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2009-12-29 Home Front: WoT

'For all intents and purposes, Northwest Flight 253 exploded in midair'

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 those snot nosed drooling halfwit TSA agents couldnt spot a watermelon on a barn door much less an obviously middle eastern freak - on a watchlist- without a passport.

Posted by 746 2009-12-29 00:34|| 2009-12-29 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't believe US TSA agents staff the airports in Nigeria or Holland.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-12-29 01:28|| 2009-12-29 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't believe US TSA agents staff the airports in Nigeria or Holland.

That is correct.

However, the same flavor of drooling diversity cultists were there.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-12-29 07:07|| 2009-12-29 07:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Strange sounding muzzie name, no passport, one-way ticket, no baggage....no problem. Your window seat directly over the fuel tanks have now been confirmed. Have a nice flight.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-29 08:03|| 2009-12-29 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Amazing, no passport, paid cash for his ticket and he checked no baggage.

Geez Louise, aren't those supposed to be major league signal flares that something is wrong?

I think the initial reports that some well dressed handler got this half wit on the plane has some legs, I hope the Dutch are investigating this one...must have been a big handshake to get the kid on the plane..

Posted by Karl Rove 2009-12-29 10:34|| 2009-12-29 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 While I am not entirely supportive, I don't think he got a TSA screening. He was screened in Europe and should have been stopped there. Lots of blame here but I don't think TSA gets any.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-12-29 13:39|| 2009-12-29 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 IIUC,

1. the xmas bomber had a VISA

2. he had round trip ticket

otherwise points valid

Posted by lord garth 2009-12-29 14:01|| 2009-12-29 14:01|| Front Page Top

#8 But the TSA is damn good at making sure I take tiny tubes of toothpaste and shaving cream, and don't carry water in my waterbottle. I've lost 2-3 plastic water bottles in the last year because I forgot to empty them...

God I hate flying, and would do none of it if I didn't need to for work...

Posted by Rahm 2009-12-29 14:45|| 2009-12-29 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 garth,
IIRC, he may have had the visa but was missing the passport, or something like that. And the OTHER Nigerian (the lavatory lad) was on a cash -aid, one way, no luggage trip. Of course he wasn't exploding the plane, just his bowels, or so they say.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-12-29 15:08|| 2009-12-29 15:08|| Front Page Top

#10 The ticket was purchased in Lagos, Nigeria. I should think in that part of the world many middle class people would not own a credit card. On the other hand, our lad's father was the former head of the national bank, and our lad himself had spent several years in London at university, so he should have had a credit card of his own. On the third hand, our lad was no longer connected to his family and I imagine Papa was no longer paying his credit card bill (Papa had contacted the U.S. embassy to report him in the hope that the U.S. would track him down and return him to the bosom of his loving family -- an odd hope, but perhaps Papa was relying on his influence as a former high government official, even if only of Nigeria). But apparently the purchase did ring bells, because his name was run twice against the No Fly list with, of course, no result. And then I read today that AQ-AP has purchased the scanning machine the airlines use, so they knew their lad's laden underpants would pass inspection. All hail that Homeland Security contractor who made the draft handbook available to the general public!

Posted by trailing wife 2009-12-29 20:02|| 2009-12-29 20:02|| Front Page Top

#11 DER SPEIGEL > [AbdulMutallab]INVASION OF PRIVACY, OR SAFE TRAVEL?

AEROFLOT USSA - "Your Flying/Travel Papers, iff you please, Comrade"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-12-29 21:25|| 2009-12-29 21:25|| Front Page Top

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