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Another Building-Buzzing Air Force One Glamor Shot Slated For DC?

Neat.

When's the Shanksville fly-by?  They ought to promote that one ahead of time to make sure there are people in the field to freak out.

Previously:
Audio of 911 Calls Prompted by Ingenious Air Force One Photo Op
Video Of the Idiotic Air Force One Photo Op (And Frightened New Yorkers Fleeing)

Audio of 911 Calls Prompted by Ingenious Air Force One Photo Op

(HT: Rowdy Yates)

Previously:  Video Of the Idiotic Air Force One Photo Op (And Frightened New Yorkers Fleeing)

Video Of the Idiotic Air Force One Photo Op (And Frightened New Yorkers Fleeing)

Let's adopt this rule of thumb going forward: If it's low enough to sound a discernible jet engine Doppler effect at street level, it's too low for a jumbo jet to fly over lower Manhattan without alerting the public.

Here's a brazen prediction: Director of the White House Military Office Louis Caldera (not to mention Marc Mugnos) steps down to spend more time with his family within 48 hours.

Awaiting Janet Napolitano Press Briefing

Topics to include swine flu, which - as the HomeSec sec will doubtless remind us - migrated into the U.S. in recent days via the Canadian border.

Update:  Those 8 suspected cases in New York City are now confirmed.

Confirmed: Waterboarding Prevented Library Tower Attack

If it was okay to shoot to kill unmirandized pirate youths (under direct Presidential authority) in an effort to save Captain Phillips' life (a 3:1 tradeoff of baddies for innocents), mightn't it also have been okay to spook and discomfort a single terrorist leader to save thousands of innocent lives?

The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) -- including the use of waterboarding -- caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.

Before he was waterboarded, when KSM was asked about planned attacks on the United States, he ominously told his CIA interrogators, “Soon, you will know.”

According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack -- which KSM called the “Second Wave”-- planned “ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles.”

(HT: Ace)

Rendition Suddenly Back In Vogue

Whaddaya know?

Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.

Current and former U.S. intelligence officials said that the rendition program might be poised to play an expanded role going forward because it was the main remaining mechanism -- aside from Predator missile strikes -- for taking suspected terrorists off the street.

The rendition program became a source of embarrassment for the CIA, and a target of international scorn, as details emerged in recent years of botched captures, mistaken identities and allegations that prisoners were turned over to countries where they were tortured.

The sequel ought to be considerably more upbeat.  Maybe people will go see this one.

(HT: NRO)

Bush Achieved the Impossible

Barring any unfortunate incidents in the next half hour, George Bush will have pulled off what no one thought possible seven years ago - warding off another terrorist attack.

In our creeping national complacency, we've come to focus on the length of time it took to win the Iraq War, the current economic turmoil, and some fuzzy and misguided conceits about our global stature, but this President is one who focused first and foremost on his primary responsibility of keeping the country safe and succeeded against daunting odds.

In so doing, he has set a higher bar for his successor than the cumulative Hollywood fawning and Messianic press adoration could ever curse him with.

Congratulations and good luck, Presidents Bush and Obama.

Life Imitating Art About Artificial Life That Imitates Eddie Furlong's Dorky Teenspeak

"By the time SkyNet became self aware it had spread into millions of computer servers all across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software, in Cyberspace. There was no system core. It could not be shut down."

And this is how it started.

The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of       external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's, FOX News has learned.

The attack came in the form of a global       virus or worm that is spreading rapidly throughout a number of military networks.

"We have detected a global virus for       which there has been alerts, and we have seen some of this on our networks," a Pentagon official told FOX News. "We are       now taking steps to mitigate the virus."

(HT: Jawa Report)

Andrew Kates: 9/11 Victim

Represied from 9/11/06 post as part of Project 2,996.

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On September 11, 2001, a senior managing director at Cantor Fitzgerald named Andrew Kates was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.  Kates worked on the 105th floor of the North Tower (WTC1).  The 37-year old husband and father of three was later profiled in The New York Times, in a piece celebrating A Life Enjoyed to the Fullest.

On the Saturday morning before Sept. 11, Andrew Kates woke up to find his three children bouncing on the bed, all ready to play. "He just looked right at me and said, 'I love our family,' " said his wife, Emily Terry.

He spent every spare moment with his two daughters and son, ages 5, 3 and 1. He gave them piggyback rides around their Upper West Side apartment. They played hide-and-seek. Every weekend last winter, he packed hot chocolate and took the two older ones, Hannah and Lucy, ice skating for hours in Central Park.

An athletic 37-year-old, he had brown hair, green eyes and dimples creasing both cheeks. His son, Henry, looks a lot like him. He managed to see the best in every situation, whether it was at home or on the job at Cantor Fitzgerald in 1 World Trade Center, where he was a senior managing director.

Perhaps it sounds like a cliché, his wife said, but he did manage to enjoy life to the fullest. "He is one of the people I know who had very few regrets about his life."

Andy's widow Emily Terry and their three children, Henry, Lucy, and Hannah shared some of the details about their lives on the one year anniversary of 9/11 in an interview for New York Magazine. Terry discussed the importance of community support, the kindness of fellow New Yorkers, and the haunting impact of Ground Zero.

