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    Passenger: Was cuffed, searched over 'appearance'
    By JEFF KAROUB - Associated Press | AP – 7 hrs ago


    DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. woman said Tuesday that she endured nearly four hours in police custody that included being forced off an airplane in handcuffs, strip-searched and interrogated at Detroit's airport on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — all, she believes, because of her Middle Eastern appearance.

    Shoshana Hebshi, 35, told The Associated Press she was one of three people removed from a Denver-to-Detroit Frontier Airlines flight after landing Sunday afternoon. Authorities say fighter jets escorted the plane after its crew reported that two people were spending a long time in a bathroom — the two men sitting next to Hebshi in the 12th row.

    Hebshi said she didn't notice how many times the men went to the bathroom. "I wasn't keeping track," she said.

    "I really wasn't paying attention," said Hebshi, a freelance writer, editor and stay-at-home mother of twin six-year-old boys who lives in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio. "I was minding my own business — sleeping, reading, playing on my phone."

    The FBI has said the three didn't know each other. One man felt ill and got up to use the restroom and another man in the same row also left his seat to go to the bathroom. The FBI said they never were inside together.

    Hebshi has written extensively on her blog about the incident, saying she felt "violated, humiliated and sure that I was being taken from the plane simply because of my appearance."

    Hebshi, who describes herself as half-Arabic, half-Jewish with a dark complexion, told the AP after they landed, she noticed police first surrounding, then storming the plane. She said she was surprised when they stopped at her row and ordered her and the men to get up.

    Her Twitter posts from Sunday bear that out. At one point, she wrote: "A little concerned about this situation. Plane moved away from terminal surrounded by cops. Crew is mum. Passengers can't get up."

    Later she wrote, "I see stairs coming our way...yay!" Her last post said, "Majorly armed cops coming aboard."

    It's then than she says the officers ordered her and the men, whom she described as Indian, to get up.

    She said she was patted down and taken by car to a holding cell. A uniformed female officer eventually came in and told Hebshi to take off her clothes.

    After the strip search, another officer who identified herself as a Homeland Security agent led Hebshi to another room, Hebshi said. There, a man who identified himself as an FBI agent asked her a series of questions while a female agent took notes, Hebshi said.

    Hebshi said that when she asked what was going on, the male agent told her someone on the plane reported that she and the men on her row were "conducting suspicious activity."

    FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said the three passengers were questioned but not arrested before the FBI determined there was no reason to suspect or hold them. She also said FBI agents who questioned the passengers were not involved in any strip searches.

    "We received a report of suspicious activity on that particular plane," Berchtold said. "We did not arrest ... these passengers. ... We didn't direct anybody to arrest them."

    Airport police are under the supervision of the Wayne County Airport Authority, which operates Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

    In an email to the AP, agency spokesman Scott Wintner said airport police "responded appropriately by following protocol and treating everyone involved with respect and dignity. "

    Wintner said the decision on how to respond was a call made by the Airport Authority's CEO, who he said is Arab-American.

    Hebshi said that finally, after being fingerprinted and allowed to call her husband, she was told she and the men were being released and that nothing suspicious was found on the plane. She said an official apologized and thanked her for understanding and cooperating.

    Hebshi said she received another call of apology from an FBI agent Monday, before she wrote her blog post.

    "I can understand they were just doing their job," she told the AP. "My beef is with these laws and regulations that are so hypersensitive. ... Even if you're an innocent bystander, you have no rights."

    AP left email and phone messages seeking comment Tuesday night with Frontier.

    The flight was one of two for which fighter jets were scrambled Sunday after crews reported suspicious activity on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials said. In both cases, it involved bathroom use. In neither case did authorities find anything to substantiate the suspicions.

    On American Airlines flight 34 from Los Angeles, three passengers who made repeated trips to the bathroom were cleared after the plane safely landed at New York's Kennedy Airport.

    Also Sunday, a GoJet Airlines flight bound for Washington was still on the runway in St. Louis when the pilot returned the aircraft to the gate and requested all passengers be re-screened after crew found paper towels stuffed in a toilet, according to a United Airlines spokesman. GoJet is a regional carrier for United.

    http://news.yahoo.com/passenger-cuff...003800344.html

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    Always good to second guess authorities AFTER the incident... If the description is true of what other passangers noticed - I would WANT those people searched. What would the headline be if these individuals were NOT innocent... Oh yeah - Authorities Failed to stop terrorist from exploding the plane - after being notified by passengers. They can't win. I suggest we continue to be vigilant and go through our inconvenience of being searched and suspected. As a middle aged white male - I have been searched several times, X rayed with the "invasive" xray machine, taking my belt off (in public) shirt off - emptying my pockets and having my belt be screened a second time. If this is what it takes to keep us safe - so be it.

