Posted on 01/05/2002 2:13:06 PM PST by MindBender26
Part of article from St. Pete Times after Sept 11.
"Robert C. Cooper, president of National Aviation Flight School and Aviation Rentals, stressed that the extra security cannot be done at the expense of those of Middle Eastern descent.
"I don't want to get involved in profiling," he said. "I have faith in my government. I have to work on the belief that my government has basis to allow them into the country and show them proper respect." end of article.
Cooper is head of National Aviation Holdings that owned A/C. Many Florida flight schools train Arab students. Wonder if comment was made so as not to p. off students. Wonder if Arab pilot flew A/C into building. THIS IS FR EXCLUSIVE!!!
I haven't tried it, but have seen others on Fark do it.
Not sure why it was important to the story for you anyhow... anyone with opposable thumbs can raise the gear.
One theory floating through my mind is that the kid's been taking lessons for two years. This means he started when he was 13.
Since the proprietor of the flight schools had Arabs training at his camps, could it be that an impressional boy like he was targeted for recruitment by some terrorists who lived locally and appeared to act and dress like "regular guys"?
How interesting this will be when the pieces start falling into place.
Leni
No doubt about that. LOL. It's a figure of speech, and it's the more politically incorrect way of saying it, which fits into the FR motif, don't you think? Anyway, I could have just said " ranting and raving like a damned ass". Fill in your own favorite epithet ;-)
Small Plane Crashes Into Building in Tampa After Making Unauthorized Takeoff
By Vickie Chachere Associated Press Writer
Published: Jan 5, 2002TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A 15-year-old student pilot took off in a small plane without permission Saturday and crashed into a skyscraper after ignoring a Coast Guard helicopter's signals to land, authorities said.
The crash occurred after Charles J. Bishop's grandmother brought him to the National Aviation flight school for a 5 p.m. flying lesson, said Marianne Pasha, a spokeswoman for Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
"The next thing the instructor knew he was gone," Pasha said.
Though terrorism was quickly discounted, the televised image of a plane blasting a hole in the side of a skyscraper was a chilling reminder of the World Trade Center attacks. The plane's tail dangled near the 20th floor of the 40-story Bank of America building.
One person was killed, but officials would not immediately confirm it was Bishop. It was unknown whether anyone in the building was injured.
Bishop, of nearby of Palm Harbor, had been taking lessons for two years, Pasha said.
Air traffic controllers at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater Airport notified the Coast Guard that the four-seat 2000 Cessna 172R had taken off without clearance, said Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Charlotte Pittman.
A Coast Guard helicopter intercepted the plane and attempted to give the pilot visual signals to land at a small airport, but he did not respond, Pittman said.
She said the plane was only a few yards from the helicopter when it was signaled to land. Pittman said she has no doubt the pilot understood what the Coast Guard helicopter was indicating.
Capt. Kirstin Reimann at the the North American Aerospace Defense Command said two F-15s were scrambled from Homestead Air Reserve Base as a precaution, but declined to say whether they reached the scene before the crash.
In Portland, Ore., where President Bush was touring a job center, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said "there is no indication" of terrorism.
He said Bush was briefed on the incident and that White House officials had been in touch with Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the Office of Homeland Security, said there was also no indication that small plane crashes Saturday in California, Colorado and Puerto Rico were terror-related.
Eric Reyes, 25, said he was stopped at a traffic light when the Tampa plane crashed.
"I saw a big cloud of smoke," Reyes said. He said he saw one wing fall and hit the ground, followed moments later by the other wing.
The plane was owned by Clearwater-based National Aviation Holding Inc.
Hijacked passenger planes were used to collapse the World Trade Center towers and attack the Pentagon in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A fourth hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania.
Some of the pilots in the hijackings had been trained at Florida flight schools.
Bank of America, based in Charlotte, N.C., is the third-largest U.S. bank. It employs about 143,000 people and serves about 30 million households in 20 states.
Bank officials did not immediately return calls for comment Saturday.
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Associated Press Writers Jonathan D. Salant and John Solomon contributed to this story.
AP-ES-01-05-02 2032EST
A very fundamentalist muslim ideology!
And very much at war with the other muslims!
The Wahabi and Muslim:
The Wahabi [bida'] (corruption)
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They maintain that any Muslim who professes such beliefs is an idolater whose idolatry is a worse kind than that of Pre-Islamic people who worshipped idols and planets. In his book Kashful al-Shubuhat, Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab called all Muslims, with the exception of his followers, idolaters about 24 times. Other labels he used to describe them were: heretics, idols' worshippers apostates, anti-divine unity, enemies of divine unity, Allah's enemies and perfidious Muslims in 20 different parts of the same book. His followers copied him in this practice. It is essential to ask here if this doctrine was truly based on a consensus of learned scholars or is it a Wahabi bida' or corruption? Ibn Hazim, the well- known Sunni scholar, asserted that «a Muslim can not be called a heretic or a sinner on the bases of his opinions whether made in the form of a doctrine or a religious decree. After mentioning numerous religious scholars who endorsed this viewpoint he concluded that it was the consensus of all Companions who commented on it.»13 According to Ibn Taimia only the Khawarij judged other Muslims to be heretics on the bases of their sins and learned opinions or deductions.14 As such, the Wahabis have no precedent supporting this bida' except the infamous Khawarij. |
probably only the truly pious or the maniacial imho
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