"I've been enveloped by this community," she marvels. "I just felt like people were taking care of me. I felt like they wouldn't let me fall, wouldn't let me collapse." Congregation members virtually lived with her during the first few months. Suzanne Waltman, a friend and fellow Rodeph parent, says, "People at Rodeph really understood the workload of three children."

At night, the kids often talk about their dad, and when they go to bed at 8 p.m., Terry often falls asleep in their room. "I feel incredibly sad for them," she says. "My son was 11 months when it happened, and yet when he sees a picture of Andy, he says, 'Dad.' Henry saw someone recently from the back who looked like Andy, and he got so excited." She pauses to compose herself. "It sounds so goofy, but on September 11, Henry walked across the living-room floor for the first time." Before the towers collapsed? "Nope."
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A patrician blonde who looks elegant even in khakis and a T-shirt, Terry, 39, a native New Yorker who attended Chapin and then Haverford, met her future husband in Boston in 1985. She attended Boston University, earning a master's degree in art history; Andy went through Harvard's M.B.A. program. She left a job at the International Center of Photography after her first child, Hannah, was born. Even though Andy was in a fast-track job at Cantor, they didn't live in Master of the Universe style: Their apartment is a two-bedroom rental (the three kids sleep in one room), and they vacationed every year in relatively inexpensive Lake Champlain.
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She finds herself clinging to the unexpectedly kind gestures. She got a visit from an ironworker who found one of Andy's credit cards at ground zero. "The guy tracked me down, and his wife called to say he had made something for us from metal from the World Trade Center." Walking over to the fireplace, she shows off a small cross on the mantel. "I was worried when the man saw my daughter's sign on our door -- WE'RE JEWISH -- that he'd be embarrassed about bringing us a cross. I thought it was really touching."

She's never been to ground zero -- the place haunts her. "I keep coming to this image of this huge hole, which is what it feels like," she says. "Sometimes I'm inside the hole, and sometimes I'm standing at the edge of the hole. But I'm never away from the hole, I'm always near it."

Four years after that first anniversary, Hannah is 11, Lucy is 9, and Henry is almost 6.  The five years since Andy's tragic death have undoubtedly not masked the enormity of the loss suffered by Emily and her children, nor the difficulty of growing up without such a loving and dedicated father.  Hopefully, family and friends, combined with the community support that Andy's family found in the months immediately following 9/11, have continued to be a source of strength.

Andy was also survived by his brothers Seth and Paul and his mother Judy.

A Harvard Business School obituary remembered Kates as a devoted, successful, athletic, charismatic friend and family member.

Terry, whom Kates married in 1993, said her husband "was very athletic. He was a serious bike rider and swimmer and played tennis. He ran the New York Marathon in 3 hours and 15 minutes."

Kates’s interest in business was already apparent while he was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. He and some friends started a business washing athletes’ clothes. He sold the business after he got his degree in 1985.
Terry said that family came first for Kates. "Every Saturday morning, the kids would all come into bed with us," she said, "and we said, ‘We have a lovely family.’ We knew we had an incredible thing going."

"He was a thoughtful husband and a doting father," his brother Paul said. He described Andy as charismatic, with a wide circle of friends. "Everybody he touched, everybody he met - whether it was for three days, three weeks, or three decades - was affected by him," Paul said. "He was always the focus of whatever group he was in."

Terry recalled speaking to Andy soon after American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the building just a few stories beneath him.

"I got a call from him," Terry recalled. "He just said, ‘A plane hit the building. It’s on fire. I love you very much.’"

Any readers with personal knowledge, remembrances, or other pictures of Andrew Kates, please submit them either by comment or e-mail.

A list of links to tributes to the other 2,995 victims of the 9/11 terror attacks is available here.

FAA Reporting Flight Plan System Failures

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Fox News is reporting a computer glitch in the FAA's flight plan processing system (possibly originating from a Georgia substation) is disrupting communications.

No specific word of it yet at the FAA website and only scant online coverage.

A glitch in the Federal Aviation Administration computer system is affecting flights across the country right now, according to CNN and the FAA sources commenting on the television news show.

The computer problem is with how flight plans are processed, and is causing delays. More than 5,000 flights are airborne now, according to CNN. Planes are in holding patterns now.

The Desert Sun willl bring you the latest on this developing story. We are also contacting the Palm Springs International Airport to see how flights are affected there.

The FAA's air traffic control map does show a lot of major cities experiencing delays.

Traffic destined to this airport is being delayed at its departure point. Check your departure airport to see if your flight may be affected.

It sounds like this should have no impact on communications between air traffic control centers and flights in the air, but may be disrupting the filing of new flight plans, which could be tangling up departures.

One of the electronic network that handles such messaging is the Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network, which does also handle other types of high- and low-priority message and advisories.

Fox is now reporting a variety of major east coast airports have gone to full ground stops.

Homeland Security is confirming there's no indication of any terror connection.

In short, it sounds like no flights are in any trouble, but the country is about to be smacked with major systemwide delays.

Update: From Breitbart:

FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says there are no safety issues and officials are still able to speak to pilots on planes on the ground and in the air.

She says she doesn't know how many flights are being affected.

