[goldstategop]

This Al Qaeda symp - one Sadeq Naji Ahmed was given an honorable discharge by the Air Force. Despite being a fan of Osama Bin Laden, that America deserved to be attacked, that he wouldn't fight if the U.S acted in Iraq and that U.S aircraft over Iraq should crash. After making disloyal and treasonous statements as a U.S Air Force airman, Ahmed gets a politically correct kid glove honorable discharge. Then the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) hired him as a baggage security screener at its Detroit Metro Airport! He had almost a year to endanger American lives on behalf of Al Qaeda. Remember, this happened four years AFTER 9/11. What a monumental federal government screwup. We got lucky.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[spodefly]

Unlike Ahmed, soldiers have been court-martialed and brought up on Article 134 “disloyal statement” charges for:

• A letter to the editor questioning the war in Iraq;
• Comments to a reporter questioning the war in Iraq, but saying he’d do his part and fight; and
• Telling other soldiers he would not fight in Vietnam if ordered to.

But those soldiers had one thing in common: Unlike Ahmed, they’re not Muslim. They didn’t get handled with politically correct kid gloves. And unlike Ahmed, not one of them praised the enemy and wished for America’s failure.

Yet, Ahmed was rewarded with an honorable discharge and evading his required duty, allowing him to get screening jobs at airports.

[maestro]

In December 2001, Ahmed became a baggage screener at Metro Airport, when it was handled by..... a private ALIEN BRITISH-HINDU non-U.S. Citizens Only (INS) contractor...... That?s bad enough???

/sarcasm

[ChadGore]

The author seems shocked that there are AQ sympathizers in Detroit.

The best thing about Detroit is . . . Windsor.

[NRA1995]

Your tax dollars at work, sadly.....see tag line

[mtbopfuyn]

A story of one in what, a hundred others... a thousand others... 10 thousand others?

[DustyMoment]

Ok, so tell me again, why do we continue to believe that government is the answer??



I'll wait.

[softwarecreator]

Had Ahmed been a non-Muslim, the government would have gotten tough.

Pretty much says it all.

[KidGlock]

[Maceman]

Two years ago I went through airport security at Logan, and was appalled to see a female muslim in headgear doing security checks.

[Issaquahking]

No surprise here....I've only flown twice since 9/11. Both times the jerks at the security were rude and offensive in singling out individuals for remove the shoes and associated BS. What a bunch of clowns, only one airline has security that works. That airline is known as El Al, check the record.

I will continue to drive anytime I can over flying, where I can carry my own weapon to stop terrorists. Puts a projectile bigger than finger nail clippers, at a lot greater speed!

[RushLake]

Detroit Metro is a disaster waiting to happen. We flew out of and into Metro in February. What a cluster f#ck. Huge confusion at the Northworst counter due to delayed flights coming in. Instead of setting up seperate lines to help people who had missed flights, they had them mixed in with people who were still on time but trying to get baggage checked thus causing more missed flights. I spent considerable time in the line and the TSA people seemed to be overwhelmed. I couldn't help thinking that they couldn't be real effective under the circumstances.

When we got to the top of the escalator, there was such a mass of humanity gathered there that you were forced to stop momentarily. My wife caught hell from some fat Ilsa Koch lookalike TSA person for stopping, and was threatened with being ejected by the fat slob.

All this mayhem goes on in the middle of the biggest concentration of muslims outside the middle east. Real comforting.

[KidGlock]

Here's the picture I was looking for:

One of America's finest protecting the homeland. (/sarc)

[polymuser]

Let's see:
1. Left whined that TSA had to employ gov-union labor.
2. Left whined that we can't profile.
And so, we get more of those great leftist results.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: "Soldiers don’t have unfettered free speech rights. The “Disloyal Statements” provision of Article 134 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice provides for penalties by court-martial for “disloyal statements” made "with the intent to promote disloyalty or disaffection toward the United States by any member of the armed forces or to interfere with or impair the loyalty to the United States." Ahmed’s treasonous statements fit the U.S. government’s “Manual for Courts Martial‘s” definition of punishable disloyal statements, like a glove: “Examples include praising the enemy, attacking the war aims of the United States...A declaration of personal belief can amount to a disloyal statement if it disavows allegiance owed to the United States by the declarant.”" Unlike Ahmed, soldiers have been court-martialed and brought up on Article 134 “disloyal statement” charges for: A letter to the editor questioning the war in Iraq; Comments to a reporter questioning the war in Iraq, but saying he’d do his part and fight; and Telling other soldiers he would not fight in Vietnam if ordered to. But those soldiers had one thing in common: Unlike Ahmed, they’re not Muslim. They didn’t get handled with politically correct kid gloves. And unlike Ahmed, not one of them praised the enemy and wished for America’s failure. Yet, Ahmed was rewarded with an honorable discharge and evading his required duty, allowing him to get screening jobs at airports. "

OMG...a 'copycat crime'??? Is it just me...? ...or does this guy sound a lot like that Lt.(jg) who went to Paris to meet with the Viet Cong back in the '70s...???   ...Didn't THAT guy get off scot free too???!!!   ...and didn't HE end up with some high-paying job with the Federal Government too???!!!

This CAN'T be 'just a coincidence' ...CAN it...???

/leg-pulling