    ...

    I'll admit, I don't have a problem with keeping an eye on folks of Middle Eastern descent, as little old Polish ladies aren't the one that have been committing terrorist attacks. ... But that said, it takes more than sitting on a plane with one or two other seeming Middle Easterners to report suspicious activity. Spending a long time in the bathroom by itself is not suspicious. I've known some people to take a whole half hour doing their business. You certainly don't arrest someone for it... and you especially don't do so in the next city! The flight is over. Nothing happened, as clearly the flight made its whole journey. There are a hundred things wrong with the handling of this 'suspicious' activity. ... The plane LANDED in its destination, and all that happened was someone took a long time in the bathroom. Face it. Someone wanted so bad to play hero on the Sept. 11 anniversary that they convinced themselves of something with really no evidence. That's disgusting. Hope they get fired.

    ....

    What do you expect? We are at war. I don't see Iranian president treat US citizens any better. May be we should ask for bail too. It is the life of the people on the whole plane against your right. That's what security is about.

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    Take note:Act like everyone else if not you may be subject to the report above. When you get removed from a plane in handcuffs strip searched make sure you post on your blog it was for safety sake nothing more. Humiliated seriously ? On the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on our soil you get humiliated ? You should be proud security noticed you. The three people could of smuggled items aboard undetectable singly but together a bomb could of been the subject of the repeated bathroom trips. I think the crew of this plane did the right thing 100% this lady should bow down and prey she wasn't just shot something I'm sure was a option. Those fighter jets were there to shoot the plane down not just escort they could of had a bad day and just shot you down for suspicious flying so relax everyone did there job according to there duties. Make sure on your blog you say thank you for the excellent job and would like a refund only nothing more.

    ....

    Just another attention grabber trying to make a buck from some ambulance chaser lawyer.....last time I checked it was still foreign born middle easterners that caused 911 you should feel safer since they detained you...after all there were a lot of middle eastern people that died that day. If you don't like the laws and rules in this country get out

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    Passenger: Was cuffed, searched over 'appearance'
    By JEFF KAROUB - Associated Press | AP – 7 hrs ago


    DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. woman said Tuesday that she endured nearly four hours in police custody that included being forced off an airplane in handcuffs, strip-searched and interrogated at Detroit's airport on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — all, she believes, because of her Middle Eastern appearance.

    Shoshana Hebshi, 35, told The Associated Press she was one of three people removed from a Denver-to-Detroit Frontier Airlines flight after landing Sunday afternoon. Authorities say fighter jets escorted the plane after its crew reported that two people were spending a long time in a bathroom — the two men sitting next to Hebshi in the 12th row.

    Hebshi said she didn't notice how many times the men went to the bathroom. "I wasn't keeping track," she said.

    "I really wasn't paying attention," said Hebshi, a freelance writer, editor and stay-at-home mother of twin six-year-old boys who lives in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio. "I was minding my own business — sleeping, reading, playing on my phone."

    The FBI has said the three didn't know each other. One man felt ill and got up to use the restroom and another man in the same row also left his seat to go to the bathroom. The FBI said they never were inside together.

    Hebshi has written extensively on her blog about the incident, saying she felt "violated, humiliated and sure that I was being taken from the plane simply because of my appearance."

    Hebshi, who describes herself as half-Arabic, half-Jewish with a dark complexion, told the AP after they landed, she noticed police first surrounding, then storming the plane. She said she was surprised when they stopped at her row and ordered her and the men to get up.

    Her Twitter posts from Sunday bear that out. At one point, she wrote: "A little concerned about this situation. Plane moved away from terminal surrounded by cops. Crew is mum. Passengers can't get up."

    Later she wrote, "I see stairs coming our way...yay!" Her last post said, "Majorly armed cops coming aboard."

    It's then than she says the officers ordered her and the men, whom she described as Indian, to get up.