Bergen says the problem that occurred Tuesday afternoon involves an FAA facility in Hampton, Ga., south of Atlanta, that processes flight plans. She says there has been a failure in a communication link that transmits the data to a similar facility in Salt Lake City.

As a result, the Salt Lake City facility has to process those flight plans, causing delays.

Malkin Mobbed At the Mint

Tub of goo Alex Jones manages to give even 9/11 troofers a bad name.

During a terribly clever demonstration attempting to levitate the Denver Mint in protest of American military spending, Jones noticed Michelle Malkin covering the event and quickly abandoned the telekinetic endeavor in favor of showering everyone within earshot with spittle-flecked hysteria.

Michelle has links to some of the other blog coverage of Jones' meltdown.

How Much Is That Air Marshal In the Window Seat?

Any cost-benefit analysis that requires assigning a monetary value to a human life is going to be a touchy one (just ask Ford).  But a couple of academic types have attempted to probe the cost-efficacy of post-9/11 security measures.

As synopsized by the Freakonomists:

Their study, which considered the lives of airborne passengers and potential victims on the ground, found that hardened cockpit doors cost roughly $800,000 per life saved. At the same time, they calculate the air marshal program to cost roughly $180 million per life saved (assuming, that is, the marshals aren’t grounded when their names come up on the terrorist no-fly list, a problem the Washington Times reported on earlier this year).

The Federal Aviation Administration considers any innovation which costs less than $3 million per life saved to be cost-effective. By that metric, hardening cockpit doors seems to be cost effective, while the air marshals program is not.

At least the FAA came up with a less denigratory figure than Ford's $200,000.

Adjusting for inflation, though, a 1971 Pinto death would be worth nearly $1.1 million in 2008 dollars.  And real per capita income has gone up about 60% since then (assuming part of the value destruction associated with death is the loss of an income stream).  I'm not so sure the FAA's giving us much of a better deal after all...

As is, it looks like air marshals need to increase their life-saving efficiency by about 5,900% to pull their weight.

Of course there are all kinds of variables that are difficult, if not impossible, to get your arms around, no matter how coldly and calculatingly you weigh and measure the value of a human.  Might a thwarted threat save a major city or landmark from being threatened?  Might that in turn prevent triggering an economic crisis of unknowable severity?  Of course.  A single successful takedown by an air marshal could pay dividends of untold billions in unincurred financial damage, and attempting to distill that unmeasurable impact down to an expected cost, based on an event of unknowable improbability is going to land you on a pretty meaningless number.

So to stamp the air marshals (or indeed any number of costly homeland security measures) either "Worthwhile" or "Wasteful" based on the value of the expected reduction in human toll seems somewhat pointless, no matter what per human value you use.  What isn't pointless about the assessment being undertaken here though is the intelligence it yields regarding the allocation of finite homeland security resources.  Money that goes to training and dispatching air marshals could be going elsewhere - to improved chemical detection and facial recognition technologies, further refinement of the maximum size clear baggie allowed to carry your toothpaste, etc.

My point isn't that air marshals are inherently a waste of money (on the contrary, I think you can probably toss out the $180 million per life saved figure as a largely meaningless one).  Instead, I'm suggesting that this kind of analysis is probably best used as a means of allocating available resources among the various tools in the belt.  If there were nowhere else to spend aviation security dollars, go ahead and hire a bunch more marshals, irrespective of the inherently squishy price tag.  But when alternatives do exist, not all of which can be funded (and if some of those alternatives appear to be significantly more cost-effective than others), then cold, heartless bean counting becomes a somewhat more useful lifesaving tool.

With Edges Like These, Who Needs Landslides?

What a squeaker.

[A]ccording to a new TIME Magazine poll of likely voters ...

McCain, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, edged out Obama on national security issues. When asked who “would best protect the U.S. against terrorism,” 53% of respondents chose McCain to just 33% for Obama.

I only have ten fingers, so I need to count them multiple times to crunch these numbers, but I'm coming up with a margin in the neighborhood of 20 points.

(HT: Patterico)

Hundreds Of Healthy Ground Zero Workers Exploiting Colleagues' Real Medical Issues To Scam NYC Out Of Money

Sick.

The first detailed review of the medical records of nearly 10,000 ground zero workers who are suing New York City and its contractors suggests that many are not as sick as their lawyers have claimed, attorneys for the city say.

The city’s review, based on medical records submitted in federal court by the workers and their lawyers, found that as many as 30 percent of the workers reported nothing more than common symptoms like runny nose or cough. Their records, according to the review, did not indicate that doctors had ever diagnosed a specific disease.

In fact, more than 300 workers admitted in court documents that they were not ill at all.

Not only does this particularly lurid display of hyperlitigiousness threaten to drain resources that could be directed toward workers who are genuinely sick, but it serves to cast undue doubt on those workers' claims.

All of these folks were on the scene on 9/11 and/or during the dangerous rescue, recovery, and cleanup that followed.  It's a little troubling that some of them now appear to be falsely cashing in on the suffering of others.

Times Square Recruitment Center Bombing

Early this morning, a bomb detonated in an military recruiting station in the heart of Manhattan.  No one was injured and mass transit was uninterrupted, but the explosion was powerful enough to be felt 44 stories up, four blocks away, in the Marriott Marquis.

