Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: there are many more like me (Buckle up, it's going to be a rough 3 years)

Times Online ^ | 12/28/2009 | Times Online

[rovenstinez]

I propose they do ID for plane boarding. All Muslims, who swear to Allah go through one line, and anyone willing to carry a cartoon with the prophet and a firecracker in his head dress, gets to go in another line...simple.

[Man50D]

Really? I thought he was the only terrorist in the world!

[NewHampshireDuo]

“For all muslim/middle-eastern appearing passengers, flight 246 is now ready for waterboarding.”

[bgill]

Thanks once again to a foreign source to state the obvious while the US msm is still pushing the “lone man too dumb to blow up firecrackers” scenario.

[tobyhill]

Obama must think they caught the last one.

[SmartInsight]

Thank God that the attack was foiled.

But I can’t help thinking, that if it had succeeded, we would never be told that it was a terror attack, they would blame it on pilot error or failure of some equipment on the plane.

[sneakers]

bttt

[SlowBoat407]

Make him comfortable, provide him with cable TV, give him plenty of food and rest until he spills his guts!

[tobyhill]

It was 80 grams of petn, enough to blow up a car.

[Erik Latranyi]

So what?! The system worked!

[BerryDingle]

I propose they do ID for plane boarding. All Muslims,

Good idea, but some American voters feel that it's overstepping to ask a Muslim for ID.

[newfreep]

TWA 800. Again.

[SlowBoat407]

If a certain “sharp-dressed man” hadn’t been able to talk this pig onto the plane, we could’ve said that the system worked. It broke down when someone broke the rules at boarding.

[Starboard]

“I thought he was the only terrorist in the world!”

Correction: the only conveyor of man made disasters. /sarc

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

For all Freepers who fly, either regularly or occasionally:

1. Be wary, trust no one; Richard Reed doesn’t look middle-eastern
2. It is illegal for the government and its agencies to “profile”. Individual citizens’ simple opinions of others around them are not litigable.
3. Simple assault is usually a fine but could also include a short stay in jail; worth it if you short-circuit a terror attempt.
4. The events of the AirTrans (ATL to IAH) flight were designed to terrorize; you don’t have to sit idly if you feel threatened.
5. Always assume the flight has no air marshall.

[skimbell]

"...a production line of terrorists that has been trained in Yemen by al-Qaeda...

OK, for my money, along about the end of the week, Yemen ought to be renamed Glassland.

[tobyhill]

The idiots that run the system failed when they didn't put him on the no-fly list.

[SlowBoat407]

The idiots that run the system failed when they didn't put him on the no-fly list.

What are you, one of those "listers"?

[Palladin]

You are exactly right. They would pass it off on some bogus defect in the aircraft, like they did with TWA 800.