Abbasi hard at work claiming victim status Irum Abbasi may have been wrongly singled out. Nonetheless, the involvement of Hamas-linked CAIR in her case is just one of many red flags. In reality, no one should be shedding any real tears for Irum Abbasi, especially Irum Abbasi. She says, “I have lived in the United […]
Ringleader of jihad plot against JFK airport gets life in prison
An update on this story. Despite the fact that recordings showed Defreitas, a former air cargo handler at JFK, “speaking with evident relish about his desire to cause death and destruction,” the defense attorney still claimed “entrapment.” That claim is absurd, as usual. Evidence showed the fact that this group of jihadists became “operational” rather […]
British Airways worker who advised jihadists of air security weaknesses and offered self as suicide bomber was working with al-Awlaki
War is deceit: “Karim established a deep cover, joining a gym, playing football and never airing extreme views.” An update on this story. “BA worker ‘plotted with terror preacher Anwar al-Awlaki’,” from the Telegraph, February 1: In secret email exchanges with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, Bangladeshi Rajib Karim, 31, shared details of his BA contacts […]
Feel safe yet?
Only greasy Islamophobes would object to a hijabbed, observant Muslim TSA worker, right? After all, to object would be to assume that all Muslims are jihad terrorists or jihad terrorist sympathizers, and that is the very definition of “Islamophobia,” now, isn’t it? We should be applauding the prospect of a devout Muslim who has dedicated […]
TSA under fire after Iranian-American businessman boards flight with loaded handgun
Accidentally, of course. You know, I forget where I put my loaded handgun all the time. And it’s just a coincidence that Farid Seif is Iranian, and that there are numerous reports of dry run-type activity in airports and on airplanes. This could just as well have happened to Mr. Smith. “TSA under fire after […]
Al-Qaeda jihadists researching ways to evade airport security and murder “larger numbers of unbelievers and apostates”
The moment that one of these bombs goes off on an airplane, the futility of the TSA’s new scan-and-grope procedures will be abundantly clear even to the thickest of the learned analysts. But will there then be a shift toward a more intelligent security policy? Probably not. “‘Frankenbombers’: Al Qaeda hatches plot to implant explosives […]
Thailand-based jihadist group at heart of raids in Spain also had airport rubber stamps, relied partly on pickpockets
More on this story. “Spain Deepens Probe Into European Jihadist Passport Network,” by David Roman for Dow Jones Newswires, December 3: MADRID (Dow Jones) Spanish and Thai police have discovered a trove of documents including Chinese and European visas, as well as airport rubber stamps, amid a deepening probe into a Thailand-based Jihadist group, Spain’s […]
Spencer: It’s time to profile
Muslims are much more likely than other groups to plot terror attacks, so why aren’t we focusing on them? My column in Human Events this morning: As horror stories from the TSA become an ever-expanding genre, it is important to remember that the entire roiling controversy over airport security has come about solely because of […]
British Airways worker offered himself as suicide bomber, advised jihadists of airlines’ weaknesses
Speaking of air security, this update on the case of Rajib Karim raises questions equally relevant to the state of security in American airports: what did British Airways know about him when they hired him? Were there questions they could have asked, but didn’t? Were red flags in his behavior as an employee missed or […]
Fly safe, fly Delta
Jihad Watch reader Michael sends in this photo from a Delta gate at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Of course, there is no doubt whatsoever that the hijabbed Delta clerk is as honest and patriotic as the day is long. But suppose, just suppose, that a hijabbed Muslim woman Misunderstood the Religion of Peace […]