More on this story. "Terrorist British Airways worker planned to take advantage of strike," by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph, March 12 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
A British Airways worker who allegedly wanted to be a suicide bomber has been accused of offering to take advantage of the airline's approaching strike to join the cabin crew.
Rajib Karim, 30, allegedly arrived in Britain from Bangladesh in 2006 to gain a passport for terrorist purposes.
He worked at a BA call centre in Newcastle dealing with passenger bookings and had access to the company's computer system and details about airport security procedures.
Sources say that Karim's brother has been arrested in the Yemen [sic].
Karim, 30, is accused of preparing an act of terrorism or assisting another person to commit an act of terrorism between the April 13 2006 and Feb 25 this year.
He is also accused of preparing acts of terrorism abroad and sending money to others "knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that it would or might be used for the purposes of terrorism".
Westminster magistrates' court was told yesterday that Malik was allegedly "advising and counselling terrorist acts relating to his employment with British Airways" where he was a full-time IT developer heavily involved in software development.
He also allegedly passed money to Yemen and Bangladesh for terrorism purposes using Western Union money transfer shops and trusted individuals who carried cash.
A British Airways worker who allegedly wanted to be a suicide bomber has been accused of offering to take advantage of the airline's approaching strike to join the cabin crew.
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Well, that's just terrifying. I'm sure airline security screenings would be even more lax than usual in case of a strike, especially with employees who already worked with the company.
Is British Airways going to take a closer look at their other Muslim employees? Somehow I doubt it.
more:
Rajib Karim, 30, allegedly arrived in Britain from Bangladesh in 2006 to gain a passport for terrorist purposes.
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So Karim had been patiently working on this plot for *over four years*. As always, this makes me wonder just how many Jihad plots are in the planning stages now—in Dar-al-Islam, with Muslim immigrants in the West, and with "home grown" Shadid wannabes.
I hate to be pessimistic—and nothing against Western security and law enforcement—but it's only a matter of time before some Jihadists "get lucky" again, and more Infidels die.
Let me guess, these guys were Muslims, right? But please, please continue to run Aunt Lu Lu from Des Moines through your airport scanners so we can all sleep safely at night.
"Sources say that Karim's brother has been arrested in the Yemen [sic]."
No need for a [sic], and perhaps I should have written it above thus:
"Sources say that Karim's brother has been arrested in the Yemen [sic][sic]."
"The Yemen" is a perfectly correct if slightly old-fashioned way to refer to "Yemen," a usage still more common in Great Britain. Only yesterday we were all writing "the Ukraine" (as in: "We went to Russia and then we went to the Ukraine.") but now we are told we must write "in Ukraine" as "we visited Russia,Poland, and Ukraine." I still feel the absence of that phantom "the."Many still write "in the Gambia" or "in The Gambia." And if I were feeling more in gamba, not to say in gambissima, myself right now, I suppose I could come up with other examples.
Bottom line: No Muslim, not one, anywhere in the West should be put into a position where the security of kuffaars is at stake. We're still a long way from this happening but this is what should be done and what eventually will be done. The ideal: Muslims should never be in charge of the destiny of kuffaars.
"A British Airways worker who allegedly wanted to be a suicide bomber..."
Should be:
"A British Airways worker who wanted to be a mass murderer..."
The first sentence is just a small man-made catastrophe, I'm sure. I have a proposal. Since, from time to time we have man-made catastrophes, perhaps we might say "acts of God" in Muslim countries are, instead, "judgments of Allah".
I think it has a nice ring to it.
I am convinced, now more than ever, that political correctness is killing us (or will kill us one day soon) and that our leaders in governments industry have gone collectively mad. No Muslim should be employed in any job with any responsibility or a job where they can access delicate information. If they don't like it a sleepy village in 'The' Yemen beckons!
Little discussed, but by far the more troubling revelation here, is "'his employment with British Airways' where he was a full-time IT developer heavily involved in software development."
He was working on the application software for the airline.
Don't know if you know this, but as an application developer I get to tell the computer exactly what I want it to do. Not just what the operators and managers and executives want it to do. What I want it to do.
Like whether to alert on certain names, say, from a terrorist watchlist or database.
I, the developer, make the decision on what the software will and will not do. The final decision.
This is not a place for questionable characters to be given access.