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DHS gives Somali Muslims security briefings and tours of secured areas in airports

Dec 18, 2016 10:41 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

It was revealed in August that the DHS gave Somali Muslims special airport security tours because the Somalis felt harassed and profiled; and days ago it came out that the DHS hired Hamas-linked CAIR to train French counter-terrorism officials. Now comes more news from Judicial Watch about this crooked organization that is in charge of public safety:

The Department of Homeland Security has given Somalis “community engagement tours,” including security briefings, in secured areas at least three major U.S. airports – Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Columbus, Ohio.

Were the Somalis given the tours vetted? How, and by whom? How do these tours make anyone safer?

“Judicial Watch: U.S. Customs, Homeland Security Records Reveal Somalis Given Security Briefings, ‘Community Engagement Tours’ in Secured Areas at Major U.S. Airports”, Judicial Watch, December 15,2016:

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released 31 pages of records from U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealing that the Department of Homeland Security has given Somalis “community engagement tours,” including security briefings, in secured areas at least three major U.S. airports – Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Columbus, Ohio.

The records came in response to a May 2016 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which sought records, documents and communications regarding a “Community Engagement Tour” in Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on February 18, 2016.

The briefings provided to the Somali groups were so sensitive that in 14 instances the agency redacted portions of the records under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption (B)(7)(e), the law-enforcement “risk circumvention” exemption, which reads:

Exemption 7(E) of the Freedom of Information Act affords protection to all law enforcement information that would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law.

In another instance, Customs and Border Protection exempted under (B)(7)(e) a portion of a February 16, 2016, “Minute by Minute Agenda” provided during a tour/briefing of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The material that was withheld from Judicial Watch as too law-enforcement sensitive – but provided in full to the Somali group – included a section entitled: “TSA Overview — Processing [Redacted].” The invitees were provided briefings of the Global Entry system, APC [Automated Passport Control] system, secondary screening procedures, baggage-screening procedures and given tours of the holding cells/interview rooms.

Notes from the February Minneapolis St. Paul Airport tour include: “Current CBP and TSA job vacancies were discussed. Attendees responded with requests for DHS outreach efforts during Somali community events to further advertise these positions to interested individuals.”

The newly released records also reveal:

In addition to the Minneapolis Airport tours/briefings given to Somalis during 2014 and 2015 – and first revealed by Judicial Watch in August 2016 – tours of U.S. airports and security briefings also have been provided to other groups at airports in Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio: “Once we agree on the dates we will select the time based on prayer schedules. Another idea could be the roundtable to take place at the airport after the tour. We have done that before in LA and Columbus and it worked well both times”.

The timing of the Minneapolis Airport tour given to a group of Somalis in February 2016 was scheduled between 6-8pm because it would “accommodate prayer times well”

During the “annual” tour, federal authorities granted excursions of the facility’s “secure areas.” It is also noted that two parties in the previous year “did not pass vetting.”

The invitation extended to the Somalis for the Minneapolis Airport tour addressed them as “Dear Colleague,” and promised “walking people through CBP’s process, walking people through TSA’s process” and provide “a step-by-step tour of our operations, designed to offer a greater understanding of airport processes and procedures.”

Eight senior ranking Homeland Security and Customs officials were tasked with accompanying and briefing the Somalis on the February 18, 2016, Minneapolis Airport tour, including the Minneapolis Area Port Director, the Assistant Port Director, the Watch Commander, a Homeland Security Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Senior Policy Advisor (flown in from Washington), the TSA Federal Security Director and TSA Deputy Federal Security Director.

The documents show Customs officials reporting that one of the invited individuals had given “CBP Chicago a hard time” following the last tour and noted three of the invitees had had investigations against them, which had since been closed. Another invitee had an active investigation pending.

“Logically, information that is too sensitive to provide to Judicial Watch and the public should not have been given to a ‘community engagement tour,’” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The U.S. government has been aware for years that Minnesota is a hotbed of Somali terrorist-cell activity. The behind-the-scenes tours and security briefings of the Minneapolis airport very well could have created a threat to public safety.”……

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  1. quota raven says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:52 am

    Re: “…revealing that the Department of Homeland Security has given Somalis “community engagement tours,” including security briefings, in secured areas at least three major U.S. airports ..”

    Really, this is almost more than I can process! What next? A guided tour through military weapons factories and depots? With a generous dhimmi gift certificate from the U S government?

    Sometimes, we make even the EU look smart by comparison.

