Posted on 06/02/2007 8:28:21 AM PDT by Zakeet
NEW YORK -- According to NewsChannel4's Jonathan Dienst, sources said federal investigators have made arrests in an alleged terror plot on Kennedy Airport.
Law enforcement officials said the plot may involved a former airport worker.
A press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. this afternoon.
“At this stage of WWII, we were NOT still hiring Japanese to work in Airports, Critical Industries or allowing them to move about freely.”
In World War II, we were willing to fight. Today, we just want to be loved by everybody.
Political Correctness has run amuck at JFK for years. This is a two year old report.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536379/posts
JFK Screeners Find Bomb Residue, Let Man Go - Man Released After Positive Explosives Test At JFK
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Posted on 12/08/2005 7:31:19 AM PST by Sub-Driver
JFK Screeners Find Bomb Residue, Let Man Go Man Released After Positive Explosives Test At JFK Image
Scott Weinberger Reporting
(CBS) QUEENS A man’s sneakers tested positive for explosives at JFK airport. The sneakers were confiscated, but the man walked free. However, federal screeners didn’t tell any member of law enforcement what happened for days.
The man used the name Gamal Badawi with U.S. immigration officials last Friday at JFK airport. At the time, authorities were unable to use the computerized system that takes a visitor’s fingerprints and checks it against various databases, including the terror watch list. As a result, Badawi’s documents checked out against the information locally available at JFK.
Federal sources told CBS 2 that Badawi passed through U.S. Customs and went into the airport to connect to a Delta flight to Iowa via Chicago. As he went through security, a Transportation Security Administration screener pulled Badawi out of the line.
Suspicious Sneakers
Badawi was wearing high-top sneakers that, CBS 2 was told, had tape around them and rubber-bands sticking out of them. The screener told Badawi to take off his sneakers. They were then checked for explosives, and airport sources told us that the reading for explosives was off the charts. “The highest ever,” one federal source explained.
June 2, 2007
JFK Terror Plot Foiled
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UPDATE II: The FBI thought that a well-known terrorist may have had a part in this plot:
FBI agents feared but never confirmed the three men accused of plotting to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York were linked to one of the most wanted al Qaeda leaders, Adnan Shukrijumah, known to have operated out of Guyana and Trinidad.Officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com that they heard repeated references to "Adnan" during the extensive wiretaps conducted on the suspects' telephone conversations, including calls to Guyana and Trinidad.
There is a $5 million reward for information on Shukrijumah, who officials consider extremely dangerous because of the years he spent living in the Miami area and his known ties to al Qaeda. Some of the 9/ll hijackers attended a south Florida mosque run by Shukrijumah's now deceased father.
UPDATE III: The ambition for this attack was pretty high, according to the indictment, which Michelle Malkin reproduces:
28. During the return drive from JFK, Defreitas discussed the extent of the damage they could cause. In particular, Defreitas predicted that the plot would result in the destruction of "the whole of Kennedy," that only a few people would escape and that, due to underground piping, part of Queens would explode.
They wanted to take out a good portion of a borough that houses more than 2.2 million people, according to the 2000 Census. In fact, it's among the most diverse populations in the United States; 46% of residents were born outside the US. That's what these four wanted to destroy.
Diversity is out strength, right?
Further digging in the Blogosphere:
Iranian Subplot in NYC? [Michael Ledeen]
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A keen-eyed participant in my blog calls attention to the small print in the JFK plot story :
Isha Kadir, the Guyanese suspect's wife, said her husband flew from Guyana to Trinidad on Thursday. She said he was arrested Friday as he was boarding a flight from Trinidad to Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a travel visa to attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran.
Ah, those religious conferences organized by the Religion of Peace...and notice the route: Venezuela to Iran. Did you notice that there are now directly flight from Caracas to Teheran via Damascus? The jihadis' haj.
Oh yeah... /sarcasm >
Its also GWB's fault for the first WTC bombing. And the USS Cole, and every other muslim attack against this country.
“Not if they’re FLYING of driving a FAST BOAT. How big do you want this wall to be?”
If the smugglers are shunted to smuggling by boat or plane INSTEAD of boat, plane, or overland, that will still be a success. The coast guard can cover the boat angle. The plane has to land somewhere.
It’s much easier to hide in gulches and washes and mountains than it is by being out in the open in air or on sea!
“That stupid lawer going around the world infecting everybody with TB is an AMERICAN CITIZEN not an immigrant, and he got around the world ON A PLANE”
I wasn’t specifically referring to him. I’m aware of that. Of course, you’re making the mistake again of confusing some with all. Putting a lock on your homes doors won’t keep out all robbers, but it will keep out most. In this case, you pointed out one person who was not mexican who was an infection vector, and presented him as an adequate sample, when in fact he is not.
