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Posted on 12/31/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Velveeta
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With Pakistans nukes and Irans nukes...(both countries unstable,)...and now Israels Defense delegation departing secretly for India, and India has nukes...
This looks like something is very much brewing....perhaps even boiling??? I don’t like this...and then the Yemen issue hightened......how long can this not boil over???? and Irans leadership crisis..oh this doesn’t look good at all! This looks just too hot! Somethings coming.....
You walking where those angels won’t go again?
The pirates have commandeered so many ships with interesting cargo lately - they could sell a floating bomb to terrorists for even MORE money.
I’m with RR - staying home as much as possible and making soup.
Thanks Oorang - I found that article to be most troubling of all. They are assimilating into our military. Add that to the *&%$#@& we have in charge in DC and say goodbye to America as we knew it.
A Newark Airport guard who let an unidentified man breach a secure area, causing hours of flight delays Sunday, has been “reassigned to a nonscreening function, pending review” — and may be fired, the Transportation Security Administration said yesterday.
Video showed the intruder stroll past a checkpoint and through an exit lane at 5:20 p.m. and leave 20 minutes later through a different lane.
Travelers were rescreened for the next four hours as guards swept the terminal — nine days after Islamic terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a Christmas Day flight.
Meanwhile, Fox News reported that TSA officials waited more than an hour after learning of the security breach to notify police.
On the first day of what was supposed to be tighter screening ordered by the U.S. for airline passengers from certain countries, some airports around the world conceded Monday they had not cracked down. The U.S. demanded more careful screening for people who are citizens of, or are flying from, 14 nations deemed security risks. But enforcement of the U.S. rules appeared spotty.
For Detroit Metro Airport, tougher international airport security screenings will affect travelers from one of its key markets: Beirut.
January 4, 2010
Starting today, passengers flying to the United States from 14 countries with terrorism problems will face extra checkpoint screening at overseas airports, the Transportation Security Administration said.
Top 10 disasters of flight 253
Posted: January 04, 2010, 2:30 PM by NP Editor
Full Comment, Jamie Glazov
[1] Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is on a terrorist watch list and banned from the U.K. His father has warned U.S. authorities about him. He has no passport, checks no luggage and pays for a one-way ticket in cash. He is allowed to board Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
[2] Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano goes on TV after the Christmas day terror attempt and announces that “the system worked” and that “everything happened that should have.”
[3] The next day, the Secretary goes back on TV to explain her words were taken “out of context” and admits that the “system did not work in this instance.”
[4] Napolitano is not fired.
[5] After staying silent for three days while playing golf in Hawaii , Obama makes his first statement: He declares, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the al-Qaeda trained Abdulmutallab is “an isolated extremist.” The President refers to him as a “suspect.”
[6] The “suspect” is charged, lawyered up and given the right to remain silent — instead of being treated as an enemy combatant, thrown into a dungeon, and interrogated about other plots, al-Qaeda in general and the whereabouts of his al-Qaeda handlers in particular.
[7] The administration fails to use the word “jihad” in dealing with this terror attack by al-Qaeda and to admit that the U.S. is at war with Islamic terrorists who are inspired by certain tenets of Islamic theology.
[8] A policy of profiling is not immediately instituted for airline security.
[9] Obama does not announce his decision to keep Guantanamo open and to stop sending its detainees back to Yemen .
[10] Obama remains in office.
A suicide bomber who killed eight people in an attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan was a triple agent who apparently duped his handlers that boasts he wanted to die a martyr were just a cover, reports said.
The Jordanian intelligence services had brought the bomber to eastern Afghanistan with the specific mission of finding Al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, believing he was their double agent, US network NBC News reported late Monday, citing Western intelligence officials.
But instead he blew himself up at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost province near the Pakistani border, killing seven CIA agents and a top Jordanian intelligence officer and wounding six other people.
The killings marked the US Central Intelligence Agency's worst single loss of life since the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983.
??Too soon??
The US embassy in Yemen has reopened after “successful counter-terrorism operations” by Yemeni security forces north of the capital on Monday.
The embassy had closed on Sunday in response to what it had said were al-Qaeda threats, with the British and French embassies following suit.
On Tuesday, the US embassy said on its website that Yemeni security forces had addressed a “specific area of concern”.
The British and French embassies are operating but closed to the public.
“Successful counter-terrorism operations conducted by the government of Yemen security forces January 4 north of the capital have addressed a specific area of concern, and have contributed to the embassy’s decision to resume operations,” the US embassy said.
The statement apparently referred to an operation on Monday, some 25 miles north of Sanaa, in which two suspected members of al-Qaeda were killed.
The difficulties of travel within Yemen have prevented the BBC from independently verifying details of the raid.
Via BreakingNews
Yemen sends thousands of security forces to 3 provinces as part of anti-al-Qaida campaign; authorities detain 5 suspected fighters - Reuters
Deserved?
Ask any lib, and they’ll claim that You Are Too Rich To Be Taking Government Money.
Already heard that meme from a couple of twenty-somethings whose net contribution to the world is little more than Facebook postings. (Plus, hopefully, enough commitment to so-called “Choice” that they won’t procreate.)
I didn’t even laugh at them. Or kick their dumb butts up around their earlobes, which is what I was itchin’ to do.
As far as the libs inside the Beltway playing around with SS benefits goes, I’m thinking that will be more of an issue than anybody can imagine. Even their pimps in the media have always called SS the “third rail” of politics, but this could be more like a hair trigger.
