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Terror hero: I didn't hesitate (passenger who tackled ROPer talks)
New York Post ^ | 12/26/2009 | TOM LIDDY

Posted on 12/26/2009 6:55:19 AM PST by NYRepublican72

A Dutch airline passenger told The Post how he leapt into action when an alleged Muslim terrorist tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner packed with 300 people just moments before landing.

Chaos erupted as alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23, tried to set off a sophisticated explosive device strapped to his body.

"Suddenly, we hear a bang. It sounded like a firecracker went off," said Jasper Schuringa, a film director who was traveling to the US to visit friends.

"When [it] went off, everybody panicked ... Then someone screamed, ‘Fire! Fire!’"

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; deltaflight253; flight253; hero; jasperschuringa; jihadinamerica; muslim; northwestflight253; religionofpeace; rop; roper; schuringa; terrorist; wot
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1 posted on 12/26/2009 6:55:19 AM PST by NYRepublican72
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To: NYRepublican72
I read in another article that "...they ran in the aisles and "grabbed the fire extinguishers,"

One could only wish they used those fire extinguishers as cudgels to subdue the POS. One of those would leave a healthy dent in his head, hopefully with a fatal brain injury resulting.

Now, we won't even have the option of being able to interrogate him and wring all information and every contact and previous activity out of him and sending him on to Gitmo.

He will go to a facility where he will be left alone and fed 3 square meals a day, cable television and be provided with a lawyer at OUR expense.

2 posted on 12/26/2009 6:57:51 AM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: NYRepublican72

Good for him.

I always thought the Dutch were neutral.

But then, Corrie Ten Boom was Dutch.


3 posted on 12/26/2009 6:58:51 AM PST by Mrs.Z
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To: NYRepublican72
Me: I didn't hesitate, I ripped his throat off and shoved my fist down his neck
4 posted on 12/26/2009 6:58:54 AM PST by MaxMax (Obamao can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: NYRepublican72
sophisticated explosive device

Has this been verified? The MSM reports I've heard/seen have played this down, that this fellow is some sort of rogue person who has been 'influenced' but not 'actually trained' by Al-Qeda.

Yeah, right. No connection between the two. None at all, nothing to see here, certainly no TERRORISM involved, I'm sure...has HolyO and the WH issued a statement yet condemning TERRORISM on AMERICAN PLANES???

Haven't caught up on all the morning news yet, so I shall withhold my sarcastic comments until I do.
5 posted on 12/26/2009 7:02:10 AM PST by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
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To: NYRepublican72

Dutch airline passenger told The Post how he leapt into action when an alleged Muslim terrorist tried to blow up a Detroit


About time the news media called the perp a MUSLIM terrorist


6 posted on 12/26/2009 7:02:40 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Candor7; appalachian_dweller
Jasper Schuringa, a film director who was traveling to the US to visit friends....
7 posted on 12/26/2009 7:03:07 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: NYRepublican72

Just WOW. Airline travel will just get even LESS enjoyable.


8 posted on 12/26/2009 7:03:20 AM PST by 2harddrive
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
About time the news media called the perp a MUSLIM terrorist

Well, it is the New York Post. They have no problem calling a spade a spade. The religion of peacer was a Muslim terrorist.

You won't see that on the alphabets, CNN or MSNBC.

9 posted on 12/26/2009 7:05:31 AM PST by NYRepublican72
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Geert Wilders will be proud of Mr. Schuringa.

I only wish that he'd unleashed some real hate on the muslim terrorist.

10 posted on 12/26/2009 7:08:12 AM PST by Semper Mark ("Brevity is the soul of wit." Besides, I only have so much tagline space.)
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Not taking anything away from the reactions of crew and passengers, but by the time they had acted the issue was already decided. The explosives had fizzled. Had it not the plane would have gone down before they could have prevented it.


11 posted on 12/26/2009 7:11:55 AM PST by tlb
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To: Mrs.Z; knighthawk

The Dutch contributed forces to our efforts in the sand box.

we also have some active Dutch FReepers. They get a gold star for the bravery of their countryman.


12 posted on 12/26/2009 7:12:50 AM PST by KC Burke (...but He has made the trains run on time.)
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To: NYRepublican72

I think it would be fitting for Queen Beatrix to present this fellow with a medal of some sort.


13 posted on 12/26/2009 7:16:56 AM PST by csvset
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To: NYRepublican72

well. thank God for him!!


14 posted on 12/26/2009 7:18:09 AM PST by ronniesgal
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To: Markos33

I was trying to remember his name. I have link to FITNA saved on my computer, but live link dumped it because of terrorist threats. I encourage all freepers who haven’t seen FITNA to look it up. There are still links to it.


15 posted on 12/26/2009 7:18:42 AM PST by mefistofelerevised
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To: rlmorel

Now wait a minute — look at what’s happening to those Navy Seals who are accused of making a terrorist feel bad or something. (sarc./off).


16 posted on 12/26/2009 7:22:26 AM PST by elk
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To: elk

Yeah. But for THEM we can bind their hands with telephone wire and poke them with cattle prods to confess. After all, Navy SEALs are one of America’s most DANGEROUS enemies.

Or, at least, Obama’s...


17 posted on 12/26/2009 7:25:40 AM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: NYRepublican72

Naturally we must not “jump to conclusions”. Perhaps this fine young representative of the ROP accidentally “flicked the Bic” in his pocket, starting a small but embarrassing fire! No doubt he and CAIR will file an assault suit against the Dutchman. Eric Holder and our Whitey House Muslim-in-Chief will be of great assistance.


18 posted on 12/26/2009 7:27:36 AM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Mrs.Z
I always thought the Dutch were neutral.

The Dutch have their own mega-problem with Islam and are fully aware of the threat to their own country as well as the rest of the world.........

Reference the murder of Theo Van Gogh........

19 posted on 12/26/2009 7:39:00 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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To: Mrs.Z

> I always thought the Dutch were neutral.
I don’t care how neutral someone is. If they’re confronted with a bomb and a terrorist then self preservation trumps neutrality.


20 posted on 12/26/2009 7:40:56 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Hoax and Chains)
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