    She said she was patted down and taken by car to a holding cell. A uniformed female officer eventually came in and told Hebshi to take off her clothes.

    After the strip search, another officer who identified herself as a Homeland Security agent led Hebshi to another room, Hebshi said. There, a man who identified himself as an FBI agent asked her a series of questions while a female agent took notes, Hebshi said.

    Hebshi said that when she asked what was going on, the male agent told her someone on the plane reported that she and the men on her row were "conducting suspicious activity."

    FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said the three passengers were questioned but not arrested before the FBI determined there was no reason to suspect or hold them. She also said FBI agents who questioned the passengers were not involved in any strip searches.

    "We received a report of suspicious activity on that particular plane," Berchtold said. "We did not arrest ... these passengers. ... We didn't direct anybody to arrest them."

    Airport police are under the supervision of the Wayne County Airport Authority, which operates Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

    In an email to the AP, agency spokesman Scott Wintner said airport police "responded appropriately by following protocol and treating everyone involved with respect and dignity. "

    Wintner said the decision on how to respond was a call made by the Airport Authority's CEO, who he said is Arab-American.

    Hebshi said that finally, after being fingerprinted and allowed to call her husband, she was told she and the men were being released and that nothing suspicious was found on the plane. She said an official apologized and thanked her for understanding and cooperating.

    Hebshi said she received another call of apology from an FBI agent Monday, before she wrote her blog post.

    "I can understand they were just doing their job," she told the AP. "My beef is with these laws and regulations that are so hypersensitive. ... Even if you're an innocent bystander, you have no rights."

    AP left email and phone messages seeking comment Tuesday night with Frontier.

    The flight was one of two for which fighter jets were scrambled Sunday after crews reported suspicious activity on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials said. In both cases, it involved bathroom use. In neither case did authorities find anything to substantiate the suspicions.

    On American Airlines flight 34 from Los Angeles, three passengers who made repeated trips to the bathroom were cleared after the plane safely landed at New York's Kennedy Airport.

    Also Sunday, a GoJet Airlines flight bound for Washington was still on the runway in St. Louis when the pilot returned the aircraft to the gate and requested all passengers be re-screened after crew found paper towels stuffed in a toilet, according to a United Airlines spokesman. GoJet is a regional carrier for United.

    http://news.yahoo.com/passenger-cuff...003800344.html

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    Always good to second guess authorities AFTER the incident... If the description is true of what other passangers noticed - I would WANT those people searched. What would the headline be if these individuals were NOT innocent... Oh yeah - Authorities Failed to stop terrorist from exploding the plane - after being notified by passengers. They can't win. I suggest we continue to be vigilant and go through our inconvenience of being searched and suspected. As a middle aged white male - I have been searched several times, X rayed with the "invasive" xray machine, taking my belt off (in public) shirt off - emptying my pockets and having my belt be screened a second time. If this is what it takes to keep us safe - so be it.

    ...

    I'll admit, I don't have a problem with keeping an eye on folks of Middle Eastern descent, as little old Polish ladies aren't the one that have been committing terrorist attacks. ... But that said, it takes more than sitting on a plane with one or two other seeming Middle Easterners to report suspicious activity. Spending a long time in the bathroom by itself is not suspicious. I've known some people to take a whole half hour doing their business. You certainly don't arrest someone for it... and you especially don't do so in the next city! The flight is over. Nothing happened, as clearly the flight made its whole journey. There are a hundred things wrong with the handling of this 'suspicious' activity. ... The plane LANDED in its destination, and all that happened was someone took a long time in the bathroom. Face it. Someone wanted so bad to play hero on the Sept. 11 anniversary that they convinced themselves of something with really no evidence. That's disgusting. Hope they get fired.

    ....

    What do you expect? We are at war. I don't see Iranian president treat US citizens any better. May be we should ask for bail too. It is the life of the people on the whole plane against your right. That's what security is about.

    ....

    Take note:Act like everyone else if not you may be subject to the report above. When you get removed from a plane in handcuffs strip searched make sure you post on your blog it was for safety sake nothing more. Humiliated seriously ? On the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on our soil you get humiliated ? You should be proud security noticed you. The three people could of smuggled items aboard undetectable singly but together a bomb could of been the subject of the repeated bathroom trips. I think the crew of this plane did the right thing 100% this lady should bow down and prey she wasn't just shot something I'm sure was a option. Those fighter jets were there to shoot the plane down not just escort they could of had a bad day and just shot you down for suspicious flying so relax everyone did there job according to there duties. Make sure on your blog you say thank you for the excellent job and would like a refund only nothing more.

