Archive for November, 2007
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Pilot, Crew, TSA: Four Passengers Targeted Bathroom, Tampered with Mirror
This TSA Suspicious Incident #177, Unclassified but For Official Use Only (U//FOUO), "has many of the elements of pre-operational terrorist planning" according to TSA Office of Intelligence. It was leaked to me earlier today in my ongoing efforts to compile terrorist dry runs and probes on airplanes.
A FFDO (Federal Flight Deck Officer — […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Smoking Suitcase at Phoenix Airport
UPDATE 11.14.07: The Associated Press reports "authorities said the flames were likely caused by heat from a conveyor belt. Phoenix police Lt. Rick Gehlbach said the backpack likely began to smoke after it got jammed between two larger pieces of luggage on a conveyor belt." If they say so, it must be true.
In […]
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
6 Arab-Speaking Passengers Now Acting Part of Plaintiff
The six Iraqi natives suing American Airlines for "hundreds of thousands of dollars" — alleging racial profiling — worked as actors for Defense Training Systems. Now they're acting the part of plaintiff. As made evident in the police report I posted yesterday, the men should be the ones being sued by American Airlines for the […]
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Police Report: American Airlines Flight 590
Sources inside American Airlines tell me that the airline has no intention of settling last week's lawsuit filed in U.S. district court. David Al-Watan, Talal Cholagh, Ali Alzerej, Hassan Alzerej, Hussein Alsalih and Mohammad Al-Saedy are seeking "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in damages for racial profiling.
This 12-page police-report report explains why American Airlines […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Six Arabs and a Suspicious Lawsuit
On the front page of Pajamas Media today, I ask the important question, "Is it Un-American to Question Suspicious Airline Passengers? The New Racial Profiling Lawsuits." In this piece, I reveal the contents of an exclusive interview I did yesterday with Lawrence Garcia, the lead lawyer for the six, Iraqi natives who announced last week […]
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Screeners Find Gun Parts Hidden in Laptops at JFK
This just in from a law enforcement source on the east coast. On October 29, 2007, TSA screeners at John F. Kennedy Airport found eight slide mechanisms for semi-automatic weapons "artfully concealed" inside the battery compartments of one passenger's four laptop computers.
In the midst of the TSA cheating scandal, did anyone bother to give […]
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Congress Investigating TSA’s Cheating Chiefs
Congress — in the form of The House Homeland Security Security Committee — will hold hearings next week, seeking answers as to why TSA Chiefs encouraged inter-agency cheating on tests designed to see if security procedures are working. TSA Chief Administrator Kip Hawley and TSA Chief of Security Mike Restovich will be called to testify. […]
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Terror Suspect Sighted at Nantucket Island Airport (Years Ago)
UPDATE (11.7.07): Airport Security Director Bob Tallman returned my call to say this is an "old story." He did not have an exact date. "The FBI investigiated and the story was dropped," Tallman explained. The article in Inquirer and Mirror runs with the current date.
The island of Nantucket, Massachusetts — best known for its […]