More on this story. "Airport watch figure confirms terrorist tie," by Rebecca Lopez for the Dallas Morning News:
One of the subjects of a Dallas police intelligence bulletin, Asma Al-Homsi, says she's known convicted terrorist Wadih el Hage and his wife for more than two decades.
Mr. el Hage, a former Arlington resident and naturalized U.S. citizen, was the personal secretary of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden before he was sent to prison. But Ms. Al-Homsi said she still considers him and his wife to be close friends.
"I still support my brother and sister 110 percent," Ms. Al-Homsi of Arlington said in an interview Friday.
Just months before the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. el Hage was convicted of taking part in a worldwide conspiracy that included the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The bombings killed more than 200 people and injured thousands. Mr. el Hage was given a life sentence.
"I don't know the circumstances," Ms. Al-Homsi said, declining to comment on the bombings.
Ms. Al-Homsi and her friend, Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad, 50, of Irving were the subject of a March 5 Dallas police intelligence bulletin after the two women, both dressed in camouflage pants under their Muslim robes and scarves, were seen conducting what appeared to be surveillance and acting suspiciously at Dallas Love Field.
Police officials have said they have no direct evidence that the women have ties to terrorism.
After news of the intelligence bulletin became public, Ms. Hamad said she was put on administrative leave Friday from her job at Outsource Partners International. The company did not return calls for comment. Ms. Hamad has never been arrested or charged with a crime.
Ms. Al-Homsi is on probation in connection with a December 2005 road rage incident involving a fake grenade she waved at a motorist.
In an earlier interview, Ms. Al-Homsi bragged about being a trained sniper but denied having any ties to terrorism and said she wasn't a "dangerous individual." She is an accountant who has dual Syrian-U.S. citizenship.
Ms. Al-Homsi also is believed to have explosives training, according to the intelligence bulletin.
On Feb. 25, the two women were spotted at Love Field wearing Muslim robes and camouflage pants and "acting suspiciously," the bulletin states. Surveillance video showed one of the women walking back and forth, apparently pacing off distances. When confronted, the women told officials they were looking for the Frontiers of Flight museum. They then left.
Two days later, Ms. Al-Homsi was spotted sitting on the hood of a car, looking through binoculars at the airplanes.
Cue the violins:
The women deny that they were scouting the airport and say they were watching planes for recreation. They deny any links to terrorist groups. They say the authorities have questioned them repeatedly because of their religious and political views.
"All our rights have been violated since the Patriot Act came in. All our rights violated," Ms. Hamad said.
"Religious, racial profiling is what it is called. Guilt by association," Ms. Al-Homsi said.
Much more information in a video interview, also by Rebecca Lopez, for WFAA.
"All our rights have been violated since the Patriot Act came in. All our rights violated,"
Exactly, your rights, as you see them, must be violated under the Act. That's what the Act is for.
Comrade Al Hosmi is the Cheshire Cat of her Muhammed in Wonderland. She grins and claims ignorance of terrorist events, but knows exactly that the events were being planned and did nothing to stop them.
It is the Islamocommunist Islamofascist protocol of "exercise" is not terrorist training and "not knowing when Atta was to fly jets into buildings" is no knowledge of the circumstances.
This is Clinton speak and typical of the socialist communist order. The MSM plays this game all the time and thinks it is cute.
It is though text book standard operation.
The feature of this which is a red alert that Al Hosmi is more than she appears is she and her accomplace had a story worked out why they were gathering information so adept that the police could not rattle them to gain further investigation.
That is terrorist trained. She might not be the big shot she claims to be, but that data and those photos she took are now sitting on an al Qaeda Syrian and Iranian computer system.
The Secret Service is already alerted to this as this information being gathered is not about shooting down an airliner or mortar rounds, but an attack on the President.
The operations are always geared to federal targets and not civilian.
For the security of our government and our people these Cheshire Cats of Islam must be detained, held and prosecuted as it is illegal to be gathering information to commit a crime.
Let us shed Rivers of Tears for their plight.
How dare the kufr interrupt their plans for the caliphate.
If we start treating Islam as the problem, we could really cut down on this whole profiling dilemma.
Surveillance is not the only possibilty. This could be a flying imams-like attempt to deliberately provoke arrest in order to appear persecuted for publicity reasons. If so, it worked.
I live in Irving, where one of the women is from, and I am quite close to Love Field and DFW Airport. I find this story pretty disturbing. Why have we had people with terrorist ties and explosives training living among us and not been warned to keep a watchful eye? Sharing information with the public never violates anyone's civil rights, even if the public rightly regards some people with increased suspicion afterwards. Vigilant communities are vital to preventing further terrorist attacks, but how can communities remain vigilant if those with vital information fail to share that information until an incident like this one actually occurs? If we rely solely on the government for our safety and security, remain complacent until after incidents occur, and are not informed of vital information by the authorities, then we will end up in the same situation as those left stranded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. How well did relying solely on the government for their well-being work for them?
@Grant: They haven't told us because the U.S. Federal Government is still playing patty-cake with Islam, CAIR, the Muslim Lobby, the Muslim Caucus and any number of other enemies burrowed deep into the establishment. Give it 5 more years and it might even be against the law to type what I just did.
