Boxcutters and cellphone taped to Pepto-Bismol. A test run.
Checked the luggage to Yemen but boarded the flight to Amsterdam.
Why Chicago.
...Lots of activity
lately.
More.
NBC Chicago. (A real PC media pooh-pooh report.)
The
men were arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Monday. One U.S.
official said it appears the Dutch were not asked to hold either man
but were instead notified of the odd behavior and apparently decided on
their own to detain them.
While
two men were picked up by the Dutch, tal Murisi is now thought to be
uninvolved and was simply coincidentally sitting next to al Soofi,
who's from Detroit.
Neither
of the two men were previously of concern to law enforcement, a law
enforcement official says, nor is there anything to suggest they had
ill intent.
Really.
Because everyone tapes a cellphone to a Pepto-Bismol bottle. And why
didn't we ask the Dutch to hold these guys? Apparently they have a
different grasp of reality. Clearly they recognized a threat.
...Wonder if this will make the next Chicago-area Islamic Society of North America newsletter. (
Stimulus $$$ for Sharia?)
...In other Chicago news:
Durbin throws support behind Ground Zero Mosque:
Sen.
Dick Durbin, the man who could lead the U.S. Senate depending on how
November’s elections go, had a strong message for Illinois’ 400,000
Muslims and other residents about the Ground Zero Mosque Monday.
“They
are patriotic peace-loving Americans,” Durbin said of Illinois’
Muslims. “They are the doctors who administer your anesthesia; the
nurses who care for you in the hospital; the engineers who build the
buildings; the people who run the hotels and motels and businesses. If
there was ever a time we needed to step up and embrace them and remind
them that they are as much a part of America as anyone, it is now.”
How do you want your Pepto-Bismol.
And Lithuanian grandmothers, you are on notice for strip searches.
...If they blow a hole in O'Hare Sen. Durbin will support a mosque there too. It's only fair.
Related:
Captured on Video: Fundraising for Hamas in U.S. Mosque. And this:
According
to press accounts, more than $1 million in aid for Hamas, including the
cash and supplies raised in Orlando at Musri’s mosque, along with funds
raised in Kansas, New York and Illinois, was provided on Galloway’s
July 2009. There to greet them and take possession of the cash was
Hamas economic minister Ziad al-Zaza and Hamas prime minister Ismail
Haniyeh, another designated global terrorist.
Lovely.
More.
2004 Tribune article on the Muslim Brotherhood in Chicago:
The
Brotherhood slogan became "Allah is our goal; the Messenger is our
model; the Koran is our constitution; jihad is our means; and martyrdom
in the way of Allah is our aspiration."[snip]
A U.S. chapter of the Brotherhood, documents and interviews show, was
formed in the early 1960s after hundreds of young Muslims came to the
U.S. to study, particularly at large Midwestern universities, such as
Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. Some belonged to the Brotherhood in
their homelands and wanted to spread its ideology here.
But to
protect themselves and their relatives back home from possible
persecution, they publicly called themselves the Cultural Society and
not the Brotherhood.
P.S. Here's the WaPo's headline--talk about uninformative, you'd think maybe they had a
stuck umbrella in there or something:
Pair held after odd items turn up in luggage. It was Mary Poppins and her carpetbag.
"We don't know yet if these two end up being bad guys or are just really strange people," said one official.
There ya go.
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