Revealed: Afghan plane hijacker is now working as a cleaner at Heathrow

The Daily Mail ^ | May 16, 2008 | Daniel Bates

[wazoo1031]

One of the nine Afghans who won the right to live in Britain after hijacking a plane is now working at Heathrow airport as a cleaner, it emerged last night.

Nazamuddin Mohammidy was one of a group who took over an internal Afghan flight in 2000 and landed it in the UK, where they threatened to kill those on board unless they were granted asylum.

Now it has emerged Mohammidy, 34, was recently arrested while driving a car around the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport.

Police suspected he was an unlicensed cab driver but were stunned when checks revealed he was one of the hijackers. He even had a British Airways pass on him.

[wazoo1031]

You can't make this stuff up! Apologies if it's a double posting, I did do search first...

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Revealed: Afghan plane hijacker is now working as a cleaner at Heathrow “

This post should be kept active....

[LIConFem]

I’m sure the TSA would just love to have him.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“...it emerged.”

[HereInTheHeartland]

There has to an active effort by these people to launch another attack.
I think it’s amazing that they have been stopped thus far, in spite of these stupid types of lapses.

[Diogenesis]

• Abdurahman Alamoudi, who worked for the State Department and Pentagon,
where he created the military’s Muslim chaplain corps —
even though he was caught on tape supporting terrorists at anti-Israeli rallies.
He’s now behind bars for terror, exposed as one of al-Qaida’s top fundraisers in the U.S.

• David Hossain Safavian, who got a high-level White House job despite records
showing he lobbied on behalf of Alamoudi.
Safavian is serving an 18-month prison term for lying to federal investigators.

• Faisal Gill, who omitted the fact he worked for Alamoudi
in his application for a high-level Homeland Security Department job,
where he obtained top secret clearance before being suspended.

• Ahmad Al-Halabi, whom the Air Force assigned to Gitmo as a translator
even though he previously had been under investigation
for making anti-American statements. Halabi later pleaded guilty to
mishandling classified information and lying to investigators.

• Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, another Gitmo translator who was
hired as a contractor even though his girlfriend was investigated
for stealing a classified Army laptop. Mehalba later was convicted of
stealing secret documents from Gitmo.

• Sadeq Naji Ahmed, whom the Transportation Security Administration
hired as an airport screener after the Air Force kicked him out for making
statements supporting Osama bin Laden and praising the 9/11 attacks.
Ahmed worked almost a year before TSA found he previously had his security clearance revoked.

• Warith-Deen Umar, hired by the Federal Bureau of Prisons
to minister to Muslim inmates, even though he praised the
9/11 hijackers as Allah’s “martyrs.” Despite reports Umar gave extremist sermons,
the government gave him outstanding evaluations.
Prison officials fired Umar only after the press exposed his al-Qaida sympathies.
Only last year they started taking serious steps to tighten the vetting of Muslim employees.

• Waheeda Tehseen, a Pakistani national who obtained a sensitive position
with the EPA in Washington as a toxicologist even though she was not a U.S. citizen.

[Falcon4.0]

He works there just in case he wants to go home.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Take a walk through the Minneapolis airport some time.

[indcons]

All - read the entire story; it's hilarious. In addition to a job with BA, the guy has a state-paid mansion with gardens, large TVs, and a generous pension to boot. When arrested, police found that he had escaped bail for assaulting his former landlord.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Maybe next, they will send him to Minnesota for pilot training!!
Just to rehabilitate him!

[sport]

No doubt about it, the inmates are running the asylum.

That no major attacks upon the USA proper have been made is due more to the incompetency of the attackers than the diligence of the watchdogs.

Our luck is not going to hold out forever. My guess is that it will run out in about one year from now.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> "But in 2003 the Court of Appeal ruled their convictions for hijacking, false imprisonment and possessing guns and explosives were unsafe."

"Unsafe???" (my brain just exploded) Crikey! It makes you wonder what you would need to do to go to Gaol in the UK, if being a terrorist, taking over an aeroplane with firearms, holding hostages, and keeping the SAS at bay for four days isn't enough to secure a "safe" conviction.

The Poms are clearly quite mad. Mad as meat-axes. Mad as hatters!

[Mr. Mojo]

They [Mohammidy and his fellow hijackers] have since been living in West London rent-free and on state benefits at an annual cost of £150,000 to the taxpayer.

England has "progressed" from courting disaster to begging for it.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Maverick68]

Insanity...

[kellynla]

It is only by the Grace of God that we haven’t had another muzzie terrorist attack since 9/11!

[VA40]

Why on earth are they paying him benefits?! And such a large amount, he doesn’t need to be working.