I was watching the news earlier and there was a bomb threat on a plane in Chicago. Did anyone else hear anything about that?

The wonders of Google.

Bomb threat prompts plane to return to Chicago's Midway Airport

An anonymous bomb threat prompted a Southwest Airlines flight to return to Midway Airport shortly after it took off Friday afternoon, officials said.

Chicago Department of Aviation spokeswoman Monique Bond said that after Flight 1003 bound for Phoenix took off at 3:05 p.m., an anonymous caller phoned the Chicago Police Department's 911 center and said there was a bomb aboard.

No bomb has been found, Bond said.

"The threat was specific enough in nature that the decision was made to bring the plane back to Chicago," Southwest spokesman Ed Stewart said.

How many more to go?

Doesn't matter.

If it takes one year or one hundred -- eventually we will get them all!

It will be interesting to see who is hired to defend him -- and who will be footing the bill.

"legtimate charities"??
HA!

"website maintenance"...like loading all the new jihad messages, making sure everyone is up to date on killing the infidel?

OT but..

[Link: www.liberaloasis.com...]

even worse than the hitler ads.

don't you love these "friends, supporters, colleagues, and university officials"

As I recall, Arafat gave blood just after 9/11 and the French said they felt awful.

Talk is cheap, and deceptive.

This is based on a supposition that Americans are total idiots. Err, I suppose some of us are.

#7 placebo

How very intelligent and sophisticated. NOT!

OT - but I'd thought I'd update you all on the chill wind blowing, squelching of dissent, etc. Seems that when Bush came to Knoxville yesterday, the protestors weren't given unfettered access to him! They were so upset at losing their "free speech" that they were waving copies of the Constitution and there were at least three articles in the paper yesterday and today about the "loss" of their first amendment right to free speech. I suppose I should whip off a letter to the editor and try to let these people know that their right to free speech was quite active yesterday but the first amendment doesn't mean the President/government has to give you an audience any more than the second means they have to buy you a gun.

Bush visited a school to highlight the two-yr anniversary of "No Child Left Behind" and also had a fundraising lunch. Guess which the paper focused on? Well, the headline today was Bush grabs Big Bucks

#7, I'm having trouble believing that that is an actual ad and not a parody. I mean, "president dickhead"?

another lovely site...

"Veiled 4 Allah"

Irshad Manjii is on PBS now.

The Trouble With Islam

He did participate in "a blood drive for victims." Just not the sort we think of when we visit the Red Cross and have a needle stuck in our arm.

He was driven to try and create victims.

Will we never learn? It is time to end relations with the Saudis: Diplomatic, student "exchanges" etc.

Saudi Arabia is a seething mass of hate, antisemitism, anti americanism, jihadism, occasionally peppered with false sympathy for america. Their relations with the US is a necessary evil for them so they can receive their oil money, hone in on their computer and aviation skills for sinister purposes.

[Link: www.rightontheissues.com...]

OT

Check out the hysterical reaction over at Amazon.com in the customer reviews section to Richard Perle and David Frum's An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror.

Almost none of the 43 reviewers have even read the book, but that doesn't really matter: they just KNOW it's the Mein Kampf of the Twenty-First Century. The first review sets the tone for what follows:

These Neocons are Patriots all right: Patriots of Israel. Richard Perle even sits on the board of the Jerusulem Post. The fact is that these men are pretending to be acting in America's interests but are not. Since when is America's interest bombing every single Arab country? These men care about one thing, and one thing only: ISRAEL. American security would be seriously jeopardized for years to come if we listened to these whackos.

Do we really have to think or comment on the blood that Arafat "donates"? So many roadmaps, so little time...

This is a familiar pattern which will eventually become apparent even to the most obtuse Libs. The muslim fifth column is VERY active everywhere in the US.

My feeling is that in the recent past the arrogance of these a-holes has made them stick out like a sore thumb. My fear is that as they are pushed further and further underground they will become more sophisticated and stop relying solely on the good will of the multi-culti liberal dupes in this country.

They may realize that relying on our traditions of free-speech to preach thier vile creed of hate could backfire once the "Joe six-packs" out there wise up to thier game.

I think I prefer them out in the open where they are more vulnerable.

The more of thier vileness they puke out in public, the greater the revulsion Americans will have for them and thier odious, barbaric "religion."

Piss be upon them.