Police are searching for a bicylcist who may have been involved.

"We're concerned and we're doing a very thorough investigation, working closely with the federal authorities," said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

He added that one witness at the scene saw a man riding a bicycle "in a suspicious manner" just before the explosion. The man was wearing a hood and dark colored clothing and had a backpack. The witness did not see the man's face, nor did the witness see the man throw anything.

What a worthless lead.

Police said it was too early to say whether the Times Square blast was related to two other minor explosions in the city in recent history.

In October, two small explosive devices were tossed over a fence at the Mexican consulate, shattering three windows but causing no injuries. No threats had been made against the consulate, and no one took responsibility for the explosion, police said.

Michelle Malkin's got a round-up of additional coverage and reaction.

Update:  John McCain weighs in.

“We can’t allow this kind of thing to happen in America — a place where we’re trying to attract young men and women to serve in the military,” McCain told reporters during a news conference here. The individuals involved, he said, should be brought “to justice as quickly as possible.”

No word yet from the junior Senator "from" New York, whose husband is expected to attend a star-studded Broadway opening tonight, a stone's throw from the detonation site.

Update:  Via Allah, here's Fox-commentated video surveillance of the incident.

 

Link: sevenload.com

Update:  "We did it!"  The apparent perpetrators claim the blame via letters to their Congressmen (enclosure: raving anti-military manifesto).

Gitmo Manual Hits Wikileaks [Update: Document Added]

A manual detailing operations at the terrorist detention camp in Guantanamo Bay entitled "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures" has apparently been leaked onto the site Wikileaks.

Whether because it's since been yanked or because of heavy site traffic, the link to the 238-page document is currently not functioning, but Wired has published a review of sorts (and a reproduction of one of the pages, illustrating the layout of one of the camps), along with a few excerpted globs of outrage now erupting out of the ACLU.

The Camp Delta document includes schematics of the camp, detailed checklists of what "comfort items" such as extra toilet paper can be given to detainees as rewards, six pages of instructions on how to process new detainees, instructions on how to psychologically manipulate prisoners, and rules for dealing with hunger strikes.

"What strikes me is the level of detail for handling all kind of situations, from admission to barbers and burials," says Jamil Dakwar, advocacy director of the ACLU's Human Rights program. Dakwar was in Guantánamo last week for a military-commission hearing.

Apparently, the torture has reached tonsorial heights.

Dakwar sees hints of Abu Ghraib in a section instructing guards to use dogs to intimidate prisoners.
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"MWD (Military Working Dogs) will walk 'Main Street' in Camp Delta during shifts to demonstrate physical presence to detainees," reads a directive in the "Psychological Deterrence" section. "MWD will not be walked through the blocks unless directed by the (Joint Detention Operations Group)."

The Wikileaks front page appears to be down too, so I'm guessing this is just a traffic issue.  If it amuses you, you can keep trying the document link.  Once it frees up, I'll make a local copy available.

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Update:  Here's the document (fair warning: it's a PDF and it's 4.2 MB).  This sucker's not so easy to get hold of - everyone discussing it is just linking in to the page on Wikileaks, which continues to be down.  According to the Wikileaks' Wikipedia page:

A copy of 'Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta' dating from March 2003, the protocol of the US Army at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, was released on the Wikileaks website on the 7th November 2007.^[24] However, after this news became widespread on the 15th November the Wikileaks website became inaccessible.^{[citation needed]}

No document hotlinks here though.  Just a fresh copy delivered clean and whole for your perusal.  If your finger quakes with uncertainty just above your mouse button, rest assured the document is mark "unclassified".  The ACLU's already decrying the manual as shocking evidence of American atrocities in Guantanamo Bay.  The more that reasonable people read it (which admittedly, I've not yet finished doing), the more credibly they'll be able to tell ACLU card-carrying pro-terrorists and other agents of related misinformation and anti-American propaganda to kindly cram it.

For extra cinematic impact, you can also print it out, bind it, and slam it on a table, demanding, "Is there no book. No pamphlet or manual, no regulation or set of written orders or instructions that lets me know that, as a Marine, one of my duties is to perform code reds?"

Update:  If you're looking for a quick reference on Gitmo hospitality, check out pages 218-221 (Table 8-1 to 8-5).  Approved detainee comfort items, violations and corresponding punishments, and authorized/unauthorized activities for prisoners of various levels.

Pages 131-132 (Military Working Dogs (MWD)) are also worth a look.  Dakwar said he sees "shades of Abu Ghraib" in the section regarding how to parade military dogs around the grounds so as to "intimidate prisoners."  "Intimidate" is a loaded word, because it's used in the Geneva Conventions where it has specific contextual meaning, but those disingenuously borrowed semantics aside, the psychological deterrent impact of harnessed guard dogs (released only to collect escaping detainees) is undoubtedly reasonable and effective.  Coils of razor wire atop civilian prison walls aren't meant to torture inmates with the thought that their guards may turn on them and start whipping them with the wire.  They're a psychological (and physical) deterrence to escape.  Just as the MWDs are used "to enhance physical security and as a psychological deterrence."

How To Join the Terror Watch List Without Really Trying

Who could've predicted this would cause a problem?

