RSSUS/Great Britain Airplane Terror Plot Prevented, Terrorists Arrested
In a post 9-11 world it is comforting to see that terrorism plots can be prevented.
British authorities state that they have twarted a terrorist plot to blow up multiple planes in flight from England to the US.
The extreme measures at a major international aviation hub sent ripples throughout the world. Heathrow was closed to most flights from Europe, and British Airways canceled all its flights between the airport and points in Britain, Europe and Libya. Numerous flights from U.S. cities to Britain were canceled.
(Fox News)
‘Airlines terror plot’ disrupted
A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.
Police are searching premises after 21 people were arrested. Home Secretary John Reid said they believed the “main players” were accounted for.
(BBC)
Posted August 10, 2006 by Scared Monkeys Homeland Security, Travel, War on Terror, World | one comment |
11 Egyptian College Students Missing in US with Student Visas
After 9-11 the student visa situation was something looked at with close scrutiny and concern. It was far too easy for potential terrorist to enter the US through this legal means. Now, a group of Egyptian students enter the US and eleven have disappeared. They never showed up at Montana State. This country has to crack down on loop holes that would allow potential terrorists to enter the US legally.
Read the rest at Missing and Exploited.
Posted August 9, 2006 by Scared Monkeys Crime, Homeland Security, Missing Persons, War on Terror | one comment |
Fidel Castro cedes power to Brother Prior to Surgery
Cuban president Fidel Castro makes just a little bit of news with the announcement of relinquishing power due to his heath problem prior to surgery. Spontaneous celebration among Cuban exiles in South Florida’s Little Havana. What blockades, embargoes and boycotts could not do, old age and health issues may just be the answer.
The Gateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin have a great round up of events and a whole lot of dancing in the streets.
Posted August 1, 2006 by Scared Monkeys Homeland Security, Politics, War on Terror, World | 23 comments |
Katie Couric Pulls Strings and Delays Delta Shuttle flight out of Washington, D.C
In the words of Katie Couric and all like her who think for some reason they are privileged and more important than they rest of us, “Don’t you know who I am?”
Katie Couric delayed fellow passengers aboard a New York-bound jet from Washington, DC as their plane was about to taxi to the runway. After the airplane door was closed, she got out of her seat and begged the pilot to allow one of her late-arriving producers to board. Nothing like preferential treatment. Hmm … and I thought such practices were illegal and against Homeland Security guidelines after 9-11. Wonder what would happen to you or I if we tried such a stunt.
“It was like, ‘Who the hell does she think she is?’ ” fumed one passenger who observed Couric’s diva-like antics. “If you or I attempted something like this, we’d be cooling our heels at Guantanamo.”
“One flight attendant rolled her eyes and told me, ‘This is only the second time I’ve ever seen this happen – the other time was a sick passenger,’ “ the witness said.
UPDATE: Greta, with all due respect, spare us the violins. Amazing how those in the media defend their own. Greta, maybe you defend this because you would have done the same thing. Those of us common people are not allowed those same opportunities. I cannot believe that you would actually defend this action that goes against “homeland security” guidelines because Katie is one of your own.
By the way, did you see the articles about Katie Couric holding up a Delta flight for her producer? She got slapped around by the media for it. Don’t forget that Katie Couric also did the unthinkable on the shuttle to NYC awhile back she gave up her aisle seat to someone and took a middle seat! That gesture is also unthinkable unthinkably nice no one wants a middle seat. As we get ready for the Couric roll out, we might think about cutting her some slack she is there because she has staying power and has beaten out everyone else. I don’t know her (never met her), but I am willing to tip my hat to someone achieving great success rather than wanting to take her down a few notches because of jealousy.
Maybe Greta will add to her “GretaWire” the fact that I and many others who do not have the name Katie have given up their seats, including first class, to military personnel.
Your Government at Work #4972: Failure to Fund Border Fence
In May the US Senate voted to build a 370 mile fence on the United States – Mexico Border. Now 2 months later, the same Senate voted against funding the fence essentially killing the project by a vote of 71–29. The main reason given was that it would take money out of other Homeland Security projects.
To me this screams; we have pork coming to our districts and we do not want to give up any of that to build a fence that could have an actual impact. What is it going to take to get the Senators from both parties to wake up and realize they serve us? The mentality of the Senate is to vote on things but not fund them so they look good for the moment but never get things done.
Maybe next time they vote themselves a pay raise they will not fund that too. Yeah right…
“We do a lot of talking. We do a lot of legislating,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Republican whose amendment to fund the fence was killed on a 71-29 vote. “The things we do often sound very good, but we never quite get there.”
Mr. Sessions offered his amendment to authorize $1.8 billion to pay for the fencing that the Senate voted 83-16 to build along high-traffic areas of the border with Mexico. In the same vote on May 17, the Senate also directed 500 miles of vehicle barriers to be built along the border.
But the May vote simply authorized the fencing and vehicle barriers, which on Capitol Hill is a different matter from approving the federal expenditures needed to build it.
“If we never appropriate the money needed to construct these miles of fencing and vehicle barriers, those miles of fencing and vehicle barriers will never actually be constructed,” Mr. Sessions told his colleagues yesterday before the vote.
Virtually all Democrats were joined by the chamber’s lone independent and 28 Republicans in opposing Mr. Session’s amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Act. Only two Democrats — Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Thomas R. Carper of Delaware — supported funding the fence. via The Washington Times