Pakistan: Islamic cleric arrested for parceling out nine-year-old and three-year-old for marriage
"El-Faisal quoted Osama bin Laden and called on his supporters to kill non-Muslims using not only guns and bombs, but also chemical and nuclear weapons."
Islamic hate sponsor, expelled from Britain, arrested in Kenya
Iran's soccer chief apologizes for inadvertently not hating Israel enough
It must be some kind of new-fangled idea that this sort of thing could be acceptable, right? Wrong: "I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsulaand will not leave any but Muslim" - Muhammad, Sahih Muslim
British universities have become centers of jihad recruitment
Muslim who tried to kill Motoonist involved in earlier jihad plot to murder Hillary Clinton
Exclusive: Fatal Attraction – The Left’s Perilous Embrace of Radical Islam
Exclusive: Why Does the Constitution Matter Anyway?
Saul Alinsky and his "community organizing" methods and philosophy have had a profound influence on the politics of the United States. Recent history would suggest that this influence is just short of catastrophic.
Saul Alinsky and the Rise of Amorality in American Politics
Erroll Southers’ TSA Qualifications: Light on Experience and Truth, but Union-Friendly!
Steve Alert
Were Former Gitmo Detainees Behind Christmas Day Plot? by Steve Emerson
Aaaarggghhh.
Oh we’ve looked into funding heartily. that’s why NOE was developed. Funding has always been the key.
I have personally been aware of Khat since around 1999. The skinheads/neonazis were calling it Gott and extolling it pretty publicly.
I don’t think the usage is so far up in the schools as of yet, but among the muslim and nazi factions, it has become rife. It is as potent as cocaine, but far less recognizable. Looks like crushed spices you buy in grocery stores.
It is picking up as imports grow. We need to familiarize ourselves because it won’t be that long now before it hits Main Street.
“You walking where those angels won’t go again?”
Habit. A sometimes very dangerous habit. Someone once told me that they thought I lived for the game and couldn’t stand to be out of it.
That might be a LITTLE true, but the real reason is that SOMEONE has to do it and fighting the evil NOW protects us for the future. I cannot just sit passively by and watch evil on the march without doing everything in my power to stop it...or at least make others aware of it, because their futures and our childrens’ futures depend on us being alert and knowledgeable.
Joan Rivers Latest Victim of Tightened Airport Security
By Roy Edroso in Featured, The Fabulous Life, Transportation
Tuesday, Jan. 5 2010 @ 9:39AM
We’re all a little jumpy after the crotch-bomber, so it was to be expected that one day a celebrity would find that all her wealth and fame couldn’t get her past airport security.
“I was 20 minutes late, big deal,” Joan Rivers tells Good Day NY, describing her “ordeal” in Costa Rica, where she said she was kept off a flight back to Newark because her passport, which had both her personal and professional names, was confusing to security personnel or, as Rivers has it, “some stupid bitch at the gate.”
The snafu left the comedienne stranded overnight in Costa Rica — which is known as the Happiest Country in the World, but having “no ATM card and just $100 cash,” for some reason, Rivers was unable to enjoy the extra night in paradise. You may watch the Good Day hosts listening to Rivers on the phone here; though back safe and sound in America, she still sounds disoriented.
Rivers does get out of the incident some material — “They put me in a hotel. Room service was delivered by an exterminator.” Ba dum boom! — and some publicity, so it’s not a total wash, though it remains an Indictment of Our Way of Life. Rivers performs tonight and tomorrow at the West Bank Cafe.
Continued - only because I can only imagine the grief she gave them :D
The acid-tongued star was trying to fly from Costa Rica to Newark airport in New Jersey. But as she tried to board, the 76-year-old was pulled to one side after a Continental Airlines security agent checked her details.
Her passport reads: “Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers.” Rosenberg was her late husband’s last name.
The fashion-loving Rivers said afterwards: “If I were going to make up an alias, I wouldn’t pick Rosenberg. I’d pick Jolie or Pitt.
“Do terrorists wear Manolo Blahniks? I can tell you Donna Karan does not make anything that hides a bomb.”
She told a US newspaper: “I tried the tears; they didn’t work. I tried reasoning. I couldn’t bribe because I didn’t have any money.
“I said ‘I’m going to have a heart attack over this,’ so the woman called the paramedics.”
She eventually managed to get a flight home the following morning, she says.
A frequent-flier from California with a 14-inch titanium rod implanted in her right hip told The Post yesterday that she routinely sets off metal detectors around the globe — but the ones at JFK’s Terminal 7 don’t make a beep.
Berna Keiler, 62, a footwear executive from Santa Barbara, saw the potential for disaster when the machines she passed through in the terminal — which handles eight airlines, including British Airways — failed to go off twice last year.
“I think people are in danger,” Keiler said.
BONE TO PICK: Berna Keiler says the titanium rod in her hip has set off alarms at every airport she’s been to — except JFK, where she passed through this metal detector without a beep.
“It shows me that we in the country are living with the idea that we’re taking the appropriate security measures and that, in reality, they’re not working.”
Officials at the Transportation Security Administration insisted the machines had been tested and passed.
But they wouldn’t say whether they were tested specifically for their ability to detect titanium, which is one of the lightest and strongest metals in the world.
“TSA does not discuss how our machines are tested,” spokeswoman Ann Davis said.
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Even worse, Keiler said, both times she told guards the alarm didn’t go off, they failed to follow up by scanning her with a wand or other device to determine whether she was carrying a weapon.
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