Hizballah is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran. How is this not an act of war?
“Hezbollah operative collected information on Toronto’s Pearson airport,” by Stewart Bell, Global News, June 20, 2019:
A Hezbollah operative collected “detailed information” about Toronto’s Pearson airport, according to a report circulated by Canada’s air safety agency and obtained by Global News.
The June 18 Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) report reproduced an article about Ali Kourani, a member of Hezbollah’s external operations unit, the Islamic Jihad Organization.
A sleeper agent based in the United States, Kourani visited Pearson airport seven times and gathered information about security measures there until his arrest, the CATSA Open Source Information Report said.
Kourani also scouted New York’s JFK airport and U.S government facilities. He passed the results of his surveillance activities to his Hezbollah handler in Lebanon on digital storage devices….
Walter Sieruk says
Let’s all hope ,and maybe even pray, that Canada’s Air Safety Agency is much better and improved than America’s many air safety security agencies , especially since 9/11
Concerning the topic of Airport Security, in America, before September 11, 2001 during the 1990’s which seemed be sadly nothing but a hoax of show for the public. For a year of that decade I had a job as a security screener. As a type of airport security guard all of us, the security personal, had to follow the rules which allowed and non- serrated knifes and box cutter on the airplane as long as the sharp objects where under two inches long .So during a visited from one of the top person of the security company I told her “Those non-serrated knifes and box cutters can still be very dangerous and harmful in the hands of the wrong person.” Her response to me for saying that was only silence and an angry look that gave the message “Don’t you dare ever say such a thing as that again.” As for the security supervisors said to be “In my opinion this is just a set of as a [empty] show for the traveling public to make them feel safe.” One time a man walked through the metal detector and the alarm, buzzer, didn’t go off when he was wearing a rather large metal belt buckle. So he informed me about it. So I replied “Standing over there next to each other is the security manager and security supervisor its best if you inform them about that.” After he informed them they thanked him and said that they would look in that, they didn’t. Other time a supervisor said to me that “This security set up is bull S….” He even berated me for ,a number of times, when I called for bag check saying “Does that look like a test item ?” He really didn’t want to bother to get off his seat for make a bag check. I said to him “ I can’t see through the item maybe something dangerous is hidden being it .” On hearing that and he threw his head back and went through his eye rolling routine as to say “Don’t start getting ridiculous on me, nothing awful will ever happen.”
This might be somewhat related to a news report in the year 2005 about another airport ,the Chicago airport, which the news crew had a hidden counting devise and a hidden camera. They had counted one thousand bags went through the airport security and not even once was a call for a bag check. Went that confronted the security supervisor about that he said “There was nothing suspicious to call a check about” The news crew said “Still after a thousand bags, and not one need for a bag check call” That supervisor just restated “There was not a need for a bag check call.” Of course he wouldn’t change his story. If that airport was like the one of works at the call was not made because the security supervisor would “tell off” that security screener for making a call for a bag check.
CRUSADER says
In Frankfurt Airport, Germany, they ALLOW full bladed folding knives (mainly “swiss army knives”) to be purchased AFTER airport security screening, near the gate, along with metal forks and glass cups at the lounges and restaurants.
Go figure!!!
Maybe the authorizers and approvers think Flight Attendants are expendable, that folks can get their throats cut on board flights, but that ultimately if the skyjacking jihadists can’t get into the cockpit at the pilots then all is alright and manageable?
Christianblood says
Attacking Iran, US will open the gates of hell – George Galloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=286&v=ejvTPVvj_IE
Angemon says
What does that have to do with the topic at hand? Oh, right – Hezbollah is backed by Iran and therefore here you are, shielding Iran. Also:
—Self-described fascist Joshua Bonehill-Paine on long-standing supporter of Hezbollah and Iran, George Galloway
gravenimageianblood says
Apparently–no surprise–christianblood is in favor of Hezb’allah plotting Jihad against Infidel airports.
Note that he pretends that being concerned about Hezb’allah plotting Jihad is a physical attack on Iran.
Then, he cites the appalling Islamophilic George Galloway. Galloway considers Iran–a place that hangs gay people and stones women to death to be “vibrant”. *Ugh*.
Galloway is happy to threaten other Infidels with not just economic pain but also Jihad violence. *This* is who christianblood supports.
Interestingly, he also affirms that Hezb’allah is a guerrilla proxy army for Iran–something that christianblood has claimed is not true, and that Hezb’allah’s whole raison d’être is to protect Christians from the ‘evil Jews’. Does he even bother to listen to the videos he links to? Unlikely…
gravenimage says
The above comment is from gravenimage.
Angemon says
What comment?
christianblood says
Is “gravenimageianblood” your new moniker?
I am lovin it!
gravenimage says
Glad that christianblood found this amusing. He usually spends his time at Jihad Watch chortling over wife-beating and Muslims murdering gay people. This is much more benign.
