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Authorities Were on High Alert for Possible Hijack Attempt (allowed terrorists to board in Chicago!)
ABC News ^ | Aug 31, 2010 | RICHARD ESPOSITO, BRIAN ROSS and RHONDA SCHWARTZ

Posted on 08/31/2010 9:23:41 AM PDT by Innovative

The arrests of two men in Amsterdam for questioning in a terrorism investigation comes at a time U.S. law enforcement officials have been on a heightened state of alert to a possible hijacking of U.S. carrier flights from the Middle East, according to one senior U.S. official.

As a result, air marshals were onboard a Chicago-Amsterdam flight yesterday and kept a close watch on two suspicious passengers who had triggered security alarms, but were allowed to travel for "investigative purposes," law enforcement sources told ABC News.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airportsecurity; amsterdam; dryrun; hijack; maskofzer0; mosqueofzer0; peptobismol; pobo; spain4just75000day; terrorism; terrorists; unitedflight; wot; yemen
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This is beyolnd outrageous -- knowingly allowing terroristst to board a plane!

Why weren't THEY put through extra security and ARRESTED BEFORE boarding the flight!!!!

1 posted on 08/31/2010 9:23:53 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Look for something big on 9/11.


2 posted on 08/31/2010 9:27:05 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: Innovative

Because TSA really had no clue and this is an attempt to cover it up and make them look competent.


3 posted on 08/31/2010 9:27:44 AM PDT by Ingtar (If Washington and his peers had been RINOs, we would still be a British colony.)
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To: Innovative

i would be irate if i had been a passenger on one of their flights!!!!!


4 posted on 08/31/2010 9:28:09 AM PDT by sappy (criminallibs)
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To: Innovative

THE SYSTEM 'WORKED'


5 posted on 08/31/2010 9:28:31 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Innovative

wondering if the feds have such insider knowledge that they were confident it was a dry run. Maybe they wanted to see if there were airport personnel that were assisting? Seems unusually ballsy for the feds and all the info we know what they were carrying... usually we hear nothing. hmmmm


6 posted on 08/31/2010 9:29:38 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Innovative

I wouldn’t fly this week for anything.


7 posted on 08/31/2010 9:31:40 AM PDT by Crawdad (Obamacare will lead to back-alley physicals.)
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To: Innovative

Any WASP would be prosecuted for causing alarm.


8 posted on 08/31/2010 9:37:51 AM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: Walkingfeather

scary. i would hope that was the case like them assuring israel that iran is at least a year off from a nuke! Obama Administrations “Mission Accomplished” momentS!!!!


9 posted on 08/31/2010 9:38:12 AM PDT by sappy (criminallibs)
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To: Innovative

Anyone heard of their immigration status?


10 posted on 08/31/2010 9:39:05 AM PDT by Son House (Like Getting Liposuction, and Coming Out Fatter. Time to Convict Democrats of Economic Malpractice.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Big college football Saturday


11 posted on 08/31/2010 9:40:08 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (NO MOS-que AP: It's the "GROUND ZERO MOSQUE")
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To: Innovative
The FBI/HS started spinning this story early this morning trying to say that "it is premature to think" that these people were really terrorists or somesuch lie.

This is a HUGE mistake, especially with 9/11 coming so soon.


12 posted on 08/31/2010 9:41:30 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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13 posted on 08/31/2010 9:42:58 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Perfectly normal travel gear. /sarc


14 posted on 08/31/2010 9:46:42 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Innovative

“Geert Wilders, the popular MP whose film on Islam has fuelled the debate on race in Holland, wants an end to mosque building and Muslim immigration. Ian Traynor met him in The Hague,” Guardian UK

Gee I guess the Feds didn’t think the Islamofascist would actual send a plane /w terrorists to Holland.


15 posted on 08/31/2010 9:48:18 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Innovative

Soooo should I stop preparing for Man-Made Disasters?


16 posted on 08/31/2010 9:50:12 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: jimbo123

And Yet, The TSA TOOK my Grandmother’s Embroidery Scissors away! (and they were in a little bag with the half-finished cross stitchery, thread, and threaded needle, a clever disguise!)


17 posted on 08/31/2010 9:53:21 AM PDT by left that other site
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Wait...AP sources say "Unlikely two men were plotting terror"

So which is it?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2580784/posts

18 posted on 08/31/2010 9:54:39 AM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010)
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To: Son House

Read yesterday they were in the US legally.


19 posted on 08/31/2010 9:55:46 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

One of the muzzies is a permanent resident. The other muzzie had a tourist visa courtesy of The Kenyan’s state department.


20 posted on 08/31/2010 9:59:04 AM PDT by jimbo123
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