A cell phone taped to a Pepto Bismol bottle. Cell phones taped together with watches. $7k in cash. Large knives and a box cutter in checked baggage. Baggage re-routed from the passenger’s intended destination.
American law enforcement officials cautioned on Monday night that the men had not been charged with any crime and that the episode might be a misunderstanding. “There’s nothing at all confirmed at this point that’s associated with terrorism,” one official said.
And:
Omar Sufi of Detroit, who said he was a cousin of the passenger who boarded in Alabama, said his relative’s actions did not sound unusual.
He said that his cousin had most likely been trying to take medication and phones back to his family, and that it was common to bind together items meant for the same recipient. “This is our culture,” he said.
Cue Janet Napolitano: “The system worked.”
That’s Washington’s culture.
Hopefully, cue November.
That’s America’s culture.
This is our culture? So when Uncle Khalid asked for six sticks of dynamite, you wrap them up with some duct tape?
Give me a bleeping break!
My culture is becoming ..anyone with a M/E sounding name..make my ears perk up..afterall..it doesn’t take me long to look at a horseshoe..
Politics ought not be described as the “art of the possible”, rather, the “art of what they can get away with and stay in power”. Or, “How to live a financially comfortable, irresponsible life on the publics tax dollars and destroy America in the process.”
While I believe that there will be a change in November, I am also to the point where I believe it will be to a party whose mantra has become “At least we are not as bad as the other party”. That, the country doesn’t need, though I am afraid that is what we will get- and if so, perhaps we deserve it.
I can see the headlines now for the R’s choice: McCain or a similar accomodating Washington Machine Politician, instead of Christy, Palin, Brewer or anyone else that will stand up to the powers that be and make a change.
What Pogo said: http://bit.ly/cjTGRq
I concur, sadly.
Ok, call me a racist, or bigot, or whatever. Yes, I did have to drink some alcohol to get up the nerve to say what I really think.
I hate Mohammedans.
I agree with many others about even letting muslims in the country. Certainly not to stay, and strictly controlled for other reasons. If they so much as blinked, I’d put ‘em on a slow ship, in a cage, back to their home country. And, they pay for the food and passage.
Letting them immigrate is suicidal in the long run, and many times in the short run as well.
The Frogs would certainly agree with you.
Tag-Team Terrorists: This is Mohammad..And this is my Other Brother Mohammad…
Not much tolerance left for me…I say let’s start making them all prove they are ‘NOT’ terrorists..
“Cue” Janet Napolitano? Add 2L’s, 2 s’s and an e.
“Cue” Janet Napolitano? Add 2L’s, 2 s’s and an e.
Like this?
Cue Janet NapolitanoLLsse?
Or is it
LLsseCue Janet Napolitano? (hmmm…that looks Welsh)
As the old saying goes, “There’s always the 10% who…(fill in the blank).” Glad to know our man Joe is firmly established as a ten per-center..
Love you too, Virgil!
I actually got that one the second time around, VX. (Being a pilot, I’m a bit slow, at times)
cLueLESS. Very good, that one.
Long live the Cluebird!
Zipper
I still don’t get it. Owhell, I’m used to having to have jokes explained to me.
It’s waddling, quaking and acting like a duck.
Duck. Duck.
Terrorist.
Culture my ass. If that is their culture then they need to leave this country and go back where they came from.
I like ths tory from India about a Brit about to witness the Indian way of “Sutee” where they throw the widow on the funeral pyre of her husband. When the Indian said, “but, it is our way.” The Brit supposedly said, “very well then, I shall erect a gallows, and after you have your way, I shall have my way.” Or something to that effect.
They can have it their way, then we can have ours. I’d just as soon send ‘em all back where they came from.
I use it as an email signature:
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
General Sir Charles James Napier
India, 1842
” “This is our culture,” he said. ”
Yeah, and your culture was on display in the port of Aden on October 12th, 2000, too.
MY culture includes the hanging of horse thieves.
Yep, and mine includes shooting rabid dogs and coyotes. BEFORE they get to the calves.
Guess this lack of cultural understanding shows just exactly how bad we really need that Islamic Community Center at Ground Zero. then we would all be suitably educated to their cultural nuances.
And does this now mean that if they have cell phones and Pepto NOT taped together that they ARE terrorists?
“Yes how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
Yes and how many deaths will it take til he knows
That too many people have died
The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind”
In a swift response to this threat Big Sis intends to ban Pepto Bismol.
“…a cousin of the passenger who boarded in Alabama, said his relative’s actions did not sound unusual.”
