Posted on 01/08/2010 10:24:26 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Unruly man grounds AirTran flight
By Mashaun D. Simon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
9:16 p.m. Friday, January 8, 2010
The unruly and allegedly drunk passenger who forced an emergency landing of an AirTran jet flying from Atlanta to San Francisco Friday is being held over the weekend in anticipation of federal charges being filed Monday.
Muhammad Abu Tahir, 46, of Virginia was transported to the El Paso, Co. County jail where he will be detained on a federal hold, said FBI officials.
Federal charges for interference with a flight crew are expected to be filed, FBI spokeswoman Kathleen Wright told the AJC Friday night.
The incident occurred on AirTran flight #39 as the plane neared Colorado Springs, Co. AirTran spokesman Tad Hutcheson told the AJC Friday afternoon. The Boeing 737 was almost four hours into the flight, and had 132 passengers and five crew on board.
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Muhammad Abu Tahir, 46, of Virginia
Hmmm. I bet that guy is Amish.
Another article which can’t be posted said he grabbed a flight attendant’s arm, then took off his socks and shoes and threw them.
.......'scuse me........it that an Irish or Norweigan name?
Some of these have GOT to be tests.
Always ask.
W.W.E.A.D.?
What would El-Al do?
They seem to like Airtran don’t they?
The worst publicty airline can image: “Jihads love our planes.” :-)
Sounds chinese to me...lol
How much more abuse are they going to take before they start using good ole profiling..and keep them off the damned planes. Better yet, throw them all the hell out of OUR country.
Satan has got them all tied up in knots. What’s with the damn shoes anyway?
I think its like giving someone the finger...
What happens on the day that 2-300 of these jihadists take over that many airplanes all over the world?
Hmmm. I bet that guy is Amish.
OH yeah...
I’ll leave that alone.
I think they are testing us. And they are testing very very often us since the flying immams...since a while. This is NOT good. Something big is up.
Or...a “cry wolf” plan.
IOW—you get a good number of muslims to ACT like they are a threat...cause a disturbance on some plane or such..over and over..
After enough times of ‘false alarms” and the ensuing ACLU and ACORN, SEIU and CAIR lawsuits over “rights of the poor innocent Muslims”..THEN...the TSA would begin to think”we are overreacting” and start ignoring said actions. At that point the REAL terrorist acts coud go ahead unheeded—till it is too late to stop them.
Just a thought.
AL Qaeda is winning the march against freedom. America and her knee-jerk reactions are plain stupid. Profile and be done with it already.
Good post.
It's OK to profile for Diversity programs.
It's OK to profile with the Census.
You can't profile for National Security.
Allahu {hic!} {stumble} Akbar!
Yes it was. To bad dumbasses are in charge and fail to use the good sense God gave them. If you don’t believe in God and Satan, Satan will capture you, thats his mission. It ends in misery and death.
This Country can be secure in an instant. The things going on lead me to believe they do not want it secure. I feel that socialism is using fear to eradicate personal freedom.
Hmmm Wonder is out leaders all left Washington over the holidays because they knew an attack was in the works and they thought the target was DC????????
There was a tweet that said that he emerged from the bathroom without his socks and shoes - and holding a razor.
If he’d already thrown his socks and shoes at the flight attendant, that would explain that part of it. But where’d he get the razor?
What really concerns me is that the other passengers may have not noticed anything odd or different about this guy, that these Muslims are getting taught how to “blend in”.
The pressure must be on, they get scrutinized more intensely, they have fellow passengers openly eyeballing them, air crews possibly reassigning an air marshal next them plus the Islamic indignity of being body scanned.
Its obvious what they thought was a weakness in their favor of American PC they now find open hostility, segregation and constant surveillance. And this is a tactic they cannot deal with and is creating these situations of sudden Jihad syndrome to occur, and its going to keep on happening, Muslims may be organizing a mass air transport, buy tickets anywhere, create as many skirmishes as they can, make hundreds of flights cancel, turn around or tie up other assets like ANG.
Pretty much all that can be done is at this stage is for the no fly lists to be expanded to include more restrictions of Muslims in the profile age.
That's what I think too. They won't be able to kill any infidels, but the penalties for this type of behavior are not very severe and they can still do a lot of damage to the Great Satan by bogging down our transportation system (and our lives!).
bttt
Unless they’re planning to get so bad so as to force a shoot down and that’s how they plan to kill hundreds of people in the plane. Sort of suicide by cop, in the air.
I doubt we will see any shoot down except possibly near a nuke plant or Washington DC.
As it stands right now its near impossible to take control of a commercial aircraft and its a taboo subject in some respects but ground controllers can remotely control aircraft with auto pilots to keep them in a holding pattern.
Diversionary? from what? At sea attacks on cruise ships?
I fear the single most advantageous tool that Muslim terrorists have right now is big rigs, 18 wheelers that can be used in many ways to create traffic accidents, tunnel explosions, under water tunnel fires etc.
Given in due time with these air incidents bus and train travel will expand, possibly passenger ships for Atlantic crossing may re-appear though in our get it now society I doubt it.
Getting cattle to move to the slaughterhouse pens require a good and abundant application of cattle prods, where are the Muslims herding us to?
They won’t get that far today. The passengers all know there is only one result if the plane is comandered and someone will stand up to do a Todd Beamer and crew on them.
