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Two Men Removed from DFW-Bound Flight
WFAA - Dallas/Fort Worth ABC Affiliate ^ | 09/23/01 | Reporter: The Associated Press | Online Producer: Walt Zwirko

Posted on 09/23/2001 10:04:22 PM PDT by Newton

Two men were taken off American Airlines Flight 886 at Bergstrom International Airport Sunday night after their names were found on an FBI list of those wanted for questioning in connection with recent terrorist activities, officials said.

The plane was due to leave at 6:48 p.m. from Austin and to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. It then was scheduled to continue to Raleigh-Durham, N.C. The departure from Austin was delayed until at least 10 p.m.

Jackie Mayo, spokeswoman for the airport, confirmed that the passengers were removed because they were wanted for FBI questioning but said further comment would have to come from American Airlines officials.

John Hotard, a spokesman for the carrier, said the passengers were detained while boarding the aircraft. He referred all other questions to the FBI.

No one could be reached by telephone at Austin's FBI office. Lori Bailey, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Dallas, did not immediately return a telephone message left by The Associated Press.



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did a search and didn't see this posted.... very interesting....Austin is only an hour from S.A....what's going on down there???? (I live in Dallas)
1 posted on 09/23/2001 10:04:22 PM PDT by Newton
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To: Newton
My son flew to Dallas from Austin-Bergstrom last Sunday on American. This is disturbing.
2 posted on 09/23/2001 10:07:57 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: Newton
Very interesting. Sure is great seeing these reports of them finding these people - so much better than hearing of another attack because we were not alert.

These terrorists will quickly learn that they do not get to fly in America anymore. They are also going to be giving up their luxurious life in the U.S.A. We are coming to get them. Let's see how they like being plotted against and stalked too.

3 posted on 09/23/2001 10:18:32 PM PDT by ClancyJ
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To: Newton
I used to watch those big C-5A planes fly in and out of Bergstrom. Wasn't that an Air Force base? It's near Austin, the Capitol of Texas. "Don't mess with Texas."
4 posted on 09/23/2001 10:21:31 PM PDT by blam
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To: Newton
I bet there are cells at the colleges and universities all over the U.S. So many foreigners come over to get an education - maybe that is just a cover. They then have jobs with the universities, access to computers. I would suggest these colleges look over their enrolled students.
5 posted on 09/23/2001 10:22:36 PM PDT by ClancyJ
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To: ClancyJ
If I'm not mistaken, there was a report a few days ago that one of the plans being considered by the Bush Administration is for something like a register to keep track of all foreign students! Good idea, and long overdue,IMHO.
6 posted on 09/23/2001 10:29:33 PM PDT by Lady In Blue
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To: Newton
a thought, no more than that, but worth pondering.

raleigh-durham is the airport of size that's closest to chapel hill. if you were one of these bozos and you wanted to go to ground in a big way, wouldn't you head for an impeccably politically correct place chock full of sympathizers -- ann arbor, berkeley, chapel hill?

dep

7 posted on 09/23/2001 10:33:37 PM PDT by dep
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To: blam
Austin had a very small airport when Bergstrom AFB was being closed. So it made sense to turn the AFB over to the City of Austin as a new Airport.

The old airport was in a part of Austin where runways could not be expanded.

8 posted on 09/23/2001 10:36:44 PM PDT by topher
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To: dep
That's the first time I've heard of Ann Arbor being sympathetic with terrorism. People there have been pretty critical of the extremist Taliban "government" for quite some time. (The Taliban are conservative, not liberal!)
9 posted on 09/23/2001 10:43:29 PM PDT by ehat
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To: ehat
(The Taliban are conservative, not liberal!)

This is approximately as accurate as the leftist fiction that the hard-core members of the Soviet Politboro were "conservatives" as opposed to the "liberal" Gorbachev.

Everybody remember how the media was careful to call Iraq's elite troops the "Republican Guard" instead of their more usual title of "Red Guard"?

10 posted on 09/23/2001 11:02:01 PM PDT by Interesting Times
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To: ClancyJ
Here here!!! My deepest belief and one of the sources of my great resentment and anger is these left-wing wacko professors from other countries as well as here. They are not tracked, nor are their "students." Nice racket they've had going.

There was a case at the University of South Florida a few years ago .. public controversy and a lot of press attention ... and the President of the University then (THANK YOU, BETTY CASTOR) backed up the professor. It was clear that the government had the incriminating evidence against the Arab professor in question, and that he was connected to Bin Laden's terror network, brainwashing these minds-full-of-mush "foreign exchange students."