Everyone who rides Disneyland's popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction knows "dead men tell no tales," and its animatronic figures aren't talking either. But, oh, if they could.

On Friday, workers at the Anaheim theme park spotted a guest on the ride sprinkling an unidentified substance into the water, prompting them to close the attraction and alert police.

"A witness described the substance as a baby powder that quickly dissipated," Disneyland resort spokesman Rob Doughty said. "We reopened the attraction after determining that there was no hazard to our guests."
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[O]nline columnists and bloggers who track news at the park said they began receiving e-mails from Disney employees claiming the episode was a case of the surreptitious scattering of human ashes.

The contaminator of Captain Jack's water supply remains on the loose and unidentified. (HT: Fark)

Karol Sheinin On Truther Fatuity

Droves of fanatical, cookie-cutter nonconformists notwithstanding, Karol won last night's debate with a local 9/11 conspiracist and has posted a transcript of her remarks.

It's a wonderfully cogent and thorough rebuttal/rebuke of Truthermania and it displays a lot more patience than I'm able to muster when engaging these wackjobs.  Karol noted the typical fruitlessness of debating a Truther in trademark Karol form.

At one point in his book, my opponent quotes some rap lyrics by a group called Dead Prez who basically call the American government terrorists, etc. I love, no, make that I live, for quoting rap lyrics so I was going to go with Jay-Z’s “a wise man told me don’t argue with fools, cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who”.

The audience voted Karol the winner of the debate, so apparently they were able to tell.

Read the full text of her remarks - they're therapeutic.

The (Missile) Defense Rests

Today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates offered an olive branch to Russia over the proposed European-based missile defense sites by proposing their delayed activation.

We would consider tying together activation of the sites in Poland and the Czech Republic with definitive proof of the threat - in other words, Iranian missile testing and so on.

This is a departure from the Bush Administration’s previous position.  Russia has strenuously objected to this course of action from the outset but President Bush has not compromised over the radar and missile sites in Poland and Czech Republic, even when Russia offered the use of one of its existing radar sites. 

I’m glad to see the U.S. attempt to defuse the mounting tensions, although today’s offer was probably driven by the deteriorating political support in the host countries.  With its recent oil wealth, Russia has been increasingly active on the international stage, and accordingly, has interjected itself into nearly every significant foreign policy issue of the past five years.  It routinely exercises its Security Council veto much to the disappointment of Washington and many NATO members.  The end result is a very relevant Russian Federation, which can hinder or obstruct American plans.

The smart play by the U.S. at this point is to abandon these controversial missile defense sites in exchange for Russian support and intervention in Iran’s nuclear pursuits.  The declared purpose of the radar and missile sites is to defeat a missile threat from rogue Middle Eastern countries, that is, Iran.  If the U.S. can secure Russia’s support for tougher sanctions with harsh penalties for non-compliance then the U.S. should table its European missile defense plans (until Russia fails to live up to its end of the bargain). 

This tactic allows Russia to avoid the perceived affront to its power, and the U.S. finally gets meaningful action on Iran, one of the White House’s top international goals.  This diplomatic standoff clearly has the potential to turn into a win-win situation.

DHS Pulls Bookcase Of Spam Over On Self

I subscribe to a Department of Homeland Security mailing list called the DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report, which is basically a collection of excerpts and hyperlinks to news stories about security issues in communications, transportation, finance, and other critical sectors.  The highlighted stories are frequently about cyber-security - e-mail scams, viruses, stolen laptops, etc.

Today, though, the listkeeper (the National Infrastructure Coordinating Center) is flailing in an e-mail mire of its own design.

A little after 8:00 this morning, one of the list subscribers sent a change-of-address notice  back to NICC, which - upon arriving in the inboxes of every subscriber - suddenly made it clear that the distribution list was unrestricted.  Anyone replying to it was (and still is, apparently) able to hit the inboxes of thousands of security professionals, including law enforcement, U.S. military, federal emlpoyees, private security consultants, etc.

The accidental exposer chased his original message with a "recall" note, but the horse had long left the barn.  In the hours since, about 100 list members have chimed in, frequently in an ironically futile attempt to ask other members to stop replying, so their inboxes will stop flooding.  More than 20 list members were so fed up with all the replies that they've sent "unsubscribe" notices (some of them more than mildly perturbed in tone), but in so doing, they've frequently broadcast their e-mail addresses, names, and employers to the rest of the list, which may wind up backfiring spectacularly.

Others are more chipper, reporting in with their location and comparing weather conditions.  Apparently it's looking rainy in Lisbon, but it's a dry day in London.  Rain in Georgia, but beautiful, cloudless skies in Denver.

Still others started out angry, but eventually succumbed to the humor of the situation.

This has gone from an amazing pain in the neck, to fifth grade. But that was my favorite grade.

I'm pleased to report it is sunny in Pittsburgh!

Some enterprising subscribers have taken the opportunity to do a little networking with the many high-placed professionals on the list - offering their consulting services, looking for jobs, and sharing documents.  List member "Dark Fiber" put it well:

Man I wish I had something to sell right now, what a great distro list!
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Can't wait to read tomorrows Daily Report!!!!

Me neither.  I wonder whether this debacle will make the cut.