FaithFreedom.org

Idaho Statesman (dead link)
March 1, 2003

Adviser’s letter defends Al-Hussayen

A professor who was working closely with Sami Omar Al-Hussayen as he finished up a doctoral computer-science degree said he hopes to be able to work with him again to complete the degree. For the past year and a half, Al-Hussayen´s graduate adviser has been John Dickinson, a computer-science professor who retired in the fall.

Reached at his home Thursday, Dickinson referred questions to university public-relations officials. On Friday, he submitted a letter to the editor to The Idaho Statesman.

In it, Dickinson said Al-Hussayen was planning to graduate in May and that he recently had been meeting with him weekly.

“He has consistently made progress toward completing his degree, and I fully expected him to be able to finish this semester,” Dickinson wrote. “I believe that he is innocent of any serious charges.”

Al-Hussayen´s graduate adviser before Dickinson was Deborah Frincke, director of U of I´s Center for Secure and Dependable Systems...
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DOJ Indictment (11 Counts) of Sami Omar al-Hussayen, for "Violation of 18 United States Code 1545(a); 1001(a)(1) and (2), 3237 and 3238" (February 13, 2003)

(in part):

20. One of the aforementioned websites registered by AL-HUSSAYEN was [Link: www.alasr.ws...] On September 11, 2000, AL-HUSSAYEN registered the [Link: www.alasr.ws...] website. In about June of 2001, an article entitled "Provisions of Suicide Operations" was published on the internet magazine of the website [Link: www.alasr.ws...] The article was written by a radical Saudi sheikh. A portion of the article reads as follows:

"The second part is the rule that the Mujahid (warrior) must kill himself if he knows that this will lead to killing a great number of the enemies, and that he will not be able to kill them without killing himself first, or demolishing a center vital to the enemy or its military force, and so on. This is not possible except by involving the human element in the operation. In the new era this can be accomplished with the modern means of bombing or bringing down an airplane on an important location that will cause the enemy great losses."
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During his terror financing period, al-Hussayen was at all times living on a Saudi government stipend. On arrest, the Saudi Embassy hired Idaho's best known Defense attorney - David Neven (probably $500+ per hour) - who was instructed to seek his terrorist client's immediate release from custody. In fact, Neven successfully argued for such an order, but DOJ courtroom protests led to its cancellation.

The University of Idaho's Center for Secure and Dependable Systems, which is run by al-Hussayen's Faculty Advisor, Deborah Fricke, has a secure-engineering section, and does contract for the DoD, NSA (!) and the FBI. Al-Hussayen contributed to at least one research paper on their behalf, at a Florida conference on internet security. So why would these agencies indulge access to government secrets on behalf of a suspect individual? Great conspiracy? No, monumental stupidity! If the unholy koran tells muslims, "jihad is prescribed to you," don't be surprised if they take it seriously.

If the extreme Islamists ever become a majority in the US, they will pass an amendment justifying suicide bombing as a civil right.

The Idaho Statesman (dead link)
Jonathan Brunt jbrunt@idahostatesman.com
Feb. 17, 2003

MOSCOW — Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, who is accused of supporting terrorism, was affiliated with a program at the University of Idaho designed to prevent cyber terrorism.

On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney for Idaho Tom Moss said Al-Hussayen used knowledge he was learning in the U of I´s computer programs to assist terrorist groups.

Al-Hussayen, 33, was arrested Wednesday on charges of lying on his visa application. The federal grand jury indictment alleges that Al-Hussayen, a computer science doctoral student from Saudi Arabia, funneled more than $300,000 to groups that promote terrorism.

Al-Hussayen´s defense attorney said he has seen no clues to back up the claim that Al-Hussayen used knowledge acquired at U of I inappropriately. “My reading of the indictment doesn´t support that statement,” David Nevin said. “It leads you to wonder if they really have the evidence.”

Al-Hussayen was one of about 30 students at U of I´s Center for Secure and Dependable Systems, a research group that often is hired by companies and government agencies to help design programs to decrease threats from hackers and cyber terrorists. Because he was not a U.S. citizen, Al-Hussayen was not allowed to work on government projects considered sensitive, center Director Deborah Frincke said...

Since when is America's interest bombing every single Arab country?

Since about 8:48AM EDT on 9/11/2001.