I’ve got a trip coming up next month to go train in some advanced mixed martial arts. If there’s a guy like this on my plane, training will begin earlier than scheduled...
Guys and gal, I had a thought on this. Even if this idiot was not a terrorist, he terrified the people on the plane, tied up military assets and created a media stir, just by doing the comparatively things that he did.
His profit/loss balance worked out for him. He won’t do any jail time, he will probably get lauded by the folks at his mosque and he got away with giving the US a big scare. His losses? He is interrogated for a while, perhaps surveilled a bit, and put on a watch list, maybe a no-fly.
Even if the punishment was harsher, CAIR would be the first jumping up and down about religious and ethnic persecution.
I agree-testing.
And like a magician, you have to keep your eyes on the other hand which may be reaching for trains, subways, malls etc?
These people are NOT stupid, unfortunately, Janet & Co are...self induced stupidity caused by excessive kool-aid drinking.
Exactly. The Jihadists training quite frankly, many of them in Yemen and some elsewhere, is to hit TRANSPORTATION, and that is not limited to just air travel, but can and could include busses, trains, tunnels for expressways, subways, etc. and also crowded places like churches, malls, schools, public entertainment events. It is just that air travel is getting the attention and efforts these days, while they could be engaging in diversionary tactics and hit other areas just as well. I think the American People out there sense it, but I know for a fact that while the Administration, which has far more Intelligence (not as in “smarts” but as in “information”) than the People, has only 1/100th of the WILL of the People to stand up to it. We are all pretty much on our own, just like Katrina heading for land. Don’t count on the Government.
Bingo, we have a winner!!!
The only way our elected officials in DC will ever give a rat's rear about this sort of thing is if they are forced to give up their private planes and fly on the same possible target the rest of us are flying on!
Imagine if, like our Founders, they lived and traveled like the rest of us? No private planes, cars, security, healthcare, bonuses, paid global travel-vacations and they could only shop at WalMart and Sears.
It would change a LOT of things in this country.
Maybe they would start to even get some common sense if they had to live like ‘commoners’.
That’s why they can’t see what’s coming. They can’t even sense what we, the American people sense is about to happen. We all feel the danger right now and I, quite frankly, do not feel safe traveling or in a crowded public place of ANY kind. And what are they spending day and night on-in secret??-our healthcare. And what good is that if we are not safe and are being slowly infiltrated?
I think the enemy are sitting back and laughing at us- using a machine to look thru people’s clothes and frisk a nun in a wheel chair.
They are attacking us on MANY different fronts at the same time; not only are they trying to kill us openly on airplanes, but they have moved into our country, our schools, our govt. They work for our airlines,they are in our military. They are doctors and lawyers and business owners. The list goes on and on. They have successfully managed to blend in thanx to our PC-culture.
They have infected our country and right now, we have a compromised immune system thanx to Obama-a muslim.
We, the people can see it and feel it because we don’t live behind the New Iron Curtain. And the survivors will be the ones who don’t look to the DC-govt for what to do next.
Americans are on their own and I think that that is stressing people out more than anything; we at FR are the lucky ones-we know NOT to count on them for anything, but the rest of Americans are like sheep without a shepherd. All they know is that we are in trouble, so while we evil conservatives cling to our guns and God, they just hang onto the remote control and the latest issue of People Magazine.
These are simply isolated incidents of extremism by people who have hijacked a religion. .... YEAH RIGHT....
Common sense will tell you that these terrorists are always testing the waters. They did it under Clinton , Bush and even now when the whole world loves our Dear Reader. As much as the success or failure of an attempt, is our reaction and response.
When Bush was in he took a measured tone and acted deliberately, in short he treated it as an act of war. Under 0Dumbo we get mixed messages, followed by indecision until the public and even the MSM starts asking "what the h#ll is going on here?". Then we get backpedaling, lots of false bluster couched in PC terms and in general a keystone cops act. Now maybe behind the scenes things are proceeding smoothly. I'd like to think so, but perception is everything in this game. The terrorists watch our media and see the public reaction and so even though the attack itself failed, they see Zippy's administration thrown for a loop and so they declare victory on their websites, thus encouraging more attempts.
He (and all other flight disruptors, no matter the nationality) should get an automatic 10 years in prison and made to pay restitution for the scrambled jet costs.
Just sayin’
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Muhammad Abu Tahir
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Not this Islamic Sh-t again....
This is really getting old.
Thanks for the ping!
A serious question for ALL.
Just what do you all think will be the result, if, say there is a serious attack somewhere soon—that kills or/and injures thousands?? Be it a plane, bus, by a rig or somewhere in a public gathering??
Would Zero and his merry brigade finally realize “man, we have GOT to get tough on these Muslims—and stop this kind of stuff—tell CAIR to go to hell- turn some terrorist spots to charred embers, and crack down here—do true profiling for trouble—and even—dare I say it—some “friendly persuasion” techniques— ALA “Jack Bauer” on any terrorists caught??
Or...would they ramble on about “oh...this was an attempt to make Obama look bad by Bush, Palin, Cheney and the CIA”—like they did yesterday— and instead target ALL OF US— and restrict OUR freedoms??
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, what do you think...???
I doubt if this administration is capable of accepting personal responsibility, the buck will be passed in their own minds.
I am sadly afraid you might be right
Profile mooslims. If they are allowed to do the dirty deed on the USA, there will probably soon be none left to profile.
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