Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Arnaud de Borchgrave: Pakistan’s Terror Inc.
The indomitable Arnaud de Borchgrave — 81-years old and still providing the world with invaluable investigative reporting — has an important piece in The Washington Times aptly called, Pakistan's Terror Inc.
De Borchgrave reports that some 400,000 Pakistani Brits fly back and forth between England and Pakistan each year. Those who visit terrorist training camps do […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Al-Qaeda Threat by Annie Jacobsen
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Congress Investigates TSA in Conflict of Interest Case
Congress has released a report detailing flaws in a TSA website so riddled with security flaws that Congressman Henry Waxman calls it "mindboggeling." The site was set up to help passengers remove their names from faulty watch lists but was so riddled with security holes, it could easily have been hacked into.
"It is […]
No Comments » - Posted in Behind the Scenes, Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Former Spook: Was Bush’s Helicopter a Missile Target?
On the subject of shoulder fired missiles (SFMs), Former Spook asks if a "MANPAD SAM Threat" (i.e. man-portable, surface-to-air missiles) was why President Bush changed his travel plans today inside Israel. The original plan for the President was to travel 37-kilometers by helicopter from Ben-Gurion Airport, in Tel Aviv, to Jerusalem. Bush took a car […]
No Comments » - Posted in Behind the Scenes by Annie Jacobsen
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Pilot: Missile Threat to Cargo Planes
An Aviation Nation reader and commercial pilot who flies B-767s wrote in to remind me of a shoulder fired missile attack on a commercial jet that succeeded in hitting its target (photo at right). The incident involved a DHL A300 cargo flight out of Baghdad which was hit by a surface to air missile — […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Al-Qaeda Threat by Annie Jacobsen
Saturday, January 5th, 2008
DHS Decides Shoulder Fired Missiles are a Threat
The revelation in USA Today that DHS is beginning to outfit passenger jets with anti-missile technology has prompted a flood of emails in my in box. I'm republishing what I had to say on the subject of Shoulder Fired Missiles, or SFMs, back in December of 2005.
My opinion hasn't changed. But it's interesting to […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Al-Qaeda Threat by Annie Jacobsen
Friday, January 4th, 2008
US Airways to Imams: Tell it to the Jury
Audrey Hudson reports in today's Washington Times that US Airways and Minneapolis airport officials want a jury trial in the civil rights lawsuit filed against them by six Muslim clerics removed from a flight for acting suspiciously.
This is a good move for aviation security. Settling this kind of egregious lawsuit for cash would further […]