http://www.star-telegram.com/462/story/1860368.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Interesting update...
Search found 3 matches
Return to “Flight 253 terrorist attack...Passenger witness account...”
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:55 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Flight 253 terrorist attack...Passenger witness account...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1986
- Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:46 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Flight 253 terrorist attack...Passenger witness account...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1986
Re: Flight 253 terrorist attack...Passenger witness account...
Here's the one I was talking about...
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index ... ard_n.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
We have a serious problem here, and the usual sluff-off is not going to work this time...
I highly recommend we turn up the heat and get our seemingly feckless elected officials asking and demanding the firing of Janet Nepolitano, right now...
Unless folks around here like the idea of Americans dying in terrorist attacks and all that...(That was a rhetorical, and probably poor taste comment of my part, but I want to make an impact...)
Obviously, there are people in place who could actually implement and do things (better than it is being handled now) that would minimise the risks, but I am at a loss to explain why they are not doing so...(this is also sarcastic and rhetorical)
But what do I know...right???
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index ... ard_n.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
We have a serious problem here, and the usual sluff-off is not going to work this time...
I highly recommend we turn up the heat and get our seemingly feckless elected officials asking and demanding the firing of Janet Nepolitano, right now...
Unless folks around here like the idea of Americans dying in terrorist attacks and all that...(That was a rhetorical, and probably poor taste comment of my part, but I want to make an impact...)
Obviously, there are people in place who could actually implement and do things (better than it is being handled now) that would minimise the risks, but I am at a loss to explain why they are not doing so...(this is also sarcastic and rhetorical)
But what do I know...right???
- Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:16 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Flight 253 terrorist attack...Passenger witness account...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1986
Flight 253 terrorist attack...Passenger witness account...
A friend of mine on another website found this, and we are all trying to keep this documented somewhere where we frequent...I have also asked him to provide me a source URL for the post so we can have that onhand for future reference...I will try to get that on here as quickly as I can...
I am posting this on this website to refer to regardless of the validity or not...I am sure the powers at be will try to discredit this regardless of the truth or not until the breakdown in security can be discovered and swept under the rug, so to speak...I’ll copy/paste the guy’s comment before it gets removed from the mlive site by HS...
“Posted by pug
December 26, 2009, 5:47AM
I was on this flight today and am thankful to be alive. My wife and I were returning from an African safari and had this connecting flight through Amsterdam. I sat in row 27, which was 7 rows behind the terrorist. I got to see the whole thing take place and it was very scary. Thanks to a few quick acting people I am still alive today.
For those of you talking about airline security in this thread, I was next to the terrorist when he checked in at the Amsterdam airport early on Christmas. My wife and I were playing cards directly in front of the check in counter. This is what I saw (and I relayed this to the FBI when we were
held in customs):
An Indian man in a nicely dressed suit around age 50 approached the check in counter with the terrorist and said “This man needs to get on this flight and he has no passport.” The two of them were an odd pair as the terrorist is a short, black man that looked like he was very poor and looks around age 17(Although I think he is 23 he doesn’t look it). It did not cross my mind that they were terrorists, only that the two looked weird together. The ticket taker said “you can’t board without a passport”. The Indian man then replied, “He is from Sudan, we do this all the time”. I can only take from this to mean that it is difficult to get passports from Sudan and this was some sort of sympathy ploy. The ticket taker then said “You will have to talk to my manager”, and sent the two down a hallway. I never saw the Indian man again as he wasn’t on the flight. It was also weird that the terrorist never said a word in this exchange. Anyway, somehow, the terrorist still made it onto the plane. I am not sure if it was a bribe or just sympathy from the security manager.
FBI also arrested a different Indian man while we were held in customs after a bomb sniffing dog detected a bomb in his carry on bag and he was searched after we landed. This was later confirmed while we were in customs when an FBI agent said to us “You are being moved to another area because this area is not safe. Read between the lines. Some of you saw what just happened.”(The arrest of the other Indian man). I am not sure why this hasn’t made it into any news story, but I stood about 15-20 feet away from the other Indian man when he was cuffed and arrested after his search.
What also didn’t make the news is that we were held on the plane for 20 minutes AFTER IT LANDED!. A bomb could have gone off then. This wasn’t too smart of security to not let us off the plane immediately.
You can see what time I am writing this as I am having a hard time sleeping tonight. Just thought some of you would like to know what I saw, Merry Christmas.”