Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Undercover Agents Get Fake Bombs Past Denver TSA
This is nothing new, but needs to change fast. NBC's 9News files this excellent report from Denver:
Checkpoint security screeners at Denver International Airport last month failed to find liquid explosives packed in carry-on luggage and also improvised explosive devices, or IED's, worn by undercover agents sources told 9NEWS.
In one test, sources told 9NEWS an agent […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Overpowered Passenger Arrested at British Airport
A 37-year old man shouting "Allah," "Bin Laden" and "White Scum" began assaulting passengers on an Emirates Airline, Dubai-to-England flight, until he was overpowered by passengers, the Bury Times reports. The Airline confirmed the incident and police arrested the man — as yet unidentified by name.
One passenger said: "The man had his top off and […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Flying Imams Lose Ground in The House
Audrey Hudson, Homeland Security Reporter for The Washington Times, has been a covering the flying imams story since the suspicious activity began. Now she's filed a breaking story about a new Congressional development to protect the flying "John Does." The Bill, introduced to the House last week by Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico, protects […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Monday, March 26th, 2007
Islamists Use Portable Missile To Down Plane in Africa
A missile took down a Russian-made plane in Mogadishu, Somalia on Friday. Eleven Belarus nationals were killed. "The plane was shot down," Belarussian Transport Ministry spokeswoman Ksenia Perestoronina told reporters on Saturday. Witnesses reported seeing the missile coming from a crowded market. From The New York Times:
“Someone fired the missile from right where I […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Al-Qaeda Threat by Annie Jacobsen
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Terror Suspects Arrested At British Airport
Scotland Yard has arrested two British men of Pakistani origin at Manchester Airport in England as the men were about to board a flight to Pakistan. The men had gone through passport control and the arrest has been described in papers throughout London as having been "dramatic." A third man was arrested in Leeds, England […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Al-Qaeda Threat by Annie Jacobsen
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Wired Iraqi Trigers Jokes, Questions and Concern
The editors at WomensWallStreet.com have this to say about my new article, "Wired Iraqi Passenger Triggers Giggles, But Is the Joke on You?"
"Earlier this month a man was detained at Los Angeles International airport before boarding a transcontinental flight because he was acting suspiciously. Turns out he had various and sundry items hidden […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Pair Posing as Cops Attempt to Board Plane with Gun
A man and a woman claiming to be law enforcement officers attempted to board a flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii on Saturday; the woman was armed. The pair of phony cops claimed they were escorting a "prisoner," to Hawaii for a court hearing. Airport police spokesperson Belinda Nettles told the Associated Press that […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Monday, March 19th, 2007
Daniel Pearl Kidnapping Mastermind Files Appeal
British-born (and London School of Economics-educated) terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh has been sitting in a Pakistani prison awaiting hanging for his role in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Now, Saeed Sheikh's lawyer has announced that he will be using the confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to support his client's […]