Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Even Göering Got a Trial
The Pentagon has released partial transcripts of the confessions of Al Qaeda's Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. There are lots of things I think about when I consider Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and what he's said he's done. There are even more things to think about when I consider what Mohammed's followers and fellow fanatics are willing to […]
No Comments » - Posted in Opinions and Editorials by Annie Jacobsen
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Whistling in the Dark Halls of Homeland Security
Today, March 14, The House of Representatives is voting on the latest round of whistleblower laws. The President has already issued a statement saying he will veto it. What would a veto mean? For starters, less accountability from federal government. Whistleblowers are government employees who "whistle the truth" says Tom Devine, legal director for the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Government Secrecy by Annie Jacobsen
Monday, March 12th, 2007
Flying Imams Will Sue US Airways
It's official. Tomorrow, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a news conference in Washington, D.C. to announce that six Muslim clerics, removed from a US Airways flight last November, have filed a lawsuit against the airline.
The lawsuit stems from a November 2006 incident where passengers and flight crew noticed the men behaving […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
When Airport Employees Join Drug & Gun Cartels
Up until Monday, Zabdiel "Zab" Santiago-Balaguer and Thomas Anthony Munoz were just your average US airline employees — tasked with loading bags on planes and working the passenger check-in counter at the Orlando International Airport in Florida. Now both men, 22, are in federal custody — arrested on charges of being part of a gun […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Wired Iraqi Triggers Los Angeles Airport Alert
An Iraqi national hiding electrical wires and a magnet inside his rectum attempted to board a flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia Tuesday morning. The 35-year old man, identified by airport police as Fadhel al-Maliki, set off an alarm during the passenger screening process at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The bomb squad was called […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Liquid Explosives Found in Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Aljeezera is reporting that liquid explosives discovered in a refugee camp in Lebanon are tied to the London planes plot of August 2006.
"After nearly six months of extensive search by U.S. and European intelligence agencies for lethal 'liquid explosives,' that followed a foiled plot to attack passenger aircraft on flights across the Atlantic, the Lebanese […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Al-Qaeda Threat by Annie Jacobsen
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
New Arrest in London Planes Plot
British Metropolitan Police have announced the arrest of another suspect in the August 2006 London planes plot — one where as many as ten US-bound planes were to be blown up by bombs built in the aircraft lavatories. The suspect was identified as a 27-year old man and was arrested in Wathamstow, England. […]