Given the audience, it's not surprising that a few have chimed in to wonder why the list owners have been unable to lock it down - even now, six hours after the flood began.  It ought to be relatively simple either to change the list's send privileges or simply to delete the list entirely and re-constitute it in time to send out tomorrow's digest.

At 1:30, the NICC tried to kibosh the insanity with this message:

All –

Please do not use the “reply to all” when responding to the emails from this email address.

The listserve email address used has thousands of recipients and causes server problems when used this way.

v/r

NICC

That, um... didn't work.  List member "Tech Guy" was supefied by the attempt.

Are you serious?  Is this actually the official response and remedy for this issue?

I have refrained from commenting up till now as to not perpetuate this issue, but this sort of response is unacceptable and just goes to prove why so many lack faith in our government and government agencies.

How about utilize some common measures to ensure that others are not allowed to send to the list.  Its actually pretty simple and common place to do.

They appear to be making some progress, but this message came in nearly three hours ago and the replies are still coming through.

Please note that NICC is aware of the situation and has notified Computer Science Corp to disable the open server pending (I hope) setting the post privileges correctly in time for tomorrow's distribution.  Distribution will also be via BCC to allow forwarding without bouncing off the distro list.

As practitioners of national security best practices, lets set an example and not clog the communications channel with further white noise, please.

Best regards,
Paul Zasada

Gov.com, Inc., Making government user-friendly ®

Heh.

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Update:  My mistake.  The reply count is actually somewhere north of 300.  I had neglected to look in my spam box, where about 2/3 of the messages are winding up, including this one from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, which made me laugh:

As a representative of the Department of Defense, I am ordering all to cease and desist with the emails!  I'm a Sagittarius and it's overcast here in D.C.! :-)

List members have now set up at least two off-site forums (this one and that one), both to keep the networking channel open and in an attempt (thus far an unsuccessful one) to divert the message flood away from the listserve.

Update:  The SANS Internet Storm Center has weighed in on its blog:

While 275 is not even close to the millions of emails that get sent on a typical commercial spam run, it is a large number for a "flash crowd" or whatever this may eventually be called.  It also revealed a nice cross-section of who subscribes to DHS daily publications and consider themselves part of the defensive security community.  Most definitely do not have the Jack Bauer (character from the series "24") mentality of total seriousness and no-joking attitude.
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It's not clear why a single email got reflected today and not in the many previous months this service has been available.  Quite likely an email administrator either clicked a box last night, rebuilt the system, migrated it to a new server, or did something that un-set a setting designed to prevent this type of event.  Regardless, the situation is still not fixed.  As this diary is being written another email just came through.   Sigh....

Update:  WSJ's Washington Wire:

Everyday, the Department of Homeland Security emails an “Open Source Intelligence Report” about the nation’s critical infrastructure to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of security and emergency officials working for corporations, governors’ offices, big city police forces and a myriad of federal agencies. It is a group of serious, security-minded people, or so one would have thought.
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A senior DHS official described the incident was a “non-event” for the department’s own security. No systems crashed; no backdoors were revealed. The reaction of the security professionals on the list, he said, was “much more worrying.”

It's been about 90 minutes since the last message came through, so the problem appears to have been fixed (incredibly, a full 9 hours after the flood began).  Now that it's been pinched off, I'll reveal that when I tried replying to one of the messages this afternoon, it bounced off an e-mail relay at the firm that handles this listserve for DHS, which then sent me a full list of the e-mail addresses my message did not reach.

Roughly 7,000 in all - presumably every e-mail address on the DHS Daily Report distribution list.

A couple bits of real spam made their way into the flood today.  If those spammers received the same error messages containing the whole list of 7,000 private and public sector security professionals, we can expect a bit of additional fallout to follow.

In Memoriam

Keith Olbermann likes to close his Countdown broadcast on MSNBC with the snarky platitude "[X days since] mission accomplished in Iraq," (currently 1,594), referring to the President's speech from the USS Abraham Lincoln announcing the end of major combat operations in that country.

With the dawn of the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, here's another statistic: 6,516,034 days stolen from that day's victims' lives.  Not to mention the hundreds of millions of days of grief visited on the loved ones of the nearly 3,000 victims of the day's attacks.

Those many thousands of victims aren't the only reason we persist in the struggle against Islamo-facism and other terrorist ideologies, but today they serve as a palpable reminder of what's at stake in that struggle.

Never forget.

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The list is after the jump.

