A dry run? Possibly. In any case, this incident shows up the TSA for what it really is, security theater rather than actual security. Will some genuine jihadis take advantage of this discovery? That seems likely, but on the other hand, they’re getting what they want so comprehensively without jihad terror attacks that they might opt to continue letting the kuffar destroy their own houses by their own hands (cf. Qur’an 59:2), rather than draw unwanted attention to themselves with a jihad attack.
“Suspect used fake boarding pass to get past TSA and on a Los Angeles bound flight,” by Sophie Clark, Independent, June 5, 2026:
A Houston man is facing felony charges after allegedly getting through airport security with a fake boarding pass and sneaking onto a flight to Los Angeles.
Abdulrahman Oriyomi is charged with impairing or interrupting operation of critical infrastructure facility after a flight was delayed for around three hours.
According to court documents seen by The Independent, surveillance footage from Bush Intercontinental Airport shows the suspect talking to TSA agents at a Terminal C checkpoint on May 18.
After speaking to a number of agents, his photo was taken and he was allowed through security. However he was turned away from boarding a 7:18 a.m. United Airlines flight to LA after his pass failed to scan at the gate, investigator say.
Per police, the 25-year-old stayed at the airport and managed to successfully board a different United flight to LA around two hours later.
According to the affidavit, footage shows Oriyomi pretending to show his boarding pass and then picking a time when United agents were distracted to slip past them and board.
The affidavit submitted by Officer D. Davila of the Houston Police Department states that a passenger told police the suspect initially sat next to her in the aisle seat, but got up to use the restroom.
The seat was then taken by its booked passenger, so when Oriyomi returned he went back to the bathroom. This is when the passenger alerted the flight attendants there appeared to be an additional passenger on the plane….
According to police, Oriyomi showed officers his ID and a flight booking number. However, United Airlines had cancelled his ticket as he had reportedly not paid for it. He was confronted by the FBI and, per the affidavit, started “causing a scene” before leaving the airport….
somehistory says
They should send him to some other country after stamping criminal on his face in white ink.
This criminal was inept in doing what he was trying to do. The next one might be successful.
Another story was in the news last night regarding multiple arrests of illegals using fake credentials given to them by the company where they were illegally working. The company had made the fake documents and some of those working in the admin department were also arrested.
Beans🫘 says
More Islamic migrants on the way to USA.
A federal judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from halting legal immigration and asylum applications from nearly 40 countries deemed “high-risk” by officials.
Nations including
Somalia, Afghanistan, IRAN, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, etc
somehistory says
Syied Malik-Kawon epps of Kentucky….getting maybe 25 years for smashing his daughter’s head; she was only 9 months old. Had this scum not murdered her, she would be about 4 years now
Is he muzzie? His name says so.
gravenimage says
+1
Jerry says
If I may Robert, please do not print any names of law enforcement officers or military that are not the accused. Jihadis read your work as much as us Patriots. And they keep record of names and addresses and towns where the good guys work so if things go bad, they have a hit list available for use.
It’s Operational Security or Ops Sec. I love your work. You do a good job. But printing the names of those that are protecting us is just adding to their worry of being on some Jihadis hit list. Loose lips sink ships.
gravenimage says
This is only done where the law enforcement agent’s name is listed in the article, if I’m not mistaken. Robert Spencer is *not* doxing agents.
bill says
This is incredible at every airport I have passed through the procedures are so thorough that a fake pass would be not be issued to begin with, and certainly not to a passenger who had not paid for the ticket.
Airlines do not issue a ticket until they have your money. Thereafter it is all done electronically with bar codes.. Things must be really sloppy at the Bush airport. Thank goodness an alert passenger reported something
Winston 101 says
bill,
I was thinking the same thing. Many thanks to “an alert passenger” who was willing to say something. Also, thanks to the airline staff. who then took appropriate action.
I would like to see the TSA employees, who allowed this dangerous situation to develop, fired from their jobs as they have proved themselves to be worse than useless. TSA is there to protect the public – not assist a security risk with a glitch in his travel plans.
Walter Sieruk says
During the time I worked for airport security for some time during the 1990’s and wasn’t very surprised that those 19 jihadists of al Qaeda got through the “security screening stations” on September 11. 2001.
As one security supervisor said the me that “Those stations are just set up for show to make the passengers feel safe”
Another security supervisor said to me” This is “B… S… .That same supervisor even became angry I called for a ”bag check” because he didn’t want to be bothered to get off his seat to make a bag check. On a number of times he said to me “Does that look like a test item ?” To his statement, I replied, “That bag looked rather suspicious as if something might have been hidden in it. To my reply he engaged in his head and eye rolling routine as if saying “Don’t give me that balderdash, nothing could possibly happen.”
Latter when the top security boss came to that airport I told her that “The rule that allows any kind of knife of blade in to the airport as longer it’s no more than three inches long” is nonsense because even very small cutting object can do much harm.”
That security chief just sat there and gave a angry and discussed look that implied “Don’t you dare even bring up that subject to me.”
That’s just what occurred on September 11th, 2001 when those 19 jihadists hijacked those jets and inflected much mass murder and destruction in their jihad for the cause of Islam who used box cutters no more than three inches long.
Walter Sieruk says
From the information that obtained from a television report about the security at the Chicago airport the news investigation people placed a hidden camera at the screening station and it viewed one thousand passengers going through it and not a single “bag check “ was called..
Maybe the airport supervisors are the same at the one at the airport security area that I worked at. Meaning they “told off’ the security screener if he or she called for a ‘bag check “ because that supervisor didn’t want to be bothered checking into that bag.
Ed says
Remember the underwire bomber?
Probably the first and last time he wore underwire
Ralph says
Pity he wasn’t de-boarded over the Grand Canyon.