Archive for December, 2006
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Another Brick in The Wall
What is ‘The Wall?’ In his riveting and necessary book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright writes about ‘The Wall’ – the bureaucratic barrier that stood between intelligence agencies before 9/11. This barrier ruined any chance to stop the 9/11 attack. ‘The Wall’ kept important information from getting to where […]
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
The Sword That Got On Board
My article, Sword on Board, appears at The National Review Online.
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
9/11 Lawsuit, SSI and CYA
For those unfamiliar with what SSI stands for, it’s a Federal Government acronym for Sensitive Security Information. You will be hearing a lot about SSI at TheAviationNation.com; many of our aviation security colleagues believe that SSI — and its unbridled use by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials — more aptly stands for CYA.
CYA, for […]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
German Terror Cell Approached Airport Workers
German authorities continue to investigate a foiled terror-plot involving the Frankfurt airport, an Israeli airplane and a suitcase bomb. A terror cell of six, German-jihadists attempted to bribe an airport worker into smuggling a bomb onto a plane. From the AP:
Several of the accused approached a person with security clearance at an unidentified airport last […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
False Alarms May Not Be So False
In The Weekly Standard, Practice Makes Terror, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross makes a compelling case for the idea that many of the “false alarms” reported in the news — regarding suspicious behavior by passengers on airlines — may not be so false.
Gartenstein-Ross was profiled last month in The International Herald Tribune: Jew turned Muslim, offers knowedge […]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Media Relations 101
According to Debra Burlingame’s most recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the six imams detained on the US Air flight had all gathered in Minneapolis for a conference sponsored by the North American Imams Federation. One of the workshops offered to the attendees at this particular conference was “Imams and the Media”.
Apparently, similar […]