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Britain
Afghan hijacker caught working at British airport
2008-05-17
An Afghan man involved in a hijacking eight years ago was arrested after being found working as a cleaner for British Airways near Heathrow Airport, officials and a press report said Friday.

Nazamuddin Mohammidy, 34, was among nine Afghans who threatened to blow up a Boeing 727 during a four-day stand-off with police at London Stansted Airport in 2000. This week he appeared in court after police pulled his car over, on suspicion of being a bogus taxi driver, only to discover his identity and that he had a security pass as a cleaner for British Airways, said The Sun newspaper.

“He had a British Airways pass on him. It was discovered he was in breach of bail and he was arrested. Then it emerged he was one of the Stansted hijackers,” a source told the daily. “There’s got to be something seriously wrong with a country that lets a hijacker work at an airport. It’s shocking.” According to the tabloid, Mohammidy lives near Heathrow in west London and has spent months employed by a local company which has a contract to clean a British Airways training centre.
Posted by:Fred

#4  > did not have an airside pass

That's the important bi.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2008-05-17 14:18  

#3  There really doesn't seem to be a lot to this story. His job was to clean a British Airways training facility, not the airport. He was pulled over and stopped under suspicion of running an illegal taxi, and his crime was being in breach of bail. Assault is a fairly serious charge, but there isn't enough information about that case to determine if he was a threat to anyone else. He's an EMPLOYED muslim, which is encouraging. The rest is pretty much the main-slime media making a mountain out of a molehill.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-05-17 14:09  

#2  Well, they were anti-Taliban hijackers, thats got to count for something. Hijacking in a good cause, so to speak.
Posted by: Ebbomble Untervehr2749   2008-05-17 11:04  

#1  "...their convictions were controversially quashed in 2003, citing the “duress” of fleeing the Taliban, and they were granted the right to stay in Britain."

Yes, we must bow before the infinite wisdom of the Liberal Judiciary.
Posted by: Bulldog   2008-05-17 03:42  

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