Commentary from WorldNetDailyExcerpt: "And to every American reading this column, know that your personal security is up to you. The government is not watching out for you."
By Joseph Farah
Posted: December 28, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
If you have traveled by airline lately – domestically or internationally – you know the meaning of the word "hassle."
Ordinary people who pose no possible threat to life and limb are forced to take off their shoes, their belts, walk through metal detectors, get their bags X-rayed and stand on long security lines.
Meanwhile, as we saw last weekend, a man with "significant terrorist connections" boards a plan in Nigeria with the components of a bomb and nearly succeeds in detonating it as it approached Detroit.
In other words, all the best efforts of government's politically correct, non-profiling of airline passengers proves worthless once again.
In fact, if it hadn't been for the alert passengers on Flight 253, all 278 of them might have perished in the latest act of Islamic terrorism. Passengers, not crew members, jumped over one another to subdue the fiend. There was not a TSA agent or a sky marshal in sight.
The government's response to the latest incident is to increase its meaningless security charade in which all passengers – elderly grandmas and newborns – are scrutinized with the same level of enthusiasm as those with "significant terrorism connections."
Maybe you're asking yourself why someone with "significant terrorism connections" is permitted on a commercial airliner headed for the U.S.
What is the purpose of the "no-fly list" if not to keep those with "significant terrorism connections" from getting on board?
Don't expect to get an answer to that question. Just expect your own personal airline hassles to increase.
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From FOXNEWS.com
Saturday, December 26, 2009
The father of a Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day reportedly warned the U.S. about his son's extreme religious views and activities, Nigerian newspaper This Day reported.
The suspected terrorist has been identified as 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. His father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, was a former minister and well-known banker, recently retiring from his chairman position at First Bank Nigeria, the paper reported.
A close family source said that the father left his hometown of Katsina, in northern Nigeria, to speak with security agencies on Saturday.
Family members said the father had become uncomfortable and concerned about his son's fanatical religious views in recent months. They said, as a result, he reported his son's activities to the U.S. Embassy and Nigerian security agencies six months ago.
The father was reportedly devastated to hear the reports about his son's arrest and alleged role in trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane.
A close friend said the father was shocked to learn that his son was even allowed to travel to the U.S. after he had reported him to U.S. authorities, the paper reported.
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