Dammit, Faisalo, in Pakistan, we told you not to use cash to buy a plane ticket. Now, you have to blame Bush for causing you to lose your home.
Posted on 05/04/2010 3:51:06 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Senior administration officials say that Faisal Shahzad was put on the no fly list on Monday at 12:30 pm ET.
So how was he able to board the Emirates Airlines flight to Dubai?
“It takes a few hours for the airlines system to catch up,” a senior administration official tells ABC news.
Another senior administration official adds that Emirates refreshes their system to update with US intelligence information periodically – but not frequently.
In any case, the first official says that airlines were “within minutes” of Shahzad being put on the no-fly list told to “look at a web-board” and manually check its passenger manifest against the news on the web board.
“That appears to not have happened” the official says. “For whatever reason there was a breakdown at the Emirates level.”
Emirates Airlines provided its locked-in passenger manifest to the Customs and Border Protection agency. The plane at that point can leave. But a CBP official caught Shahzad’s name on the manifest and the plane never left the gate.
“That redundancy is built in,” the official says. “It’s not luck it’s design. It was good work by CBP.”
Former 9/11 Commission vice chair and Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton seems less impressed.
Hamilton reminds ABC News that “the 9/11 commission recommended that you had to have biometric evidence, documentarian evidence of people coming in and exiting” the country. “We’ve done a pretty good job on the first part of it people entering the country. But with regard to those exiting the country we simply have not been able to set up a system to deal with that and it showed in this case.”
Hamilton says “we need to have in this country a system of checking people leaving the country so that we can protect against the very sort of thing that happened here -- or at least almost happened here.”
But Bush was in with Dubai — Bush’s fault AND Dubai’s fault. 0 is Mr. Clean. Eric Holder mirandizes. Incompetano thinks the system’s working great. She’s busy holding a barbeque fundraiser at the oil slick.
And now--they don't call, they don't write...
http://conservativedatingsite.com/blog/2010/05/time-square-bomber-is-a-registered-democrat/
Why do I have a hard time believing that statement with this bunch?
The airlines USED TO BE in charge of security. They paid into a private fund that was administered by local airports and those airports contracted with private security. But, that all changed after 9/11 and the creation of the TSA.
If Barack Obama thinks Emirates Air has management responsibility for the TSA, he is WAY DUMBER than I originally feared.
Really.
I agree.
As a wise man I knew said — the fish stinks from the head down.
That is one of the skills most politicians have, but Obama is truly a 'leader' in that category.
Greta noted, “ just read that Faisal Shahzad was put on the “no fly” list after authorities identified him, but the addition of Shahzad to the list was TOO RECENT FOR SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGER AN ALERT when he got a ticket and boarded the plane.
So why were we able to pick him up? Emirates notified Homeland Security that a guy bought a ticket with cash. If it had not been for Emirates airline, he would have slipped out of the USA!”
Dammit, Faisalo, in Pakistan, we told you not to use cash to buy a plane ticket. Now, you have to blame Bush for causing you to lose your home.
I’m not getting this at all. I’ve flown to Europe at least 12 times since 9/11. I get screened , I get looked at , shoes off , ID , Passport. In Amsterdam 2 soldiers with machine guns stopped me because I had a lighter in my pocket and once they took my baggage off the plane just..well just because..I have been interrogated at the gate in Amsterdam and one other time made to open up an electronic device I had for my guitar in my baggage. I was FINE with all of this by the way ..BUT..NOW the question is how the f*uck do these characters get tickets for cash , walk in with no baggage , no ID ? 1 way tickets ...
What the hell ?
ALL middle east people must be on a restricted flight plan coming to the US . Screw them , screw politically correct , screw the good people from those countries, tough crap . I don’t want to get blown up and to me that’s the bottom line . F the ACLU F the dems and F Obama too.
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