Since when is Afghanistan an Arab country?

piano gal (#13):

Ah yes, Al-Taqqiyabah. She's actually a rather interesting case, combining the blinkered sanctimony of the hard Left with the deceitful malice of Islam.

Intermittently, she (tepidly) criticizes Muslim Jew-hatred -- that is, when not posting malignant filth such as this or this; condemns terrorism, or even professes respect for Bernard Lewis.

Whether or not she believes her own taqiyya (I tend to think she does, but only partially -- the other part being deliberate deceit) is irrelevant. Objectively, she is without a question a tool of the enemy -- the enemy whose name is expansionist Islam.

And she doesn't even have the excuse of those born into Islam and not having a way out, or simply not knowing any better. She is a convert, and obviously intelligent at that -- so her siding with the enemy is a conscious choice.

Every program that is affliated through that university is now suspect of being tampered with, hacked or even compromised by having some of its programming overwritten. I hope they have security experts examining every line of programming that he could have accessed.
No matter what they say about he didn't have access...I don't believe it.

Via the ISNA, there seem to be Wahhabi fingerprints on this case in Idaho.
So this article, although OT, also has some relevance to the bigger picture of what the Wahhabis are doing.

Islamist Hydra, by Tashbih Sayyed
[Link: www.paktoday.com...]
Mr. Sayyed, an American, who is of the Muslim faith, points out the dangers from fanatical Islamists, who are supporting terrorists, and points a finger at the Wahhabis.

#27

excellent! that guy Sayyed is way cool! so nice to read the heartfelt words of an American Muslim who loves the US and stands up against the extremists.

[Link: www.paktoday.com...]

#13 piano gal

I would not worry about "Veiled for Allah" as all of her links are rotten & old...that's what usually happens with any self-styled religiosity.

Move on, nothing to bother seeing there...

OT

This is a bit long, worth reading, reprinted from

Iraq the Model

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

Rebuilding or repainting?
Every body is showing his desire to see Iraq being rebuilt, and this is a justified ambition for my countrymen, as our country suffered from destruction for decades. But what’s happening now? And what has been accomplished till now? And more important; how is this going to be done in the coming years?
As for me, I know that we’re passing through a transitional period, some may not understand the necessity for that, but it’s the corner stone to start the rebuilding process.
This period makes the view unclear for many of Iraqis, and this is justified for my generation who wish to see the process finished in a short time, because, those people lost the most beautiful years of their lives in the multiple wars and crisis caused by the past regime. And there’s not much left of their lifetime to enjoy the benefits of the changes.
Unfortunately, this is not going to be done in a short time, and Iraqis have to realize that.
When it comes to this issue, Iraqis have different perspectives; the 1st. one doubts the credibility of the new government and the rest of the world will to rebuild Iraq.
This group was the one that made benefit of the presence of Saddam’s regime to reach their goals, and when the regime was gone their advantages were gone too.
Those people will not spare an effort to show their pessimisms, and voice their fear that they expect the worse to be coming in the future, and those are the most prominent picture shown on the Arabic media, which never wasted the chance to make interviews with them and show them as the representatives of the Iraqi people, and they relatively succeeded in show disfigured pictures and facts about the truly happening.
One should not forget that Iraqis daily are facing an enormous momentum of biased media.
The 2nd. Group that represents the majority feels that the future is better and hopes to see that on the ground in the next several years, but this feeling of hope is mixed with fear that something might happen and interrupt the ambitious plan or force some countries to abandon their promises.
This may be due to the long and brutal reign of dictators, so the Iraqis learnt not to trust governments’ or officials’ declarations as all they have heard before was a series of lies.
However, what makes me feel optimistic; is that this group didn’t lose hope yet.
The 3rd. group of Iraqis sees clearly that there’s a bright future for Iraq and that Iraq will become one of the best nations in the ME. This comes not only from the desire and efforts of Iraqis, but also because they realize that the interests of Iraq meet with those of the powers that worked to liberate the country. This project is a necessity for the coming political and economical changes in the world and the ME in particular. These changes gained their obligation from the need to face the challenges that erupted in the last few years.
The last group believes that the project will take a long time and great efforts, and requires Iraqis to be united and to get over the selfish interests (tribal, religious or ethnic).
This group is trying hard to make this clear to the rest of Iraqis, but it lacks the capabilities and qualifications of strong media. That’s why it’s hard for this group to reach the minds of the others and exhibit their point of view. Any way, it’s fighting hard to do the job.