    ....

    Just another attention grabber trying to make a buck from some ambulance chaser lawyer.....last time I checked it was still foreign born middle easterners that caused 911 you should feel safer since they detained you...after all there were a lot of middle eastern people that died that day. If you don't like the laws and rules in this country get out

    ....
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    TSA versus humanity in Florida

    They've pretty much mastered theft, searching babies' diapers, terrifying pre-schoolers, destroying essential, expensive medical devices, humiliating the sick and those with prosthetics, and invasively, injuriously searching the elderly and the dying, so it was about time for the TSA to branch out into desecrating human remains:
    http://www.theindychannel.com/news/31224633/detail.html

    "They opened up my bag, and I told them, 'Please, be careful. These are my grandpa's ashes,'" Gross told RTV6's Norman Cox. "She picked up the jar. She opened it up.

    "I was told later on that she had no right to even open it, that they could have used other devices, like an X-ray machine. So she opened it up. She used her finger and was sifting through it. And then she accidentally spilled it.

    "Gross says about a quarter to a third of the contents spilled on the floor, leaving him frantically trying to gather up as much as he could while anxious passengers waited behind him.

    "She didn't apologize. She started laughing. I was on my hands and knees picking up bone fragments. I couldn't pick up all, everything that was lost. I mean, there was a long line behind me."
    What a perfect scene of tyranny and subjection. I guess we can be grateful the agent didn't "accidentally" trample on his fingers or confiscate the ashes, just for the fun of it.

    http://www.punditandpundette.com/201...n-florida.html
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    TSA stops using 'nude' full body scanners
    Posted: Jun 03, 2013 9:24 AM CDT

    (CNN) - Those airport scanners that gave realistic full-body images are history.

    The Transportation Security Administration says it has removed all 250 of the backscatter machines from U.S. airports.

    Critics called them "virtual strip searches" and said they were too revealing.

    Others also expressed health concerns over radiation exposure.

    The TSA decided to begin pulling them out of airports in February.

    That's when congress voted to require all scanners to have privacy protecting software.

    You will still go through full body scans, but they now use radio waves that produce a less detailed image.

    http://www.wafb.com/story/22485634/t...-body-scanners

    How many millions of dollars wasted ?? I wonder who was the vendor ? Who they donate money to ???
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    When it comes to keeping America safe. The TSA is ON IT!

    Strip-searching your grandma? CHECK.
    Terrorizing your toddler? CHECK.

    Stopping illegal aliens from getting into America? Uh, Not so much.

    A TSA agent was arrested for conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens into the country. ICE officers arrested David Alexander Díaz-Torres in Orlando, Fla. Díaz-Torres and five others were charged in a 13-count indictment for bringing, transporting, harboring, and shielding illegal aliens within the United States.

    Corruption at every level: that is the legacy of Big Sis' DHS

    TSA Agent Arrested for Smuggling Illegal Aliens

    BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
    September 13, 2013 2:35 pm


    A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent was arrested Friday for conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens into the country. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers arrested David Alexander Díaz-Torres in Orlando, Fla., according to the Justice Department. Díaz-Torres and five others were charged in a 13-count indictment for bringing, transporting, harboring, and shielding illegal aliens within the United States.

    According to a Justice Department press release, a group of Brazilian nationals were smuggled through the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Díaz-Torres allegedly allowed the Brazilians through a TSA security checkpoint without questioning them.

    The group then flew to New York, Boston, and Philadelphia on commercial flights. “It is very troubling when law enforcement authorities have to arrest a corrupt federal employee who is alleged to have undermined our nation’s security, our overall safety, and the public trust and confidence we place in those chosen to protect and serve,” A U.S. attorney said in a statement. “The Justice Department’s commitment to preventing human smuggling, bringing smugglers to justice and assisting victims has never been stronger.”

    http://freebeacon.com/tsa-agent-arre...llegal-aliens/
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    TSA hired 73 people on the terror watch list; reason why is MIND-BLOWING

    Written by Michelle Jesse on June 9, 2015


    The TSA is the gift that keeps on giving. Just as summer travel season kicks into high gear, we learn about the second big black eye for the agency — and another ‘oh %&*#!’ — for travelers — in less than a week.