Just muslims practicing their religion. No arrests were made, Alhamdulillah.
Have no fear, bush al-saud's 'justice' department is on top of it.
When the plane comes down you'll get a brand new copy of the fbi's boilerplate "nothing to indicate terrorism" statement issued by some diversity hire.
And if you are really good boys and girls, the cia might make you a little cartoon showing "what really happened."
l smell another islam rope a dope to sue for profiling. they wear Muslim robes and camouflage pants and "acting suspiciously, and then you have the airport part, bingo,, they will sue for profiling. we should never let our guard down, even with these muslim clowns acting out. Report suspicious behaviour. that is not profiling.
watching planes for recreation, huh?
she is standing so deep in it, it smells.
with the story from the bay of the FBI looking into mosques, i hope this is rolling out nationwide-- radical islam is on the march and most of the US is still asleep at the wheel...
"Religious,racial profiling is what it is called . Guilt by association," Ms. Al-Homsi said .
If only it was true, the debacle on sensitivity and reaching out is costing lives .
I guess we await the "Move along, nothing to see here" announcement.
As I posted earlier; I thought you wore the Camo on the OUTSIDE and what you wanted to hide on the inside!
No attempt to hide the Islamoidentifier (burka) on the inside in this instance, is there!
I also said; wonder what the panties (if any) looked like?
Maybe under the Camo was a "device". Hmmmm
Why just interview? Why not an invitation to return to Syria to continue their "recreation"?
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Islam-History-Channel-Hufnail/dp/B00007J89E
I just watched the History Channel's documentary called "Inside Islam". In my view this was a PC infommecial and the definition of dimmitude. How many people have channel surfed to this piece of garbage I wonder?
In summary, all the real smart university professors guarantee Islam is a religion of peace, and we can all go to sleep rest assured that our Muslim neighbors are good. They brought us wonderful advances in Algebra, Natural Science, Medicine, and allowed women freedom to inherit and vote hundreds of years before the West. Apparently, a few bad ones (just in the last few years) are being unfairly accused in today's MSM giving Islam a bad name. This is the "History Channel" after all. Maybe you guys have just been jerking my chain. They said nothing about world Islamization being a core objective in the Koran, or that the messenger Mohammed dreamed up his revelations to support his obsession for terror, women, riches, and power. Guess some of those other things I've been reading are way off base. Shhhhhhewww (wiping forehead).
This is a film that I would not recommend to the general public but can be useful to those wanting to know more about.....
Dhimmitude; is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued"
And........
Al-Tekeya; The Islamic principle of lying for the sake of Allah.
This was a shameful display of PC in it's worst form by the History Channel. Now I have to question all those films I've viewed produced by them.
At some point the good people of America will rise up shake of the unresponsive government and take action to protect the ideas this nation was founded on and our government was designed to protect that means outlawing Islam.
Just sayin'
Myself and others (whom I've alerted to Jihad Watch and read it regularly) have contacted our US House Reps in DC about Nanzi al-Pelosi's "mission" this past week...asked for censure at minimum (hopeless?)..we need the Patriot Act..the Dallas hag-in a-bag females in camoflage undies couldn't have stated this essential protection (from somesuch as themselves) as they innocently after 9 months "slid from the womb into the waiting straitjacket of Islam"(credit to H. Fitzgerald) and can't thank both Robert and Hugh enough for their work
LEFTWORD HOOO!..... (Nancy Peloosie)
I felt the pain of this liberal Liberal way back before the election. What would a silver spoon San Francisco do for the midwest farmer I asked my neighbors?. None the less the dhimmicrats won by a landslide. Worse yet my state elected a muslim (guess where I live?). People are like zombies around here. People that can't answer a few basic questions about the candidate should NOT be allowed to vote.
God please deliver us from the evil of the Clintons.
OT but funny
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/187314.php
/yes it is satire
I'll bet they also watch beheading videos for "recreation", too.
As Mohammad got Arabian aerobic exercise by chopping off the heads of the men at the Khaybar Oasis.
("Striking Jews' necks builds big pecs" was reputedly one of the 'lost Suras' from the Koran, allegedly eaten by a passing ass.)
"Religious, racial profiling is what it is called. Guilt by association," Ms. Al-Homsi said.
And thanks to Allah for providing these.
If it involves muslims, guilt by association is good enough for me.
The 'Oh so innocent' act is worn out, and wont work anymore...deport these women to Pakistan. Pakistan needs more muslimahs in camouflaged pants, to serve as fashion role models.
Aw, c'mon Folks! Why do ya' have to be so mean to
two nice Muslimahs just trying out new fashions under their tents? Plane Spotting-just an innocent hobby until there is Sharia in America when everyone can watch cutting off of hands and legs,gays crushed to death,adulterous broads stoned, a few hangings and Impalement followed by Roasting over a slow fire for few remaining Infidels...Much better than degrading,decadent
Western Telly,eh.
Sarcasm off.
More on this "woman"
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/LoveField040707
"All our rights have been violated since the Patriot Act came in. All our rights violated," Ms. Hamad said.
Then go home! If you were born here, then leave anyway! Go to one of the countries where sharia is practiced and do not come back here.
I dont think I would be too worried about internment camps if I was them. Now a 'drive-by', that's a different story.