Nevermind Sufi’s cousin; what does Sufi’s Mom say. So far, terror suspect’s moms have all proclaimed their sons’ innocence. Do Muslim’s know how to raise law-abiding sons, or what?
What has happened to American ‘Baseball, Motherhood, and Apple Pie’? Baseball was investigated by our U.S. Congress; leading edge mothers want careers or same-sex marriages; and, mass-produced apple pies are frozen for uniform tastelessness.
Progress toward whose twisted utopia?
Expect White House apology soon for TSA acting “stupidly” in a “rush to judgement” based in part on an “atmosphere of intolerance fostered by talk radio and right wing extremists views such as those stirred up by right wing activistsat rallys in Washington this past weekend”.
Next they’ll put them on a State Department toru of the Middle East as outreach ambassadors….
Another example of Taqiyya in action. When will people wake up?
.3ms before they are gone to the next life…in flames and screaming…at 35Kft….too late to vote the post-National Security President and his crew of Academics/Lawyers out of office.
The last time I left Israel I was taking home a bottle of Pepto that I hadn’t used. I didn’t know that’s what they were looking for in my luggage for the longest time until they showed me the shape they wanted on the screen. Apparently it looks just like a specific kind of small mortar or grenade when going thru security.
Omar’s cousin knew exactly what he was doing.
Bismuth shows up right well in x-ray pictures.
Let’s see. The FBI says they “see no reason to suspect the two Yemenis of a terrorist dry run”. Hmmmmm. One of the suspect’s relatives says that it’s cultural to lash things together for people. A cell phone taped to a Pepto bottle. Hmmmm. OK, I can see that (huge sarcastic shrug). And let’s not forget the digital watch taped to an EMPTY SHAMPOO BOTTLE. I ALWAYS give my closest friends a gift of an empty bottle, don’t you???? Although that WOULD explain their requirement to keep their hair covered, I guess.
I’m guessing the watch was taped to the empty bottle so it would float in all the debris after the aircraft was blown out of the sky by the bomb represented by the phone/Pepto combination, to be recovered and dilivered to Uncle Mohammed. (insert suppressed laughter here)
Freaking idiotic apologistic left-wing administration. Unfortunately, it’s going to take the loss of a full airliner overwater somewhere to make the idiots wake up. Of course, since it will happen overwater where the recovery of debris for forensic purposes will be doubtful, I’m sure that Napolitano will immediately caution everyone from jumping to conclusions, since she’ll be sure it was only a mechanical anomaly, and not an attack….ummmm, sorry….man-made disaster, I mean.
Zipper
*delivered Gotta remember that damned spell checker more often.
It’s called de-sensitizing the target….
Sadly, its working.
I was on the flight from LA back in 2007 or so that was diverted when an Iraqi passenger on the flight was stopped at the metal detector. They eventually had to do a cavity search, and found batteries and wires up his wazoo. They decided he was a nutcase. Great job TSA on the catch, but…where was his luggage?
Underneath me while we climbed out from LA. Got diverted into Vegas for an enjoyable 4 hours under armed guard while they strip-searched the airplane.
All this makes me very glad that the TSA has not invaded my local FBO. Not once have I had to take off my shoes and get frisked whilst a ragheaded arab walks thru without a glance before I go and board my trusty Lance.
Give them time, G..soon you will have to file a flight plan to invade Obama’s air..that includes everything above 5 feet
Was that the lowly lance you were talking about in a previous post?
yep, all relational. when lex posts about a lancair or Cirrus the Lance is indeed lowly and slowly. when he blogs about the perils of civvie aviation, she dunnah look so bad at all! So i throw all the blame upon our host for the personality disorders of 898DS. But she has the same number of takeoffs as landings so can’t complain.
and yet, no mention of the fact that said luggage was checked onto a different flight from the one these two asshats got onto?
unfortunately for our “betters” we’re not as dumb as they think we are, but i guess we’ll see just how big the difference is on November 2nd, eh?
Supposedly it was an airline error. The 2 of them missed their flights due to delays, so they were put on the Amsterdam flight at the last minute and their luggage went on to … Yemen.
Supposedly both of them did not know each other.
Supposedly Obama is smart.
You do the math.
You all better lighten up..I sense..Fliterman strutting down the pier alongside..Ready to deliver his ‘kumbaya’ lecture..
“You wouldn’t like my culture, pal. We tend to drag mooks like you out on the tarmac for a stomping.”
Just trying to figure out the system. I thought the system included the help of a Dane or two in flight. Evidently the system morphs…