    I’m not sure which is worse, the fact that the TSA had a 95 percent failure rate in detecting contraband weapons snuck through in tests of airport screeners or the latest news that the TSA actually hired 73 workers on the terror watch list. http://www.newser.com/story/207975/t...hlist-dhs.html

    As reported last week by ABC News:

    An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ailure-report/ where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has learned.

    According to officials briefed on the results of a recent Homeland Security Inspector General’s report, TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints.

    In one test an undercover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm at a magnetometer, but TSA screeners failed to detect a fake explosive device that was taped to his back during a follow-on pat down.
    And now, in The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ated-watchlist

    The Transportation Safety Administration failed to identify 73 people on terrorism-related watch lists who were hired in the aviation industry, the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security has revealed.

    In a document published following an audit by the DHS, which oversees the TSA, the agency was found to have missed 73 people with terrorism-related category codes being employed by “major airlines, airport vendors, and other employers”. https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/...5-98_Jun15.pdf
    Each incident comes on the heels of the agency patting itself on the back — in the first case, for the “good job it was doing in sniffing out guns and other weapons,” and most recently, claiming its process to vet aviation workers for potential links to terrorism is “generally effective.”

    Ummmm…

    But wait, it gets worse.

    The Guardian explains WHY these 73 individuals slipped through the cracks to stand watch at our nation’s security checkpoints:

    TSA did not identify these individuals through its vetting operations because it is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related categories under current interagency watch-listing policy,” the DHS document stated, adding that the agency had “acknowledged that these individuals were cleared for access to secure airport areas despite representing a potential transportation security threat”.

    In other words, the TSA isn’t allowed to get every bit of information available about applicants, unless the applicants report it themselves. It’s up to the applicant to report information that could likely disqualify them from TSA employment. Yeaaahh. Got it. Turns out, even if information comes in after someone’s hired on at the TSA, the TSA doesn’t always get that info.

    All of this will be cold comfort to travelers lining up through security for their summer vacations.

    The silver lining – or the “gift” if you choose to see it that way – is this provides yet another stunning example of how increased government spending does NOT equal a better job done or necessarily help keep us safer. Despite almost $100 billion spent since 2011, the TSA continues to bring us lapse after lapse. Indeed, it appears that some of these gaps are a result of the very bloated bureaucracy that was supposed to keep us safer.

    http://allenbwest.com/2015/06/tsa-hi...-mind-blowing/
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    Only days after the Paris terror attacks, it was reported that a man in Atlanta accidentally brought a gun onto a commercial flight. Put in other words, by failing to catch this, the TSA was just as oblivious as a man who accidentally carried a firearm onto a plane.

    Following that story, Jeff Rossen of TODAY News decided to do his own experiment to test what he and his team could sneak past the TSA. Among the items they attempted to smuggle included a Swiss army knife, a blade longer than four inches, and scissors. http://www.today.com/news/can-tsa-fi...ercover-t56626

    The results? In three of the four times Rossen and his crew were able to smuggle their items past the TSA – a disappointing 75% failure rate. One could charge that we can’t infer anything from such a small sample of attempts, but as Rossen noted, this is hardly the only evidence of the TSA’s failures.


    Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security conducted an undercover test of the TSA, attempting to smuggle through fake explosives and banned weapons through the TSA. And the TSA’s success rate there? Only during three of the seventy attempts were they successful in finding the explosives or banned weapons – a 96% failure rate. http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/06/0...7-out-70-tests

    With a success rate like this, the TSA is all cost and no benefit. The TSA had a budget of $7.9 billion in 2014, employing 62,000 people. And the costs don’t end there. http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgele...ly-your-money/

    There were 30,621 claims of theft against the TSA from 2010-2014. Video footage of TSA theft is as easy to find as typing “TSA theft” into Youtube. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people decided to choose driving over flying solely to avoid the TSA (and considering that you’re more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash, this actually makes those individuals less safe). http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/us/airport-luggage-theft/

    And don’t get me started on claims of sexual harassment by the TSA, which are all too common. http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepa...aults-n1997818

    Such a model is already present in Israel and various European nations. Domestically, San Francisco International airport uses private screeners, and with much success. A 2007 study (by the TSA, by the way) found that private screeners were twice as effective at detecting fake bombs as TSA screeners. Private screeners also worked faster – processing 165 passengers for every 100 the TSA could.

