Man arrested in Tampa Airport with box-cutter in hollowed out book, and books on Islam

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Come on, it's probably just a bookmark

"Officers found books in the backpack titled 'Muhammad in the Bible,' 'The Prophet's Prayer' and 'The Noble Qur'an.' He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible...."

"TIA Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book," by Thomas W. Krause for The Tampa Tribune:

TAMPA -- A 21-year-old Clearwater man was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, authorities said.

About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.'s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter, according to a report from the Transportation Security Administration.

When searching the backpack, a security officer found a book titled "Fear Itself." The book was hollowed out, and the box cutter was inside.

After Baines was read his rights, he said his cousin had cut away the pages to make the hollow section in the book. Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and marijuana from his roommates.

Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.

Officers found books in the backpack titled "Muhammad in the Bible," "The Prophet's Prayer" and "The Noble Qur'an." He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible....

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"Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and marijuana from his roommates."

It's very suspicious that he would confess to illegal drug possession to get out of a more serious criminal charge.

"Muhammad in the Bible"

LOL!

It was NOT a boxcutter, it was a book cutter

I wonder what penalty Sharia law prescribes for desecrating the Koran by cutting out pages. The book that he defaced was not actually a Koran.

Ok, step back for a sec.

Hubby has boxcutters. In the garage. We call them 'bloody marys' because they are EXTREMELY sharp.

Boxcutters in a book do not guard a lid of weed. Boxcutters in a book are there to be taken out under the guise of opening a book.

Believe it or not, there are folks out there who are saying this guy was just a dumb a**. Incredible.

Let's see. He's got a copy of the Koran, books about Islam and a boxcutter. What could he be up to? I know! He was going to Britain to take part in some anti-islamic activities. Yeah, that's the ticket!

"Muhammad in the Bible" LOL!
Posted by: darcy at February 20, 2008 2:25 PM

Hey Darcy, Muhammad IS in the Bible, at least his father is -- Satan. Jesus said that Satan is a liar and the father of liars. Lying permeates Islam; they do it all the time.

Being a lone individual, it's very possible this young man was merely a foot-soldier assigned to find a potential hole in the airport security system. Had he passed through without incident, it might have set the stage for an operation involving others in days to come.

They best find out where this man has been attending mosque and who he's been hanging out with.

He was merely -- o ye of little faith -- making a solander box.

Point One:

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Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and MARIJUANA from his roommates.

Point Two:

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Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and FORGOT THE CUTTER WAS IN THE BOOK.

Point Three:

(Point Two minus Point One)

Dumb potheads!!! Drugs are bad, Mmmmmkay?

The book got an average of 4/5 stars (although the most recent reviews only gave about 2 - I wasn't motivated enough to read more than the first page).

Here's a plot synopsis from Amazon.com, in case any of you were wondering what 'Fear Itself' by Jonathan Nasaw is all about.

(Short answer for the Unmotivated: Cheap ripoff of 'Hannibal.' Those potheads - and everyone else - would do MUCH better to read 'The Truth About Muhammad' or 'The Politically Correct Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)'. Right, Robert? *wink, wink*)

From Publishers Weekly
Nasaw's follow-up to The Girls He Adored is a polished, tongue-in-cheek thriller in which serial killer Simon Childs preys on people with phobias and kills them by bringing their worst fears to life. The novel opens with Childs on the loose in California, stalking Dorie Bell, who has a fear of masks. Bell has written a letter to the FBI about the recent suspicious deaths of several of her phobic friends (a woman with a fear of blood slit her wrists, a man with a fear of heights jumped out of a window, etc.). Her note alerts Linda Abruzzi, an agent who has just been restricted to desk duty after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and Ed Pender, her newly retired boss, to Childs's predilections. Pender arrives on the scene just in time to keep Bell from becoming Childs's latest victim, but the murderer escapes during the melee. Once he evades his pursuers, Childs decides to track down Pender and Abruzzi and teach them a lesson. The rest of the book consists of a series of extended chase sequences as Childs makes his way across the country to FBI headquarters. Nasaw goes a bit over the top in spinning out the flaws and foibles of his serial killer, especially during the climax, when Childs sets a series of traps for the two agents. But the murder scenes are entertaining in a sly, cheeky fashion, and the crackling dialogue between Pender and Abruzzi gives extra life to the chase scenes.

