Passenger Tries to Blow Up Jet Arriving in Detroit

[Crazy Horse]

Passenger Tries to Blow Up Jet Arriving in Detroit Updated: 30 minutes ago
MoreLara Jakes and Larry Margasak
 

AP WASHINGTON (Dec. 25) - A Northwest Airlines passenger landing in Detroit on Friday tried to blow up the flight but the explosive device failed, two U.S. national security officials said.

The passenger, who was traveling on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam, was not identified. He was being questioned Friday evening, according to one of the officials, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing.

The motive of the Christmas Day attack was not immediately clear

http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/fireworks-set-off-aboard-commercial-flight/19294161?icid=main

WTF????

[Crazy Horse]

The Homeland Security Department said passengers may see additional screening measures on domestic and international flights because of the incident.

Do ya think................FFS people, we are at WAR!!!!!!!!! More important they are at war with us!!!!!

[Chris]

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., ranking GOP member of the House Homeland Security Committee, identified the suspect as Abdul Mudallad, a Nigerian. King said the flight began in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit. There were 278 passengers aboard the Airbus 330.

One law enforcement source said the man claimed to have been instructed by al-Qaida to detonate the plane over U.S. soil.

Nope.  Didn't see that coming.  Not at all...

[Crazy Horse]

 

Will th dumbasses in charge pay attention to this or will they keep thinking conservatives and veterans are the ones to watch??


Rhetorical

[thundley4]

Will th dumbasses in charge pay attention to this or will they keep thinking conservatives and veterans are the ones to watch??


Rhetorical

They'll keep pulling 90 year old gray haired ladies out of line, or confiscating bottles of breast milk from moms with infants before they start profiling.

[SilverOrchid]

How rude of those Muslims oops PASSANGERS trying to blow up a plane on Christmas!  I thought we are supposed to play nice now? 

[Crazy Horse]

How do we think th DUmp reacts?????

Hydra  (1000+ posts)        Fri Dec-25-09 05:42 PM
Response to Original message
1. You notice that after the truth gets out, someone thought it would be more useful
 To have a "terrorism event"?

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Fri Dec-25-09 06:16 PM
Response to Original message
5. GREAT increased security  
 So tell me how could somebody get fire crackers onto a plane?

Oh never mind. Will see how the circus is on Sunday at the Airport...

Myrina  (1000+ posts)      Fri Dec-25-09 06:45 PM
Response to Original message
6. Yeah, I heard he set off 'firecrackers' ...
  How does one get firecrackers past TSA?

spoony  (1000+ posts)      Fri Dec-25-09 06:51 PM
Response to Original message
10. I'm sure this is nothing our drone bombers can't handle.
 Thank goodness we're wiping out the terrarrists in Afghanist...er, Pakist...er, Yem...er, Nigeria.

Damn I shocked I tell ya

bobburgster  (540 posts)      Fri Dec-25-09 07:59 PM
Response to Original message
5. Now we see how much the mighty US
 Will shake and shiver in fear over the acts of random wanna-be terrorists.

I hope Obama can help us retain a little dignity this time around.

**** you

[ColonialMarine0431]

It's not called "terrorism" any more. It's called "man caused disaster". Did'nt you people get the memo?

[thundley4]

Quote
nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Fri Dec-25-09 06:16 PM
Response to Original message
5. GREAT increased security 
 So tell me how could somebody get fire crackers onto a plane?

Oh never mind. Will see how the circus is on Sunday at the Airport...

I doubt the fact that he boarded in Nigeria had anything to do with lax security.

[DefiantSix]

At least someone seems to be taking the threat of terrorism seriously:

...The passenger was being questioned Friday evening. An intelligence source said the Nigerian passenger was being held and treated in an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital...

In other words, the rest of the plane's passengers saw this camel ****er acting strangely, and fearing for their tender pink tushes, beat the ever-loving CRAP out of him, just like Richard Reid got.

[NHSparky]

Memo to Al-Qaeda,

It's DETROIT.  Crashing a plane into that shithole will only improve it.

[ColonialMarine0431]

At least someone seems to be taking the threat of terrorism seriously:

In other words, the rest of the plane's passengers saw this camel ****er acting strangely, and fearing for their tender pink tushes, beat the ever-loving CRAP out of him, just like Richard Reid got.

If I saw an animal like that trying to light something on a commercial flight I was on, I'd slip my belt out in 1 second, wrap it around his neck and break it in 2 seconds.

[Airwolf]

All along we have said that since the Big Zero got elected that something would happen once he sat on his ass and did nothing but go on world tours to apologize to people that don't deserve it.

[debk]

All along we have said that since the Big Zero got elected that something would happen once he sat on his ass and did nothing but go on world tours to apologize to people that don't deserve it.

Something that was on Fox got me thinking the other day.....wondering why terrorists have never thought to attack during the Christmas season....lots of people out and about and travelling, to rushed to pay attention to something out of the ordinary...

[crockspot]

Seems to be a Yemen connection with this Nigerian... I wonder if he is connected to any of the 30 guys who got blown up in Yemen yesterday...

[Ralph Wiggum]

Memo to Al-Qaeda,

It's DETROIT.  Crashing a plane into that shithole will only improve it.

