TagsTagsNow here’s a story that really is outrageous, as the TSA subpoenas and confiscates the computers of two bloggers who posted their new screening directive — even though the document was not classified. Two bloggers received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents Tuesday after they published a new TSA ...
Again, Christopher Hitchens cuts through the nonsense: The truth about airplane security measures. Why do we fail to detect or defeat the guilty, and why do we do so well at collective punishment of the innocent? The answer to the first question is: Because we can’t—or won’t. The answer to ...
Christopher Hitchens, Terrorism, Security, Airline Safety, TSA
A group of Muslim passengers was removed from an Airtran flight at Reagan International Airport yesterday, after passengers reported hearing them discussing airport security. Members of the party, all but one of them U.S.-born citizens who were headed to a religious retreat in Florida, were subsequently cleared for travel by ...
CAIR, Islam, Discrimination, Airline Safety, Council on American Islamic Relations, Security
TimesOnline has excerpts from the “martyrdom video” of Umar Islam, one of the British Muslims accused of planning a mass murder attack on several transatlantic jetliners: Times Online TV | Audio / Video.
LGF, Britain, Terrorism, Militant Islam, Islam, Jihad, Airline Safety, transatlantic
More repellent details from the 2006 Islamic terror plot to blow up multiple jetliners over the Atlantic: British Muslims in airliner terror plot ‘talked of taking families on suicide missions’. Members of a British Muslim terrorist cell discussed taking their wives and children on suicide missions to blow up transatlantic ...
LGF, Britain, Terrorism, Militant Islam, Islam, Jihad, Airline Safety
Details emerged from a British court today about the Islamic terror plot to blow up at least 7 jetliners simultaneously over the Atlantic, for which eight British Muslims were arrested in August 2006: British Muslims ‘planned to kill thousands by bombing SEVEN transatlantic airliners in one go’. They are: Abdulla ...
Does the loser who tried to light his shoe bombs with a match have important information about ongoing plots to attack the US? Prosecutors want to question shoe bomber. BOSTON - Federal investigators told a judge Tuesday that they want to question would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid because it was likely ...
Terrorism, Airline Safety, Security, Richard Reid, Shoe Bomber
Numerous transportation and law enforcement officials have told the public to be vigilant, and not hesitate to sound the alarm if we see something suspicious on an airplane. But they didn’t mention that doing so might get you thrown off the flight: Bearded Spaniard Prof. Forced Off Plane. (Hat tip: zombie.) (09-28) ...