I see that it’s necessary for the rebuilding process to coincide with rebuilding of the political, social and economical thinking of the Iraqi people.
Without this, we will not be able to overcome the bad aspects of the past and the influence of the totalitarian theories, which dominated for decades.
We should concentrate on rehabilitating the constitutional institutes, to make these able to define civil duties and rights.
Without that, we won’t be able to build a modern, civilized Iraq.
Corruption, ethnic and religious preferences will create hard obstacles for the rebuilding process, but there’s still a significant point that many may miss, which is the citizen’s feeling about public interests.
It’s not easy to convince an Iraqi that the state possessions belong to him as well.
And the proof is what happened after the regime has fallen, which was not surprising to us.
The lootings that happened to the governmental buildings prove the feeling of the Iraqi that these did not belong to him, but rather to Saddam and his family.
And we noticed that as those buildings or properties had closer relations to Saddam, like military or security headquarters, as the looting and destruction were more intense, to the extent that some of those had even their bricks stolen.
The new administration should bring back the citizen’s trust that these foundations and properties are built to serve him and they belong to him just like every other citizen.
I stress once again, if the reconstruction is not accompanied by rebuilding of beliefs and thoughts, then the whole process will be just repainting, and not rebuilding.

by Mohammed.
- posted by Omar @ 20:47

16 Bill Green
I agree
"Saudi . . . Supporting Terrorism." Kind of redundant, isn't it?

People don't understand how these Islamofacists have infliltrated our universities. Even back in the 80's, our off-campus Islamic center was in the ghetto behind 10 foot fences and razor wire.

In my engineering classes the Islamofacists would bully teachers and not speak or look at anyone that was not Muslim. An Indian friend of mine (our enemy at the time) was shocked at some of the Muslim freaks that were allowed to enroll and he seemed genuinely scared of them.

Oh, and by the way, the only students in the Nuclear Engineering Department were all of Middle Eastern origin.

If the FBI doesn't have a list of every Middle East/Pak/Indian student at U.S. universities and have agents casing every college muslim center, then we're in trouble.

He gave himself away when he was the only one in the crowd who didn't get the "Miss I-da-ho" joke.

Piano Gal -

If the extreme Islamists ever become a majority in the US, they will pass an amendment justifying suicide bombing as a civil right.

Actually they probably won't need to. The heirs to William Kunstler (the Center for Constitutional Rights is heavily involved in defending these scum) will argue that suicide bombing is protected by the First Amendment, and the Ninth Circuit will rule in their favor.

If convicted, he could receive 15 years in federal prison.

Are we for real? 15 years??? Why not life? Everyone who is indicted as part of a terrorist conspiracy, regardless of their role, should be subject to life in prison, at a minimum. No parole. No prayer mats.

#9 Mr. Bigglesworth

I believe Arafat gave blood for the 5 Moslems killed (accidentally by friendly fire) in the 9/11 attack. And you're right, the French felt awful, but...awful about what? That more weren't killed?

The ACLU will protect him!

(Well, if the ACLU can break away from endlessly hassling those evil Boyscouts.)

Sounds alot like the Sami al-Arian case going on down here. He was a Computer Science Prof at the Univ of South Fl who is currently awaiting trial for the same type of charges. There are even videos of him spewing his support of the homicide bombers (he claims they were mistranslated). USF kept him on staff for 15 months debating whether or not to fire him...Our tax dollars at work-go figure.

Way O.T.

My husband was surfing the web and talking to me about information he was reading about Pakistan, when he suddenly said, "Hey, take a look at this picture!" It was a picture of five people dressed as the cartoon characters, "Power Rangers", dressed in helmets with dark visors, full-body spandex suits, gloves, and boots. And I'm like, "People in Pakistan are wearing 'Power Ranger' suits? Soon we were both talking about how women in Saudi Arabia could stop wearing abayas/burqas and start wearing power ranger suits because neither hair nor face is visible, plus it has the added advantage that if the religious police decide to beat you anyways, at least you're wearing a helmet. This was followed by a discussion that such women would also be meeting all religious requirements of concealing hair, face, and body by dressing like ninjas -- with the added benefit that if the religious police started to beat them, they would be fully armed. Finally it was added that Imperial Storm Trooper outfits would also do the trick, but if their weapons were needed, they are effectively useless.