He was tried.. and worthy of a life sentence until .... (drum roll please) he was allowed to be sent back to to the Mid-East ..(THANK YOU .. JANET RENO ... MAY YOU ROT IN HELL WITH YOUR PAL, BETTY CASTOR!!!!). God knows what he had to do with the terrorist devils in Florida taking flying lessons or what evil he achieved in training these satans.

I AM SO ANGRY!!! .....at the horror, fear, and danger Clinton and Company's treason have and will continue to bring on all of us, our children and grandchildren for decades to come.

I LOVE GW Bush .. but I'll tell ya, if he and Ashcroft don't bring justice to all the evildoers .. including Clinton, Reno, Sandy Berger, George Tenet, Louis Freeh .. and hold them directly accountable and forget the "tone" thing, I will not believe them to be truly honorable men who have this country's best interests and justice at their core.

True justice (and God's word) demands that the criminals be held to account for their treason and to be punished by this nation of laws.

11 posted on 09/23/2001 11:04:35 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: ClancyJ
Here here!!! My deepest belief and one of the sources of my great resentment and anger is these left-wing wacko professors from other countries as well as here. They are not tracked, nor are their "students." Nice racket they've had going.

There was a case at the University of South Florida a few years ago .. public controversy and a lot of press attention ... and the President of the University then (THANK YOU, BETTY CASTOR) backed up the professor. It was clear that the government had the incriminating evidence against the Arab professor in question, and that he was connected to Bin Laden's terror network, brainwashing these minds-full-of-mush "foreign exchange students."

He was tried.. and worthy of a life sentence until .... (drum roll please) he was allowed to be sent back to to the Mid-East ..(THANK YOU .. JANET RENO ... MAY YOU ROT IN HELL WITH YOUR PAL, BETTY CASTOR!!!!). God knows what he had to do with the terrorist devils in Florida taking flying lessons or what evil he achieved in training these satans.

I AM SO ANGRY!!! .....at the horror, fear, and danger Clinton and Company's treason have and will continue to bring on all of us, our children and grandchildren for decades to come.

I LOVE GW Bush .. but I'll tell ya, if he and Ashcroft don't bring justice to all the evildoers .. including Clinton, Reno, Sandy Berger, George Tenet, Louis Freeh .. and hold them directly accountable and forget the "tone" thing, I will not believe them to be truly honorable men who have this country's best interests and justice at their core.

True justice (and God's word) demands that the criminals be held to account for their treason and to be punished by this nation of laws.

12 posted on 09/23/2001 11:04:43 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: ClancyJ
Here here!!! My deepest belief and one of the sources of my great resentment and anger is these left-wing wacko professors from other countries as well as here. They are not tracked, nor are their "students." Nice racket they've had going.

There was a case at the University of South Florida a few years ago .. public controversy and a lot of press attention ... and the President of the University then (THANK YOU, BETTY CASTOR) backed up the professor. It was clear that the government had the incriminating evidence against the Arab professor in question, and that he was connected to Bin Laden's terror network, brainwashing these minds-full-of-mush "foreign exchange students."

He was tried.. and worthy of a life sentence until .... (drum roll please) he was allowed to be sent back to to the Mid-East ..(THANK YOU .. JANET RENO ... MAY YOU ROT IN HELL WITH YOUR PAL, BETTY CASTOR!!!!). God knows what he had to do with the terrorist devils in Florida taking flying lessons or what evil he achieved in training these satans.

I AM SO ANGRY!!! .....at the horror, fear, and danger Clinton and Company's treason have and will continue to bring on all of us, our children and grandchildren for decades to come.

I LOVE GW Bush .. but I'll tell ya, if he and Ashcroft don't bring justice to all the evildoers .. including Clinton, Reno, Sandy Berger, George Tenet, Louis Freeh .. and hold them directly accountable and forget the "tone" thing, I will not believe them to be truly honorable men who have this country's best interests and justice at their core.

True justice (and God's word) demands that the criminals be held to account for their treason and to be punished by this nation of laws.

13 posted on 09/23/2001 11:04:50 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: Newton,golitely,Judge Parker,roughrider,BlueDogDemo,Uncle Bill, Wallaby,honway,rwz,Fred Mertz
Note that the ultimate destination of the two detained men was North Carolina, the same place where the Washington Post reported today that the FBI knew in 1996 that pilot terrorist Murad had trained at a flight school. Were they fleeing to a safe haven cell in NC to protect them or launch more attacks?

FBI Knew Terrorists Were Using Flight Schools

Source: Washington Post

Published: September 23, 2001

Author: Steve Fainaru

This is from the article:

• In 1996, two flight school operators said last week, FBI agents visited them to obtain information about several Arab pilots connected to a Pakistani terrorist eventually convicted of plotting to bomb U.S. airliners.

