{"id":1473,"date":"2009-12-28T09:08:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T09:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2009-12-28T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T09:08:24","slug":"terrorism_is_an_international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism Is An International Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/detroit\/index.ssf\/2009\/12\/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html\">Mlive.com<\/a>&nbsp;(which seems to be a website for Michigan news) reported a story yesterday by a passenger on the plane with terrorist <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.mlive.com\/tag\/Umar%20Farouk%20Abdul%20Mutallab\/index.html\">Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab<\/a>&nbsp;on Christmas Day.&nbsp; The passenger and his wife (Kurt and Lori Haskell) are attorneys who happened to be on that plane.&nbsp; Mr. Haskell reports that he saw Mutallab, who was poorly dressed, approach the boarding gate with a man who was expensively dressed.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. &#8220;The guy said, &#8216;He&#8217;s from Sudan and we do this all the time.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>&#8220;Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner sympathy for Mutallab&#8217;s lack of documents by portraying him as a Sudanese refugee.&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Evidently, the two men were referred to a manager down the hall who allowed Mutallab to board the plane.&nbsp; This is where the failure to deal with terrorism occurred.&nbsp; Even without the watchlist, a man boarding a plane without a passport should be pulled aside for closer scrutiny.&nbsp; This was an international flight&#8211;Amsterdam was its last stop before reaching America.&nbsp; If our allies are not more vigilant in protecting flights into America, no one will be safe taking those flights.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The airline that has the best record in avoiding terrorists and hijackings is El Al.&nbsp; I think it is time that the international community got serious about terrorism and began to ask the Israelis for help in averting airplane&nbsp;terrorism.&nbsp; Israel&nbsp;seem to be the only country that has gotten this aspect of the war on terror right!.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mlive.com&nbsp;(which seems to be a website for Michigan news) reported a story yesterday by a passenger on the plane with terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab&nbsp;on Christmas Day.&nbsp; The passenger and his wife (Kurt and Lori Haskell) are attorneys who happened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}