Posted on 08/17/2006 12:30:33 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Here is information I obtained that was provided to Federal Air Marshals, regarding yesterday's diverted London-to-Washington flight, featuring the "disturbed" woman--hardly a ringing endorsement of airport passenger screening at London Heathrow Airport, less than a week after Operation Bojinka 2 was foiled (she can take screwdrivers, but no lipstick for us): The passenger in question had these possessions on her person according to CounterTerrorist Intel:
Per CBP/NTC [Customs & Border Protection/National Targeting Center], the subject involved in the incident that occurred onboard UA 923 LHR-IAD was found with several objects on her person when she was taken off the aircraft in BOS [Boston]:
* 4 Lighters * Matches * Petroleum Jelly * 6-inch screwdriver * Chapstick * Car alarm remote
It shows that screening of passengers and their belongings is not exactly on par at London Heathrow. And certainly not as strict as the mainstream media is claiming to be. If she could get these on board, so could anyone else.
So much for George Naccara, federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration for Massachusetts Airports, who yesterday, told AP, she wasn't carrying any of these items (and flat out lied), when, in fact, she was:
An airport spokesman previously said the woman was carrying Vaseline, a screw driver and matches, but backed off the statement, and Naccara said it wasn't true.
"I don't know what she had on board with her, but we have been told she did not have a screw driver, she did not have any liquids such as vaseline, and any notebook she may have had, it did not contain an al-Qaida reference," Naccara said. "This is still playing out, of course."
"There was speculation in the beginning of all those items, but those have been proven untrue," he said.
Uh-huh. Since he lied about what she was carrying, did he lie about the note, too? Just asking. And why--if she was just a crazy lady--did they line up passenger's luggage on the Tarmac at Boston Logan Airport and inspect each piece. I mean, that's usually what you do when it's just a crazy lady and not an Islamic terrorist threat. Right?
The woman apparently originated from somewhere other than the UK and they are apparently still trying to ascertain what the deal was.
According to Federal Air Marshals, there were no Federal Air Marshals on the flight--which is interesting considering the mass plot regarding flights from Britain to the U.S., last week. Federal Air Marshals are wondering how come there were no Federal Air Marshals on a passenger-heavy transcontinental U.K. run just a few days after the "giant wake-up call" in London.
I believe the flight this woman was on was almost certainly one that the London terrorists had planned to blow up. The facts we have about her so far certainly can be fit into a scenario that makes her part of a London/Pakistan terror plot.
Hey, I hope you aren't below an ejectionee when they fall from the sky. I guess we'll have to get new insurance coverage for this if it comes available....
There are a lot of differently gifted people that board airliners and all you have to do is sit at the airport for awhile and watch them come and go!
I sat next to a crazy lady once on a flight from Dallas to Chicago. She ranted and raved the whole way about the most trivial items. She criticized every little thing and drove me nuts. Thank god we later got divorced.
Heh, heh....my husband has some of the same stories about his ex!!!
There have been many official denials that later proved to be false and others that many suspect are false (Flight 800, Flight 990 for instance). When a broad spectrum of citizens begin to suspect that their government lies to them on a regular basis, the results cannot be good.
She is just as disturbed and in precisely the same way as Richard Reid.
Wow. I hadn't heard those details about a suicide note. Why are we being kept in the dark??
"featuring the "disturbed" woman
Cindy Sheehan?"
Sheehan isn't disturbed, but she is quite disturbING
Jumaid me love you...I didn't wanna do it...I didn't wanna do it.
Why would there have been Federal Marshalls on a British flight?
Too funny. When I was a flight attendant, I used to push a pretend eject button in the galley when a passenger got on my nerves. Other crew members started to do it, too. It made us feel better, if nothing else. :^D
Americans are not surprised that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They are not surprised that Saddam Hussein cannot be found, and that Chemical Ali is missing instead of dead. They are not surprised that there is no Al Qaeda there. They are a little surprised that Iraq has so much desert, they thought that Baghdad made up most of the country. They are not surprised that Iraq’s only terrorist group has been recruited by US troops to serve as a police force. They are not surprised that Iraq’s nuclear facility has been looted, and Iraqi people are showing clear signs of radiation poisoning. What surprises them is that people are asking questions. It is all ancient history now, the stock market is up again, the news now is Martha Stewart again, and the Laci Peterson case, and the west nile virus. The rest of the world should be doing what they are doing: shrug your shoulders, man, what is done is done, it is time to move on. It goes right over the heads of Americans that when a crime has been committed, questions need to be asked.
Americans are true innocents when it comes to this. Since they did it, no crime has been committed, because America cannot do anything wrong. It is the innocence of an arrogance that even other empires in the world do not understand. When the Greek Empire ruled the world, or the British Empire, they understood that defeat at certain times and in certain places was inevitable. They knew that the power of a government did not insure its infallibility. Americans, on the other hand, make a false assumption based on the definition of democracy itself.
America relied on the free voice of its own people to tell the state when it was doing the wrong thing. Good prevails when every voice is heard with equal respect. There was no room in the American system for blind obedience. Each person in the country had the moral responsibility to speak his own truth, and to listen with equal seriousness to the truth of others. Judgments of right and wrong were made among the people themselves, through the humility of majority rule. When dissent is silenced, a person does not know the truth of the man standing next to him.
Cathy Mayo is an American journalist based in Pakistan
Source: www.dailytimes.com.pk
Wasn't Richard Reid the man she was going to marry in Pakistan?
You really should have put that entire thing in quotes or itallics... at least put a "barf alert" on it....
It sure seems like she was a stooge for someone.
Because it's an American airline.
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