PAM MEISTER: 10 YEAR OLD KID ON TERROR WATCH LIST WHILE DETROIT WANNABE JIHADIST WAS WAVED THROUGH!!
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Exclusive: Boy Under 10 on Terror Watch List While Abdulmutallab Was Waved Through – What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Pam Meister
This story made me sit up and take notice.
Eight-year-old Mikey Hicks was first patted down at the airport at the age of two because he shares the name of someone who is “among 13,500 on the “selectee” list, which sets off a high level of security screening.†And when he was just a baby, his mother couldn’t get a seat for him on a plane because his name appeared on the list.
Fortunately for those who share Mikey’s problem, in the “coming months,†such names will be cross-referenced with dates of birth and sex.
Meanwhile, no one seemed to notice that crotch-bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had no coat (traveling to Detroit in December, no less) and no luggage when boarding the near-fateful flight in Amsterdam – in addition to the fact that his own father warned the U.S. that he suspected his son had been radicalized.
FSM’s Michael Cutler has suggested on numerous occasions that if the U.S. would simply tighten the visa issuance process, Abdulmutallab would never have even been anywhere near the airplane, let alone board it with explosives in his shorts.
Yet the first thing the TSA did was to propose was tighter restrictions on all passengers, including longer security checks while trying to board. In addition, passengers would not be allowed to hold anything on their laps (including blankets and books) would be forced to remain seated during the last hour of the flight. After the initial panicked response, the TSA then decided to allow pilots to make those decisions in-flight.
Worthy of note as we continue to pick this story apart is that “Muslims continue behaving badly on airplanes,†as reported by Robert Spencer at JihadWatch:
While Islamic advocacy groups like CAIR and MPAC complain about “profiling” of Muslims in airports, and egregious deceivers like Aziz Poonawalla whine about the perils of “Flying While Brown,” in an unrelated and entirely coincidental development, Muslims continue to be “unruly” and create “disturbances” on airplanes.
Spencer notes two cases in which “unruly†Muslim passengers either made flight crew members and other passengers jittery or outright interfered with the flight crew. He continues:
Now, these could be examples of jihadis trying to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60), which you can do in ways other than simply by murdering them. On the other hand, maybe it really is all just coincidence. Muhammad Abu Tahir, after all, was drunk – although he may have been trying to give himself some Dutch courage. In the same way that the 9/11 hijackers and Nidal Hasan went to strip clubs before their jihad attacks, so Muhammad Abu Tahir may have believed that all his sins would be outweighed by his act of jihad. Or maybe he had no jihadist intent at all. But one would think at least that if Islamic groups want to show that there is no need for profiling, they could at least advise their coreligionists to knock off the “unruly” behavior on airplanes.
If indeed these incidents are not innocent misunderstandings, we could be under what I called an “Islamist Tet Offensive,†where Islamists are following the lead of the North Vietnamese by orchestrating a series of surprise attacks in a variety of places, which took the Americans off guard.
By the way, TSA nominee Errol Southers thinks that “most of the domestic groups that we have to pay attention to here are white supremacist groups.â€
But profile Muslims? The PC gods forbid it. My opinion on such profiling has not changed since I wrote about it in 2007. Why should everyone be inconvenienced when those who have engaged in these deadly activities come from a particular group?
Remember the “flying imams?†One of them had links to Osama bin Laden and Hamas. Yet US Airways decided to settle out of court, something that has chilling implications for our security. As I wrote back in October:
It doesn’t matter that the imams didn’t actually win in court; the settlement is seen by Islamists as a capitulation and further erosion of American values and security – especially coming on the heels of a rash of five separate (homegrown) terror busts within the past couple of months. Add to that the recent case of “good ol’ boy†Daniel Patrick Boyd, a Muslim convert who allegedly headed a terror cell in his native North Carolina and we have a very serious problem.
As FSM’s Tom McLaughlin notes, political correctness is indeed a “deadly infection.†When will we come up with a vaccine?
Pam Meister is the editor of FamilySecurityMatters.org.
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