The flight schools, Coastal Aviation of New Bern, N.C., and Richmor Aviation of Schenectady, N.Y., were two of four that provided flight training to Abdul Hakim Murad in the early 1990s, according to Philippine authorities. Murad was arrested in Manila in 1995 and later convicted in New York of plotting to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific, then crash a suicide plane into CIA headquarters.

14 posted on 09/23/2001 11:05:29 PM PDT by OKCSubmariner
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To: ClancyJ
Here here!!! My deepest belief and one of the sources of my great resentment and anger is these left-wing wacko professors from other countries as well as here. They are not tracked, nor are their "students." Nice racket they've had going.

There was a case at the University of South Florida a few years ago .. public controversy and a lot of press attention ... and the President of the University then (THANK YOU, BETTY CASTOR) backed up the professor. It was clear that the government had the incriminating evidence against the Arab professor in question, and that he was connected to Bin Laden's terror network, brainwashing these minds-full-of-mush "foreign exchange students."

He was tried.. and worthy of a life sentence until .... (drum roll please) he was allowed to be sent back to to the Mid-East ..(THANK YOU .. JANET RENO ... MAY YOU ROT IN HELL WITH YOUR PAL, BETTY CASTOR!!!!). God knows what he had to do with the terrorist devils in Florida taking flying lessons or what evil he achieved in training these satans.

I AM SO ANGRY!!! .....at the horror, fear, and danger Clinton and Company's treason have and will continue to bring on all of us, our children and grandchildren for decades to come.

I LOVE GW Bush .. but I'll tell ya, if he and Ashcroft don't bring justice to all the evildoers .. including Clinton, Reno, Sandy Berger, George Tenet, Louis Freeh .. and hold them directly accountable and forget the "tone" thing, I will not believe them to be truly honorable men who have this country's best interests and justice at their core.

True justice (and God's word) demands that the criminals be held to account for their treason and to be punished by this nation of laws.

15 posted on 09/23/2001 11:05:32 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: ValerieUSA,dep,Nita Nupress,ClancyJ
Please see reply #14.
16 posted on 09/23/2001 11:07:40 PM PDT by OKCSubmariner
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To: Newton
Good, detain them for life.
17 posted on 09/23/2001 11:19:14 PM PDT by Pete53
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To: ClancyJ
Here here!!! My deepest belief and one of the sources of my great resentment and anger is these left-wing wacko professors from other countries as well as here. They are not tracked, nor are their "students." Nice racket they've had going.

There was a case at the University of South Florida a few years ago .. public controversy and a lot of press attention ... and the President of the University then (THANK YOU, BETTY CASTOR) backed up the professor. It was clear that the government had the incriminating evidence against the Arab professor in question, and that he was connected to Bin Laden's terror network, brainwashing these minds-full-of-mush "foreign exchange students."

He was tried.. and worthy of a life sentence until .... (drum roll please) he was allowed to be sent back to to the Mid-East ..(THANK YOU .. JANET RENO ... MAY YOU ROT IN HELL WITH YOUR PAL, BETTY CASTOR!!!!). God knows what he had to do with the terrorist devils in Florida taking flying lessons or what evil he achieved in training these satans.

I AM SO ANGRY!!! .....at the horror, fear, and danger Clinton and Company's treason have and will continue to bring on all of us, our children and grandchildren for decades to come.

I LOVE GW Bush and pray for him everyday .. but I'll tell ya, if he and Ashcroft don't bring justice to all the evildoers .. including Clinton, Reno, Sandy Berger, George Tenet, Louis Freeh .. and hold them directly accountable and forget the "tone" thing, I will not believe them to be truly honorable men who have this country's best interests and justice at their core. They have a duty to right the wrongs that have forever injured our security and safety.

True justice (and God's word) demands that the criminals be held to account for their treason and to be punished by the leaders in a nation of laws.

18 posted on 09/23/2001 11:20:17 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: ClancyJ
SO SO SORRY for the multiple posts. With the DNS problems, I couldn't get a clear message that I posted and so did the stoooopid thing ...... I posted 5 of 'em. LOL Forgive me! ;-)
19 posted on 09/23/2001 11:25:24 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: Newton
Last Monday I flew home, with a connection at DFW. We were locked on the aircraft for 30 minutes while the FBI screened the passengers.

First, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS and...

Second, should I be upset that they were profiling me?
NAAAHH! I didn't think so!

20 posted on 09/23/2001 11:26:51 PM PDT by dixiechick2000
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