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2004-02-17 Home Front: WoT
Al-Qaeda hijacking team deployed in US
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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-02-17 6:15:33 PM|| || Front Page|| [336089 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I haven't posted before, but I'd like to add something to this discussion.

I know some people who fly for a few airlines, and they've told me about some very suspicious things that have been happening. Most of the instances revolve around a few Arab looking passengers who go to the bathroom during the flight. Later, the crew found a very specific portion of the bathroom wall removed or tampered with. Also, it just so happens that the removal of this section reveals an emergency route to the cargo hold. I've heard of this happening numerous times.

Seems like they're trying to work out some scheme where they plant material useful for a hijacking over a series of flights. Then when they actually do an operation, they have all of the tools there waiting for them. Plus, they seem to have done their homework in an effort to find specific weaknesses in certain aircraft, such as knowing which panel in the bathroom to remove.

These could all just be some sort of coincidences, but I hope DHS and the FBI are, nevertheless, all over this stuff.
Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-17 7:18:39 PM||   2004-2-17 7:18:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 And of course Anon you failed to mention that you of course at least reported this to someone like the flight attendant. I don't buy that you saw it, but it is plausible.
Posted by dataman1 2004-2-17 9:50:36 PM||   2004-2-17 9:50:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Al Qaeda has looked at derailing trains, perhaps carrying hazardous materials, to attack US interests, he said.

I already see the railroad police eyeing railfans with obvious suspicion, and these declarations of wanting to derail a train can't be helping much. At some point in time I suspect that I'll be harassed for simply watching a train go by, and it's quite likely that I'll end up being really, really ticked off.

Go ahead, Islamofascists. Piss off the American public even more, and watch as more of your comrades-in-arms' nations fall.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-2-17 9:58:42 PM||   2004-2-17 9:58:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 dataman -- He's telling us something he's been told, not something he saw. Something that I also heard on the news last week.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-2-17 10:12:05 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-2-17 10:12:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The very venerable targets for terrorists are the old radiation machines with radioactive cesium and cobalt sources in many university research facilities. You can not expect more from the paper tigers who feel secured in protecting these machines with policies and procedures on papers only and with the flimsy locks. It will be a stupidity to rule out the presence of militant Islamic sleepeer cells in several of our universities. The question is of prevention and my only hope is that reaching to these highly radioactive sources is not as easy as removing screws on a panel or two.
Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-18 12:18:29 AM||   2004-2-18 12:18:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Anonymous: By "venerable" I'm assuming you meant 'vulnerable'. We've heard of the possible risk posed by these sources of radioactive material...though I'm not sure that they pose a great risk. I'm unaware of sleeper cells in our universities....other than the 5th Column that poses as faculty in much of these institutions.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-2-18 1:14:37 AM||   2004-2-18 1:14:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Anon
That ties in rather nicely with the fact that the same flight (226 IIRC) has been canceled several times since christmas.
Posted by Evert Visser  2004-2-18 4:51:24 AM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/]  2004-2-18 4:51:24 AM|| Front Page Top

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