Archive for July, 2007
Friday, July 6th, 2007
FBI: Terror Doctors Wanted to Work in US
The FBI has confirmed that two of the England terror suspects had inquired about working as medical doctors in the United States – within the past year.
LONDON, England (AP) — Two suspects in the failed car bombings in Britain had contacted a clearinghouse for foreign doctors about working in the United States, the FBI said […]
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
How John Smeaton Tackled a Terrorist
John Smeaton is the heroic, Glasgow Airport baggage handler who wrested terrorist Balil Abdulla to the ground. The BBC reports that Smeaton got involved in the situation after he watched two terrorists exit their burning jeep and begin attacking a police man. The London Times is hailing Smeaton the "airport's answer to Jack Bauer, the […]
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
TSA’s After-the-Fact Approach to Security
Last March, two Comair airline employees at Orlando International Airport in Florida were arrested after using their airport security badges to smuggle weapons and drugs onto a passenger flight headed for San Juan, Puerto Rico. The weapons and drugs amounted to 13 guns, an assault rifle and 8 pounds of marijuana transported in a carry-on […]
No Comments » - Posted in Federal Air Marshals, Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
12 Al Qaeda Infiltrate British National Health System
"Up to 12 members of Al Qaeda" have infiltrated the British National Health Service (NHS), reports the Daily Mail. The BBC has further details:
Terror suspects all linked to NHSEight people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the National Health Service, the BBC has learned.
Seven are believed […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Al-Qaeda Threat by Annie Jacobsen
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Global Jihad Doctors: #7 Arrested at Australian Airport
The number of medical doctors involved in the British Terror plots is rising fast, as are the continents these doctors reside in. Earlier today, British authorities confirmed there were three doctors involved. Then the number rose to five. Then "as many as six." If that is the case, then this newly arrested, 27-year-old "foreign doctor" […]
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Hospital as Secondary Target in Glasgow Airport Plot?
The British bomb squad has exploded two suspicious devices found at a hospital where one of the Glasgow Airport terror suspects was taken to be treated for severe burns. CNN reports that a CNN news crew, stationed at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Scotland, "heard two blasts, which occurred about an hour after a bomb […]