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"We’re waiting for the next 9/11 to happen, because it’s not a question of if. It’s a question of when.” I believe these dry runs are just probes for weaknesses in our burdensome, illogical security apparatus. There’s a plan a foot, no doubt. As for the group of four “Middle Eastern” men that caused a commotion, methinks they worked for Hamas-CAIR and were “probing” for a lawsuit. “The TSA doesn’t want the flying public to be aware of the problems with terrorist probes.” The media doesn’t want to cover or report on jihad here or abroad. The Obama administration denies...

"If a dry run is occurring, the attack will shortly follow." That's according to Wolf Koch, a Boeing 767 pilot for Delta Airlines and an official at the Air Line Pilots Association International, who was discussing common terrorist tactics in the run-up to devastating attacks like those on 9/11. That is an extremely worrying thought given a memo leaked this week from the U.S. Airline Pilots Association, which warns of "several cases recently…of what appear to be probes, or dry runs" of such attacks.

Orlando, Fla. — Terrorists are in the midst of practice runs in preparations for an attack on U.S. airlines. (snip) The pilots say the most recent dry-run occurred on Flight 1880 on September 2. The flight left Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. and headed to Orlando International. Crew members say that shortly after takeoff, a group of four "Middle Eastern" men caused a commotion......continues

Dearborn Underground has learned that last January’s disruptive behavior by five Saudi males on Northwest Flight 243 from Amsterdam to Detroit (“Unruly Saudis Disrupt Plane Before Being Released Without Charges By U.S. Customs”) included sitting in scattered locations around the cabin, refusing flight attendant requests to sit down, suspiciously frequent trips to the lavatory, and putting blankets over their heads – the same way Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab hid under a blanket to arm his bomb on the very same flight from Amsterdam hardly more than two weeks before. One of the Saudis unbuckled himself after the cabin and passengers were...

Besides two Hawaiian Airlines flight diversions in three days, there have been several flights affected by unruly passengers since the failed terror attack on Christmas Day, including one Friday in Atlanta. The recent spike in flight diversions across the U.S. has many asking if anxiety in the skies is causing pilots to make quick decisions to re-route flights because of unruly passengers. "There's always going to be certain number of needed deplanements from unruly passengers, there's a certain amount that always takes place but i think the media is covering it more often now and also everybody is more on...

NEW DELHI: Strategic experts have warned that some of the recent security incidents in different parts of the world involving aircraft and airports could be 'testers' by terrorists. Though some of these airline security incidents could be results of 'genuine innocence' of first-time travellers, the experts have asked the airlines and aviation authorities not to ignore them as some of them could be terrorist probes with actual imminent threats. They have also pointed out that there have been about two dozen incidents since August, leading to flight diversions, emergency landings, escorting of civil aircraft by air force fighters and arrests...

Terrorists may be planning to smuggle material aboard flights in body cavities placed via insertion or ingestion. This deserves mention as it suggests ways in which this form of smuggling could be countered. The process of recovering bomb or other material (encapsulated in indigestible "pills") may involve the use of laxatives and enemas to expel the material on demand and a capture/filtering process to separate the "pills" from the excreta. The number of trips to the bathroom required would depend on a number of factors, and the terrorist plan might include a high degree of redundancy in case material was...