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DHS questioned over decision to let Saudi passengers skip normal passport controls
FOX NEWS ^ | 03/20/13 | FOX

Posted on 03/20/2013 8:08:06 AM PDT by Doogle

A Department of Homeland Security program intended to give "trusted traveler" status to low-risk airline passengers soon will be extended to Saudi travelers, opening the program to criticism for accommodating the country that produced 15 of the 19 hijackers behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Sources voiced concern about the decision to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which issued a report Wednesday on the under-the-radar announcement -- which was first made by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after meeting in January with her Saudi counterpart. According to the IPT, this would be the first time the Saudi government has been given such a direct role in fast-tracking people for entry into the United States.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: dhs; discrimination; homelandinsecurity; islamicsupremacist; nappy; obamaforeignpolicy; passportcontrols; proislamist; saudipassengers; sauditravelers; trustedtravelers; unclejanet
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To: null and void

will the weirdness ever end??????


61 posted on 03/20/2013 3:26:49 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

When we end it.

Or it ends us.


62 posted on 03/20/2013 3:39:29 PM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: Doogle
OMG!!!! This is INSANITY or TREASONOUS!!! The Admin of the MUSLIM, OBAMA, is SUPPOSED to PROTECT US!!!

SAUDIS VETTING THEMSELVES to be TRUSTED TRAVELERS????? Janet Napolitano needs to be IMPEACHED!!!!!!!!

CONGRESS.....HELP!! EVen SOME Democrats have to think this is HORRIBLE!!!

63 posted on 03/20/2013 4:03:05 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: RoosterRedux

John Brennan is a MUSLIM too???? Are you sure???


64 posted on 03/20/2013 4:04:39 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: rawhide

TRUSTED TRAVELERS???? Trusted to KILL MORE AMERICANS??? I guess that’s what this administration wants!!!


65 posted on 03/20/2013 4:05:48 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: Doogle

Proof positive the government should not be allowed to possess firearms.


66 posted on 03/20/2013 4:10:38 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (I was only following orders.)
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To: ScottinVA

The only reason boxcutters were effective, it that what happened was a new paradigm. These people thought that they were being hijacked. It it did not occurr to them that they were with suicide bombers and would all be killed within a few minutes if they did not act.

No one with any knife or gun even has that type of ability to do that again. People would act in a heartbeat.
and have already.


67 posted on 03/20/2013 4:29:24 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: Doogle
"...the under-the-radar announcement -- which was first made by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after meeting in January with her Saudi counterpart."

What should voters expect? Italy is close to Arab and Persian countries, cultures and families in more ways than one. Shoot, watch more television shows that glorify the Mafia, put more of them in offices over Americans. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.


68 posted on 03/20/2013 4:33:50 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Doogle
I guess once they have the STUPID Americans trained they'll move into our streets.
And the Feds will have a field day going through all those vehicles, unless said vehicle
is owned by a TERRORIST!


The Federal Gov (Democrats)(Republicans) are trying to provoke an armed response from Americans.
Inch by inch they'll continue on this path until somebody does something.
Then we all will pay the price.

69 posted on 03/20/2013 4:39:01 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: molson209

Re: post#11, You’re absolutely right.


70 posted on 03/20/2013 4:43:49 PM PDT by optiguy (Winter is coming.)
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To: Ann Archy
I have only circumstantial evidence (and much rumor).

Brennan, in Arabic, spoke to a crowd of Arabs and in his speech he repeated the statement "in shallah"--if Allah wills.

Non muslims don't make such a statement. Here's the LINK.

Additionally, he asked the Arab audience (in Arabic) not to repeat his comments in English because it might get him in trouble.

Trouble? Why would it get him in trouble if not because it provides evidence of his conversion? Americans don't care if he is fluent in another language...but we do care if his speech provides evidence of his conversion to Islam.

So yes...Brennan is a muslim...and the CIA is in the hands of the enemy.

71 posted on 03/20/2013 5:16:42 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: rawhide; Doogle

How can you be surprised when thinking who put this traitor into Harvard and then helped him steeling the White Hut???


72 posted on 03/20/2013 5:23:21 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: zeugma; ScottinVA
ScottinVA has better sense. Body cavity search then the permissible pocket knife is just goofy.
73 posted on 03/20/2013 6:17:00 PM PDT by SisterK (Bill Whittle for president)
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To: rawhide

Homeland inSecurity is not about Islamic terrorism. It’s about the Left’s hatred of Americans and America.


74 posted on 03/20/2013 6:45:40 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: null and void

we here are trying mightily to end it before it ends us ;)


75 posted on 03/20/2013 7:15:37 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: null and void

Is anyone with any authority to stop this going to stop it? Or are we Eloi and all going to be eaten?


76 posted on 03/20/2013 9:44:33 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: RoosterRedux

Placemark.


77 posted on 03/20/2013 9:47:15 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: zeugma
The “body” searches are more for bombs than anything else. With the armored doors, there's not much weapons can do but a few ounces of high explosive can bring down a plane.

Ramzi Yousef almost brought down an airliner with liquid explosive concealed in a “half empty contact lens solution”. That's no more than 5 ounces. His placement was luckily off because he actually hid the bomb inside a seat to detonate during the next flight. A suicide bomber placing such a bomb at the exterior of a jet would likely bring it down. Both the underwear bomber and shoe bomber had enough explosives but were luckily too stupid to detonate.

This is why we can't have more than 3 ounces of liquid and have the outline underneath our clothes scanned. However that is a STUPID approach. The question is are they really that dumb or are they truly conditioning people for random searches?

IMO, we need more chemical based detection systems rather than visual searches of everything. Bomb sniffing dogs/machines to check everything entering a plane would keep us more safe than what we have now. The deck should also be completely isolated the entire time. Pilots should have their own toilet and a small door for food. Stopping all the groping and doing these two things would eliminate 99.99% of threats.

78 posted on 03/20/2013 9:53:49 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: Doogle

Yeah....that figures. And all the while....they are searching, frisking and humiliating disabled veterans and children in wheelchairs.

And we’re letting them get away with it all.


79 posted on 03/20/2013 11:05:47 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: RoosterRedux
As Eric Nordstrom said, "The TALIBAN is INSIDE the BUILDING"!!!

WHERE IS ERIC NORDSTROM and WHY ISN"T HE SCREAMING THIS????

80 posted on 03/21/2013 5:10:19 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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