senseless killing of innocents will continue. We should declare war against Iran and Syria and get to the work that needs to be done sooner rather than later.
Well then given this report, I think it's outrageous that we aren't banning Muslims and Arabs from flying into this country.
Not good.
Profile, profile, profile!
Without 10's of thousands of American civilian casualties the current population is too complacent for such action.
911 was horrific but for many it just didn't hit home that Islam has declared war on freedom. With total destruction of America as the number one goal in that war.
Most Americans have no idea that Islam wants to iradicate the Jew. The MSM hasn't told them yet and all the news most people get is radio snippets and the occasional channel surf.
Actually, what we call the Reformation was quite bloody and resulted in state-controlled and controlling churches in places where there had formerly been none. It's not, in any case, a matter of "reforming" Islam, because Islam is a death cult where reform actually means adopting a purer and more death-oriented form of the cult. Time and time again, Muslims living in non-Muslim societies have gotten lax and learned to simply live and get along, and time and again, orthodox Islamic movements have risen up, sometimes exterminating the lax Muslims, and stirred up the violence and conquest mentality that is actually the essence of Islam.
Christianity is not a death cult, and killing and violence are actually alien to it, and it does not see itself as a political system; hence, reform movements that arise in Christianity are directed at making Christianity return to its essence on those occasions where it has gone astray because of the temptations of worldly power.
The big difference is that in Islam, "reform" actually means restoring it to its virulent initial form, and it has been "reformed" time and again to permit this to happen. What we are seeing now is actually one of those moments, and unfortunately, thanks to its oil money, Islam actually has enough technology and mobility to dream of taking on the rest of the world.
I don't argue your interpretation of the Reformation though I'm not entirely certain I agree. In any case, my suggestion for confronting the evils of Islam was to attack its centers of extremism and destroy them utterly. The sooner the better, especially before Iran goes nuclear. What is your's?
Oh, that's my solution, too. My point was that in Christianity, reform means divesting itself of the political; after the Reformation, there were a number of Protestant state churches, but over the years, other smaller churches spun off and set up churches that were not state power-based (ranging from Nordic pietist churches to the Wesleyans and the Quakers in the English speaking world). Among Catholics, this type of reform movement was usually expressed through the founding of new religious orders or lay movements, although sometimes larger scale institutional reforms were undertaken. The difference from Islam, however, is that with Christians, reform means going back to the non-violent, non-state, charity-filled origin of Christianity. In the case of Islam, it means going back to the violence, power-lust and rigid control that is at the origin of Islam.
I think the only way to do it is to destroy Islam. The question is how. We have innocently thought of it as just a religion like any other, because for the last century or so it has only been powerful enough to carry out random terrorist actions; but the situation has changed now. The only thing Islam seems to like outside of the 7th century is modern weapons and destructive technology. Personally, I think that we will someday have to destroy Mecca, home of the black rock that is the cult object of Islam, and this will have the effect of making the evil spell that is Islam vanish. But it's going to take a lot before we get to that, and it's going to be bloody and awful, I fear.
The hell with profiling.........lets just throw the moslims off the planes and out of our country!
I certainly hope their strategy assumes they can't catch everyone before boarding. That would be negligently optimistic.
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