A Muslim who may have terrorist ties has been arrested trying at Minneapolis/St. Paul airport with a suicide note and anti-American material. This just in from Eyewitness News in Minneapolis/St.Paul: Federal sources told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the man was arrested last Wednesday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Sources in the Twin Cities and in Washington […]
Air passengers taught self-defense
A long-overdue defense manual for airline passengers is now available. From WND, : Responding to the air-travel anxieties since 9-11, an American Airlines pilot and two aviation security experts have compiled a book to help passengers and crew defend themselves in the case of a terrorist attack. “Never Again” is a “self-defense guide for the […]
12 air crew members banned from U.S.
Members of air crews from three unidentified countries have turned up among the tiny minority of extremists in terrorist databases. From CNN, with thanks to US Action: Nine of the 12 had associated with terrorists or supported terrorist organizations, two were using fraudulent passports and one had a criminal record for assaulting a U.S. law […]
This just in: Western Airliners May Be al-Qaida Target
This is news? I thought everyone knew that Al-Qaeda would be targeting airliners since, oh, around September 11, 2001. From AP: CAIRO, Egypt – An Internet statement signed by an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia warned Monday that the terror network will target Western airlines, military bases and residential compounds and told Muslims to stay […]
L.A.-Dulles flight seen as terror target
Flying the unfriendly skies From the Washington Times, : Federal officials have pinpointed an airline flight from Los Angeles to Washington as a potential terrorist target in the past two weeks and have begun scrutinizing the flight crew’s luggage and using security agents to follow pilots preparing for the flight. Bomb-sniffing dogs are also being […]
Al-Qaeda Targets London’s Heathrow Airport
From Bloomberg.com, : Osama bin Laden ordered a strike on London’s Heathrow airport months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., the Sunday Times reported, citing transcripts of interrogations of an al-Qaeda operations chief. Bin Laden, leader of the terrorist network, wanted to punish U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, and considered him his […]
London airport worker jailed for links with al-Qaeda
From The Observer, with thanks to Twostellas: A British Muslim linked to the group suspected of carrying out the Madrid and Casablanca bombings worked at Heathrow airport as a manager for an international air company, an Observer investigation can reveal. Abdulatif Merroun, 42, who was jailed for five years in Morocco last year for his […]
C.I.A. was given data on 9/11 hijacker in 1999
The CIA had a chance in 1999 — and blew it. From the New York Times: American investigators were given the first name and telephone number of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers two and a half years before the attacks on New York and Washington, but the United States appears to have failed to […]
Terrorist bid to build bombs in mid-flight
A new strategy. From The Observer, : Islamic militants have conducted dry runs of a devastating new style of bombing on aircraft flying to Europe, intelligence sources believe. The tactics, which aim to evade aviation security systems by placing only components of explosive devices on passenger jets, allowing militants to assemble them in the air, […]
Man evaded LA airport security; found without ticket or ID in plane bathroom
This is not a story about a jihad incident. But it is one about how much airport security has improved since 9/11. From AP: A man walked past two security checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport last month and boarded a plane without a ticket or identification before he was caught hiding inside a bathroom […]