As I predicted, they would find some way to circumvent the full-body scanners. “Al-Qaida hiding bombs in breast implants, says MI5,” from the Times of India, March 24 (thanks to all who sent this in): LONDON: Al-Qaida is laying deadly “booby traps” by equipping its female suicide bombers with explosive breast implants that are impossible […]
British Airways worker and aspiring suicide bomber sought to join cabin crew
More on this story. “Terrorist British Airways worker planned to take advantage of strike,” by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, March 12 (thanks to Sr. Soph): A British Airways worker who allegedly wanted to be a suicide bomber has been accused of offering to take advantage of the airline’s approaching strike to join the cabin […]
U.K.: British Airways employee charged with “preparation of terrorist acts and fundraising for the purpose of terrorism”
An IT developer — another case of someone being educated and gainfully employed, but who still managed to “misunderstand” Islam. An update on this story. “British Airways employee faces terrorism charges,” from CNN, March 11: London, England (CNN) — A British Airways employee appeared in court Thursday on charges related to terrorism. The Metropolitan Police […]
Pakistani pols who refused airport body scans hailed as heroes in Pakistan
And who was there to hail them as heroes but my old pal, the artless dissembler Hamid Mir! An update on this story, and yet another Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: “Upset by U.S. Security, Pakistanis Return as Heroes,” by Jane Perlez for the New York Times, March 9 (thanks to David): ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — […]
Pakistani lawmakers refuse body scan, cut short US visit
Another incident in an ongoing effort to obtain an exemption for Muslims from the body scans that Muslims made necessary. “Pakistani lawmakers refuse body scan, cut short US visit,” from DPA, March 7 (thanks to Slothy): Islamabad, March 7 (DPA) A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers refused to subject themselves to a controversial full-body X-ray scan […]
U.K.: Four arrested, including two British Airways employees, in “terror plot” raids
The next question for British Airways should be: “Is political correctness in security screening practices putting the flying public at risk?” “Four men including two British Airways employees arrested in ‘terror plot’ raids,” from the Daily Mail, March 3: Three men were arrested in dawn raids this morning, taking to four the number being held […]
UK: Muslim woman barred from flight after refusing body scan
This is good. The body scans are odious, and they should be scrapped, as they ultimately will prove ineffective to stop the ever-innovative jihad terrorists. Jihadis are blazing new trails in the illustrious history of Islamic inventions by always devising new ways to elude airport security procedures and murder flying Infidels. But as long as […]
Iran equips airports with body scanners
I’ll bet you thought body scanners were un-Islamic. After all, didn’t the Fiqh Council of North America just say so? And yet here they are being installed in, of all places, the Islamic Republic of Iran — here is the Fars News Agency story (thanks to Block Ness). Should the Islamic Republic of Iran be […]
Muslim who was pulled off plane for (allegedly) shouting about killing Jews: I never said that, and my accusers are paranoid
If only there were a Family Circus-style drawing from little Billy, because here’s what really happened: “He insists it was a misunderstanding over a conversation while he was speaking Spanish and English with a fellow passenger who was Italian.” Never mind that
“If TSA staff, airport cops and FBI agents – the [defendants] in this lawsuit – are afraid to do their jobs, then terrorists will win”
In “A sure-fire legal recipe for airport insecurity” in the San Francisco Chronicle, February 13, Debra J. Saunders offers some common sense on the Nicholas George case: Last August, Nicholas George, 22, was getting ready to fly from Pennsylvania to Pomona College in Claremont (Los Angeles County) when TSA agents found Arabic-English flash cards in […]