This isn’t the first case of suspicious individuals likely probing for weaknesses in airport security. On June 4, 2009, a man named Raed Abdhul-Rahman Alsaif was arrested for trying to bring a seven-inch knife “artfully” concealed in his bag onboard a U.S. Airways flight at Tampa International Airport headed to Phoenix. About 35 minutes after, two other individuals were arrested in Philadelphia for sneaking a handgun onboard another U.S. Airways flight to Phoenix.
In 2004, reporter Annie Jacobsen received widespread attention after reporting a dry run on a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. She and other eyewitnesses said that 12 Syrian musicians and their Lebanese promoter had expired visas and acted suspiciously, including blocking the aisle. One man ran towards the cockpit and quickly turned into a bathroom, where he spent 20 minutes. Another person brought a small bag into the bathroom and smelled like toilet bowl chemicals upon returning, confirmed a Homeland Security report about the incident. According to Jacobsen and those she spoke with, the group communicated via hand signals, with one giving a thumbs-up to the individual leaving the bathroom with a bag and another signaling “no.”
As the flight began descending, four of them moved to the back of the aircraft and began using the bathroom as another man began stretching near the exit. According to the government report, the Lebanese promoter was already in an FBI database because of another incident on an airliner. Jacobsen has also reported the FBI warned two months prior that terrorists might plan to board airliners using cultural or sports visas, just as this group of “musicians” did. She has since found out that at least two of the Syrians were involved in another suspected dry run on January 24, 2004.
The most high-profile incident resembling a dry run happened on November 20, 2006 often referred to as the “Flying Imams” case. Six imams were removed from a flight after they prayed loudly in Arabic, spread out across the airliner to occupy different rows, ordered seat-belt extenders they didn’t need and openly criticized U.S. foreign policy. They then teamed up with the Council on American-Islamic Relations to sue U.S. Airways.
As reported in Muslim Mafia, the leader of the “Flying Imams,” Omar Shahin, has admitted to being a former supporter of Osama Bin Laden and his mosque in Tucson has been tied to Al-Qaeda. The previous president of the mosque worked with the terrorist group, and one of the 9/11 hijackers was an attendee. Remarkably, in 1999, two college students that went to Shahin’s mosque engaged in nearly identical behavior. The two prayed loudly in Arabic, asked questions about the plane, walked around the aircraft, ordered a seat-belt extender that was not used and twice tried to open the cockpit. After they were removed from the flight, Shahin and CAIR began a lawsuit. The 9/11 Commission reports that it is now suspected that the incident was a dry run for the September 11 attacks.
The latest possible dry run is not an isolated incident, but the continuance of a pattern. Suspicious Muslims continue to probe our defenses and provoke security and then sue when the appropriate measures are taken. Whether the two men on that flight from Chicago were carrying out a dry run and/or engaging in “lawfare,” the airlines continue to be a prized target for our adversaries.
It's possible that this was just a little known ramadamadingdong custom. I've heard that some other muslim customs revolve around worshipping a "moon god" that was made up by a pedophilic terrorist murderer named mohamad (aka mad mo). Apparently, he even wrote a "book" that was actually formed during a bout of intestinal distress. At the beginning of the dump, it formed what he called "the 99 names of that moon god". He deemed that subsequent squirts would be known as "suras", and the koran was born! The koran, from my understanding, is a collection of disgusting rantings written in feces. That about right?
And a happy ramadamdingdong to all, and to all a good nite!
great sense of humor, I love it and how true. be safe and keep up the insights.
C’mon folks! Can’t you see that they are not box cutters, but sheetrock knifes? Are we profiling carpenters now? And taping cell phone to antacid bottles is a great idea. How many times do you get upset during a call? Now if it were a shampoo bottle, I’d worry.
No, this was NOT a "dry run."
This was a "harassment" mission intended to keep the level of anxiety up.
These men might as well have had the words "Look at me – I am a Terrorist" written on their foreheads as they followed the classic checklist in the manual from hell. Why are we aiding and abetting protagonists of "dry runs"? Every one of the shady characters mentioned in the article, along with the two Yemenis, should still be cooling their heels in Federal lock-up, their computers dissected, and their associations investigated, each of them deported to the oily sand pits from whence they came. Oh, but I forgot — we are now building bridges with jihadists who will traverse those bridges of peace with hearts full of rage and hatred for the West, intent on our destruction, and filled with dark hope for the triumph of their collective plan for victory over the infidels.
And these clowns are not in Gitmo because…………..?
let the poor guys go. After all this seems to be the policy of this White House. let the Gitmo detainees go to fight us once again. Don't try the Cole killers. Continue to delay the trials of those that brought us the fall of the Twin towers and almost 3,000 Americans on our own soil. And on and on when it comes to any Muslim or Black Panther being brought to justice under this DOJ and Administration. We have DEVOTE Muslims in our Justice Department and the Pentagon in high offices. (When have you ever heard we have a devote Catholic or any other religion touted to the press?) These people are treasonous as far as I am concerned. thankfully we have thus far been safe from attack due to diligence and with the help of a now aware citizenry, but we have had more attempts since President Obama has been in office than ever before.
it was either a dry run or devised to keep our attention from elsewhere.
the govt. has no real ability to combat a war on terror at this point.
While the current occupant of the White House coddles Muslims – after all, they are his peeps – he only has two years left. These practicioners of the religion of pieces are going to ramp up their assaults during these years. My question is: how many deaths will it take to rouse the American populous?
There is no innocent explanation for this stunt. It was obviously a dry run to test airline security procedures. Probably other dry runs are going on all the time. It wasn't a set-up for a lawsuit, because even the stupidest judge or jury would understand what was going on.
On the one hand, these two should have been kept in custody and sweated until they told everything they knew. On the other hand, it is conceivable they were allowed to go in order to keep an eye on them and see who they are in contact with.
Why even bother with security, if you're just going to let such characters go?
Just let them blow up whatever they want – after all, it's their RIGHT!!
As we know, Muslims have all manner of special rights: For example, it doesn't matter who the Ground Zero mosque figures are, where they're getting their money from, if the transactions are all legal, or if they themselves are even legal American citizens – as "moderate Muslim" Reza Aslan says, "American Muslims have the right to build whatever they want, wherever they want. Period."
Apparently, American Muslims have the right to build a bomb on an aircraft. Period. So why can't their Yemeni brethren do it as well?
Pepto bismol is much denser than water and would show up much differently than most fluids. Perhaps the same density as an explosive? I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere and though I have never x-rayed an explosive I have x-rayed bodies with antacids and they show up fine. If they had wiring connected to them I'd be worried.