[VOA]

For Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations

Mr. Hooper is the guy who hmmm-and-hawed his "well, that just isn't going to happen..."
when radio show host Michael Medved asked Mr. Hooper if he wanted the USA
to be under Shari'a Law.

32 razors concealed in a belt in carry-on baggage, so of course they go into the
passenger cabin?

Looks like Flight 93 taught the Chicken-Shi-ite (and Chicken Sunni) little b@$tards
that you'll need more than four guys with razors/box-cutters to take
over a plane...
This was a test-run...and he found out it could be done on the other legs of his
multi-leg flight.

Now they know they can put up to 32 of their terrorist buddies on a fully-fueled
747 in Paris bound for the USA...maybe even divert it to England to take out the Parliament
building, Windsor Palace, or who knows what...
Bet there are PLENTY of fully-fueled 747s departing Paris during a week with
at least 32 Muslims aboard...they wouldn't stand out at all on one of those flights.

Those folks who say we're now in World War IV (the Cold War being WWIII) include the
recently-retired head of The Mossad.

The sooner we realize it's kill or be killed in many cases...the more likely we'll
survive/win and the sooner these medieval sadists can be retired to either
the most retrograde corners of their dusty squalid territories or to "paradise".

[piasa]

VOA's right about that- a security test. It would be quite a PR fete for the terrorists to hijack and take out even one plane after 911- in the eyes of the Islamofascist it would not be a come down from 911, but rather, a step up since in theory we're now "on guard." The need a "auccessful" high profile attack of this sort to recruit mmebers- and they dearly need to recruit these days. Their idea of success is much lower than ours, which makes their job easy.

"If that person had been a Norwegian businessman, he wouldn't be in the trouble Mr. Karim is in," Hooper said.

Oh, don't be so hasty. ansar al-Islam's Mullah Krekar is Norwegian and I wouldn't let him on a plane, either...

"It sounds odd that somebody up to no good would bring 32 razor blades, which would increase his chances of being detected, when all he needed was one razor blade if he wanted to do harm."

It seems odd to expect that a harmles person would need 32 razor blades, and if he was an honest person who had just goofed up, the razor blades would be in their original packaging and not hidden in a belt. Not to mention all the cock-and-bull stories the guy told about them. And why 32?

I'll tell you, Hooper, "why 32."

Whether this was a real effort to get on board to do harm or just a test, it's going to be much easier to slip enough razor blades for a team of terrorists through security if only one person gets on board. If security is randomly picking out people to search the chances of discovering one guy with 32 razor blades is much lower than catching several guys with their own razor blades. And after 911, the terrorists are going to need more people to control a flight than before in case there's some POPs* on board.

It also has the advantage, should the razor-blade bearer be caught trying to board, of letting the other cell members escape. Since they aren't carrying anything suspicious, it would be hard to come up with a pretext for detaining them. They live to terrorisze some other day.

Of course, if the terrorists can, they will use non-arabs to carry the blades, so as to avoid suspicion of there being more than one terrorist on board. In this respect if we profiled too much we would miss a Johnny bin-Walker cruising through.

* P#$$ed Off Patriots.