... and NO, kozanne, I haven't overlooked the fact that this dimwit was probably a footsoldier, as was mentioned earlier.

A quick forensics test will show the presence (or not) of the alleged weed. Then as far as I'm concerned, he can join his little buddies in Guantanamo.

To believe this guy’s cock ‘n’ bull excuse one would have to be a dyed-in-the-wool, leftist apologist or, at the very least, brain-dead. The mass-media, surely, will believe and tout this is no more than a prank by some misguided youngster.

I am wondering what would happen nowadays if a lone hijacker pulled out a box cutter or any kind of edged weapon and attempted to take over an airplane, even if he claimed to have a bomb.

Why are we living like this? If we didn't allow Muslim immigration to this country, we wouldn't have to worry about them boarding planes with box-cutters or other weapons.

What a wimpy attempt. This is like an inmate getting a cake in the mail with a file inside of it.

I'm trying to figure out how somebody could forget that they spent time and energy creating a hollow spot in a book and then hiding a boxcutter in the hollowed-out spot. I think I would probably remember something like that.

I'm trying to figure out how somebody could forget that they spent time and energy creating a hollow spot in a book and then hiding a boxcutter in the hollowed-out spot. I think I would probably remember something like that.

But, how can he forget such a thing - don't they read that koran all the time?! Or do psychopaths need to read it? Does it all just come naturally?

Is it not a fact that this "box cutter" was the first item of genuine relevance, in today's modern society, ever found amongst the pages of this Islamic guff....

maybe it was throat-cutter.

People who just might happen to have the name Benjamin Baines will be seriously inconvenienced from now on, if that name winds up in a "no fly" list.

I am wondering what would happen nowadays if a lone hijacker pulled out a box cutter or any kind of edged weapon and attempted to take over an airplane, even if he claimed to have a bomb.

Posted by: Pelayo

It would depend on where he was. Odds are he could kill someone whether or not he made it to the cockpit. Such a person would be a good diversion, distracting crew and passengers while his cohort(s) went about the real mission.
Some have suggested he was merely a foot soldier testing the system. The boxcutter is just another test - no doubt not the weapon that will be used. Unless there is a drastic security breach (like a flight attendant in on the operation) he would do minimal damage.

I don't know if he could damage flight systems with such a weapon. It would seem bioweapons would pose a greater danger. People who are disabled can't fly a plane. Release the gas and let nature take its course.

I agree with a couple of the theories;

Test run. or

Whacked out on pot and DID forget it was there.

Whatever the reason, I'm glad they found it. Now watch them slap him on the wrist and send him on his way....

Was he probing security? Was he making an actual attempt? (By himself? Seems overly ambitious unless he is delusional.) Or is it a non-flying Imams style attempt to make suspicious behavior and attempted breaches of security seem routine?

With a name like Benjamin Baines Jr. he would have to be a convert or a hoaxer right? He may have wanted to plant the books and box cutters in the plane's wash room so as to make the news. Wait until the story of an attempted hijacking of a flight gets people talking then phone in news of the hoax and mock everyone for "overreacting" with rabid Islamophobia.

When searching the backpack, a security officer found a book titled "Fear Itself." The book was hollowed out, and the box cutter was inside.

I know I'm being really obvious here, but I gotta give the guy some credit for his sense of humor.

Apparently from guys like this, we have nothing to fear but ... "Fear Itself".

Lame, perhaps, but I like it.

gymgal,

"Whacked out on pot"? Really? Wish the stuff I smoke was that good!

Interesting incident, it deserves following. We may never see another mention of it in the MSM.

I don't buy the pot-head theory. A pot-head who just happens to have an interest in Islam packs a book which he is obviously not reading in his carry bag and it just happens to be the one that he either hides his pot in yet never bothered to see if there was any pot in it and just happened to have left the cutter in there. The cavity in the book is hard to evaluate in a photo but it looks like it would be sort of shallow when closed. Not great for a bag of pot but fine for a box cutter. He made it to hide things from his current roommates so... did he decide not to use it after all the effort or did he just compulsively return the box cutter to the book whenever he had no pot or money to hide?

look up the dictionairy version of "it"

Remember our shoe bomber pal, Richard Reid? Given his antics, I've always been a little shocked that he emerged from the donnybrook he created relatively unscathed to face a trial. This guy might be nothing more than genuine nutter or a wise-ass, but the islamic nature of his reading matter makes one tend to look a little deeper. Perhaps he is a Baptist plant trying to make CAIR look bad.

