| Recent Terrorism Dry Run on Flight 327? (9/11 Part 2 ?!?) | |
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Ulic Belouve - Student  |
On: Thu July, 15 2004 @ 06:06 GMT In an article By Annie Jacobsen of the Women's Wall Street Journal, she details her personal experience on a NorthWest Airlines flight between Detroit and Los Angeles on June 29, 2004. The article raises many questions about the adequacy of security procedures by the airline crews, staff, screeners and government agencies tasked with preventing another 9/11 from happening. Quote: original news source: Womens Wall Street Suddenly, seven of the men stood up -- in unison -- and walked to the front and back lavatories. One by one, they went into the two lavatories, each spending about four minutes inside. Right in front of us, two men stood up against the emergency exit door, waiting for the lavatory to become available. The men spoke in Arabic among themselves and to the man in the yellow shirt sitting nearby. One of the men took his camera into the lavatory. Another took his cell phone. Again, no one approached the men. Not one of the flight attendants asked them to sit down. ...The last man came out of the bathroom, and as he passed the man in the yellow shirt he ran his forefinger across his neck and mouthed the word "No." Please visit the link provided for the complete story. From her story it appears that some kind of dry run by possible terrorists had indeed occured on this flight. The 14 men on the flight later identified themselves as musicians. They had no American arrest records and were not on any watch lists. They did, however, fly to California on one way tickets. All 14 of them flew on one-way tickets. Their return flight to New York? Yes, they flew on one-way tickets back, too. After deboarding the flight, Mrs. Jacobsen and her family saw a large number of official-looking "men in dark suits" waiting at the gate. The men turned out to be LAPD, FBI, TSA, and Federal Air Marshall personnel. The fourteen suspicious men from the plane were ushered away quickly. The Jacobsen family willingly interviewed with the government officials, detailing the activity they'd seen. They witnessed one official holding "14 Syrian passports" in the location they were being interviewed. As though the suspiscious activity wasn't disturbing enough, the response of personnel on the plane - or lack of response - is moreso. And that lack of response, how does that happen after the events of 9-11? It's because it's illegal to question large groups of minority persons behaving in a peculiar way in an airport or on a flight. It's discriminitory. According to the Chairman of the independant 9-11 Commission, John Lehman, "...it was the policy (before 9/11) and I believe remains the policy today to fine airlines if they have more than two young Arab males in secondary questioning because that's discriminatory." Then there's the question of screening. Despite the fact that restaurants in the airport, located beyond security screening points, serve meals with metal cutlery - including knives - no inspection of carryon luggage takes place after a passenger goes through that metal detector. Passengers who wear "orthopedic shoes," as one of the 14 on Flight 327 wore, are never required to remove those shoes, even at screening points. The same goes for many other medical devices. The Transportation Security Administration even provides a checklist on their website detailing what sort of medical devices are exempt from screening. The skies are supposed to be safer. We are supposed to have increased security measures in place to prevent a repeat of 9-11. Judging by Mrs. Jacobsen's story, however, that safety is most definately in question. Additional commentary: The article states, if you read it fully, that the flight attendants did indeed notice. There were federal air marshals on board. They communicated through notes to each other. They were fully aware of what was going on on board, but the flight attendanants and pilots were not allowed to do anything until something happened. It is because of the anti discrimination policies the federal govornment has imposed on airlines. It states in the article Norm Minneta had the nerve to fine Both American and United Airlines because they had orginially detained more than two Arab males at a time. Because of the anti discrimination laws, airlines are not allowed to detain more than two arabs at a time for questioning. With assholes like Norm Minetta in charge of national transportation security, who needs worry about terrorists? She is correct about lax security. I noticed it too last time I was flying. Hell, security was 10 times harder at Manchester in the UK than it was at Logan or Sea Tac. According to the FBI, what they told this owman is that they were all Syrian musicians, and werent on any FBI terrorist watchlists. Its interesting to note many of the 9/11 hijackers were pulled aside, questioned, then allowed to board thier flights. Go figure. So now we have terrorists learning to play musical instruments. Wonderful. The 9/11 hijackers were spotted by some famous guy one week before 9/11 doing a trial run on the same flight from Boston to LA. Nothign was done about it. My guess is nothing will be done here either. _______________ Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. |
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Buzz - Student 
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Do you want to bet that these guys have now been put on a watchlist though? _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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Lian Del Rey - Student 
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That sucks! _______________ slorp |
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