ISIS Fighter from Minny worked for Delta
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ISIS Fighter from Minny worked for Delta
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story...apolis-airport
"Two former employees confirmed working with Muhumed at Delta Global Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Airlines. Earlier this year, the cleaning contract was taken over by another company, Airserv."
"Two former employees confirmed working with Muhumed at Delta Global Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Airlines. Earlier this year, the cleaning contract was taken over by another company, Airserv."
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Interesting, usually the issue has been with Somali refugees or their American children traveling to Somali and joining al-Shabaab. There's a large contingent of Ethnic Somali working at the airport. It's been going on for a good decade.
If he worked for DSG he might has flow there non-rev.
If he worked for DSG he might has flow there non-rev.
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So much for background checks, assuming he and/or his neighborhood "buddy" were really even hooked up with ISIL. [And so much for all that NSA+ surveillance (which creates more and bigger haystacks in which to loose the needles but finds out even the internet porn-viewing habits of every grandmother on an American dairy farm).]
And yet TSA is such a fan of this "background-check"-based PreCheck nonsense despite repeated examples of how background checking passengers misses the point: background checking passengers and wasting time on cross-checking boarding passes with passenger ID is wholly unnecessary and counterproductive to effectively interdict passenger smuggling of contraband weapons, explosives and incendiaries.
And yet TSA is such a fan of this "background-check"-based PreCheck nonsense despite repeated examples of how background checking passengers misses the point: background checking passengers and wasting time on cross-checking boarding passes with passenger ID is wholly unnecessary and counterproductive to effectively interdict passenger smuggling of contraband weapons, explosives and incendiaries.
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He apparently has no criminal record. But, I assume he must have hooked up with ISIS online through social media or whatever. I guess the NSA missed that or didn't care because it seems he committed no crime while on US soil.
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America needs to adapt the Israeli system. But the idiot napolitano visited there and rejected their near perfect profiling system, to our demise. This PC crap needs to go...now! On the bright side, this should all change in November and again in 2 years.
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Remember it was Bush who implemented the TSA nonsense and instructed them to not bother any middle-eastern men in their 20s, while probing every orifice of 92 year old Scandinavian women. Cuz you know, that 92 year old Scandinavian woman is as likely to be a hijacker as the 24 year old Egyptian.
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Hyperbole much?
I am related to Scandinavian women who are or were 92 years old, and none of them had their orifices probed by TSA.
Racist profiling would have done what? More of it? No thank you, for there is enough racist profiling in the US. Importing more racist profiling isn't needed -- it's a flop.
What's the evidence this DL guy was even part of ISIS/ISIL? This American DL guy got killed -- and/or his dead body (with US passport and money) was found -- by the very group whose members sold the American-Israeli journalist to the ISIS /ISIL thugs who beheaded him. That group being the "moderate" FSA backed by numerous NATO countries. If the murdered journalist's family in Florida speaks out about their son being sold to kidnappers for ransom, this will become explicitly clear to everybody.
What's the evidence this DL MSP guy wanted to kill anybody in the US during or even after his "radicalization"? He had the opportunity in the US but apparently decided not to harm anybody in the US -- even after he had gotten his passport and decided to fly to Turkey and taken the trip to dangerous territory bordering Turkey.
I am related to Scandinavian women who are or were 92 years old, and none of them had their orifices probed by TSA.
What's the evidence this DL guy was even part of ISIS/ISIL? This American DL guy got killed -- and/or his dead body (with US passport and money) was found -- by the very group whose members sold the American-Israeli journalist to the ISIS /ISIL thugs who beheaded him. That group being the "moderate" FSA backed by numerous NATO countries. If the murdered journalist's family in Florida speaks out about their son being sold to kidnappers for ransom, this will become explicitly clear to everybody.
What's the evidence this DL MSP guy wanted to kill anybody in the US during or even after his "radicalization"? He had the opportunity in the US but apparently decided not to harm anybody in the US -- even after he had gotten his passport and decided to fly to Turkey and taken the trip to dangerous territory bordering Turkey.
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Nonetheless, the Israeli's system of profiling works and has worked flawlessly since inception, ours doesn't; therefore we are incompetent if we don't adapt it. Racism is another PC thing and has nothing to do with security.
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The US, fortunately, isn't Israel; and Israel, fortunately, isn't the US. Even as some say the lines do blur from time to time.
Fortunately, this former DL MSP worker didn't care to attack in the US, if he even attacked anywhere after getting "radicalized".
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America has 315 M people. Israel has 7 M. TSA screens nearly 2 M per day in America. Israel has a fraction of that.
There are 27,000 flights per day in this country while in Israel there are less than 50.
So, all the best on hopes of a Israel style profiling system. There is no chance and the same folks who want it would complain about the massive size and cost of another government entity.
With that said, of course we can do better as a country with air travel. It's also important that we, as travelers, remain vigilant and don't hesitate to report what we deem concerning. The common citizen is a key line of defense.
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As an example: on 9/11 ten of the hijackers were declared selectees by the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening (CAPPS) System. Unfortunately at the time, the system was only used for PPBM (Positive Pax Bag Match). I can't go into specifics about selection criteria (but if you think about it, some criteria is obvious), but the system used booking/purchase behavior from their PNR to flag them. I will say that it had nothing to do with their names (names were never part of the selection criteria in CAPPS). And since a computer doesn't know their race, it would be quite difficult to label it a "racist" computer. There were plans to launch CAPPS II in the 2000s, but it never came to fruition, now they have the TSA's secure flight program. Time will tell if it's effective.
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I would trust the toddlers in my family to be better at "behavioral profiling" than any TSA BDO playing like Israeli security at TLV.
If the Israeli profiling was so effective it certainly hasn't worked at stopping or reducing violence from territories occupied by Israel even when people in those occupied areas were repeatedly subject to cordon and search operations and could be "profiled" too.
MSP has had a BDO program in play for years too. So much for the "effectiveness" of all the "profiling" and all the "background checks" interdicting so-called terrorists at MSP -- whether or not the so-called terrorists are passengers or airline/airport/vendor employees or even both.
Who loves billion dollar boondoggles after billion dollar boondoggles? Advocates and beneficiaries of the voodoo "security" of "profiling".
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mich...who-detected-0
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Israel's profiling is perfect because it has NEVER ONCE failed. If we adopt it w/o modifying it (BDO) to appease the PC police, then ours will be perfect as well. Regarding the amount of cost, there is no number that can't be afforded when it comes to this and there are quite a lot of other gov't programs that are useless whose funds could be put to use in this front line, all important endeavor. However, with the obvious slant of the current powers that be, this will never happen and we will never be as safe as Israel is, until change occurs...again, this November and in 2016 are key. Looking forward to it.