Posted on 10/16/2013 4:16:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Testing, 1, 2, 3, testing. Jihadists never go on furlough. While shutdown theater preoccupies Washington, terror plotters remain on the clock. The question is: Will America keep hitting the post-9/11 snooze button?
At Los Angeles International Airport, two dry ice bombs exploded this week, and two others were found in a restricted area of the airport. According to the Los Angeles Times, the devices "appeared to be outside the terminal near planes where employees such as baggage handlers and others work on the aircraft and its cargo."
That reminds me: It's been more than a year since watchdogs warned Capitol Hill that our massive homeland security bureaucracy was neglecting these very areas of our nation's airports. Grandmas, babies and war heroes are routinely groped, manhandled and humiliated in the name of transportation safety. But untold numbers of ground personnel still have easy, breezy access to airplanes and luggage.
In August, seven baggage handlers at Kennedy Airport were arrested after being videotaped stealing jewelry, cash, watches and computers from passenger luggage. In June, a baggage handler at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport was arrested after using his credentials to bypass airport security and carry backpacks containing what he believed were drugs and guns onto commercial flights. It's almost as if any bumbling bimbo can connive his or her way into supposedly secure territory.
A Nigerian illegal alien named Bimbo Oyewole did just that. He used a dead man's birth certificate and Social Security number to get a job with a private security firm at Newark Airport. Con artist Bimbo went undetected for more than two decades while supervising security guards who policed tarmacs, planes and cargo. Last summer, in the wake of Bimbo's belated bust, the DHS inspector general called for stricter background checks on baggage handlers, maintenance workers and other civilian airport employees.
But by the feds' own admission, legions of workers who were grandfathered into the system may yet be traipsing around restricted areas of our nation's airports -- doing God knows what. TSA does not keep systematic records on airport security breaches reported to headquarters. "I'm going to tell you right now that the next incident is going to come from the ground," Rep. Chip Cravaack, R-Minn., testified last spring. "It's going to come from the shadow of the aircraft, not from the terminal. I'm telling you that."
Rest assured, however, that we are as vulnerable as ever to the old tried-and-true scheme of sending hijackers aboard planes to take them down. The U.S. Airline Pilots Association spelled it all out in a memo obtained by WTSP Tampa Bay reporter Mike Deeson last week.
"Bringing down an airliner continues to be the Gold Standard of terrorism," the document warned U.S. Airways pilots. "If anyone thinks that our enemies have 'been there, done that' and are not targeting commercial aviation -- think again. There have been several cases recently throughout the industry of what appear to be probes, or dry runs, to test our procedures and reaction to an inflight threat."
The assessment bluntly described "a group of Middle-Eastern males" who boarded a flight at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., for Orlando, Fla., on September 2. Onboard, the men made "a scene": running toward the flight deck door, loudly opening and shutting overhead bins, and making what appeared to be a coordinated attempt to distract flight attendants. Federal air marshals were concerned enough about the behavior to "make their presence known." The memo notes that a security search found "evidence of tampering" on the plane.
It's just the latest suspected dry run since the 9/11 attacks:
--In May 2011, Yemeni national Rageh Ahmed Mohammed al-Murisi rushed the cockpit door aboard American Airlines Flight 1561 shrieking, "Allahu akbar!" at the top of his lungs more than 30 times intending to take down the plane and kill everyone on board.
--In July 2011, Saudi Arabian national Saleh Ali S. Alramakh caused United Airlines Flight 944 from Chicago to Germany to divert to Cleveland after violating airline security rules during a bizarre meltdown. He locked himself in the bathroom when passengers were supposed to be seated, scuffled with flight attendants and had to be restrained by the flight crew and other passengers.
--In 2010, Pakistani national Muhammad Abu Tahir was sentenced to prison after disrupting AirTran Airways' Atlanta to San Francisco Flight 39. After defying flight attendants and locking himself in the bathroom, the plane was diverted to Denver. His immigration status and occupation were unknown, though he had lived in the U.S. since at least 2002.
--In December 2009, of course, failed underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with skivvies loaded with plastic explosives.
--In 2006, U.S. and British officials acknowledged al-Qaida dry-run plans involving operatives smuggling liquid explosives onto planes through their carry-on luggage.
--In 2004, 13 Middle Eastern men aroused the suspicion of federal air marshals, flight crew and passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 327 with disruptive red-flag behavior at takeoff and landing.
--And in August 2001, one month before 9/11, actor James Woods witnessed four suspicious Middle Eastern males aboard an American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Woods shared his fears with the pilot and filed a report with the FAA. His warning was ignored. Years later, the feds confirmed it was indeed a dry run and that 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta was on Woods' flight.
Feckless feds keep admonishing the rest of us to "say something" if we "see something." But what good will it do if they're asleep at the wheel, blind to corruption and deaf to jihad?
My mother and sister were NASA contractors during a stint in 2003-04 and the many flights they used to have to take to D.C., Huntville, Alabama and some of the iother centers around the country in support of Station development, were exciting...
One in particular was a group of middle easterners (yes, they profiled them) were up and about the cabin at various times “muttering” prayer type utterances, and a few “Alluha Ackbars” as they walked around the cabin...
It was reported by many of the passengers on those flights, and when any followups were done, very few BTW, and any question they had at the time, were dressed down as national security issues, and were not told anything more...
The setup is in, and the failure of the folks we put in charge of protecting our skies, are in nothing more than a mop up mode when any future attacks occur...What else can, or would they do???
Good thing they (Mom and Sister) do not have to do that type of support anymore...
Bingo!!!
Just think how much more peaceful this world would be without either Socialism or (i)slam, as both are the curse of the universe bestowed upon the human race.
like drugs.......
Meanwhile, NSA was busy listening to wiretaps on their girlfriends.
