Posted on 01/01/2009 7:46:55 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport yesterday afternoon after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark.
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 FBI agents who characterized the incident as a misunderstanding, an airport official said. But the passengers said AirTran refused to rebook them, and they had to pay for seats on another carrier secured with help from the FBI.
Kashif Irfan, one of the removed passengers, said the incident began about 1 p.m. after his brother, Atif, and his brother's wife wondered aloud about the safest place to sit on an airplane.
"My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security," Irfan said. "The only thing my brother said was, 'Wow, the jets are right next to my window.' I think they were remarking about safety."
Irfan said he and the others think they were profiled because of their appearance.
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this kind of prudent action will not happen during the osamaobama administration.
Heck I wish this would happen more often.
Irfan said he and the others think they were profiled because of their appearance.
That’s just too damn bad. Love it or leave it.
Tomorrow morning, CAIR will unleash its BS.
Also, if you attended a funeral service at a graveyard before flying, it's a good idea to wash off the bottoms of your shoes first. That way you will avoid extraordinarily personal searches of your luggage, and sock checks (where they go way beyond messing with your shoes).
“AirTran refused to rebook them, and they had to pay for seats on another carrier secured with help from the FBI.”
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The airline thought the incident serious enough to refuse to rebook them, but the FBI toes ahead and serves as their travel agent?
Two words one number
INTERSTATE
95
SOUTH
We Americans had a bad experience with muslims and aircraft about 7 years ago.
Hey CAIR STFU!
Preemptive strike! Wanted to avoid the holiday rush.
The legal action will begin next week. One guy thrown off was a lawyer, another was an anesthesiologist.
The muzzies are screwing with us. They know they can pull this crap because they’ve got the greedy ambulance chasers on their side who will do anything for the big bucks.
It’s worse. See my post #11.
Hell, one of them was on the plane. He'll make some serious hay out of that.
Why? What does graveyard soil contain?
Betcha if I made the same remark, I’d have been removed also.
Suck it up, muzzies. Your idiot mullahs got you into this mess. You can get out of it by simply killing them. Soon, I hope.
maybe fertilizer?
Yeah, and let’s hope they were removed and left in some other country!
Please see this ... The Third Jihad ...
And forward the link to everybody you know.
indeed.
You are being overly generous. Moslems should not be allowed into this country period. Of course that’s all daydreaming now when a certain Barack Hussein Obama will take the presidential oath. Who would have thought in just 8 years since 9/11.
We will only feel better and fully healed after reparations.
Practicing for their service to the Obama administration.
some will keep doing it until passengers are too skittish to say anything.
I think it’s the lime dust that gets picked up on their shoes, and is detected by dogs, explosives-sensing equipment, etc.
No amount of whining will make this untrue until the so called "moderate Muslims" come forward, which they never seem to do.
P.S. Lime dust and fertilizer.
You’re damn right they were profiled .. and if they don’t like it .. then they can just move to a country where they won’t be profiled.
I refuse to excuse these muslims who taunt us with their words and then declare they’re being profiled.
We didn’t profile on 9/11 - and look what happened!!!
Now how else could they be profiled? Should we go around with blindfolds on sniffing people up for cordite?
Not profiled because of your looks, but because of your Religion saying everyone but Muslims should DIE!
I wouldn’t have wanted to be on a plane with them either.
Also, they might have had an attitude.
Along with their pals at the ACLU.....
OK, I bit. You can reel me in now :)
Shoot the Islamic POS Bastards!!
Has anyone notified C.A.I.R. and the A.C.L.U. yet?
I love AMTRAK and I frequently take the long haul trip virtually all the way down the East Coast to Orlando. You have to produce a certain level of photo identification when you board, but other than that, that's it. The train is incredibly slow and almost never meets its scheduled arrival and departure times. That's why I love it. It's the perfect way to travel if you don't mind getting there eventually.
And I see no problem with that.
Try flying through Middle Eastern airports if you don't like profiling, Ahmed.
The screeners at airports in the Middle East blatantly profile their own. They'll do the routine security checks on Americans, but its Middle Eastern guys who tend to be stopped and thoroughly siearched.
Any way to fvck with the musslums works for me. And as someone else said, STFU CAIR. Tell it to muHAMmud.
“Legal action will begin next week.”
Not much chance of winning. American juries are not too high on Muslims right now.
ping
Off Topic, but interesting.
There is no specific url for the following info which is on the front page of TSA.GOV:
QUOTE:
TSA Week At A Glance (December 22, 2008 - December 28, 2008)
13 passengers were arrested due to suspicious behavior or fraudulent travel documents
20 firearms found at checkpoints
1 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints
16 incidents that involved a checkpoint closure, terminal evacuation or sterile area breach
stepping back in time...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741897/posts
“FOX ALERT: Passengers Taken Off Plane at MSP (Minnesota - Flying Imams, 2006)”
FOX 9 NEWS ^ | 11/20/06 | FOX 9 NEWS
Posted on November 20, 2006 7:06:49 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
"Hutcheson confirmed that it was ultimately the pilot's decision to postpone the flight. But he said the pilot was influenced not only by the complaints from passengers but by the actions of two federal air marshals on board, who had learned of the incident and reported it to airport police."
The pilot is the very last word on who may and may not fly with him. If he says they go, they go and as far as I know there is no recource except perhaps from the airline to the pilot.
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