Posted on 07/15/2004 6:19:30 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
I guess this a good reason to withdraw that stupid rule, that not more than two Middle Easterners be searched on any one flight.
Oh, I am so sorry! I didn't know that. I will be certain to remember from now on though! Nothing like acute embarassment to help the memory! Thank you for posting that prayer. What a treasure. Whenever anyone asks me to prayer for travel, I will try to remember to use that one.
There was a report this week that the jihadis are testing onboard IEDs that would blow open the locked cockpit doors so they could gain entry. I'll see if I can find it.
isn't it, though? yikes...
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Hey, thanks for the "For Dummies" version of this "War and Peace" article ! :^D
I believe that not only were they testing whether large groups of unaccompanied Arabs could board the plane, they were testing whether strange activity would arouse suspicion and if anyone would try to interrupt their preparations.
Not if they were landing on Runway 18.
http://archive.aclu.org/news/w081197a.html
August 11, 1997: Arab-Americans Protest Airport 'Profiling'
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of Americans of Arab or Middle Eastern heritage have complained that a secretive and wide-scale government "profiling" system aimed at preventing airplane terrorism has caused them to be unfairly selected for extra scrutiny at airports because of their names, birthplaces or ethnic background, The New York Times reports...
I'm emailing it out like crazy, too :-(
And wasn't it Kerry that said the terrorism threat is "exaggerated"?
If the restaurant workers in the the airport concourse get to their places of employment without being thoroughly checked, this would provide an avenue for the jihadists to secure the needed suplies.
A fire would only require 1 person with a lighter and an accelerant, not 14.
I personally don't believe that "after 9/11 they won't try it again." Americans may have infinistesmally short memories, but jihadi terrorists are still mulling over 1200 year old grievances. We may forget, but they won't, and an airplane is just too tempting to forgo as a potential weapon.
You know ... a Bill Gothard Seminar was the first place I saw a huge contingent of plain clothes security - but it wasn't for the seminar.
It was probably 1973 or 1974 I went to a seminar at McCormick place in Chicago.. I was a teenager. We had free reign of the place during breaks, etc. A bunch of us were heading outside to sit by the lake.. as we came around a back corner we saw this group of 10 -15 men in suits walking in a group obviously protecting a man with an eye patch. Noone in our little group knew who he was. A day or so later I saw him on the news... it had been Moshe Dayan and he had been in Chicago - at McCormick place for a meeting! Boy was I astounded... I'd heard his name - probably never paid attention to a picture before tho'
Yes,it is and it's long past time that we,as a nation,remove the silly PC stuff,because our lives mean more than "feelings".
Chilling...
How did they catch him then?
Can binary explosives be detected by bomb sniffers???
Pretty amazing story, wonder why the "mainstream" media didn't pick up on this one?
Yes. He said that.
This is the most frightening thing I have read since 9/11
regarding aircraft flights.
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