Dave Lucas: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Tags: Fort Dix, Fort Dix, Dritan Duka, Duka

via Michelle Malkin : "Lots of interesting info and tidbits coming in on the Fort Dix terrorist plot, so I'm starting a new post."

"The camera store owner saw Muslim men in military garb toting weapons in the woods. He heard them talking about jihad and how Allah was great. He called the FBI and became a hero... If you see something suspicious pick up the phone and call local police or the FBI. The only stupid call is the call you don't make." - U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie

Ripped from Drudge:

Six Arrests In Alleged Terror Plot To Kill N.J. Soldiers... Ethnic Albanians... Pretending to deliver pizza... You have to read the comments section (unless abc blogs deletes them). Half the commenters can't spell. FBI AFFIDAVIT: IT WAS DEADLY SERIOUS... DEVELOPING...

Speaking of "deadly serious" ---

INDIANA STAGES MASSIVE SIMULATED NUCLEAR EXPLOSION DRILL...

Haven't we learned "our lesson" yet? Michael Ruppert's book "Crossing the Rubicon"has the deepest analysis of the how the war games facilitated the attacks by paralyzing the air defenses. An excellent summary is: Crossing the Rubicon: Simplifying the case against Dick Cheney by Michael Kane

Paul Thompson's Center for Cooperative Research has the most complete list of 9/11 war games and exercises. Webster Tarpley, 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA: "the most palpably subversive actions could be made to appear in the harmless and even beneficial guise of a drill."

The 9/11 war games: part of a pattern where exercise simulations have been used to mask real world events? The 1990 "Internal Look" exercise simulated Iraq's invasion of Kuwait at the exact moment that Iraq invaded Kuwait (Cheney was Secretary of Defense).

While most have long given up on the theory that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is still a believer.

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At 2:40 PM, May 09, 2007, Anonymous said…

KUSA - A United Airlines flight from Denver to Dallas was delayed two hours Tuesday after a passenger found box cutters in the seatback pocket in front of her.

That is according to Transportation Security Administration spokesman Darin Kayser.

United Flight 490 was taxiing on the runway at Denver International Airport at 12:30 p.m. when the box cutters were found.

"The passenger notified the flight attendant, who told the pilots, who called authorities," said United spokesperson Megan Mccarthy.

She says the pilot aborted takeoff and returned to the gate.

TSA officials re-screened the 138 passengers and swept the plane. No other weapons were found, according to Kayser. The plane took off for Dallas at 2:25 p.m.

United says the plane came into DIA from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Passengers got off and it was reloaded for the flight to Dallas.

When asked how the box cutters could have gotten on board, the TSA spokesman told 9NEWS he would not speculate.

"Things like this do occasionally happen. That's why we have armed pilots and Federal Air Marshals so that if prohibited items do get on board, there are other layers of security," said Kayser.

Terrorists used box cutter knives to hijack four planes and crash them into buildings on September 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people.

In February, federal agents snuck bombs and other weapons past screeners at DIA, according to a 9Wants To Know investigation that aired in March. TSA screeners failed to find most of the weapons carried by the agents in the covert tests, including improvised explosives and book bombs. Screeners did not follow standard operating procedures when alarms went off on the prohibited items.

Since the 9NEWS investigation, U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter (D-Golden) has taken a tour of the security operations. During the tour in April, he met with DIA's acting deputy manager, Lori Beckman, and TSA's acting deputy director, Al Meyers, along with others.

Perlmutter says that TSA in Denver appears to be working to improve its security measures. Perlmutter was concerned that the screeners missed the weapons. TSA Administrator Kip Hawley told Perlmutter it is a problem but says they have made detecting IEDs a top priority, according to Leslie Oliver, spokesperson for Perlmutter.

The congressman, who is on the House Homeland Security committee, is also concerned about the decrease in the number of TSA screeners at DIA from 1,100 employees to 700 this year.

"We must be watchful to maintain a careful balance between security and efficiency," said Perlmutter.