Posted on 05/04/2010 9:51:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Federal complaint against Faisal Shahzad documents that the Pakistani-American tried to detonate a bomb in Times Square and received bomb-making training in Waziristan, Pakistan. Shahzad was tracked as a suspect since late Sunday night, and was added to a no-fly list as a possible terrorist.
Yet, the Times Square bombing suspect managed to board Emirates flight 202 to Dubai on Monday night. Shahzad was arrested by U.S. Customs Border Protection (CBP) officials before it left the gate, but after the plane plane was fully boarded and the door closed.
Most curious is how Shahzad, a suspected and potentially dangerous car bomber who was being tracked by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies since late Sunday, was able to drive to crowded Kennedy Airport, with a loaded 9mm handgun with extra clips in the car. It appears that the FBI and others watching Shahzad lost track of him for a period of time as he made his way toward the airport in Long Island.
When asked about Shahzad's movements, Attorney General Eric Holder said, "I was here all yesterday and through much of last night and was aware of the tracking that was going on. And I was never in any fear that we were in danger of losing him."
In 2007, a similar domestic terrorism incident occurred in the UK. Two explosives-filled Mercedes were discovered in major tourist areas of London, near Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. Police were able to disable the car bombs. The day after the car bombs were discovered in London, a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane gas was driven into a terminal at Glasgow International Airport. The perpetrators of the Mercedes and Jeep car bombs were an Iraqi doctor and Indian aeronautical engineer.(continued)
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He came as close as you could come. Plus, I wonder if Dubai would have extradited him. To the best of my knowledge, we have no formal extradition treaty with Dubai.
My understanding is that the plane was No. 1 to take off (not just boarded and doors shut).
And for the record, reporters and reporterettes, is not a ‘clip’ that his 9mm uses, it is ‘magazines’ that piece is designed to use.
/Rant off
Oh, one more:
We should be glad that this batch of terrorist PIGS are as incompetent as the current BOZOS in DC.
Nope. There are tapes of the tower ordering the plane to taxi BACK to the gate. And I heard it was not customs but NYPD that actually pulled him off the plane.
He came as close as you could come. Plus, I wonder if Dubai would have extradited him. To the best of my knowledge, we have no formal extradition treaty with Dubai.
Well..., I can see a big security loophole that this Administration is going to have to close up now ... since it's been exposed. It looks like (at least to me) that this security loophole has been here with us since the beginning of the no-fly lists.
From what I read, the Feds put this guy on the no-fly list. But, the Arab airline that he got tickets with -- they weren't in the habit of updating their no-fly list very often, so they sold him the tickets, even though he was on the Feds' no-fly list. The airline just didn't bother updating their list.
So, when the airline sent the passenger list over to the Feds (apparently something all the airlines do), that's when the Feds "caught it" and saw that he was on board that Arab airline. And that's when they moved in and stopped that flight from leaving.
I would say that the Feds need to "close up" that loophole and make sure that ther airlines update their no-fly list everyday -- and also, if there is someone who is immediately wanted (i.e., is "on the run") then the airlines need a notification system that they can use and check with to remain updated by the minute for any "on the run" individuals" that have just been put on the list in the last few minutes.
It's a good thing that the Feds caught the guy's name on that passenger list, just at the time when the flight was getting ready to leave ... hoo-boy!
My understanding is that the plane was No. 1 to take off (not just boarded and doors shut).
That's close to take-off, for sure. but I'm also sure that the Feds could have had the plane diverted, once it was in the air, too. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of military planes after it and direct it back to an airport to "disgorge" the terrorist.
So, even though that sounds fairly dramatic (and it probably is...), there was still "measures" that they could have taken to "get him" in any case...
Don’t you know this animal thought he was home free?
MM
Yep. If he'd have had false papers he'd have been gone, gone, gone.
Gibbs, who is Hussein’s incompetent press agent,, should keep his stupid mouth shut when talking about how we track terrorists. He have away at least two technical details that Homeland Security uses in tracking people like this clown.
This thread has a link to the audio tape of the traffic controller ordering the plane (which was #1 to take off) back to the gate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2506638/posts
It was seconds from taking off.
On the tape before they told them to go back to the gate, they were just about to tell them to take off.
The pilot most likely would have turned around if he was not too far out over the Atlantic. We may not have extradition with Dubai, but the airline certainly wants to do business in America.
In 2007, a similar domestic terrorism incident occurred in the UK. Two explosives-filled Mercedes were discovered in major tourist areas of London, near Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. Police were able to disable the car bombs. The day after the car bombs were discovered in London, a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane gas was driven into a terminal at Glasgow International Airport. The perpetrators of the Mercedes and Jeep car bombs were an Iraqi doctor and Indian aeronautical engineer...
Tiger Tiger Nightclub plot... preceded Glasgow doctors' plot.
Never fear, Shahzad... just because we caught you doesn’t mean Eric Holder can’t get you pardoned like the FALN terrorists.
Have they picked the Caribbean island where we’ll relocate him to? What kind of business will we set him up in? Restaurant or charter boat? Condo or townhouse? Ocean view or oceanfront?
One thing for sure, he'll never know a waterboard, and we'll never know who all his buddies are.
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