No offense to my Michigan friends intended.

[JohnnyReb]

Nothing to worry about. Just a gay muslim having trouble with his 'compact'.

[TheSarge]

So yet another Islamic fanatic tries to take out people from a Christian nation on one of it's holiest days...and the BEST our elected officials can come up with is a vow to hold hearings?


Hey Ms. Collins...here's a way you can prevent a breach like this from happening again...profile Islamic men between the ages of 18-35 from countries known to sponsor terrorism.

These elected officials are living some kind of "West Wing" fantasy in a "24" world.

And it's going to get a lot more of us killed unless we change our mindset as a country.

[NHSparky]

So yet another Islamic fanatic tries to take out people from a Christian nation on one of it's holiest days...and the BEST our elected officials can come up with is a vow to hold hearings?


Hey Ms. Collins...here's a way you can prevent a breach like this from happening again...profile Islamic men between the ages of 18-35 from countries known to sponsor terrorism.

These elected officials are living some kind of "West Wing" fantasy in a "24" world.

And it's going to get a lot more of us killed unless we change our mindset as a country.

I wouldn't expect much more from the frozen Maine-iac brain of one-half of Maine's "Obama Comfort Girls".

ETA: Stole your expression--it's now posted at TAH, with credit, of course.

[TheSarge]

I wouldn't expect much more from the frozen Maine-iac brain of one-half of Maine's "Obama Comfort Girls".

But we should.

9/11 was just yesterday in the timeline of history.  Incidents like this prove that the terrorist fanatics see it that way as well.

They are continuing to plot...continuing to kill.

And our elected officials are sticking their head in the sand pretending it's 9/10 so they won't offend anyone.

They're more concerned with free healthcare for everyone than actually doing one of their Constitutionally directed functions.

Little Johnny in Manhattan having health insurance isn't gonna matter one whit if we're all dead because the Congress Critters pretended like there wasn't still a credible active and lethal threat to our existence standing right at our front door..

[NHSparky]

But...but...but...we'll FEEEEEELLLLLLL better!

[TheSarge]

But...but...but...we'll FEEEEEELLLLLLL better!

LOL! They might feel better.

But I think you and I will feel better when President Palin announces during a SOTU address that "tonite...I come here to announce to the people of America and all citizens of the world that we have wiped the last vestiges of radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth.  Finally...the ghost of 9/11 can be laid to rest...forever"

[Linda]

From the articles link:

The FBI and the Homeland Security Department issued an intelligence note on Nov. 20 about the threat picture for the holiday season, which was obtained by The Associated Press. At the time, officials said they had no specific information about attack plans by al-Qaida or other terrorist groups.

President Barack Obama was notified of the incident and discussed it with security officials, the White House said. Officials said he is monitoring the situation and receiving regular updates from his vacation spot in Hawaii.

[DU mode on] MY GOD...why didn't obama put a stop to this...after all he KNEW about it since Nov. 20th...I guess his Hawaiian vacation is more important than the Nations security is. And why is the presisdent so quiet, was he behind this? [DU mode off]  

Isn't that the same garbage they used?

Hurray for the brave American's on the flight, thank God they are all still alive and doing well.

[thundley4]

Jasper Schuringa subdued alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Northwest Airlines 253


Jasper Schuringa, a director from Amsterdam, reportedly helped cabin crew abord Northwest Airlines flight 253 to subdue alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who planned to blow up the plane.

The passenger who tackled a suspected terrorist on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 said Saturday that he’s “happy” to be alive.

Jasper Schuringa, a video director and producer from Amsterdam, told CNN how he helped the cabin crew to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old who reportedly ignited a small explosive device on board the plane Friday as it prepared to land in Detroit.

Schuringa said he heard a sound that reminded him of a firecracker and someone yelling, “Fire! Fire!”

But  he was only certain something was wrong when he saw smoke. He saw Abdulmutallab's pants open and he was holding a burning object between his legs.

"I pulled the object from him and tried to extinguish the fire with my hands and threw it away," Schuringa said.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/26/2009-12-26_jasper_schuringa_helped_subdue_alleged_terrorist_umar_farouk_abdulmutallab_on_no.html#ixzz0aoYW3JUt

[SVPete]

The DU commenter(s) didn't know enough about the incident to know that this moron flew from Nigeria (Do they even have airport security there? If so, how bribe-able, assuming they would even care to stop a terrorist?), but still shot their mouth (OK, keyboard) off. What a ... (yawn) ... shock ...

As this blog post points out, a lot of people got some 'splainin' to do. I doubt any of them will, though. There were at least three layers of security between this twerp and his perpetual virgins: 1.) the US State department, who gave a visa to a watch-list terrorist suspect; 2.) Nigerian airport security, who didn't give a sh__ or took $$ to be temporarily blind; 3.) Netherlands airport security - EuroLanders seem less than concerned when the possible bombers are outward bound. All three layers failed, at least from the POV of the passengers on that flight.

And, while passengers on that flight may have tried some DIY cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of the would-be perp, his hospitalization is due to his self-inflicted burns (which may be the most serious punishment he'll receive).