Bollocks,

the bugger hid it in one of my books


ROBERT SPENCER

No one dared to make the politically incorrect question: Is islam to be blamed for this?

"I wonder what penalty Sharia law prescribes for desecrating the Koran by cutting out pages. The book that he defaced was not actually a Koran."
(question above)

If it had been a Koran, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it would have had to be in Arabic for any prescription to apply. In any other language it is not, strictly, a Koran.

If it were an Arabic Koran (side by side Arabic/English text would qualify?) then the intent of the cutter would probably be relevant. Islam does recognise guilty intent (what English law calls mens rea) in legal interpretation.

I am wondering what would happen nowadays if a lone hijacker pulled out a box cutter or any kind of edged weapon and attempted to take over an airplane, even if he claimed to have a bomb.

Posted by: Pelayo at February 20, 2008 3:43 PM
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He'd have me and every other guy on the plane tackling him and restraining him until we landed safely. And all the ladies on board would be catching it all on their cell phone cameras.

Everybody is a story teller nowadays.

All the S.O.B. would've had to do is slice open the throat of the passenger in front of him (now how hard would that be to do?) in order to achieve the goal of spreading terror amongst the infidels.

Prosecute him as if he had succeeded!

Believe it or not, there are folks out there who are saying this guy was just a dumb a**. Incredible.
Posted by: kozanne

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Same folks are voting for Obama...

Aw, he's just a "naive kid."

Why are we living like this? If we didn't allow Muslim immigration to this country, we wouldn't have to worry about them boarding planes with box-cutters or other weapons.
Posted by: rational


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I've been wondering the same damn thing for years. It never comes up in any of these "presidential" debates either.

Personally I don't carewhat they doin their countries.. let them be asbarbaric as they wanna be - at home.

But you are so right there is no reason why we should be doing this to ourselves.

Moslems in the West is a multiCULT luxury we simply can no longer afford.

He cut up a book? HE CUT UP A BOOK!!!

HANG THE BASTARD NOW!

That was just a first reaction and I'm sure that upon further contemplation I will temper my judgment but this might take awhile. If, in the meantime, someone actually does HANG THE BASTARD NOW the guilt I feel over my rash judgment will last a tea-time.

(The old bibliophile wanders off to the fridge mumbling: "He cut up a book. He cut up a book...")

He'd have me and every other guy on the plane tackling him and restraining him until we landed safely. And all the ladies on board would be catching it all on their cell phone cameras.

Posted by: PersonOfTheBook at February 20, 2008 5:50 PM
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Thank you honey, but I'm not too much of a lady where I wouldn't help you big guys with the tackling part -- or the restraining part now that I think about it.

(The old bibliophile wanders off to the fridge mumbling: "He cut up a book. He cut up a book...") above

Very reminiscent of the line by renowned Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich:


The rejoicing is forced, created under threat ... It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing."


I think of this every time we are invited to "celebrate diversity" in the great Multicultural Utopia.

All the telltale signs of an undercover moyle working for the Mossad.

"Muhammad in the Bible" LOL!
Posted by: darcy at February 20, 2008 2:25 PM

Hey Darcy, Muhammad IS in the Bible, at least his father is -- Satan. Jesus said that Satan is a liar and the father of liars. Lying permeates Islam; they do it all the time.

Posted by: PersonOfTheBook at February 20, 2008 3:02 PM


Uh Huh - "taqiyya." And satan is the "father of lies." Yep, guess that explains Mohammedanism.

Cutting out most of the Koran and replacing it with marijuana is definitely a step in the right direction, if that was in fact what was intended. Ya gotta believe!

I didn't know a knife was necessary for praying in Islam. Is that why they chop people's heads off all the time?

OT-


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Good for slcing the throats of stewardesses and pilots, too.

Off to Gitmo.

I cannot think of a better facade for evil to hide behind than a RELIGIOUS one.

Howdy,

I've been sitting on my hands for the last 8 hours or so, resisting the urge to comment.

The above statement by profitsbeard:

Good for slicing the throats of stewardesses and pilots, too.

This kind of probing by Muslims, Muslim-wannabes, or just stupid airheads/potheads just makes my blood boil!