This is eye opening:
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050608-122811-2326r.htm
I quote:
A multidrug-resistant tuberculosis known as MDR-TB is persistent in California, primarily among its “foreign-born” population, and has serious financial implications for the state’s public-health system, federal and state health officials said yesterday.
“Treatment for MDR-TB is very expensive — ranging from $200,000 to $1.2 million per person, over an 18- to 24-month time period,” said Dr. Reuben Granich, a lead investigator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a press conference in the District yesterday.
Dr. Granich’s findings were published yesterday in tomorrow’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in an article co-written with California health officials.
The article studied 38,291 reported tuberculosis cases in California from 1994 to 2003. Of those, 407 were classified as drug-resistant and were found mostly in patients from Mexico or the Philippines, Dr. Granich said.
He added that 84 percent of patients infected with MDR-TB “were foreign born” and that those infected are four times as likely to die from the disease and twice as likely to “transmit the disease to others” than other tuberculosis patients.
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A study from the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, for example, found that the four states bordering Mexico are still owed more than $200 million in costs from the emergency treatment and transport of ailing or injured illegals.
“It will if you want it to cover the air and sea as well as the Mexican border.”
It won’t take a lot to build the 700 some miles in Hunters bill that was passed - but for which it is the administration who is holding it up. 2 miles or so have been built. 2. Again - it will be a good first step and will immensely cut down on human and narco smuggling, shunting that which remains to more easily detected routes.
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“We’ve millions of THEM who’s families have been here for generations.”
So that makes it OK to accept unknown millions MORE? You have a real weird sense of logic...
“On the border threads, assimilation seems to be the LAST thing on the minds of border bots. Come to think of it, reality is too, since they blame Bush every time he tries to get legislation passed to build border fence, every time he gets legislation passed to build border fence and every time the fence that’s slated to BE built doesn’t GET built because “human rights groups” and “environmentalists” have it tied up in court.”
Lay the blame where it deserves to be. Bush is the one holding this up now - not the watermelons. (green on the outside, red on the inside.) Bush is opposed to vigorous border enforcement - he has abdicated his sworn duties.
“Registering those illegals who are here will only work for those who come up to be registered. Those will be the honest ones. That still leaves the basic problem of the dishonest ones. And if we deport all the honest ones, leaving only the dishonest ones....the plan seems to have some serious flaws.”
Agree there - there is no incentive to register. The plan sucks. Bush lost me over it. I question his sense of judgment.
“This was a very sad post. We are losing our country. We are teaching our children that all cultures are equal...”
I know.
Per year.
“Consider what we would have in Egypt if we quit giving them anything at all and the Murbarak regime fell.”
We used to feel that it was better to spend millions for defense than a single damn penny for tribute.
It’s amazing how the Bush administration worked so hard and got a victory like this, then they gave it all back for some garbage illegal alien amnesty bill that nobody wants.
I do not doubt the realty of the arrests, don’t get me wrong. However, there are ways to use other legitimate news stories to advantage, such as by making administration and other officials more available by press interviews and the like to keep the focus off the other “bad” news.
I do not believe these are “made up” charges.
I note today that the press is minimizing the likely damage of the attack, were it allowed to be successful, thus starting a talking point with disagreements about whether or not the attack was going to be as big as the prosecutors have stated. Now, while we debate the woulda, coulda, shoulda, we take our focus off the shamnesty legislation.
I agree it should be looked at in light of the need for more border security, and is thus tied directly to the shamnesty legislation.
I agree, but it will noever be portrayed that wasy. The press is already minimizing the probably success of this attack, even if it had not been caught.
If you are implying that I am a chocolate kiss, thanks! My wife loves them!
It is a more nuanced kind of conspiracy theory, one designed to appeal to people of all political persuasions...
““If that is all we are giving to Egypt now, then we are getting a very good deal. “
Per year.
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well of course per year, don’t you see i said ‘are giving’ rather than ‘gave?’ We have been supporting egypt financially for decades IIRC, every year.
“We used to feel that it was better to spend millions for defense than a single damn penny for tribute.
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We also used to understand that it is better to prop up a regime generally helpful to your interests against the sentiments of its own population rather than have a fit of righteousness and let that regime handle its own affairs with no support and possibly be replaced by something that hates us and actively works against us.
Presumably we also used to understand that realpolitik is more than just a big defense budget.
They hate us now. Paying them tribute just makes them hold us in contempt.
“Presumably we also used to understand that realpolitik is more than just a big defense budget.”
“Realpolitik” is paying protection money.
Thanks for the ping.
lots of eyeball information and aerial photos of the area.
Blowing up these tanks would have shut down the airport for months. Would have played havoc w/ travel around the world
http://cryptome.org/jfk-tanks/jfk-tanks.htm
This might have been the “big catastrophe” that some Muslim extremists were threatening the US with recently!
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