Jihadist "chatter" online shows "marked increase" in discussions about evading airport security
Posted by Marisol on February 13, 2010 1:02 AM
This report comes just as the Transportation Security Administration has decided to give 10,000 of its workers [1] access to secret intelligence. Some impeccable timing there at the TSA. "Terror Talk Growing Louder on the Web," from [2] CBS News, February 12:
(CBS) CBS News has learned that U.S. Intelligence officials are seeing a marked increase in terror-related Internet chatter with a frightening focus: Jihadists bent on finding gaps in airport security - all linked to al Qaeda in Yemen, reports CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian.
On one radical website, a writer invites fellow members to post information on how to bypass airport screening.
Another member asks about explosive detection devices, writing: "We have that system in place in Algiers...does anyone know if it's capable of detecting [the flammable gas] butane?"
On another Jihadist site, a visitor questions security involving 3D scanners at British airports asking: "Can I refuse [to pass through] for religious reasons?"
[3] Funny he should mention that.
Before long comes this answer: "...advise those who wish to avoid the Heathrow scanners to take the train to Paris... and then board a plane from there."
Perhaps most disturbing -- the recent discovery of a confidential TSA document on a Yemeni Web site discussing the rules for searching passengers.
Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/jihadist-chatter-online-places-renewed-emphasis-on-evading-western-airport-security.html
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