Snip: Traffic returned to normal Friday after a security breach at Spokane International Airport. Airport authorities say a man carrying several prohibited items in his luggage got past security in the C concourse around 11 a.m. His items got mixed up with other passengers' baggage, so Transportation Safety Administration officers had to rescreen everyone in the concourse.
The entire rescreening process took about 25 minutes. One outgoing Horizon flight was delayed. An airport spokesman says the man was carrying a Leatherman tool with blades and files.
Video of new Television interview with LAURIE ROTH
Fencing firm targeted in immigration probe - 17 arrested
Snip: Golden State Fence Co. had rehired some of the 17 employees who were arrested despite previous warnings by federal authorities that they were ineligible to work, officials with the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau said in a press release.
Authorities searched company offices in Riverside, where the company is based, and in Oceanside, about 35 miles north of San Diego. All 17 employees arrested were Mexican nationals. Calls to Golden State offices after business hours Wednesday were not immediately returned.
Immigration authorities have audited Golden State's employment records twice before, said Homeland Security spokeswoman Lauren Mack. Last year's audit found 48 employees were in the country illegally. An audit in 1999 found 15 illegal immigrants.
An immigration sweep last year resulted in the arrests of some Golden State employees who were working at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado. Mack said she didn't know if the company continues to work on military bases.
Oriana Fallaci rails against Muslim immigration
Snip: Frail, slight, and dying of cancer, Oriana Fallaci told a Manhattan audience on Monday that she hates Islam and fears that Muslim immigration poses a greater danger to the West than Islamic terrorism.
Snip: However, one imam led a prayer service in which he called for the destruction of the “Jews, Americans and Brits” and “enemies of Islam. The service included the following call:
“God, keep Islam and Muslims high and protect Islam
God, humiliate the infidels
God, humiliate the enemies of Islam
Jews, Americans and Brits
And all those who support them Who cooperate with them
And who are in alliance with them
God, destroy them all,
God, leave none of them alive,
God, give victory to mujahedin everywhere”
Imam calls prayer distortion of Islam
Snip: What is your opinion of this prayer by this Imam that asks for the destruction of Jews, Americans and Brits?
I think we should see it in the context of what a prayer leader would say when a group of soldiers is going to battle, to protect their people and destroy the enemy. Speaking like this, however, calling for the annihilation of millions of people is absurd; it is a distortion of Islam. Traditionally, Muslims pray to God to protect them from “the deniers of God”, but these do not include Christians or Jews, who are also People of the Book.
Good point, Davey.