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Saudi Man Charged With Plane Bomb Threat
AP ^ | June 7 2006

Posted on 06/07/2006 2:26:59 PM PDT by jmc1969

A Saudi man who authorities say was upset about being denied a job as an Arabic interpreter for the U.S. military in Iraq was charged with threatening to blow up a Delta Air Lines flight.

Saleh Al Suwailem, 45, of Boise, Idaho, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday.

Al Suwailem was at Fort Benning on Monday being interviewed for the job when he learned he would not be hired because he was denied security clearance, federal authorities said in court papers.

After being told to fly home to Idaho the next day on a Delta flight, he started drinking with some acquaintances and blurted out, "OK, I'm going to bomb the plane," authorities said.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bombthreat; denied; domesticterrorism; fifthcolumn; iraq; iraqwar; islaminamerica; nationalsecurity; ropalert; securityclearance
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1 posted on 06/07/2006 2:27:01 PM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

New story line for Law and Order.


2 posted on 06/07/2006 2:30:11 PM PDT by rocksblues (Liberals will stop at nothing.)
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To: jmc1969
Wahabbi's are SO F'n funny!!

Demanding a job from an Infidel airline, then realizing that dhimmitude hasn't taken effect yet and then threatening to blow up a plane...MAN! This is getting too funny...my cheeks hurt...the islamic failure is coming home to roost.

ESAD muzzies!
3 posted on 06/07/2006 2:31:40 PM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: jmc1969

Gee, I can't imagine why he didn't get the clearance....


4 posted on 06/07/2006 2:32:45 PM PDT by mwyounce
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To: bayouranger

I'm sure his friends must've misheard him. Just like those Islamist medical students who got stopped on the tollroad. < /sarc >


5 posted on 06/07/2006 2:32:46 PM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: jmc1969

The Saudis are our friend. Their must have been a mix-up with an Amish or Hmong passenger.


6 posted on 06/07/2006 2:34:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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To: jmc1969

SSDD

SAUDI-FUNDED ANTI-AMERICANISM


7 posted on 06/07/2006 2:34:07 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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"Saleh Al Suwailem, 45, of Boise, Idaho"

WTF?

8 posted on 06/07/2006 2:34:28 PM PDT by lormand (Understanding the threat of Islamofasicsm is essential to survival)
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To: bayouranger
Wahabbi's are SO F'n funny!! Demanding a job from an Infidel airline, then realizing that dhimmitude hasn't taken effect yet and then threatening to blow up a plane...MAN! This is getting too funny...my cheeks hurt...the islamic failure is coming home to roost.

Come On! GW told us that all these foreigners want is a job that NOBODY else will do.

9 posted on 06/07/2006 2:40:31 PM PDT by Digger
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To: lormand

Search his name. Almost same name as the Saudi jihad leader in Chechnya known as "Khattab"

Not saying the two are connected but must have raised eyebrows.


10 posted on 06/07/2006 2:45:01 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: jmc1969

at least our process for granting clearances still works.


11 posted on 06/07/2006 2:47:36 PM PDT by driftdiver
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Demanding a job from an Infidel airline



Re-read the story. He was applying for an interpreter position with the US military!

Thank God and pass the bacon, that this guy didn't get hired.


12 posted on 06/07/2006 2:53:42 PM PDT by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Islamofascism, now ACT LIKE IT, PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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To: mwyounce
Gee, I can't imagine why he didn't get the clearance....

A real mind teaser, eh. LOL

13 posted on 06/07/2006 2:55:10 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: Fruitbat

A militant Wahhabi Arab Muslim in Boise, Idaho!!?

Is no place in America left uncontaminated? Not even the sparsely populated, incredibly beautiful American Northwest?

(at least the terrs in Idaho are easier to spot)


14 posted on 06/07/2006 3:27:08 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: jmc1969

"Al Suwailem was at Fort Benning on Monday being interviewed for the job when he learned he would not be hired because he was denied security clearance"

I'm guessing that somebody is feeling PRETTY darn comfortable with their "no clearance" decision right about now.


15 posted on 06/07/2006 3:28:05 PM PDT by MOTR Newbie
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MAN! This is getting too funny

It's just the friskiness of those zany, wacky Muslims .... Mohammad started the zaniness of these fun loving people when he instructed his followers to drink camel urine ... they did it ... then they gagged and coughed for two days while Mohammad ROTFLHAO! The fun loving Muslim tradition goes way back.

16 posted on 06/07/2006 3:28:17 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: elcid1970
A militant Wahhabi Arab Muslim in Boise, Idaho!!?

Is no place in America left uncontaminated? Not even the sparsely populated, incredibly beautiful American Northwest?

They've certainly covered their bases, eh.

17 posted on 06/07/2006 3:30:44 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: jmc1969

New test for mental stability of job applicants:

Tell them they've been rejected for the job and see if they start making bomb threats, etc.

Geeesh, sounds like we dodged a bullet by not hiring this bozo for our intel world. Why can't we just air-drop people like him over Saudi-land?


18 posted on 06/07/2006 3:42:56 PM PDT by Enchante (General Hayden: I've Never Taken a Domestic Flight That Landed in Waziristan!)
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To: lormand; windcliff
Now, Now. He's just picking the potatoes that Americans won't pick. /sarc
19 posted on 06/07/2006 4:10:42 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: mwyounce

I know, can't imagine why he didn't get the clearance. Way to go, military.


20 posted on 06/07/2006 4:15:52 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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