I'm grateful the TSA staff were doing their primary task here (first line of defense) and caught this utility knife stuffed in a book.

As for the second line of defense, so that another 9/11 never occurs, I'll leave that your imagination.

For me, I leave an eternal "Thank You" to that great aviator Alvin "Tex" Johnson.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE

I'm sorry, but his statement just doesn't cut the mustard:

Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.

Uh, huh. Sure. Not on my airplane.

Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.

That's plausible, I frequently forget that my box cutter is in my hollowed out book when I fly.
I just tell them I am moving to Las Vegas, and forgot it was in there. Works every time...

Lili, good work over there in the lair of the enemy. I questioned your accuser just now.


Duh_Swami: Better check your hollowed out book again.

The insanity of it all..

WHAT presidential candidate will promise to REMOVE all mahometans from the USA.. from all the WEST..?!

I am just SICK of them all and I need them GONE.

Sorry if this sounds "racist" or anything.

They've got plenty of countries where WE have no rights whatsoever.

WHY are WE - who ARE stronger than them - bending over backwards for a bunch of.. better stop before I get deleted...

I just want them all GONE!

Not dead. Just GONE. HOME. to. mahomet. piß be upon it.

This will sound like a strange post; but it was inspired by the question posed by "Pelayo" and the answer by "PersonoftheBook".

I suffer from Bipolar Disorder. Several years ago, before finding the appropriate medication, I attempted suicide. My weapon of choice: the boxcutter or utility knife. I will spare you the gory details, but ...

It is nearly impossible to cut a person's throat with a boxcutter. At least, not with ease or alacrity. Any other attempt to injure someone with a boxcutter would produce only superficial injury - perhaps requiring some stitches.

Just something to keep in mind if a Muslim on a plane pulls out a boxcutter to hijack a plane. I would follow "PersonoftheBook"'s advice; but first, .... I would laugh.

He was a 'revert'- one of those who take their new-found religion seriously. Perhaps he was just trying to prove to his co-religionists that he was up to the Islamic teachings...

The guy must be completely braindead to expect a thing made of metal doesn't show itself on detectors just because it's inside a book.


Yes Muhammad in the Bible.

Read on

http://muhammad.net/biblelp/index.htm

Muhammad in the Bible
What all Christians and Jews MUST know about the Bible

"Certainly, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are Pagans, and you will find the nearest in love to the Believers (Muslims) those who say: "We are Christians." That is because amongst them are priests (Men devoted to learning) and monks (men who have renounced the world), and because they do not behave proudly. And when they listen to what has been sent down to the Messenger (Muhammad), you see their eyes overflowing with tears, for they recognize the truth. They say: "Our Lord! We believe; so write us down among the witnesses. And why should we not believe in Allah and in that which has come to us of the truth (Islamic Monotheism) and we wish that our Lord will admit us (in Paradise on the Day of Resurrection) along with the righteous people?" So because of what they said, Allah rewarded them Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise), they will abide therein forever. Such is the reward of good-doers. But those who disbelieved and denied Our signs, they shall be the dwellers of the Hell-Fire." (Holy Qur'an 5:82-86)

janeabraham

First: drop your fake moniker - you are neither a Jew nor a Christian. Call yourself 'aisha' or 'khadija' or 'fatima' and tell the truth.

To your ridiculous claim that the Bible says anything whatever about Mohammed, that robbing, raping, lying, thieving, murderous pedophile Arabian sand pirate, I have only this reply:

ROFLMAO.

Oh, and by the way: Abraham was a Hebrew, not an Arab. He offered Isaac, not Ishmael. Isaac and Jacob were Hebrews, not Arabs, and neither Abraham, nor Isaac, nor Jacob, believed in anything called 'allah'; they were NOT MUSLIMS.

The God who covenanted with them, that is, took them for partners, told Moses His own special name on Mt Sinai - it is YHWH, not 'allah'. Moses and Miriam and Aaron were NOT Muslims, they were Hebrew followers of the Living God, YHWH. Judah's descendants, such as King David, are JEWS, and not Muslims.

King David's most famous descendant, Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem in Judea, to a Jewish woman (Mary): he attended Synagogue, read from exactly the same Torah, Prophets and Psalms as do all good Jews today, and celebrated the Passover seder just as Jews do today. That is: all the historical evidence, from Christian and non-Christian sources, unanimously say that Jesus was A JEW; since people believing all the stuff that Muslims believe, and doing the sorts of things Muslims do, don't appear at all in any of the histories for another 500 years or so.