World Trade Center Victims

Gordon M. Aamoth, Jr.
Edelmiro Abad
Maria Rose Abad
Andrew Anthony Abate
Vincent Abate
Laurence Christopher Abel
William F. Abrahamson
Richard Anthony Aceto
Jesus Acevedo Rescand
Heinrich Bernhard Ackermann
Paul Acquaviva
Donald LaRoy Adams
Patrick Adams
Shannon Lewis Adams
Stephen George Adams
Ignatius Udo Adanga
Christy A. Addamo
Terence E. Adderley, Jr.
Sophia Buruwad Addo
Lee Allan Adler
Daniel Thomas Afflitto
Emmanuel Akwasi Afuakwah
Alok Agarwal
Mukul Kumar Agarwala
Joseph Agnello
David Scott Agnes
Brian G. Ahearn
Jeremiah Joseph Ahern
Joanne Marie Ahladiotis
Shabbir Ahmed
Terrance Andre Aiken
Godwin Ajala
Gertrude M. Alagero
Andrew Alameno
Margaret Ann Alario
Gary M. Albero
Jon Leslie Albert
Peter Alderman
Jacquelyn Delaine Aldridge
David D. Alger
Sarah Ali-Escarcega
Ernest Alikakos
Edward L. Allegretto
Eric Allen
Joseph Ryan Allen
Richard Dennis Allen
Richard Lanard Allen
Christopher E. Allingham
Janet M. Alonso
Arturo Alva-Moreno
Anthony Alvarado
Antonio Javier Alvarez
Victoria Alvarez-Brito
Telmo E. Alvear
Cesar Amoranto Alviar
Tariq Amanullah
Angelo Amaranto
James M. Amato Joseph Amatuccio
Christopher Charles Amoroso
Kazuhiro Anai
Calixto Anaya, Jr.
Joseph Anchundia
Kermit Charles Anderson
Yvette Constance Anderson
John Andreacchio
Michael Rourke Andrews
Jean Ann Andrucki
Siew-Nya Ang
Joseph Angelini, Jr.
Joseph Angelini, Sr.
Laura Angilletta
Doreen J. Angrisani
Lorraine Antigua
Peter Paul Apollo
Faustino Apostol, Jr.
Frank Thomas Aquilino
Patrick Michael Aranyos
David Arce
Michael George Arczynski
Louis Arena
Adam P. Arias
Michael Armstrong
Jack Charles Aron
Joshua Aron
Richard Avery Aronow
Japhet Jesse Aryee
Patrick Asante
Carl Asaro
Michael Asciak
Michael Edward Asher
Janice Marie Ashley
Thomas J. Ashton
Manuel O. Asitimbay
Gregg Arthur Atlas
Gerald T. Atwood
James Audiffred
Louis Frank Aversano, Jr.
Ezra Aviles
Sandy Ayala
Arlene T. Babakitis
Eustace P. Bacchus
John J. Badagliacca
Jane Ellen Baeszler
Robert J. Baierwalter
Andrew J. Bailey
Brett T. Bailey
Tatyana Bakalinskaya
Michael S. Baksh
Sharon M. Balkcom
Michael Andrew Bane
Katherine Bantis
Gerard Baptiste
Walter Baran
Gerard A. Barbara
Paul Vincent Barbaro
James William Barbella
Ivan Kyrillos F. Barbosa
Victor Daniel Barbosa
Colleen Ann Barkow
David Michael Barkway
Matthew Barnes
Sheila Patricia Barnes
Evan J. Baron
Renee Barrett-Arjune
Nathaly Barrios La Cruz
Arthur Thaddeus Barry
Diane G. Barry
Maurice Vincent Barry
Scott D. Bart
Carlton W. Bartels
Guy Barzvi
Inna B. Basina
Alysia Basmajian
Kenneth William Basnicki
Steven Bates
Paul James Battaglia
Walter David Bauer, Jr.
Marlyn Capito Bautista
Jasper Baxter
Michele Beale
Paul Frederick Beatini
Jane S. Beatty
Lawrence Ira Beck
Manette Marie Beckles
Carl John Bedigian
Michael Earnest Beekman
Maria A. Behr
Yelena Belilovsky
Nina Patrice Bell
Debbie Bellows
Stephen Elliot Belson
Paul M. Benedetti
Denise Lenore Benedetto
Maria Bengochea
Bryan Craig Bennett
Eric L. Bennett
Oliver Duncan Bennett
Margaret L. Benson
Dominick J. Berardi
James Patrick Berger
Steven Howard Berger
John P. Bergin
Alvin Bergsohn
Daniel Bergstein
Michael J. Berkeley
Donna M. Bernaerts
David W. Bernard
William Bernstein
David M. Berray
David S. Berry
Joseph J. Berry
William Reed Bethke
Timothy Betterly
Edward Frank Beyea
Paul Beyer
Anil Tahilram Bharvaney
Bella J. Bhukhan
Shimmy D. Biegeleisen
Peter Alexander Bielfeld
William G. Biggart
Brian Bilcher
Carl Vincent Bini
Gary Eugene Bird
Joshua David Birnbaum
George John Bishop
Jeffrey Donald Bittner
Albert Balewa Blackman, Jr.
Christopher Joseph Blackwell
Susan Leigh Blair
Harry Blanding, Jr.
Janice Lee Blaney
Craig Michael Blass
Rita Blau
Richard Middleton Blood, Jr.
Michael Andrew Boccardi
John P. Bocchi
Michael Leopoldo Bocchino
Susan M. Bochino
Bruce D. Boehm
Mary Catherine Boffa
Nicholas Andrew Bogdan
