Scary stuff, positive hits for SEMTEX on four different machines.
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Well, Semtex is a precursor for Colgate toothpaste. That makes it ok.
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they were carrying an array of suspicious items ranging from hydrogen peroxide, which can be used to make bombs, to wires and Vaseline bottles taped together. Perhaps most disturbing, what one TSA worker tells me were the first positive tests for SEMTEX ever reported by security at OIA.
The suspicious passengers were denied access to the flight, but ultimately...(are you ready for this?)...they were allowed to go on their way after questioning by airport officials and Orlando police!
Speechless...
Well, not exactly, but don't want to lose posting privileges.
Wonder if the FBIs told them to allow them to go so they could tail them etc
10 September 2007: Doug Hagmann, director of the Northeast Intelligence Network, will be a guest on The Chris Baker Show on KTRH News Radio 740 in Houston, Texas today at 7:00 p.m. ET, 6:00 p.m. Central time to discuss the incident aboard Delta Flight 1824
“The suspicious passengers were denied access to the flight, but ultimately...(are you ready for this?)...they were allowed to go on their way after questioning by airport officials and Orlando police!”
If it was an 80 year old WWII vet they’d have him in solitary, chained to a wall for questioning.
Test run....
http://pc540.blogspot.com/2007/09/untold-story-of-delta-flight-1824.html
More info on the incident at Orlando International Airport see below from a source on the inside.
There were 9 middle easterners, supposedly a family. 3 females and 6 males, they were “randomly”selected by the airline for additional screening by TSA. As a “SELECTEE” we automatically run an “EXPLOSIVE TRACE DETECTION” test on your bags after xray.
2 of the bags and some contents tested positive for SEMTEX (an explosive used by terrorists.) We tested the bags 4 times using different machines and got a positive each time. We then dump the bags...we found 3 jars of Vaseline duct taped together (as 1 cylinder) they tested positive. The Vaseline had been removed and put back in the jars, as we could see the voids on xray. We found strands of wire with the ends stripped, packets of the small eyeglass screw drivers, and 2 of the males had Vaseline smeared on their arms and neck areas. 3 of the males had false or fraudulent credentials, 1 male possessed 2 pass ports (same picture different names). After 2 hrs the FBI and OPD took them away from the checkpoint to the OPD station at OIA. From that point on I don’t know what happened with them...
We removed all bags from the plane and did complete bag searches at the International gate side. We (TSA) found the 8 large bottles of Hydrogen Peroxide, not the bomb dogs.
You are 100% on the right track here. OIA is playing this thing down (probably for the bottom line) drasticly.
Hope this helps and is legible as I’m in a bit of a time crunch here.
thanks for getting the word out...OH! NOTHING IN THE LINE OF REAL EXPLOSIVES WAS FOUND, JUST TRACES.
MORE...
I have more....At about 1;00 pm Thurs. the same scenario was repeated, a middle eastern female was detained at the same checkpoint at OIA. Her bag tested positive for SEMTEX. An OPD officer on duty at the time confirmed to me, she was directly connected to the family earlier.
Also, if this was a “BENIGN” incident, why is TSA requesting all available for overtime to work Sat.and Sun. “just to walk around the airport, to show a presence”...
I know I have your support with my anonymity
...beating head against desk....
They let them go.
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Oooooh...somebody is gonna get sued!!!
Just once, on one of these stores, I'd like to hear that the Swine were brought before a tribunal which ordered them hanged.
ML/NJ
Didn't it used to be MCO?
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Oh for chr__sakes! That’s all I can say that’s suitable for publication ping.
I told my wife not to fly tomorrow... and she flies into Orlando.
'Suspicious items' stall flight
Orlando - An Atlanta-bound Delta Air Lines flight at Orlando International Airport was delayed about three hours Thursday morning after security officials detained 12 people in two families who they said were carrying "suspicious items."
Some passengers who were already seated on the flight were instructed to get off the plane so officials could re-screen every person and package aboard the aircraft, the Transportation Security Administration said.
An agent at the FBI's Tampa office said the suspicious items turned out to be a bottle that had been covered with tape to prevent leaking. The flight ultimately took off about 10:20 a.m. without the two families, who were still undergoing FBI questioning. They were ultimately released.
"It was all benign," said Dave Couvertier, the FBI agent.