Imagine if more people did that.
How difficult is it to stop Muslim terrorism? Not very if people were actually told who to look out for, instead of being told they’re Islamophobes for noticing suspicious activity by possible terrorists.
One local woman in the UK noticed suspicious activity and did the right thing.
The suspected terror plot to attack a British base that is used by US bombers was potentially foiled by a nosy farmer in the local village who saw masked men in vans acting suspiciously and called the cops, according to a report.
The unidentified farmer, who lives on the edge of the airbase, was returning from a party in the early hours when she came across three seemingly abandoned white vans blocking a quiet country lane, the Telegraph reported.
As she turned her car around to go back, she suddenly saw a group of men wearing ski masks scattering into the trees and across fields towards the base.
“I just thought what the hell are they doing… I saw a group of Middle Eastern-looking young guys running off through the trees. Some of them had masks or balaclavas on, and they all scattered ahead of us as we drove back past,” she told the Telegraph.
“Some of them ran into the fields, and some of them turned to run towards the air base. We realised this was something pretty serious. We knew the air base had a credible threat of a terrorist attack before last night. So as soon as I saw them I was worried,” the farmer continued.
“We thought something was going on as they had housed B1 bombers at the base until earlier this week when they were moved. And then suddenly they started blocking entrances to the air base,” she said.
If more people thought “what the hell are they doing”, instead of “I’m a bad person for noticing”, so many attacks could have been stopped.
Including potentially September 11.
I got an instant chill when I looked at him. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a political correct slap…I thought, “My God, Michael, these are just a couple of Arab businessmen.”
That was ticket agent Michael Tuohey’s recollection of his encounter with Mohammed Atta at the check-in desk of U.S. Airways in Portland on the morning of September 11, 2001.
If only more people noticed and stopped slapping themselves down. And if only our political and cultural establishment had stood by the post 9/11 call to report suspicious activity, instead of crying about ‘Islamophobia’, imagine how many lives could have been saved.
Wellington says
Ah yes, the “Middle Eastern Me problem.” A monumental problem for all of the West.
But it didn’t need to come anywhere close to being so much of a problem if only those in the West in 2026 and the previous half century were as aware of the “Middle Eastern Me problem” as were those in the West in 1026 and going back as far back as the 7th and 8th centuries AD.
So much for progress, eh? Oh yeah, man steps forward often times (e.g., Western technology over the past several centuries) but seems to step backwards just as often (e.g., the West stupidly concluding in our era that Islam is just another religion).
Wellington says
“Men” and not “Me.” Oh the humanity! But then perhaps I wasn’t that far off after all since Muslim men and “meism” are effectively synonymous.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Wellington
Don’t be hard on yourself. AI now tends to mis-correct words that are spelt or grammatically laid out correctly. I have been mortified at how some of my own sentences get changed on the fly while I am unsuspecting
Wellington says
Thanks, Infidel. Didn’t know till now what you conveyed.
somehistory says
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“Hundreds of Israelis led by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under police protection.
The Jerusalem governorate on Monday said Israeli forces closed intersections and streets surrounding the Old City that lead to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which Jews refer to as the Temple Mount, in occupied East Jerusalem on the third day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ben-gvir-joins-hundreds-of-israelis-to-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-compound/ar-AA2d7CSy?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ababc91e0744faeaa26b68938ea8d3f&ei=42
Taffy says
In the mathematics of conditional probabilities,back in the mid 1700;s a minister named Thomas Bayes figured out how to calculate such probabilities. Some of the results are intuitive and some are counterintuitive. Read the Wiki article here and refer to the worked examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
Of the more intuitive results, if one is screening for terrorists at an airport, pulling aside the Italian grandmothers from Bensonhurst for screening would be very unproductive, in contrast to pulling aside middle eastern looking men for screening.
Using Bayes’ theorem, on can optimize what percent of the people pulled aside should be little old ladies and what percentage wold be Muslim looking 20-40 y.o. males.
Wellington says
All logical but with Western Leftists logic and other good things, such as facts and common sense, are at best optional. Compounding this huge negative are non-Leftists in the West who remain too willfully ignorant or timid or both to do anything constructive to preserve the West (e.g., Bush 43).
Belief systems like Islam and Western Leftism are rooted in anti-logic, anti-factual information. And herein lies the great problem of our time in one Western nation after another, i.e., destructive stupidities dealt with as innocuous or even beneficial.
40 rounds says
Proof positive from the movie Airplane (I can’t remember if it’s the first or second one) at the security checkpoints
gravenimage says
Yes–Robert Spencer himself–who looks plausibly Middle Eastern–is OK with being given extra scrutiny for this very reason.
David Everitt says
“Suspicious middle eastern men”, good God!, did she really say that, and if so why hasn’t she been arrested, charged, and held in custody for racial profiling and spreading racial alarm, I’m sure ‘Plastic Plod’ or the ‘Terror Tubies’ could fit her up with some thing really serious along those lines.
PRCS USN (ret) says
From the fature article:
“If more people thought “what the hell are they doing”, instead of “I’m a bad person for noticing”, so many attacks could have been stopped.
Including potentially September 11.
I got an instant chill when I looked at him. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a political correct slap…I thought, “My God, Michael, these are just a couple of Arab businessmen.”
That was ticket agent Michael Tuohey’s recollection of his encounter with Mohammed Atta at the check-in desk of U.S. Airways in Portland on the morning of September 11, 2001.”
The Town Hall article:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/political-correctness-kills-william-kilpatrick/
Political Correctness Kills
The hazardous effects of our silence on ourselves.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, PRCS. And if things were bad pre-9/11, they are–insanely–*far worse* today.
PRCS USN (ret) says
You’re welcome.
I recall, too, Spencer addressing a video store clerk’s quandary:
https://jihadwatch.org/2007/05/should-i-call-someone-or-is-that-being-racist
gravenimage says
Attack Stopped on Airbase Because Local Woman Noticed Suspicious ‘Middle Eastern Men’
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I’m just glad that this patriotic woman was not herself arrested and charged with “Islamophobia”, while the Jihad terrorists were ignored. This would not be an unusual outcome in these mad days…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Given how the 5 suspects have been released on bail, I think that woman being arrested & charged for islamophobia is not off the cards
The US should wind up any bases that it still has in Western Europe, and even leave NATO. Let Europe fend for itself against an imploding Russia
Mo says
Wow, how had I not heard that incident about Mohammed Atta? (Or if I had heard it, it had long ago left my brain.)
As to this situation, I hope the woman’s identity is shielded!
tgusa says
The five have been released on bail because they promised to be good boys. Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor “They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others.” A problem here is I read an account from the woman who reported them and she said there were 8 to ten of them. The Keystone Cops were not intended to be how to films.
England Invaded says
And the authorities rewarded her actions by releasing the sub-human suspects on bail. While genuinely British people are remanded for anything including speech.
Ade Fegan says
Going back maybe 10 years, I reported two SERIOUSLY suspicious packages in Cardiff city centre
to the police
Two rucksacks
One strapped several feet up a lamp post and the other
Strapped several feet up some nearby railings
They were really snotty about it and didn’t really want to know
Who’s to blame when something detonates ? .. terrorists or the police ?