What's more: the fact that Jesus the Jew was crucified by the Romans, and died thus, is agreed upon not only by Christians but by Jews and by other historic witnesses. Yes: JESUS (Yeshua of Nazareth) DIED ON A CROSS. That isn't just a religious affirmation; it is also a flat fact of history. And if you deny that, miss 'janeabraham', it is you, not I, who are telling lies.

To repeat: the plain historical fact is this: the Bible is the original text. It came first. The Hebrew Scriptures had their present form and said then exactly what they say now, at least a thousand years before Mohammed. The Christian scriptures had their present form, and said then exactly what they say now, about 500 years before Mohammed. Neither the Hebrew nor the Christian scriptures says anything whatever about anybody called mohammed.

The Quran was cooked up later, much later, seemingly with the deliberate intent of attacking, denying or distorting Biblical teachings. It might contain some superficially pretty poetry (in Arabic) but that doesn't stop it being a disorderly, blasphemous rip-off and fake - to use modern teenspeak, it's 'foefic'.

Incidentally, the words I have used just now are not random insults: they are an attempt to accurately describe how the Quran comes across, if read by someone who is thoroughly familiar with the Bible.

And if you have the unmitigated INSOLENCE to deny the plain, documented, historical facts, then all I can say is this: you are the prisoner of an ancient mind-control cult and you are blindly repeating a Big Lie that would have astonished even Goebbels.

I mean this. I mean every word of it.

The Bible offers springs of living waters. The Quran is a mirage.

dumbledoresarmy,
Of course Abraham wasn't a Muslim, but someone on another site answered that argument with this piece of inanity:

Islam means submission. Abraham submitted himself to God. That makes him a Muslim.

Two possibilities: (1) the book is the Koran, and he was using the boxcutter to remove all of the REAL "Satanic Verses", which as one can see, is a large part of the book, or (2) he's an itinerant imam specializing in circumcisions, so it's a BOY-cutter, not a BOX-cuter.

DDA - good job on defending God's word and nailing that poser, who never even provided a passage from the Bible, but a fairy tale from the Qur'an.

DDA - good job on defending God's word and nailing that poser, who never even provided a passage from the Bible, but a fairy tale from the Qur'an.

Posted by: champ


Champ: Second that.

The greatest Prophet and Adon,in the Eyes of God, and man, is not a great conqueror and destroyer of mankind, nor a holy recluse who spends his life in a cave or cell to meditate upon God only to save himself, but one who renders more good and service to mankind by bringing them into the light of knowledge of the One True God,and by utterly destroying the power of the devil and his abominable idols and wicked institutions.
from mohammed in the bible website

Not a great conqueror and destroyer of mankind?

That eliminates Mohammed. Cross him off your list of prophets.

"but one who renders more good and service to mankind by bringing them into the light of knowledge of the One True God,and by utterly destroying the power of the devil and his abominable idols and wicked institutions"

That pretty much describes Jesus.

OT, please go over here and back me up: http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=OPqD_2RX-V4#HWPg4C4yGr8

Posted by: Lili at February 20, 2008 10:31 PM


Don't know if you're still hanging around Lili, but you started a good thing questioning these Sharia proponents over there at u-tube. I weighed in (another first for me) and as long as they keep coming back calling me a liar in their semi-literate rants, I'll keep posting the truth and asking polite questions. Fun.

What is it about Tampa? I think of it as pretty much an all-American city. So far as I know, it doesn't have a huge Muslim population like Minneapolis and Dearborn. Yet we've had jihadist college students from South Florida, and the pathetic teenage OBL devotee who flew his light aircraft into St. Petersburg's tallest building, and now this yahoo.

Kozanne wrote:

He'd have me and every other guy on the plane tackling him and restraining him until we landed safely. And all the ladies on board would be catching it all on their cell phone cameras.

Posted by: PersonOfTheBook at February 20, 2008 5:50 PM
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Thank you honey, but I'm not too much of a lady where I wouldn't help you big guys with the tackling part -- or the restraining part now that I think about it.
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Hah! I agree! I love the story about the passenger capture of would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid--he was duct-taped so securely into his seat that the marshals who came to arrest him upon landing could not get him loose. They finally had to cut him out of his seat!







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