    Cheers!

    quota raven

    • Johan Elzinga says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 2:44 pm

      Thank you. We’re not smart at all here in Europe. But here it sounds as if your security agency has made a very serious booboo. America is still getting all passenger details for any flight from Europe before they even arrive: Seems smart enough, although as a tourist from let’s say the Netherlands where I live it feels like harassment to be stripped of all your privacy whenever you would want to visit or even be only in transit in the US.

      I remember from the beginning of the nineties when I still smoked and I lost my way a bit when in transit on the Houston airport on my way to South America. I was just looking for a place to smoke but ended up outside (!) the airport building and therefore inside the US without ever going through the customs in Houston. I hurried back inside and into the transit area after that smoke, it was somewhere near the taxi lane. So much for security at that time.

      Still, most work checking passengers is probably in vain when those Somali’s are now getting all the security details about procedures in your airports!

    • Havoc says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 3:02 pm

      I would like to see the DHS disbanded. Shut it down.

      • TR says

        Dec 19, 2016 at 12:30 pm

        Did not DHS buses load the Somalians massed at the Mexican/USA Border and transport them into the USA recently? The Obama Administration has been bringing in thousands of Somalian Hostiles VIA Trojan Horse Airlines for years now into the USA. Is this not part of the big backup plan to flood the USA and its treasury with so-called “Refugees” to strain the treasury and fight exchange for a Grand Jihad?

  2. Angemon says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:53 am

    Good to see American tax dollars are not being wasted… /sarc. off

  3. Martin says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 11:27 am

    They’re definition of “safe” is that airports should be “safe spaces” for Somalis.

    They are operating from the belief that the way to prevent terrorism is to reward Muslim grievance mongering. They’ll be so grateful for being accommodated that they won’t turn terrorism. They will remember how you placated them and they’ll spare you.

    It would be so nice to have government officials that weren’t afraid of Muslims. Because that’s what most of this is about.

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 1:28 pm

      This is one reason why I no longer travel by air…treated rudely be TSA agents who aren’t even capable enough to flip burgers. Yet these same bobbleheads tread obvious islamists with decorum and kindness. This is at the feet of the current administration. I am anxiously awaiting Donald Trump’s administration. Maybe then we can truly MAGA!

  4. Christianblood says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 11:50 am

    Majority of Western and US postmodernist societies and governments love and adore islam and muslims, including muslim jihadists but demonize and denigrate Christians and other victims of the global jihad. Read how those same Somali muslims are treat Christians in Somalia on the link below:

    http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2474

    • Angemon says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 12:12 pm

      “Majority of Western and US postmodernist societies and governments love and adore islam and muslims”

      Citation needed. BTW, weren’t you warned in the past about spamming and making generalizations?

      • Christianblood says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 1:46 pm

        Angemon

        You are nothing but a die-hard, pro-globalist, pro-jihadist, establishment plant ideologue who is angry at anyone telling the truth and criticizing the status quo and your end is failure! The Truth will win for It cannot be stopped!

        • kangi_yotaka says

          Dec 18, 2016 at 2:50 pm

          Angemon pro-jihadist? Christianblood, you’re an idiot. You have been warned in the past- plenty of times – and your response is that Angemon is somehow the one at fault?

          May we merit to enjoy Jihadwatch while you’re banned.

        • Angemon says

          Dec 20, 2016 at 10:01 am

          Christianblood posted:

          “Angemon

          You are nothing but a die-hard, pro-globalist, pro-jihadist, establishment plant ideologue who is angry at anyone telling the truth and criticizing the status quo and your end is failure!”

          *yawn*

          Funny how that’s your usual go-to last-resort when you’re asked about something you post – cry “ESTABLISHMENT PLANT” and act in fake outrage mode. There is someone here who is paid by an establishemt to post falsehoods and try to advance an agenda – and that is you:

          http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house

          “The Truth will win for It cannot be stopped!”

          That certainly explains why you’re not getting any traction here…

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 22, 2016 at 7:27 am

          The idea that staunch Anti-Jihadist Angemon is “pro-jihadist” is just ludicrous.

      • Christianblood says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 4:52 pm

        Angemon

        You are nothing but pro-globalist, pro-islamist, anti-Christian, liberal establishment plant. That is what you are. Your persistent anti-Christian comments prove your identity.

        • Angemon says

          Dec 20, 2016 at 10:06 am

          Christianblood posted:

          “Angemon

          You are nothing but pro-globalist, pro-islamist, anti-Christian, liberal establishment plant. That is what you are.”

          Couldn’t go a few hours without insulting and denigrating me, could you?

          “Your persistent anti-Christian comments prove your identity.”

