Posted on 01/08/2010 10:24:26 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Unruly man grounds AirTran flight
By Mashaun D. Simon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
9:16 p.m. Friday, January 8, 2010
The unruly and allegedly drunk passenger who forced an emergency landing of an AirTran jet flying from Atlanta to San Francisco Friday is being held over the weekend in anticipation of federal charges being filed Monday.
Muhammad Abu Tahir, 46, of Virginia was transported to the El Paso, Co. County jail where he will be detained on a federal hold, said FBI officials.
Federal charges for interference with a flight crew are expected to be filed, FBI spokeswoman Kathleen Wright told the AJC Friday night.
The incident occurred on AirTran flight #39 as the plane neared Colorado Springs, Co. AirTran spokesman Tad Hutcheson told the AJC Friday afternoon. The Boeing 737 was almost four hours into the flight, and had 132 passengers and five crew on board.
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AL Qaeda is winning the march against freedom. America and her knee-jerk reactions are plain stupid. Profile and be done with it already.
Good post.
It's OK to profile for Diversity programs.
It's OK to profile with the Census.
You can't profile for National Security.
Allahu {hic!} {stumble} Akbar!
Yes it was. To bad dumbasses are in charge and fail to use the good sense God gave them. If you don’t believe in God and Satan, Satan will capture you, thats his mission. It ends in misery and death.
This Country can be secure in an instant. The things going on lead me to believe they do not want it secure. I feel that socialism is using fear to eradicate personal freedom.
Hmmm Wonder is out leaders all left Washington over the holidays because they knew an attack was in the works and they thought the target was DC????????
There was a tweet that said that he emerged from the bathroom without his socks and shoes - and holding a razor.
If he’d already thrown his socks and shoes at the flight attendant, that would explain that part of it. But where’d he get the razor?
What really concerns me is that the other passengers may have not noticed anything odd or different about this guy, that these Muslims are getting taught how to “blend in”.
The pressure must be on, they get scrutinized more intensely, they have fellow passengers openly eyeballing them, air crews possibly reassigning an air marshal next them plus the Islamic indignity of being body scanned.
Its obvious what they thought was a weakness in their favor of American PC they now find open hostility, segregation and constant surveillance. And this is a tactic they cannot deal with and is creating these situations of sudden Jihad syndrome to occur, and its going to keep on happening, Muslims may be organizing a mass air transport, buy tickets anywhere, create as many skirmishes as they can, make hundreds of flights cancel, turn around or tie up other assets like ANG.
Pretty much all that can be done is at this stage is for the no fly lists to be expanded to include more restrictions of Muslims in the profile age.
That's what I think too. They won't be able to kill any infidels, but the penalties for this type of behavior are not very severe and they can still do a lot of damage to the Great Satan by bogging down our transportation system (and our lives!).
bttt
Unless they’re planning to get so bad so as to force a shoot down and that’s how they plan to kill hundreds of people in the plane. Sort of suicide by cop, in the air.
I doubt we will see any shoot down except possibly near a nuke plant or Washington DC.
As it stands right now its near impossible to take control of a commercial aircraft and its a taboo subject in some respects but ground controllers can remotely control aircraft with auto pilots to keep them in a holding pattern.
Diversionary? from what? At sea attacks on cruise ships?
I fear the single most advantageous tool that Muslim terrorists have right now is big rigs, 18 wheelers that can be used in many ways to create traffic accidents, tunnel explosions, under water tunnel fires etc.
Given in due time with these air incidents bus and train travel will expand, possibly passenger ships for Atlantic crossing may re-appear though in our get it now society I doubt it.
Getting cattle to move to the slaughterhouse pens require a good and abundant application of cattle prods, where are the Muslims herding us to?
They won’t get that far today. The passengers all know there is only one result if the plane is comandered and someone will stand up to do a Todd Beamer and crew on them.
I’ve got a trip coming up next month to go train in some advanced mixed martial arts. If there’s a guy like this on my plane, training will begin earlier than scheduled...
Guys and gal, I had a thought on this. Even if this idiot was not a terrorist, he terrified the people on the plane, tied up military assets and created a media stir, just by doing the comparatively things that he did.
His profit/loss balance worked out for him. He won’t do any jail time, he will probably get lauded by the folks at his mosque and he got away with giving the US a big scare. His losses? He is interrogated for a while, perhaps surveilled a bit, and put on a watch list, maybe a no-fly.
Even if the punishment was harsher, CAIR would be the first jumping up and down about religious and ethnic persecution.
I agree-testing.
And like a magician, you have to keep your eyes on the other hand which may be reaching for trains, subways, malls etc?
These people are NOT stupid, unfortunately, Janet & Co are...self induced stupidity caused by excessive kool-aid drinking.
Exactly. The Jihadists training quite frankly, many of them in Yemen and some elsewhere, is to hit TRANSPORTATION, and that is not limited to just air travel, but can and could include busses, trains, tunnels for expressways, subways, etc. and also crowded places like churches, malls, schools, public entertainment events. It is just that air travel is getting the attention and efforts these days, while they could be engaging in diversionary tactics and hit other areas just as well. I think the American People out there sense it, but I know for a fact that while the Administration, which has far more Intelligence (not as in “smarts” but as in “information”) than the People, has only 1/100th of the WILL of the People to stand up to it. We are all pretty much on our own, just like Katrina heading for land. Don’t count on the Government.
Bingo, we have a winner!!!
The only way our elected officials in DC will ever give a rat's rear about this sort of thing is if they are forced to give up their private planes and fly on the same possible target the rest of us are flying on!
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