I just read on Fox News that they arrested a disgruntled UNION employee for the deed. He was a baggage loading supervisor and his union was in a dispute with the employer.
Union goons doing what the sheep of unions do......for the good of all good socialists.
Something going on in Miami this morning, flights will be delayed. Suspicions device found!
Thanks, Fox and Friends reported it a few minutes ago, but I didn’t catch where it was.
Just look around Newark Airport, for example. You’ll see plenty of muslims employed in various capacities, both in the public areas and behind the scenes as mechanics, baggage handlers, cleaners, etc. Doesn’t exactly give me the warm fuzzies whenever I fly.
I’m holding in my hand a copy of a translated al Qaeda doc recovered in Afghanistan.
Document #; AFGP-2002-600321 Full Translation Date: June 5, 2002.
Document Summary: A (2) page typed letter from Osama Bin Laden to Mullah Mohammad ‘Omar discussing the situation in Afghanistan, continuation of Jihad in the Islamic Republics, and the situation in the ‘Arabian Peninsula.
On the second page of the doc second paragraph OBL say’s and I quote
“I’s obvious that the media war in this country is one of the strongest methods; in fact, it’s ratio may reach 90% of the total preparations for the battles.”
If you have a small scale attack you can carry out the attack based on what is in the news, for large scale attacks you can’t.
For large scale attack you have to orchestrate the news for the attack, then follow up with the spin of the news after the attack.
The terrorist do not have the ability to orchestrate the news before the attack so the spin of the news after the attack by people in this country will mesh with the orchestrated news before the attack.
The only people that can orchestrate the news before the attack then follow up with the correct spin after the attack is the left in this county.
Obama and Hillary tried to convince people with the Benghazi “spontaneous” lie that the news isn’t being orchestrated for the attacks, the terrorist are so in tune with the news they are simply picking up on news stories and “spontaneously” planning their attack around the news story.
The Obama adm is ginning up civil unrest with 3 separate groups, Whites, blacks, and Hispanic/illegals.
So which of these 3 groups is it going to be selected to make it appear as if the terrorist have picked up on their civil unrest and planned a terrorist attack around it?
Right now there is a full scale orchestrated news attack by the left against the TEA Party as being akin to the “Confederacy” during the Civil war.
BTW this is exactly same orchestrated news from the left prior to the attempted car bombing in NYC that they tried to spin the news after the attack and blame the attack on the TEA Party.
Tea party translates to Kristallnacht...
They are getting ready to push for amnesty for illegals now so start watching the news, they will get the illegals to marching in the streets.
The last time the left got the illegals to marching in the streets was 2006, the same year OBL had his airline plot planned for right before the 2006 election, and also that was when the polonium showed up in London.
Polonium, because of it’s short half life, is perfect for dirty bombs.
NASTY stuff!
Polonium in the environment
Polonium is a very rare element in nature. it is found in uranium ores, but none extract it form these ores. Polonium is produced in about 100 g/year by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
Health effects of polonium
Polonium is studied in a few nuclear research laboratories where its high radioactivity as an alpha-emitter requires special handling techniques and precautions.
Polonium -210 is the only component of cigarette smoke that has produced cancer by itself in laboratory animals by inhalation - tumors appeared already at a polonium level five times lower than those of a normal heavy smoker.
Lung cancer rates among men kept climbing from a rarity in 1930 (4/100,000 per year) to the No. 1 cancer killer in 1980 (72/100,000) in spite of an almost 20 percent reduction in smoking. But during the same period, the level of polonium -210 in American tobacco had tripled. This coincided with the increase in the use of phosphate fertilizers by tobacco growers - calcium phosphate ore accumulates uranium and slowly releases radon gas.
As radon decays, its electrically charged daughter products attach themselves to dust particles, which adhere to the sticky hairs on the underside of tobacco leaves. This leaves a deposit of radioactive polonium and lead on the leaves. Then, the intense localized heat in the burning tip of a cigarette volatilizes the radioactive metals. While cigarette filters can trap chemical carcinogens, they are ineffective against radioactive vapors.
The lungs of a chronic smoker end up with a radioactive lining in a concentration much higher than from residential radon. These particles emit radiation. Smoking two packs of cigarettes a day imparts a radiation dose by alpha particles of about 1,300 millirem per year. For comparison, the annual radiation dose to the average American from inhaled radon is 200 mrem. However, the radiation dose at the radon “action level” of 4 pCi/L is roughly equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes a day.
In addition, polunium-210 is soluble and is circulated through the body to every tissue and cell in levels much higher than from residential radon. The proof is that it can be found in the blood and urine of smokers. The circulating polonium -210 causes genetic damage and early death from diseases reminiscent of early radiological pioneers: liver and bladder cancer, stomach ulcer, leukemia, cirrhosis of liver, and cardiovascular diseases.
The Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that radioactivity, rather than tar, accounts for at least 90% of all smoking-related lung cancers. The Center for Disease Control concluded “Americans are exposed to far more radiation from tobacco smoke than from any other source.”
Cigarette smoking accounts for 30% of all cancer deaths. Only poor diet rivals tobacco smoke as a cause of cancer in the U.S., causing a comparable number of fatalities each year. However, the National Cancer Institute, with an annual budget of $500 million, has no active funding for research of radiation from smoking or residential radon as a cause of lung cancer, presumably, to protect the public from undue fears of radiation.
Read more: http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/po.htm#ixzz2hvnTxYLI
Homeland and FBI talk about the attacks they've "prevented" but I don't believe them. Preying on emotionally unstable people who fantasize about being terrorists IS NOT the same as catching real terrorists. While those games are being played, real terrorists are bombing marathons in Boston and getting ready to do ‘God knows what’ to our country. Police-work by a silly quota system is meaningless crap.
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