Posted on 12/30/2009 6:23:22 AM PST by truthandlife
A man tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The Somali man -- whose name has not yet been released -- was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops before the Nov. 13 Daallo Airlines flight took off. It had been scheduled to travel from Mogadishu to the northern Somali city of Hargeisa, then to Djibouti and Dubai. A Somali police spokesman, Abdulahi Hassan Barise, said the suspect is in Somali custody.
"We don't know whether he's linked with al-Qaida or other foreign organizations, but his actions were the acts of a terrorist. We caught him red-handed," said Barise.
A Nairobi-based diplomat said the incident in Somalia is similar to the attempted attack on the Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day in that the Somali man had a syringe, a bag of powdered chemicals and liquid -- tools similar to those used in the Detroit attack. The diplomat spoke on condition he not be identified because he isn't authorized to release the information.
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Maybe they caught him before Al Quaeda taught this guy to carry the syringe up his butt.
When Mogadishu airport does a better job than Amsterdam you know the “system” sucks.
No Somalis to enter the USA, period.
I’ll bet Mogashishu Airport is a fun place to fly out of ... Not
Somalia actually as an airport?
Our government should have known about this, and a worldwide security bulletin should have been issued to watch for these items.
Apparently, we are asleep at the switch.
I wonder if “sharp dressed man” escorted this patsy also?
Says the islamist in chief?
My son is a diabetic. Syringes are allowed on flights. We only needed to show the vial of insulin. No one actually checked what was in the vial.
Flies to Nairobi once a week, to Paris once a week.
I took a car to an Air Focre base on a roll back a year ago. It belonged to a military guy living on base.
I rolled up to where they inspected vehicles. They made me get out and open all the compartments on the rollback, they took mirrors and went under the underside of th truck, then they passed me through. They never looked inside the car or in the trunk of the car I had on the back.
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Our Flight 253 bomber went awol in Dubai for six months, this Somali was en-route to Dubai when he was arrested.
Was he delivering the materials for another?
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