Posted on 07/11/2007 6:33:07 AM PDT by MichaelP
JACKSONVILLE -- (AP) -- A man was charged with trying to bring a gun wrapped in aluminum foil and a towel aboard a plane at Jacksonville International Airport, authorities said Tuesday.
Ahmad Abdallah Abu Ghanam was on his way to Chicago then Jordan on Monday when Transportation Security Administration workers found the .380-calibar semiautomatic gun in his checked luggage. The serial number had been scratched off, said Michael Stewart, director of external affairs for the airport.
Abu Ghanam told police he bought the weapon on the street a month ago and he did not realize the serial number was missing.
Travelers are allowed to check unloaded handguns as long as they are declared to airline employees and are stowed in special cases.
Stewart said the discovery was a good sign because it shows an efficient system.
''The system worked. The attorneys and courts will handle it from here,'' Stewart said.
Abu Ghanam was charged with removal of a firearm serial number. He was being held on $10,003 bail, The Florida Times-Union reported.
So, he tried to "sneak" it into the baggage compartment, with all the other guns?
No. Just testing the system.
Man??? That is so sexist. TSA needs to start scrutinizing more great-grandmothers to make up for it.
What is this guy doing in our country?
The towel trick would lead one to believe he’s Methodist. But looking deeper into history, it’s the aluminum foil that gives him away. It’s an old Lutheran trick. Often used to disguise nefarious plots as “covered dish dinners”. See “Green Bean Casserole” as example and possible discussion point.
Shipping and handling
An area of about 12 square blocks in downtown Jacksonville was cordoned off by police Sunday after they arrested a man who they said had made a bomb threat.Police kept the area closed for most of the afternoon while they searched a car for a bomb, eventually concluding there wasn't one, Sheriff John Rutherford said.
The man was identified as Yossef Bouchlarhem, 34, police spokeswoman Lauri-Ellen Smith said. When police first approached him, he was speaking in both English and Arabic and saying "Allah is great," according to the police report.
Bouchlarhem has been charged with resisting police and with making a false report about a weapon of mass destruction, Smith said. Police reportedly searched a residence on Bert Road in connection with the case.
Another curious Jacksonville/Muslim fact is that the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida is right next to an airport.
The reason that this is disturbing is because the center is associated with CAIR and other terror-supporters:
Up until recently, Shah had made Florida his home. In 1996, he was the Imam of the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida (ICNEF), which is presently the spiritual dwelling of the National Chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Parvez Ahmed. [CAIR, a group created by a front for Hamas, is currently the defendant in a 9/11 lawsuit for the murder of FBI agent John O'Neill.] From at least May of 1996 through May of 1999, Shah acted as a Director for the Islamic center.
More Amish terrorism!
How times have changed! If anyone watched the movie “High and the Mighty,” with John Wayne, they would have watched a confrontation unimaginable today.
A disgruntled passenger confronts another and they struggle. The guy pulls out a gun to threaten him. Other passengers take the gun away and tell him to sit down and be quiet. He obliges. The stewardess tells all she will make everyone some coffee and everyone calms down. Towards the end, the passenger who grabbed the gun gives it back after the perp says he is sorry and promises to be good. (But he kept the bullets, just to be safe.)
Meanwhile, the whole flight crew lights up cigarettes. I wonder what young people today think when they see such a movie. When it first appeared, I saw it and was really impressed, back in 1954 or so. We tend to forget how innocent those days were compared to now.
8mm
This event took place a few days after it was announced some terror plot existed at Jacksonville Naval Airstation and Mayport where the JFK carrier was based before de-activation. Obviously there is no connection./sarcasm on!
Up here in Minnesota, the Lutheran Mullahs refer to that as "hot dish".
” wrapped in aluminum foil and a towel “
Hey, where’d he get the towel?
Oh, right......
Muslim? Just a coincidence, of course...
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong "cyber-terrorist" gang.
They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard.
One message read: "We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.
"The first target which will be penetrated by nine brothers is the naval base which gives shelter to the ship Kennedy." This is thought to have been a reference to the USS John F Kennedy, which is often at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, Florida.
According to the Congressional Research Service, “profiling” is defined “as the practice of targeting individuals for police or security interdiction, detention or other disparate treatment based primarily on their race or ethnicity [or religion], in the belief that certain minority groups are more likely to engage in unlawful behavior.” The debate on profiling has again resurfaced after 9/11 and its most affected groups have been the American Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities.
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From the FBI to local law-enforcement officials to conservative Republican senators, all serious people who know about protecting our national security have repeatedly stated that racial profiling is not an effective law-enforcement tool. As Americans, we deserve laws that are based on intelligence and evidence, not on a bunch of vigilante passengers on airplanes with rhetorical pitchforks hysterically pointing out who should be allowed to fly on our nation’s airlines.
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Profiling Muslims does seem to work and work well.
This is obviously a violation of the man’s civil rights. The gun was necessary for his prayer time. He was going to start shooting people while screaming “allahu akbar!”
The lawsuit can’t be far behind.
This is stupid. If an unloaded gun is in checked luggage, then it cannot go off by itself and nobody would be able to get to it while it's on the plane anyway. So other than some regulation mandating this, why does the gun need to be in a special case and airline employees told about it?
The "special cases" are to make it harder for TSA to steal the weapons.
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