J D S says
Who has the keys to the bottomless pit (hell) ? and who can open that hate?
back to security st airports…then when an OLD critter like me has to nearly strip because of metal implanted during surgery..almost missed flights because if this body search..I just don’t fly anymore .
gravenimage says
My comment at 7:48 pm, Angemon, posting as “gravenimageianblood”. I have a cordless mouse and its cursor tends to jump around at times. More than once it has messed up my username. I usually notice, but I missed it this time.
CRUSADER says
“christianblood” really is showing his pallor !
Guy Forester says
Hi Walter,
Thanks for that bit of info that helps explain the laxness at our airports that helped facilitate the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001. In the time frame that you mentioned about the non-serrated objects and the large belt buckle, I had an interesting thing happen to me at a very busy international airport here in the US.
A much younger me liked to wear jeans and a hippie style hand decorated wide leather belt with a large brass belt buckle. Back then, we could actually go to the gate to meet our arriving friends and relatives, but still needed to clear security. On one such visit to pick someone up, my belt buckle made the alarm go off (as I expected) despite my empty pockets. The wannabe security guy wanded the belt to confirm it was the object. Then he proceeded to demand that I remove the belt and re-wanded me to ensure I was not hiding something. I had gone through those gates many times and that was the first time anyone made me take off the belt.
Now, even if I wear a belt that supposedly does not need removing (nylon or fiber reinforced composite fasteners) they still make me take off the belt. I have had to remove and discard little tiny screwdrivers I use to fix my glasses. Yet, guns and knives have been shown to go through security without a second thought, as well as dummy bombs.
I think my name is on someone’s poop list or something. It seems I cannot even fart in an airport without security knowing about it.
CRUSADER says
Nice pun, though perhaps unintentional, about the laxness.
LAX was to be a target during the millennial —
Fact-based drama about the recruitment and capture of a terrorist, who was arrested trying to smuggle a bomb into Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Eve, 1999.
Movie about it from Canada producers,
called: “The Terrorist Next Door”
Chilling….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL025hx8BpY
gravenimage says
Guy, while traveling to New York from San Francisco in the late 1990s for a publishing convention I took an entire set of X-Acto knives with me, including blades up to an inch long–which I did not check with my luggage. (I’m an illustrator and graphic artist). No one even asked what I would use them for. Inconceivable now.
CRUSADER says
Apparently, no problem to do so in Frankfurt!
Angemon says
Not that jihad has anything to do with islam… /sarc. off
CRUSADER says
DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney:
Islamist ‘Self-Radicalization’ Is a ‘Surreal’ Myth:
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This article is from 2016, but Phil Haney knows the gaps in security from his experience at being good at his job, so good that the Islamist infiltrated Obama Administration had him removed…
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/06/15/philip-haney-surreal-myth-sudden-self-radicalization/
Former Department of Homeland Security official Philip Haney wishes he was more surprised by the Orlando terrorist attack, but as he pointed out on Breitbart News Daily this week, the attack came from exactly the sort of Islamic radical network he got in trouble for studying too carefully.
Indeed, one of the major points he stressed during a follow-up interview is that many of the purported barriers between these networks are bureaucratic illusions — they are larger, better-funded, and more interconnected than the Obama administration wants to admit.
I asked Haney about the false, but very loudly repeated, administration narrative that Orlando jihadi Omar Mateen was “self-radicalized” — an assertion that grows more ridiculous with each new revelation about his background.
Haney described the self-radicalization narrative as “surreal.”
“Imagine what it must have been like to be an active-duty subject matter expert in counter-terrorism,” he said:
I had my own superiors making these kind of statements incessantly. When I was sitting there with evidence, for example, about the Ft. Pierce mosque – not only was there another person that blew himself up in Syria, but there’s an individual who is teaching a radicalization course who is on early release for weapons charges and tax fraud. And then his own father is vice-president of the mosque.
“As though nobody knew anything – that’s completely preposterous,” he said. “If you know anything about the Islamic worldview, family and community is ultimately central to everything they do. The concept of operating alone is anathema to the Islamic worldview. They just don’t do it.”
“So, self-radicalization – what does that even mean any more?” he asked. “Nobody is self-anything in this world we live in.”
I suggested that one of the driving forces behind the self-radicalization narrative is that it protects the Obama administration from charges that it dropped the ball on counterterrorism, portraying terrorists like Mateen as thunderbolts nobody could have seen coming.
Haney laughed derisively at the idea of pushing that excuse when we know Mateen was interviewed on multiple occasions by the FBI. He compared it to the way President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the Benghazi terror attack on a “spontaneous video protest,” a false narrative meant to get them off the hook for being so completely unprepared to deal with the crisis. In both Benghazi and Orlando, red flags were ignored, and now they are retroactively denied.
