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2006-06-09 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by ryuge 2006-06-09 07:01|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just a dumb assed drunk. Send him home.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-06-09 07:57|| 2006-06-09 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 heh, with an alk record the religious police would not be amused.

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-09 09:06|| 2006-06-09 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Nah. He'll bring them home some porn...

Posted by tu3031 2006-06-09 09:07|| 2006-06-09 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Jail him in Georgia and feed him cold grits and red-eye gravy until ........... his clearance is granted, whhahahaha.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-09 11:53|| 2006-06-09 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 This article from the Idaho Statesman has a few more details that makes it sound a bit less innocent. Two thoughts occured to me after reading this article: First, the magistrate felt he was a "security risk". That seems to me to be a big step beyond just saying that he was being arrested for making a joke about a bomb.

Secondly, Boise is not that large and any dark skinned person stands out. So how is it, in such a small community of Muslims that the FBI (has a state office in Boise) didn't know about him until a security clearance was conducted? He failed the security clearance - so someone knew something about him that wasn't very savory. If indeed he is a security risk it makes me wonder how it could be that he was unnoticed in such a small pool of folks.
Link.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-09 12:11|| 2006-06-09 12:11|| Front Page Top

#6 /Give him an upgrade. Pork BBQ.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-09 12:13|| 2006-06-09 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 A spokesman for the local Islamic community said he hopes the incident won't fuel distrust for people with Middle Eastern or Muslim-sounding names.

A federal magistrate ordered Saleh Al Suwailem, 45, held by the U.S. Marshals Service after a hearing Tuesday in Columbus, Ga. He is charged with making a terrorist threat against an airplane, and is due back in court Tuesday.

According to a criminal complaint, Al Suwailem was at Fort Benning on Monday, where he was going through the process to become an Arabic interpreter for a communications division that hires interpreters for operations in Iraq.

After he was told he would not be hired because he was denied a security clearance and that he would have to fly home to Idaho the next day on a Delta flight, he started drinking with some acquaintances, the complaint says.

"OK, I'm going to bomb the plane," he blurted out, according to the complaint.

When he was questioned by Fort Benning officials about the remark, he said it was a joke and that he did not actually plan to bomb the flight.

The FBI was alerted and Al Suwailem was arrested. In their request to have the defendant detained, the government argued that he poses a flight risk. The magistrate who ordered him held also described him as a security risk. The order did not say why.

Every time there is an arrest like Al Suwailem's or the recently uncovered alleged plot to blow up Canadian buildings involving people with Middle Eastern-sounding names, it raises the spectre of a backlash against the community, said Boise State University Professor Said Ahmed-Zaid, who is a spokesman for the Islamic Center of Boise.

"People are nervous and frightened, but they need to realize that the Muslim community here in Boise is also frightened," Ahmed-Zaid said.

A number listed under Al Suwailem's name was disconnected when the Statesman called Wednesday.

Reached at his office Wednesday, Al Suwailem's lawyer, David Roberts, said, "I'm just not going to comment."

Posted by 2b 2006-06-09 12:13|| 2006-06-09 12:13|| Front Page Top

#8 The fact that there are Muslims in Idaho is shocking. But note where they are located. The unniversity staff. This is so dangerous. These lefty administrators allow this scum to come in. They fly very low in the first years. Meanwhile all their imported grad students may be AlQ. They set up local cells, just like Sami at Univ. South Florida. Another low flying outpost turned into a cell. The Univ. California Irvine is a strong Muslim outpost, thanks to a growing Muslim faculty. This should be stopped. These are by far the most dangerous infiltrators one could imagine.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-06-09 12:48|| 2006-06-09 12:48|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't find it shocking that there are Muslims in Idaho. There are white supremacists there too, along with a lot of ordinary people.

SOME Muslim academics here are dangerous. The issue for us all as a nation is to sort those out from decent people.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-09 13:15|| 2006-06-09 13:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Dear lotp,

I disagree. The issue is not "for us all as a nation" to discern who is decent or who is not. If there's a nutter Baptist, he's most likely to be found by other Baptists. If there's a nutter Elk, he's most likely to be found by other Elks.

If there's a nutter Muslim, the best place to look for him is gonna be in his church. Baptist, Elk or Muslim, I'm gonna be lookin' at his buds and asking them why they covered for the as#####. Unless and until Muslims take responsibility for Muslims there is never going to be an improvement in Muslim behaviour. When golfers start blowing up tennis players, I'm going to be looking to golfers to clean up their act. I'm not going to assert that it's a responsibility for "us all as a nation...to sort those out from decent people".

If I'm at a library association meeting and one of the board members starts talking about cutting off the heads of the non-readers, I'm gonna make a stink about it.

Posted by OregonGuy">OregonGuy 2006-06-09 19:05|| 2006-06-09 19:05|| Front Page Top

#11 :)

Posted by Glavitch Angineter5765 2006-06-09 19:16|| 2006-06-09 19:16|| Front Page Top

#12 At 45, a person is assumed to have enough experience to know when it is safe to be stupid. Even when drunk. I'm afraid I've no pity for the gentleman in question. Revoke his visa and send him home.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-09 19:48|| 2006-06-09 19:48|| Front Page Top

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