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“The Islamic State has agents all around the very sensitive facilities in the world, like metro stations, like airports”

Mar 28, 2016 9:53 am By Robert Spencer

There is no reason why this couldn’t be true. Muslims are routinely hired to work in all manner of airport jobs, and no one would dream of trying to screen them for jihadist sympathies. That would be “Islamophobic.” But recently in Canada, a Muslim who stabbed soldiers had airport security clearance. It was revealed last week that the TSA failed to vet 73 employees with terror ties working at 40 U.S. airports. A Muslim baggage handler at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport boasted of being able to take down a plane. So how farfetched is it that the Islamic State has people working in airports?

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“EXCLUSIVE – Top Jihadist Claims Islamic State Has Agents Working in Western Airports,” Breitbart Jerusalem, March 25, 2016:

TEL AVIV – The Islamic State has agents working in Western airports, metro stations and “very sensitive facilities in the world,” a leading Islamic State-allied militant claimed in an exclusive interview.

Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafist movement senior official in the Gaza Strip, made the claim in a pre-recorded, hour-long interview to air in full on Sunday on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” the popular weekend talk radio program broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia.  Klein doubles as Breitbart’s senior investigative reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief.

Ansari is a well-known Gazan Salafist jihadist allied with Islamic State ideology.  During the interview with Klein, Ansari seemed to be speaking as an actual IS member, repeatedly using the pronoun “we” when referring to IS and even seemingly making declarations on behalf of IS.

IS has been reluctant to officially declare its presence in Gaza for fear of a Hamas clampdown, but the group is known to be active in the coastal enclave and Ansari is a suspected IS leader.  IS-aligned militants have taken responsibility for recent rocket fire from Gaza aimed at Israel.

Ansari claimed IS infiltration of Western transportation systems.

Ansari stated:

The Islamic State is a state. The Islamic State has agents all around the very sensitive facilities in the world, like metro stations, like airports and other places whether in the West or in the Arab world. We have our mujahedeen implanted in those facilities as workers, as employees, even in the security field in the airports.

And they were recruited to work with the Islamic State and we proved that we succeeded to reach a very deep infiltration in these facilities. We showed it in Sinai with the Russian jet. We show it now. And everybody should understand. This is a state. This state will not disappear. It will only become bigger because this is the message. This is the prophecy of Muhammad and this is the promise of Allah….

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  1. Angemon says

    Mar 28, 2016 at 10:10 am

    The Islamic State has agents all around the very sensitive facilities in the world, like metro stations, like airports and other places whether in the West or in the Arab world.

    Could be true, especially in the Arab world. Or he could trying to “strike fear in the hearts if the non-believers” by capitalizing on the Brussels attacks – who, BTW, were not done by people working in the airport and metro station.

    • Stephen says

      Mar 28, 2016 at 10:36 am

      Check their work permits n identity ?

      There are rather small n not powerful enough.

      We must be strong, United n vigilant to fight back.

      All of us must be alert, act fast n react their body language.

  2. salim says

    Mar 28, 2016 at 10:20 am

    I would be surprised if this wasn’t true. Knowing the mindset of religious Muslims, this would be the first thing they think of. Those terrorists are always one step ahead of our counter terrorism departments.

    We are at a very rare point in history where Muslims are at the zenith of their zeal and the western governments and societies at the lowest of their morale. This combination is dangerous and makes me nervous. A determined terrorist armed with a knife can beat a well equipped demoralised soldier with shaky hands. And even the most formidable armies are useless in the shaky hands of spineless leaders.

    Civilisations have often been brought down by primitive barbarians, and we are witnessing an extreme example.

    • Joe Shmo says

      Mar 28, 2016 at 4:21 pm

      “A determined terrorist armed with a knife can beat a well equipped demoralised soldier with shaky hands. And even the most formidable armies are useless in the shaky hands of spineless leaders.”

      Yes, I agree with this. This is from a speech the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn made to Harvard University in 1978

      “And yet — no weapons, no matter how powerful, can help the West until it overcomes its loss of willpower. In a state of psychological weakness, weapons become a burden for the capitulating side. To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material well-being. Nothing is left, then, but concessions, attempts to gain time and betrayal. Thus at the shameful Belgrade conference free Western diplomats in their weakness surrendered the line where enslaved members of Helsinki Watchgroups are sacrificing their lives.

      Western thinking has become conservative: the world situation should stay as it is at any cost, there should be no changes. This debilitating dream of a status quo is the symptom of a society which has come to the end of its development. But one must be blind in order not to see that oceans no longer belong to the West, while land under its domination keeps shrinking. The two so-called world wars (they were by far not on a world scale, not yet) have meant internal self-destruction of the small, progressive West which has thus prepared its own end. The next war (which does not have to be an atomic one and I do not believe it will) may well bury Western civilization forever.

      Facing such a danger, with such historical values in your past, at such a high level of realization of freedom and apparently of devotion to freedom, how is it possible to lose to such an extent the will to defend oneself?”

      Prophetic…

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 28, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    The jihadists of ISIS is their persuade of their mad Islamic quest of establishing a caliphate along with all the cruel, brutal and murdering violence that is part of it is indeed both insane ad wicked. The jihadist thugs of ISIS will not respond to reason. For those religious fanatics of ISIS cannot be reasoned with those ISIS villains with their irrational blind unquestioning faith in the Koran , Islam and their Islamic cause leaves no room for either logic of reason.So those jihadist who compose ISIS are a reminder of what Benjamin Franklin printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK .Which is “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

  4. Charli Main says

    Mar 28, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    This is self evident. Just pass through Heathrow and Gatwick airports and you will be confronted with a sea of walking black binbags, hijabs and niquabs all working airside.
    You could probably swap Gatwick with Karachi airport and hardly notice the difference.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 28, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    The god of Islam likes it when non-Muslims [Kafirs] die. For example, the day after the London train bombing, on July 8, 2005 on Palestinian television Imam Suliman Satari said “Annihilate the Infidels… Allah count them and kill them, to the last one and don’t leave even one.” Furthermore Imam Abu Hamza Al-Masri said “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy when Kafiers get killed. [1]
    As shown in an earlier posting the god of Islam is not the same god as the God of the Bible. The above words of these Imams reflect the example of Islam’s prophet and the teachings of the Quran. “Muhammad now fell upon them [the Jews] slew all the men, nine hundred of them…”[2]
    Moreover, the Quran reads “When ye encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads, until ye have made great slaughter among them. Verily if Allah pleased, He could take vengeance on them without your assistance, but He commandeth you to fight His Battles.” XLVII C.625
    In short, these Imams and their murderous prophet with their bloody Quran show the world what Islam really is. After all, Jesus did teach “by their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:20. [KJV]

    [1] The disc documentary OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’s AGAINST THE WEST
    [2] THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: THE WHOLE STORY OF MAN by H.G. Wells

  6. Jon says

    Mar 29, 2016 at 4:36 am

    Only have to look at Al-Baghdadi’s promise to infiltrate thousands of jihadis into Europe under the guise of ‘refugees’. We’ve already seen several of the Paris/Brussels attackers have done their military service in Syria and Libya.

  7. Turbo says

    Mar 29, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    “Could be” true? Apparently some commenters here have not traveled through certain US airports recently lolol..

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