#28 piano gal
Thanks for pointing out the current article by Tashbih Sayyed on The Islamist Agenda. Sayyed is right on.

I wish that Senators Kennedy and Harkin and the others who have been sucking up to CAIR would read this one article on the "radical Islamists working in the guise of Muslim advocacy groups" who seek to "prepare ground for a psychological war against the American freedoms". And he really has CAIR's number.

Spearheading this psychological war against the U.S. was Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR, to many Muslims, is a front for the Arab terrorist groups like HAMAS and Hezbollah. The fact the CAIR has never condemned HAMAS and Hezbollah leadership or the imams who defy Quraa'n's teachings by preparing young and innocent Muslims to become homicide bombers, supported this impression.

Anybody who is truly interested in understanding what CAIR is really all about should read this article. Thanks for linking to it. And since Tashbih Sayyed is a Muslim, CAIR can't pull the usual "racist" or "Islamophobe" character assassination against anybody who points out what CAIR is doing. I very much wish that Kennedy and Harkin would read it.

His publication, paktoday.com
is a good place to visit, any time.
And the archives that he has, including both articles by Tashbih Sayyed and others, including Pipes, is a great place to visit, at
[Link: www.paktoday.com...]
or you can click on it from his publication paktoday.com

I like that he refers to "free Muslims" in his current article. May their tribe increase.

Fellow LGF readers:

Take a look at this:

[Link: www.stevenberlinjohnson.com...]

And check out the latest (at this moment) reply at the end of the comments section, by someone named "Barlow." It's good, IMsHO, but seems to be lacking something... Can't put my finger on it, but this "something" might be the reason the Left always win the propaganda war...

Anyhow, I would be interested in what you guys think of this, your collective take on this, etc.

Scary about the PhD in computer security because in learning how to protect 'em you learn how they're hacked.

EE: Amen to your final sentiment :)

End to Evil?

You all gotta read this. "The United States Either Wins Or It Gets To Eat Crap" - Faust

[Link: www.editorsoffice.de...]

camel prophet

Because he was not a U.S. citizen, Al-Hussayen was not allowed to work on government projects considered sensitive, center Director Deborah Frincke said...

Ooh thats nice to know. I wonder when we will learn that citizenship is not an assurance of allegiance, when Muslims are concerned.

And from Dept of Homeland Security

The sinking of US battleships and the poisoning of US soldiers through what Al-Ablaj's asserted are al-Qa'ida elements inside the US Army and whom he described as ones with blue eyes. He pointed out that they are exactly like Na'im Bin-Mas'ud who hid his conversion to Islam.

[Link: www.homelandsecurityus.com...]

We have let in to our house a most poisonous, lethal and fanatic beast. As far as I can see, there are only two choices

1. Wage absolute war on the ME/Islamic world with no thought for collateral damage

2. Exchange Christian populations in the ME for 'our' Muslims.

I cant see any other choices available which do not enail our involvement in a long war that lasts 100 years or more, and a step by step curtailment of our freedoms.

Article called Know Your Enemy by Tashbih Sayyed
makes some important points about the enemy. This is the first of a series on that subject that he wrote
[Link: www.paktoday.com...]

Radical Islam is unlike anything that we have known in the past. It is Fascism, Nazism and Comjunism combined in one and much more. It is more organized, more funded and its cadres are convinced that they are fighting a God's war. There can be no enemy more lethal thatn the one who thinks that by killing others he is carrying out God's will.

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These cells [derive] their strength and energy from each other. That's why it is essential that they should be attacked simultaneiously. If we destroy their strongholds in Iraq and leave their centers here in the US and elsewhere untouched, they will spring up again in no time.

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Islamists represent a culture that wants to subjugate us all who love freedom.

The article is by an American, who is a self-described "free Muslim".

The article is called "Know Your Enemy".
I have to add to the article that it's also important to know your friend. Tashbih Sayyed is a friend.

31 Rock the casbah

If the FBI doesn't have a list of every Middle East/Pak/Indian student at U.S. universities and have agents casing every college muslim center, then we're in trouble.

I dont agree. We have a problem with Islamists or Muslims who take a literal interpretion of the koran. We do not have a problem with Christian Arabs and Pakistanis or Hindu Indians.

DP #46 -

Not have a problem with Pakistan? Where do you think North Korea, Iran and (probably) Syria got its nuclear knowhow from? Hmmm?