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DHS questioned over decision to let Saudi passengers skip normal passport controls
FOX NEWS ^ | 03/20/13 | FOX

Posted on 03/20/2013 8:08:06 AM PDT by Doogle

A Department of Homeland Security program intended to give "trusted traveler" status to low-risk airline passengers soon will be extended to Saudi travelers, opening the program to criticism for accommodating the country that produced 15 of the 19 hijackers behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Sources voiced concern about the decision to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which issued a report Wednesday on the under-the-radar announcement -- which was first made by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano after meeting in January with her Saudi counterpart. According to the IPT, this would be the first time the Saudi government has been given such a direct role in fast-tracking people for entry into the United States.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: dhs; discrimination; homelandinsecurity; islamicsupremacist; nappy; obamaforeignpolicy; passportcontrols; proislamist; saudipassengers; sauditravelers; trustedtravelers; unclejanet
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DHS questioned over decision to let Saudi passengers skip normal passport controls

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Then comments # 2 , # 7 , # 11.

Cross-posted on TM.

41 posted on 03/20/2013 12:07:21 PM PDT by LucyT (In the 20th century 260 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: Doogle; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

42 posted on 03/20/2013 12:13:32 PM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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To: LucyT

huh cross posted what who..????


43 posted on 03/20/2013 12:39:20 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

Why is there a DHS/TSA?

They aren’t stopping anything.


44 posted on 03/20/2013 12:45:48 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: zeugma

People may not know this but every flight coming into the US has to have at least one “friendly” in the cockpit if it is from one of our so called friendly arabic countries.

To answer your questions. They serve beer in cans and they will give you the can and a plastic cup if you are in the cattle class. If you are up front you get real silverware.


45 posted on 03/20/2013 12:48:24 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: hattend

make it hurt


46 posted on 03/20/2013 12:50:19 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: USAF80

OK, so if you’re in first class, can you buy a bottle of champaign? The point is, that it would seem to be kind of useless to ban knives when you have glass on board. I know they won’t let you bring a container of anything containing liquid in your carry on, but could you pack an empty beer bottle in it? Again, everything they do is empty rhetoric designed to create sheep out of citizens.


47 posted on 03/20/2013 12:58:17 PM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Obama is a muslim,...

Obama is no muslim.

To be a muslim, one must worship "Allah".

Obama worships nobody but himself.

He is, however, undeniably a muslim sympathizer.

48 posted on 03/20/2013 1:01:06 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Hoffer Rand

The lobby is the Saudi govt. They just threaten that they would raise gas prices and the US rolls over.


49 posted on 03/20/2013 1:01:23 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: zeugma

You can bring liquids on board. You can bring liquids thru security as long as it’s a certain amount. They will make you pour out water or drink it before security but stuff for a baby can be allowed.

You can bring bottles of booze on board as long as it’s purchased inside the safe zone. You can’t drink it on board even though it happens. It all depends on if they have power hungry goons working security.

I’ve seen them search old Japanese ladies on a Japan bound flight and I have breezed right thru without a second look and I look like a terrorist.


50 posted on 03/20/2013 1:06:59 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: Doogle

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Here ya go.

Cross-posted to Threat Matrix 2013, #1:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2980615/posts?page=170#170

Threat Matrix first began almost Ten years ago on Monday, November 03, 2003.

Just checked your FR page. Impressive Military medals! Thank you for your service to our Country.


51 posted on 03/20/2013 1:21:30 PM PDT by LucyT (In the 20th century 260 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: IbJensen

. .. and fat drinkers. But the government’s working on it.


52 posted on 03/20/2013 1:31:52 PM PDT by mykroar (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.-Thomas Paine)
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To: USAF80
You can bring bottles of booze on board as long as it’s purchased inside the safe zone. You can’t drink it on board even though it happens. It all depends on if they have power hungry goons working security.

Well, next time I'm flying, (if that ever happens - I'd rather ride my Harley), I'll but something in a big glass bottle inside the terminal, so I'll at least have something to defend myself and the rest of the passengers with.

53 posted on 03/20/2013 1:33:44 PM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: null and void

IMHO they’re overplaying their cards and will be subject to reaction, more and more.


54 posted on 03/20/2013 1:37:51 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: MHGinTN

Homeland Funnel.

Funneling in illegal muzzies, mexicans, terrorists, dope dealers and fag “partners”.


55 posted on 03/20/2013 1:40:15 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: DuncanWaring
I appreciate what you say, but he was a devout child, raised as a muslim and studied the Koran in Arabic (memorization and study) in mengaji classes in Indonesia.

Even Jeremiah Wright took pains to assure him that joining his church would not offend his muslim "past."

56 posted on 03/20/2013 1:56:06 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Man, that’s the ugliest collection of mugs I’ve ever seen.

No wonder there are so many arranged marriages.


57 posted on 03/20/2013 2:01:42 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: LucyT

Thnks...fairly common


58 posted on 03/20/2013 2:05:09 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: a fool in paradise

And the republicants have approved of another islamist, John Brennan, to head the CIA! ... Even the name is an oxymoron.


59 posted on 03/20/2013 3:11:58 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Doogle


60 posted on 03/20/2013 3:12:25 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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