“They say radicalization is ‘sudden.’ Well, a rocket launch looks very sudden, if you don’t know about all the months of hard work it took to get that rocket onto the launch pad,” Haney observed.
He denounced these political games as dangerously cynical.
“That’s when the false narrative morphs into an ominous malevolent entity, because the President is contradicting his own law enforcement agencies,” he observed.
Another false narrative he criticized was the fiction that radical Islamic organizations won’t cooperate, especially if they fall on opposite sides of the Sunni-Shiite divide. Haney stressed that obedience to sharia law — which he said radicals across the sectarian spectrum are “eighty percent in agreement on” — and the desire to impose it upon secular governments was a powerful common interest.
“It’s like the solar system, and sharia is the Sun,” he said of the Muslim continuum. To extend the analogy, radical groups might be seen as the outer planets, and the asteroid belt isn’t as wide as politically-correct U.S. government ideology portrays it.
Haney noted that Omar Mateen’s father is a supporter of the Taliban in Afghanistan, whose name is derived from the word for “student,” and “sharia law is what they study.” The centrality of the Islamic legal code to radicals cannot be overstated; he observed that all of them list imposing sharia as one of their primary goals and believe strict adherence to sharia is a defining attribute of true Islamic faith.
This is precisely the understanding that the Obama administration aggressively prevents counterintelligence analysts from reaching. Haney noted analysts are not supposed to discuss concepts like sharia or jihad because such discussion is deemed “insensitive” to non-radicalized Muslims. The mindset of studied indifference stretches all the way to the top, as demonstrated by the root-canal difficulty of getting President Obama and Hillary Clinton to use the phrase “radical Islam.”
We have at least moved past the point where the dominant liberal media and government culture denies sharia law — not long ago, it was portrayed as a figment of bigoted imagination by paranoids out in flyover country — but they are still very uncomfortable discussing what it says, or the integral role it plays in religious tradition and politics.
The preferred administration mindset is a generic effort to “counter violent extremism,” which Haney saw as distracting investigators from the dots they should be connecting — almost a quota program that obliges analysts to look for enough non-Islamic “violent extremists” to balance the books.
He also noted that “Countering Violent Extremism” was the name of a specific administration program that came to a bad end, after a half-hearted pilot program in a few large cities, in large measure because of opposition from groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which helped design the program in the first place.
Haney cited reports that just days before the Orlando atrocity, the Homeland Security Advisory Council submitted a “Countering Violent Extremism” report to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, which instructed Homeland Security officials to avoid even saying the words “sharia,” “jihad,” or “umma” — another important concept, envisioning a Muslim community that extends beyond national borders, which Haney described as vital to understanding the radical mindset.
The handicap our government is placing upon itself is obvious. The Obama administration would forbid intelligence and law enforcement officials from talking about sharia, jihad, and the umma, but Islamist radicals and terrorist recruiters are eager to use those terms in their recruiting efforts. The battlefield of ideas is ceded entirely to the enemy. Of course, everything the enemy does comes as a stunning surprise to the administration.
Haney pointed out that “collaboration with unbelievers” against the Faithful is treated as a form of apostasy under sharia law, which motivates groups like CAIR to distance themselves from law enforcement efforts.
He mentioned an infamous 2011 poster produced by CAIR that explicitly instructed Muslims to “Build a Wall of Resistance” and told them, “Don’t Talk to the FBI” — with an FBI agent caricatured as a menacing shadowy figure. A CAIR spokesman amusingly admitted that the poster could be “subject to misinterpretation,” as if there was anything subtle or ambiguous about the message it sent.
CAIR has been declared a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding operation.
Haney’s key point, offered from the perspective of a veteran analyst, is that attitudes and practices like this are not solely the province of radicals and terrorists. This is not the same as saying every Muslim teeters on the edge of radicalism and violence. Rather, it is essential for analysts to understand that radical groups are not inventing concepts like sharia law out of thin air. Radical recruiters are not using wholly alien concepts when they appeal to their subjects.
That is a direct contradiction of President Obama’s policy, with roots stretching back to the Bush administration, of insisting that there is a bright and absolute barrier between “true” Islam and “false” terrorist and radical groups.
Haney also warned not to underestimate the reach of radical groups, which are portrayed as a tiny minority by U.S. government dogma, largely alienated from the mainstream Muslim world. In truth, his research at the National Targeting Center kept leading up to large umbrella organizations like the Deobandi group and Tablighi Jamaat, which is tied to the mosque attended by the Mateen family. It was his Tablighi Jamaat investigation that he thought might have intercepted the San Bernardino bombers if it had not been scuttled for politically correct reasons.