          Where did I ever posted anything “anti-Christian”? Much to the contrary, *I*,an agnostic, unlike you, a self-proclaimed “Christian minister”, actually *defended* Christianity from low-church, “all religions are alike”, atheists. You, on the other hand, are more than happy to ignore the plight of Christians in Iran, going as far as to defend the government responsible for their persecution because Iran is in bed with the government you’re repeatedly defending – Russia. You, not I, defended a Russian law that punishes preaching the Gospel in public. If anyone here is anti-Christian it’s *you*.

  5. Undaunted says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 11:54 am

    I was dropping off my wife at the local “international” airport a few weeks ago and as I watched her going through screening, a rat raced past me and into the lines of people waiting for TSA processing.

    Many of the TSA agents left their stations in order to join the hunt, to let us all know they were Bwana Bad-Ass; there to “safeguard the American people…” The entire crowd was distracted by the rodent rodeo and it occurred to me how undisciplined the TSA is and how easily they can be tricked and defeated.

  6. mustapha crap says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    I assume that DHS actually means Demented Halfwitted 5h1theads

    • JoeThePimpernel says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 3:28 pm

      DHS actually stands for “Deploy Hamas Securely.”

  7. somehistory says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    DHS is bowing and will be accountable when others must bow, with, most likely, a lot of blood on the hands of those deciding to submit and forcing the multitudes to submit.

    Revelation 13

  8. DFD says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 4:03 pm

    Hi Folks,

    for a change I am actually on topic – strange as it may seem.
    ==============================================

    And it really is food for thought, leading to questions. Let’s assume there’s a Muslim country, women on the beaches, a muslim women riding a motorcycle, wearing all sorts of dresses, fancy, modern, traditional. Young men study and work and play, the whole place is forward looking. Not possible you say. Never happened, never will.

    It did happen, then Islam (re)asserted itself. So, what’s the name of the country where a young Muslim woman rode a motorcycle? Somalia! YUP! 1960’s – then Islam made a come back…

    Have a look: https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Muslim-world-more-secular-in-the-1970s-than-now/answer/Layla-Issa-1#

    I had to look twice, and then again.

    Question: Most of us are of the opinion we fight Islam, it’s like a disease. Problem: If one fights a disease, one also has to fight the carrier(s). Damned if we do, damned if we don’t.

    But what choice do we have? Unless we want to end like Somalia. Any thoughts?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 7:31 am

      Many parts of Dar-al-Islam were at least superficially more civilized decades ago. Western influence left Islam at a low ebb. The only problem was that we believed that Islam as defanged and started letting in large numbers of Muslims–and “political correctness” around the same time eroded our confidence. Not a good combination…

  9. Darryl Kerney says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    well then, we have a pretty good idea of which airports will be the next sites of jihad terror attacks now don’t we ?

  10. baki says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    Holy Shit!

  11. August C says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 5:31 am

    If you’ve spent any time at MSP you’d know that they employee Somalis by the score.

    • quota raven says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 5:06 pm

      August – What is MSP? I googled it and came up with “managed service provider” and “morning sex position”. Can’t see what either has to do with the subject at hand.

      Cheers!

      quota raven

      • Angemon says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 10:09 am

        I believe August is referring to “Minneapolis–Saint Paul”, an area with a large Somali population.

        • quota raven says

          Dec 20, 2016 at 12:00 pm

          Angemon – Thanks and lol at MSP. Would never have thought of it, even though I’m quite aware of what that area hath wrought for themselves…

          Cheers!

          quota raven

  12. NancyB says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 2:52 pm

    I read about this last August when Judicial Watch published this story.
    http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/08/dhs-gives-somali-muslims-special-airport-security-tours-harassment-profiling-complaints/ They also provided a catered lunch! This provides irrefutable proof of the collusion that Obama has facilitated with terrorists within our government, in my opinion.

  13. sidney penny says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    I wonder if Robert Spencer has been given a security tour because he also feels harassed and profiled.

  14. Linda Rivera says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    Has the Obama regime invited Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and ISIS to America to also give them security briefings and tours of secured areas in airports?

    The Obama regime are determined to DESTROY America and will do absolutely anything and everything to annihilate the nation they hate so very much.

    For the last eight years, the Muslim in the White House, aided by Hillary Clinton, has been allowed to commit non-stop treason. Utterly horrifying.

  15. Linda Rivera says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    Every single one of the Somali Muslims that were given this info must be IMMEDIATELY and PERMANENTLY DEPORTED.

    The three airports listed are NO longer safe for travel.

  16. Linda Rivera says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Did DHS also advise the Somali Muslims which would be the best times and days to make major terror attacks on the airports?

  17. gravenimage says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 7:23 am

    DHS gives Somali Muslims security briefings and tours of secured areas in airports
    …………………

    Suicidal stupidity…

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