    The TSA isn’t effective according to the DHS – and when the TSA’s own studies from nearly nine years ago show that the private sector does a better job, privatizing the TSA is a necessary action that has been long overdue.

    http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/u...airline-safety

    We already know the private sector to be vastly more efficient than the public sector, so why not privatize the TSA?
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    Authorities Find Accused Somali War Criminal Working as Airport Security Guard in Washington, D.C.
    June 2, 2016 2:58pm

    A Somali national accused of leading mass executions and torturing people during his country’s bloody civil war in the 1980s has been working as a security guard at the Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C, passing through all TSA and FBI checks for the past six years. Yusuf Abdi Ali, who is living in Alexandria, Virginia, was discovered by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, according to Fox 5. Ali had been through the full, federally mandated vetting process required to obtain an airport badge, officials said.

    Since the revelation, Ali has been placed on administrative leave, and his airport access has been revoked. Airport officials said that they are aware the Somali native was named in a lawsuit filed by a human rights group in 2006 for crimes against humanity. According to CNN, the case has faced several appeals and is headed to the Supreme Court.

    “The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority maintains a contract with Master Security to provide unarmed security services,” MWAA spokesman Rob Yingling said. “Master Security’s employees are subject to the full, federally-mandated vetting process in order to be approved for an airport badge, including a criminal history records check by the FBI and a security threat assessment by the TSA.”

    Tingling said the authority has “verified that all of these processes were followed and approved” when it comes to Ali.

    The MWAA also said it was unaware of the pending litigation involving Ali and is now reviewing the information surrounding that case.

    The U.S. government has been aware of Ali for several years, officials told CNN, “based upon allegations that he had been involved in human rights violations.” They declined to provide any further information.

    “He oversaw some of the most incredible violence that you can imagine,” Kathy Roberts, a lawyer for the Center of Justice and Accountability, which is leading the civil lawsuit, told CNN. “He tortured people personally; he oversaw torture.”

    A government regime led by Mohamed Siad Barre took power in 1969 and ruled dictatorially following a coup in Somalia. Ali served as a commander in the regime and is accused of terrorizing Isaaq, the once-dominant clan in the country’s northern region.

    “He tied [my brother] to military vehicle and dragged him behind. He said to us if you’ve got enough power, get him back,” one survivor said on a 1992 CBC documentary. “He shredded him into pieces. That’s how he died.”

    However, Ali denies all the accusations of violence, claiming they are both “false” and “baseless.”

    “How dare anyone call him a war criminal,” Joseph Peter Drennan, Ali’s lawyer, said. “If he is indeed a war criminal, take him to The Hague. Or if he is a war criminal, take it up with the immigration authorities. Don’t sue him in an American court.”

    “My client deserves to live in the U.S. just as any other legal permanent resident,” he added.

    Ali first came to the United States on a visa through his wife, who became a citizen. She was found guilty in 2006 of naturalization fraud, after claiming to be a refugee from Somalia’s Isaaq clan.

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016...ashington-d-c/

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    So, the guy groping my junk to check if I’m a terrorist at the airport….Is the terrorist.
    Did M. Night Shamalomgadingdong write this script with a twist?

    ..

    Fear not dear blazers because the government is vetting ALL Syrians coming to AmeriKa,I’m sure this is just an isolated incident.

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    "My client deserves to live in the U.S. just as any other legal permanent resident,” he added.

    Ali first came to the United States on a visa through his wife, who became a citizen. She was found guilty in 2006 of naturalization fraud, after claiming to be a refugee from Somalia’s Isaaq clan.
    Hum…… HELLO!!! If his wife was found guilty of naturalization FRAUD and he came here through her that means he is here ILLEGALLY!! He does NOT deserve to live in the US!!

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    I wonder if this guy passed the Obama Administration’s or the TSA’s “rigorous screening and security checks”?

    “Senior Obama officials have warned of challenges in screening refugees from Syria”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...es-from-syria/
    But, hey, what could go wrong, right?
    Laissez les bon temps rouler! Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.** a 4 day work week & sex slaves ~ I say Tyt for PRESIDENT! Not to be taken internally, literally or seriously ....Suki ebaynni IS THAT BETTER ?

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