Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Two Egyptian Students Indicted; One Has Terror Past
Two Egyptian students enrolled at the University of South Florida, Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed (photo left) and Youssef Samir Megahed (photo right), have been indicted for transporting explosive material across state lines. Mohamed, 24, who was working as a teaching assistant at the university, has also been charged with teaching Megahed, 21, how to use […]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Algerian in Los Angeles Airport Terror Plot Denied Bail
Known only as "U," an Algerian man accused of plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) was denied bail by a British court last week. "U" has been held, somewhat mysteriously, for six years. Little is known about "U." The Associated Press reports that, according to British officials, he arrived in England in […]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Letter From a Flight Attendant
Starting tomorrow, a reported 16 million passengers are expected to take to the airways for the holiday weekend. I received this email from a flight attendant — a reminder that flight crew are your allies, not your enemies. Remember to take it easy on your flight crews this weekend, folks. They work hard.
Annie,Recently, there […]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Frontier Airline Flight 514 Passenger Alert
To the passenger from Frontier Airlines Flight 514 who contacted me about the flight. Please check your email.
Thanks,
–Annie
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Dressed To Kill (2)
As an ever-increasing number of readers contact me with airline vignettes — ones where they report suspicions that fellow passengers in various states of traditional Muslim female dress (veil, hijab, niqab, burqa etc.) may not, in fact, be the gentler, fairer sex behind those veils after all (big feet, big hands, unfeminine gait etc.), I […]
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Frontier Airlines Plot Twist: 2 Incidents in 36 Hours
Two deranged "Asian" men, two rolls of duct tape, two planeloads of John Doe passengers, two arrests in 36 hours. What's going on aboard Frontier Airlines? Here are the two flights — Flight 561 on Thursday night and Flight 514 on Saturday morning — both of which involved vigilant passengers that helped to avert disaster. […]
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Passenger Tries to Open Aircraft Door Mid-Flight
A male passenger, traveling from Denver to New York on Frontier Airlines Flight 514, was arrested Saturday morning at La Guardia Airport after trying to open the aircraft exit door during the flight. The man's name has not been released.
As in the case of shoebomber Richard Reid, it was crew members and passengers who […]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Important Commentary on Imams’ Lawsuit
Paul Green offers some important commentary, "Not all "John Does Out of Imams' Sight," at GreensPiece Blog — namely that U.S. Airways Capt. John Wood remains in the imams' scope, as a defendant.
The news that Omar Mohammedi of New York and Frederick Goetz of Minneapolis, attorneys for the notorious “Flying Imams,” have limited the […]