Archive for April, 2007
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Is the American Nabbed in Somalia a Danger to Fly?
Amir Mohammed Meshal, 24, is an American from Tinton Falls, New Jersey. According to US officials, he was captured three months ago in Africa while escaping from war-torn Somalia. At the time, Meshal was believed to be an Al-Qaeda loyalist fighting with local Islamic militia. He was detained in Kenya and then in Ethiopia where […]
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Big Brother Alert: Using RFID Tags at Airports
Big Brother is watching your boarding pass. At least at Manchester Airport in England he is. I've written about the creepy, Orwellian idea of tracking airline passengers using secret (or now not-so-secret) radio frequency identification (RFID) tags over at my Blog at WomensWallStreet.com. Setting the mark-of-the-beast overtones asides, it is a flawed idea to think […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
NY Official Tells Mayor: Imams’ Lawyer Must Go
New York assemblyman Rory I. Lancman has appealed to mayor Michael Bloomberg for the immediate resignation of Omar Mohammedi, the lawyer representing the flying imams, from Mohammedi's position as a New York City commissioner on human rights. Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times explains:
The lawyer representing six imams who are suing an airline and […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Cuban Airplane Terror Suspect Could Be Freed in US
Cuban-born Venezuelan, Louis Posada Carriles, named in the 1976 airplane bombing of Cubana Flight 455 which killed 73 people, could soon be released from a New Mexico jail. Jerry Seper of the The Washington Times has the story:
Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile named in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed […]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S. Homeland Security by Annie Jacobsen
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Flying Imams Website
There is an excellent new website called The Flying Imams. It's dedicated to bringing you up to date information on the saga involving the six litigious Muslim clerics. Captain Jack ("This is your Captain speaking, proceed with extreme caution") offers commentary on "the latest information on possible terrorist threats, probes, dry-runs and just plain stupidity […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Man Hijacks Turkish Plane
Continuing along with a rash of recent European hijackings, France24 is reporting that a Turkish man hijacked a Pegasus Air 737 earlier today over Turkey.
ANKARA, April 10, 2007 (AFP) - A man hijacked a Turkish airliner carrying 180 passengers and crew on Tuesday but gave himself up to authorities after it landed in […]
No Comments » - Posted in Terrorist Hijackings by Annie Jacobsen
Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Women Surveilling Aiport Tied to Convicted Terrorist
The Dallas Morning News reports that the two women — Kimberly "Asma" Al-Homsi (42) and Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad (50) — recently questioned by federal agents in Dallas, Texas for surveilling Love Field Airport are tied to convicted terrorist Wadi el Hage. El Hage was the personal secretary of Osama bin Laden in the 1990's. El […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Feds Investigate Surveillance at Dallas Airport
Jason Trahan of the Dallas Morning News has written an interesting story about two women — Kimberly "Asma" Al-Homsi (42) and Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad (50) — conducting what appears to be surveillance of airplanes and the layout of an airport in Dallas:
Dallas police and federal terrorism officials are investigating two women, both dressed in […]