These umbrella groups grew big and fast with Saudi money behind them, and they occupy the queasy space where politically-correct American officials fear to gaze: groups that are not explicitly terrorist and are not “radical” enough to be explicitly denounced as such by the U.S. government, for fear of being insensitive. But they are organized, influential, and pushing beliefs that are not in sync with our government’s ideal of mainstream, moderate Islam.
When I wondered if politicians like Obama and Clinton could define exactly what “radical Islam” is, Haney said that was a more important point than getting them to use the phrase. “They’re not really allowed to use the words it would take to answer the question,” he observed, pointing back at that Homeland Security report on Countering Violent Extremism.
It is not a semantic game. Terrorists and violent jihadis are few in number among Muslims living in the West, but they are surrounded by a much larger pool of radicals, whose activities are not usually blatantly illegal. Those radicals, in turn, project a sphere of influence considerably beyond their own numbers.
That influence includes politicians and advocacy groups, many of them not Muslim themselves, who make it difficult for analysts to study radical groups clearly, as Haney discovered during his time at Homeland Security. We can measure the resulting catastrophe by observing how often our government officials claim to be stunned by headline-grabbing cases of “sudden self-radicalization.”
Philip Haney’s book —
“See Something, Say Nothing:
Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad”
Guy Forester says
Wow, Crusader, that is quite a post. Thank you. Phil Haney will actually post on this website at times.
Sebastian Gorkha also points out that the idea of the lone wolf attack is nonsense.
What most people probably do not know, and the government refuses to talk about are the following:
1. Radical, terrorist groups work with each other across borders and oceans. Even secular, atheist types (like Maoist, Red Brigade, Narco cartels) will work with each other and the religion related ones, share tech skills and experts, and trade with each other to help knock down the west. They all hate you and I worse than they hate each other.
2. The Chicoms have been sending over military grade “stuff” to the gangs here in the US for decades. Now, they operate ports on all three US coasts, they run the panama canal and the ports on each end, and run ports in the Caribbean and Europe, including NATO countries. Now, do you think that each and every one of those shipping containers and ships gets thoroughly inspected? Did you know that they bring over their own people, and minimize hiring locals?
3. Most third world countries, especially the ones dominated by the religion we dare not name, run under the radar, informal, messenger and money sending systems. You need to get some $$ to a someone in your home country? Go to one of the local mom and pops businesses and tell them who it is to go to and the money will get there. Or a friend of a friend, or a distant relative will do this. Need a bride? Need a groom? Need to set up a marriage either here or there? Ever wonder how some of these grungy little stores with out of date and dusty merchandise stay open? Or pizza places that you would never eat in stay in business? Need someone that is a citizen or with a green card to hook up with to stay here legally?
I could go on, but I think you get the picture by now. I have been following this mess and how these systems operate since JFK was in office (all too briefly).
CRUSADER says
More swamps to drain.
somehistory says
It is war. moslims are at constant, continual war. This act by him is obvious. He resembles another terrorist in MI who has been reported on here.
Savvy Kafir says
It is war. And it’s time we began treating it that way. Muslims are our enemies. All of them. Even the ones who don’t realize they are. All Muslims in the West are advancing the Islamization of the West. They all must go!
CRUSADER says
Why is it that at many airports the cleaning crews — and also the rental car agents — are Muslims, and mostly Muslimas ??
Sleepers, perhaps?
Just waiting for the signal?
Or collecting data?
ooicu812 says
He looks like the guy missing from Hilary’s Clinton Foundation
Renate says
Import the third world, get the third world…and all their problems, too.
gravenimage says
Hizballah operative collected info on Toronto and JFK airports, US government facilities
………………………
Another Jihad threat.
Wellington says
A smiling jihadist is even creepier than a non-smiling jihadist. It’s a matter of degree, as is the case with all the deluded followers of Mo’s warped creed.
The burden continues. It’s called “Islam.”
CRUSADER says
And, if it weren’t Islam, we would be contending with Leftists, Mafioso, narco-gangs, human “traffickers”, bootlegging pirates, on and on and on ….
Ginger Snap says
Social jihad is even more sinister than terrorists with bombs. It is already happening. Intimidate us with being islamaphobics, so we bend over backwards to prove we are not islamaphobics. Meanwhile they take over our congress, our streets, our beliefs, and our customs. U.S. is losing it’s freedoms by not standing up to little changes that add up to huge change over time. Their birthrate is growing faster than ours. Time to wake up! This slippery slope has nowhere to go except down.
Tom Cox says
a man with advise that substantiates Your comment.
Bible Prophecy | Pastor warns Christians of Radical Islam | WARNING, you may cry
I do everytime I watch it.
Indiana Tom says
Surely this guy is just s poor innocent boy as Hezbollah never engages in terrorism as it is backed by the kind and loving Islamic republic of Iran. Just ask Christian blood.
gravenimage says
Ha ha