As I’ve said before, I will say again. TSA employees are retards. They will stop a white boy named Patrick from taking screwdriver bits and 4 ounces of deodorant on a flight because “Lawdy! That’s some precision gubment training!” they give to the former welfare recipients who staff the XRAY machines. But Muslims named “Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi”, and “Hezem al Murisi?” Who carry gigantic wads of cash sewn into their clothing and a bundle of cellphones taped to a bottle of Pepto Bismol? Oh go right ahead, Sir and “As-Salam Alaikum” to you!
From ABCnews here:
The men were identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, of Detroit, MI, and Hezem al Murisi. A neighbor of al Soofi told ABC News he is from Yemen. The two were allowed to board the flight at O’Hare airport last night despite security concerns surrounding one of them.
The men were identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, of Detroit, MI, and Hezem al Murisi. A neighbor of al Soofi told ABC News he is from Yemen.
You didn’t seriously believe for a second that their names would be Steve and Jerry, did you?
Airport security screeners in Birmingham, Alabama first stopped al Soofi and referred him to additional screening because of what officials said was his “bulky clothing.”
In addition, officials said, al Soofi was found to be carrying $7,000 in cash and a check of his luggage found a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together, several watches taped together, a box cutter and three large knives. Officials said there was no indication of explosives and he and his luggage were cleared for the flight from Birmingham to Chicago O’Hare.
Birmingham is a small town with small town folks working the screening. It has long been suspected that TSA practices are much weaker at small airports, as anyone who travels extensively would notice.
Once in Chicago, al Soofi checked his luggage on a flight to Washington’s Dulles airport for connections on flights to Dubai and then Yemen, even though he did not board the flight himself.
Instead al Soofi was joined by the second man, Al Murisi, and boarded the United flight from Chicago to Amsterdam.
When Customs and Border officials learned al Soofi was not on the flight from Dulles to Dubai, the plane was ordered to return to the gate so his luggage could be removed. Officials said additional screening found no evidence of explosives.
The two men were detained by Dutch authorities when the United flight landed in Amsterdam.
As Allapundit at HotAir put it, this was an obvious dry run meant to test how many red flags a Muslim could get away with while still being allowed to board an international flight. And it looks like the attempt was to see if you could send a remote control bomb away on one flight while you were heading overseas on another.
And I can tell you this- it wasn’t TSA that stopped him, but the US-VISIT database run by Customs who noticed the unusual travel pattern.
