Posted on 12/25/2009 4:32:29 PM PST by GOP_Lady
Man on Flight to Detroit Claims Al Qaeda Ties; Obama Tightens Security
DETROIT -- A passenger on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight tried to detonate an explosive device that was strapped to his leg and later told investigators that he was trying to blow up the plane and had affiliations with al Qaeda, according to a senior U.S. official.
The man, who has not been publicly identified by officials, told investigators that he was given the device by Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, where he was also given instructions on how to detonate it, the official said. The Associated Press reported that Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) has identified the man as a Nigerian named Abdul Mudallad.
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Detroit Metro is not “in” Detroit, but Romulus, and sits right next to I-94. There was a pretty bad crash back in ‘87 I think it was, Northwest flight went down right after take off (same airport) and crashed on the highway. Only one survivor - a baby/toddler.
Makes you wonder where the Air Marshal(s) were on this flight???
Obviously the intel was off as well...
But then again the clock has already been turned back to pre-9/11 mentality...
It is only a matter of time before a success is achieved...
I’m not surprised by any of this...
I can say dead and broke.
The passengers put out the fire on his crotch with water. I would have used my size 12 steel toed boots.
As horrifying as this is, there is something very entertaining about the guy setting his own pants on fire and burning himself; hopping around and trying to take his pants off, people throwing water on him and then the Dutch guy jumping him. I sincerely hope Dutch guy got in several good licks before it was all over. The BIG QUESTION: how did he get on that plane if he is on a no-fly list, and how did he get a visa?
Wow!A “man-made disaster” is narrowly avoided!
think I remember that crash...stand by.
I think I'll drive out there and put my name on an employment application list. I really want one of those 3800 new prison jobs the 100 or fewer detainees from Gitmo and elsewhere are going to engender for residents in that podunk town.
Leni
Homeland Security has to be scrambling right now......
IMHO, the TSA is afraid to detain a Muslim, little grey haired white ladies, are prime candidates for searches
Either that or....maybe two out of the four might be right.
Yeah, that's it...that's the ticket.
Yep, Flight 255. 16 August 1987. 156 fatalities, one survivor. Pilots didn’t have the flaps set right and she stalled out on takeoff. The little girl who lived graduated from U of Alabama with a degree in psychology back in’06.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_255
How did the terrorist get past security?
Al Qaeda Bombers Learn from Drug Smugglers
New Technique of Storing Bomb Materials Inside Body Cavity Nearly Kills a Saudi Prince
There is no “inner sanctum” at Schiphol. Secrity is at every gate when you board.
I hard Rep. Peter King say on CNN that this person was NOT on a “no-fly” list.
No one dropped the ball. Thanks to the governments diversity and tolerance programs, the screener didn't believe that there was a bomb strapped to the muslim terrorists leg, The screener believed the muslim terrorist was just happy to see him.
Al Qaeda Bombers Learn from Drug Smugglers
New Technique of Storing Bomb Materials Inside Body Cavity Nearly Kills a Saudi Prince
Sept 2009
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main5347847.shtml
(CBS) Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports.
Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia’s counter terrorism operations.
To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia’s most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince’s own secret service agents - all without anyone suspecting a thing.
How did he do it?
Taking a trick from the narcotics trade - which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities - Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.
This was a meticulously planned operation with al Qaeda once again producing something new: this time, the Trojan bomber.
The blast left the prince lightly wounded - a failure as an assassination, but as an exercise in defeating security, it was perfect.
The bomber persuaded the prince he wanted to leave al Qaeda, setting a trap.
Al Qaeda has an animated movie showing the meeting between the bomber and the prince. Asieri says more senior al Qaeda figures want to surrender and convinces the prince to talk to them on a cell phone.
In the conversation recorded by al Qaeda, you hear a beep in the middle of two identical phrases that are repeated by the bomber and his handler.
Explosives experts tell CBS News that beep was likely a text message activating the bomb concealed inside Asieri.
The Trojan bomber hands the phone to Prince Mohammed. He’s standing next to him, and 14 seconds later, he detonates.
“This is the nightmare scenario,” said Chris Yates, an aviation security consultant.
On a plane at altitude, the effects of such a bomb could be catastrophic. And there is no current security system that could stop it.
“Absolutely nothing other than to require people to strip naked at the airport,” said Yates.
And al Qaeda says it will share its new technique via the Internet very soon. There is nothing that can stop that either.
Thanks for the link.
I lived near the approach path of the airport in Portland, Maine. I always wondered what the heck we would do if a plane went down out there.
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