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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Tomm Mooree" |
| Date: |
16 Apr 2005 02:32:01 PM |
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Flying KLM to Mexico |
Thank god Mother Earth is a safer place today than she was on 9/11. I
tell you: if I had been one of the 278 passengers on board that KLM
Boeing bound for Mexico City I would not have grumbled at all at hearing
from the captain that we were heading back to Amsterdam because the US
wouldn't allow us into their airspace.
No, I would have applauded the Mexican authorities for discovering, after
checking the passenger list, that I was sharing an aircraft with two
decidedly dodgy characters from Saudi Arabia. I would commend the
Canadians for not allowing us to land and I would - need I say - raise my
glass to those prudent Americans. You never know what two highly suspect
Arabs in a KLM plane can get up to.
Does the name Mustafa al-Harimi mean anything to you? No? Well, I'm not
surprised because I just made it up. Funny thing is, though, that there
might well be any number of Arab gentlemen with precisely that name.
Anything that sounds Arab usually is; there could well be page after page
of al-Harimis in the Djeddah phone directory.
For that's how it is with names. Do a Google search on "Thomas Moore" and
see how many of my namesakes pop up in the 3 million-plus results, from
Thomas More Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor, to Thomas Moore the National
Poet of Ireland. Most of the others are Mathematicians, which is
worrying, so am I.
What I'm trying to say is how many Saudi citizens share their name with
the two dodgy characters on board the KLM plane? To use my invented name
again: how did the Mexicans know they were dealing with al-Harimi the Al
Qaeda convert and explosives expert, instead of al-Harimi the halva
merchant from Medina?
When it comes to that: how likely is it that a would-be terrorist would
check in at Amsterdam Schiphol under his own name, claiming to be taking
a break from combat training in Afghanistan for a bit of sightseeing in
Mexico City? And, if he did indeed have evil plans, why depart from
Schiphol, where not even a wooden toothpick will pass through security
unnoticed?
Other questions arise, have the Americans gone soft, or more like, how
soft are they going to get? Somehow I'd expected that, on receiving the
warning from the Mexicans, they would have scrambled a squadron of F-
16's, forced the Boeing to land in the Arizona Desert, dragged out the
two Saudis and bundled them off to Guantanamo Bay for some stern
questioning and subsequent reprogramming. But just saying: 'Ooohhh we
don't want you here, go away'….it doesn't seem the American thing to do.
And another thing: it's good to know that the Mexican authorities have a
checklist of suspect individuals, but shouldn't the Dutch have one too?
And if they do have one, why not use it? An ounce of prevention and all
that: a lot of money and inconvenience could have been saved if the two
Saudis had never got on board the plane in the first place.
The whole episode looks like one thing, a futile shambles. Strangely,
this is not the view of US Customs and Border Protection spokesperson
Christiana Halsey, quoted in a recent Dutch newspaper as saying that the
events had been evidence of the 'good communication' between Mexico, US
officials and KLM. 'Things happened exactly as they should happen in
situations like this' was her message to the rest of us, 'of course it
caused the passengers who had to return to Schiphol enormous
inconvenience, but the communication lines were short, action was taken
immediately and that is great.'
Well. Obviously, two Arabs on a plane will from now on amount to 'a
situation like this . . ..'
If I were a clean living, law-abiding Saudi (or Algerian, Tunisian,
Moroccan, Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian or Afghan) I'd be bloody angry at
not being allowed to overfly the United States in the course of my
legitimate business, merely because I share my name with someone on a
list.
If, on the other hand, I were a naughty Saudi (or Algerian etc.) I'd get
quite a kick out of booking a transatlantic flight and then sitting back
and enjoying the mayhem and confusion I caused. I think we can expect
more of this.
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| User: "Roedy Green" |
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| Title: Re: Flying KLM to Mexico |
16 Apr 2005 10:36:51 PM |
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On 16 Apr 2005 14:32:01 -0500, Tomm Mooree
<tom.moore@spamservice.gov.uk> wrote or quoted :
And, if he did indeed have evil plans, why depart from
Schiphol, where not even a wooden toothpick will pass through security
unnoticed?
I see this all the time in security systems. Their designers presume
the bad guys will try to crack the most secure part of the system
rather than bypass it looking for the least guarded entrance.
I once humiliated the creator of a encryption system that would take
"hundreds of thousands of years to crack" by simply going around it at
a demo.
How many times have you seen a fancy bike lock attached to a post. The
bike is gone because thieves cut the bike. Other times you see a
cable cut.
Bush crime family lost/embezzled $3 trillion from Pentagon.
Complicit Bush-friendly media keeps mum.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/mckinney_grills_rumsfeld.htm
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Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
See http://mindprod.com/iraq.html photos of Bush's war crimes
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