Posted on 05/30/2010 6:06:34 PM PDT by Cindy
LMAO!
They get LOTS of practice giving each other that “you idiot” look.
Passing through security is like watching Three Stooges reruns.
How many are already here who crossed the Mexican border?
We are such chumps to allow terrorists to walk right into our country.
sounds like Mexican senator Francisco Javier Castellon is guilty of profiling.
A diversion to Montreal is a little odd, they often stop in Labrador for fuel, but perhaps Montreal had better security than Goose Bay or wherever they'd land in Labrador or Nova Scotia.
But diverting to Montreal is not that far off their nominal flight path. Would it be better for the plane to have been taken over and then "diverted" to New York City, which of course is also pretty nearly on the flight path, as is Washington DC.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jr89j6xfDmrsadbjym06p0VWcz2wD9G1L1SG0
“Man arrested on warrant after flight diverted”
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL (AP) – 56 minutes ago
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON — An Aeromexico flight from Paris to Mexico City was diverted to Montreal on Sunday when the U.S. denied the flight access to its airspace after a man named in an outstanding warrant was reported aboard, an official said.”
Thing is, not only would I rather watch the Stooges, but I stand less chance of getting blown up if a Stooges rerun goes wrong.
This puts to rest the criticism of the diversion by persons who sit comfortably with their computer and armchair quarter back. Those saying the plane should have flown on and let the Americans deal with it. The man could have gone beserk in the interim, for all anyone knew. He was got to the point of safety as quickly as possible.
To be followed with some interest. The authorities did right. Kudos to them.
CTV (Canada) reports “that a detention hearing will take place in the next 48 hrs”. Some passengers said he claimed he was a Somali. Others gave conflicting views.
Abdirahman Ali Gaall.
Somalia
Said residential status in the USA.
Said married to American woman, their residence in the USA not known.
Possible member of Alshabaab, Al Qaida ally, based in Somalia.
Thanks Peter for the update.
UPDATE:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjjFw8KOdHzCZwhZjUVu2sgkqiogD9G217R80
“Man arrested after US forces flight to divert”
By SEAN FARRELL (AP) – 9 hours ago
MONTREAL —
SNIPPET: “Abdirahman Ali Gaall was arrested Sunday at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, said Robert Gervais, an Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada spokesman. He was taken off and arrested under an outstanding warrant.”
SNIPPET: “Oliver said a flight attendant told him the man was from Somalia, but other passengers gave conflicting information about his nationality.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528313/posts
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NOTE Excerpting doesn’t do this article justice. Click on the link and read the whole thing.
http://www.nationalpost.com/CSIS+tracking+Somali+list/3109971/story.html
“CSIS was tracking me: Somali on no-fly list”
Graeme Hamilton And Stewart Bell, National Post · Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. and TORONTO -
SNIPPET: “In an exclusive interview inside the Plattsburgh, N.Y., jail where he is being held, Abdirahman Ali Gaal said he realized he was in trouble two weeks ago when FBI agents at an airport in Mauritania informed him he was banned from flying back to the United States, where he was a legal resident.
They asked him about a number of suspected extremists, including a Canadian allegedly involved in the al-Qaeda-linked Somali group Al-Shabab.”
SNIPPET: “He said CSIS officers had questioned his wife in Calgary about his whereabouts and activities several times over the past three months, while he was in Seattle and in Mauritania.”
SNIPPET: “When he tried to board a plane last month in Mauritania, where he had been studying Arabic, FBI agents asked him about a several men, including Somali-Canadian Mohamed Elmi Ibrahim.
Mr. Ibrahim, nicknamed Canlish, is a 22-year-old University of Toronto...”
SNIPPET: “Mr. Gaal said he did not know the men and had only attended the Toronto mosque where they sometimes prayed, the Abu Huraira Center, once.
A seventh Toronto man is being investigated for allegedly training with Al-Shabab. He has since returned to Canada and has declined, through his father, to speak to a Post reporter. Former Toronto resident, Omar Hammami, is now a senior commander of Al-Shabab.”
SNIPPET: “Mr. Gaal said he talks frequently about the war in his homeland in Internet chat groups...”
SNIPPET: “He said he had no trouble boarding a flight from New York’s JFK airport on March 5, and flew without incident to Mauritania, via Morocco. He said the purpose of his trip was to study Arabic grammar, so he could improve his reading of the Koran. He had planned to return on May 20 but was met at the airport by “two gentlemen from the FBI. They said they had bad news.”
He then planned to return to the United States by flying to Mexico City and on to the border city of Tijuana, but mid-flight the Aeromexico pilot announced they were diverting to Montreal to refuel.”
SNIPPET: “Mr. Gaal was born in Mogadishu in 1976 and lived for 10 years in Seattle. In addition to his Canadian family, he has two children in Seattle from a previous marriage.”
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