Posted on 08/30/2002 9:15:25 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
An attempted hijacking by followers of an Islamic sect tied to Osama bin Laden was foiled on Thursday when the crew of a London-bound Ryanair Airlines Flight in Stockholm used racial profiling to zero in on a group 20 Muslim passengers after one of them had been caught carrying a loaded gun.
"We have got a group of people on the flight we don't feel secure with," passenger Elin Dermeborg said crew members aboard Ryanair Flight FR685 announced, before the entire cabin, including a group of 20 passengers dressed in Muslim garb, was evacuated.
"Everyone had to get off the plane and one of the Somalians, a guy wearing a red T-shirt, was arrested by the police," Dermeborg later told London's Evening Standard. "They handcuffed him and took him away. We were told by the airport staff he was trying to get a gun on the plane."
The Ryanair flight had 189 passengers and crew aboard.
"We believe he was going to hijack the plane," Swedish police spokesman Ulf Palm told the Standard. "The gun was a small pistol loaded with three or four bullets," another law enforcement source said.
The loaded pistol was found in the waistband of a laundry bag belonging to a Tunisian-born Swedish national, who was traveling with the group. They were immediately surrounded by heavily armed police and held at gunpoint after being hauled off the flight.
The stunning discovery was made as the gunman passed through a final security checkpoint after other members of the Muslim group had already boarded the plane. The handgun was detected by a security scanner.
After being booted from the plane, some of the Muslims were made to kneel with their hands behind their heads as armed officers stood over them, the Standard said.
The group including the gunman, who denied the weapon was his, were on their way to an Islamic festival in Birmingham for followers of Salafi, the Standard said. Salafi is a fundamentalist sect whose teachings are popular with members of bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network.
Shoebomber Richard Reid, who tried to blow up a Paris to Miami American Airlines flight last December, was a follower of Salafi. American Taliban Johnny 'Jihad' Walker Lindh also studied Salafi.
The Birmingham conference is expected to attract 3,000 Salifi followers from across Europe.
You would think the gun would have been a dead giveaway, but nNNNNnnNNNnnoooOOOOOOoooOOOOOOooo!!! Let them on anyway.
I bet they wouldn't have gotten on if one of them had possessed a nail-clipper, though.
Well, how nice! 3000 terrorists or terrorists wannabes all in a nice bunch. Lock 'em up!
When God willed a new order be established on earth, Satan also willed the same.
Someday the world may learn not to allow Muslims on planes. If Muslims had been meant to have airplanes, God would have had them invent them. If Muslims were meant to fly, camels would have wings. China has already banned Muslims from flying there.
Not strange, just an example of bending over to the Saudis.
All other things being equal...
Wise move on China's part. In the meantime, back here in the U.S., my schoolteacher friend, an older lady with red hair and blue eyes, has been searched several times while trying to get on a plane from San Francisco to L.A. Go figure.
Or, as mhking might say, this one gets a "hold muh hookah" alert.
... The stunning discovery was made as the gunman passed through a final security checkpoint after other members of the Muslim group had already boarded the plane. The handgun was detected by a security scanner.
It's not clear in the article, but, does it appear as, though the scanner picked out the gun, this guy still made it onto the plane?
Caught in the nick of time by a proven method of detecting terrorists----profiling.
When will the U.S. wake up and do it the right way?
The other terrorist conspirators WERE (my labeling, but, it seems most likely).
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