Darren Christopher Bohan
Lawrence Francis Boisseau
Vincent M. Boland, Jr.
Alan Bondarenko
Andre Bonheur, Jr.
Colin Arthur Bonnett
Frank Bonomo
Yvonne Lucia Bonomo
Genieve Bonsignore, 3
Seaon Booker
Sherry Ann Bordeaux
Krystine Bordenabe
Martin Boryczewski
Richard Edward Bosco
John H. Boulton
Francisco Eligio Bourdier
Thomas Harold Bowden, Jr.
Kimberly S. Bowers
Veronique Nicole Bowers
Larry Bowman
Shawn Edward Bowman, Jr.
Kevin L. Bowser
Gary R. Box
Gennady Boyarsky
Pamela Boyce
Michael Boyle
Alfred Braca
Kevin Bracken
David Brian Brady
Alexander Braginsky
Nicholas W. Brandemarti
Michelle Renee Bratton
Patrice Braut
Lydia E. Bravo
Ronald Michael Breitweiser
Edward A. Brennan III
Francis Henry Brennan
Michael E. Brennan
Peter Brennan
Thomas M. Brennan
Daniel J. Brethel
Gary Lee Bright
Jonathan Briley
Mark A. Brisman
Paul Gary Bristow
Mark Francis Broderick
Herman Charles Broghammer
Keith A. Broomfield
Ethel Brown Janice
Juloise Brown
Lloyd Stanford Brown
Patrick J. Brown
Bettina Browne
Mark Bruce
Richard George Bruehert
Andrew Brunn
Vincent Brunton
Ronald Paul Bucca
Brandon J. Buchanan
Gregory Joseph Buck
Dennis Buckley
Nancy Clare Bueche
Patrick Joseph Buhse
John Edwards Bulaga, Jr.
Stephen Bunin
Matthew J. Burke
Thomas Daniel Burke
William Francis Burke, Jr.
Donald J. Burns
Kathleen Anne Burns
Keith James Burns
John Patrick Burnside
Irina Buslo
Milton G. Bustillo
Thomas M. Butler
Patrick Byrne
Timothy G. Byrne
Jesus Neptali Cabezas
Lillian Caceres
Brian Joseph Cachia
Steven Dennis Cafiero, Jr.
Richard M. Caggiano
Cecile Marella Caguicla
Michael John Cahill
Scott Walter Cahill
Thomas Joseph Cahill
George Cain
Salvatore B. Calabro
Joseph Calandrillo
Philip V. Calcagno
Edward Calderon
Kenneth Marcus Caldwell
Dominick Enrico Calia
Felix Calixte
Frank Callahan
Liam Callahan
Luigi Calvi
Roko Camaj
Michael F. Cammarata
David Otey Campbell
Geoffrey Thomas Campbell
Jill Marie Campbell
Robert Arthur Campbell
Sandra Patricia Campbell
Sean Thomas Canavan
John A. Candela
Vincent Cangelosi
Stephen J. Cangialosi
Lisa Bella Cannava
Brian Cannizzaro
Michael Canty
Louis Anthony Caporicci
Jonathan Neff Cappello
James Christopher Cappers
Richard Michael Caproni
Jose Manuel Cardona
Dennis M. Carey
Steve Carey
Edward Carlino
Michael Scott Carlo
David G. Carlone
Rosemarie C. Carlson
Mark Stephen Carney
Joyce Ann Carpeneto
Ivhan Luis Carpio Bautista
Jeremy M. Carrington
Michael Carroll
Peter Carroll
James Joseph Carson, Jr.
Marcia Cecil Carter
James Marcel Cartier
Vivian Casalduc
John Francis Casazza
Paul R. Cascio
Margarito Casillas
Thomas Anthony Casoria
William Otto Caspar
Alejandro Castano
Arcelia Castillo
Germaan Castillo Garcia
Leonard M. Castrianno
Jose Ramon Castro
Richard G. Catarelli
Christopher Sean Caton
Robert John Caufield
Mary Teresa Caulfield
Judson Cavalier
Michael Joseph Cawley
Jason David Cayne
Juan Armando Ceballos
Jason Michael Cefalu
Thomas Joseph Celic
Ana Mercedes Centeno
Joni Cesta
Jeffrey Marc Chairnoff
Swarna Chalasani
William Chalcoff
Eli Chalouh
Charles Lawrence Chan
Mandy Chang
Mark Lawrence Charette
Gregorio Manuel Chavez
Delrose E. Cheatham
Pedro Francisco Checo
Douglas MacMillan Cherry
Stephen Patrick Cherry
Vernon Paul Cherry
Nester Julio Chevalier
Swede Chevalier
Alexander H. Chiang
Dorothy J. Chiarchiaro
Luis Alfonso Chimbo
Robert Chin
Wing Wai Ching
Nicholas Paul Chiofalo
John Chipura
Peter A. Chirchirillo
Catherine Chirls
Kyung Hee Cho
Abul K. Chowdhury
Mohammad Salahuddin Chowdhury
Kirsten L. Christophe
Pamela Chu
Steven Chucknick
Wai Chung
Christopher Ciafardini
Alex F. Ciccone
Frances Ann Cilente
Elaine Cillo
Edna Cintron
Nestor Andre Cintron III
Robert Dominick Cirri
Juan Pablo Cisneros-Alvarez
Benjamin Keefe Clark
Eugene Clark
Gregory Alan Clark
Mannie Leroy Clark
Thomas R. Clark
Christopher Robert Clarke
Donna Marie Clarke
Michael J. Clarke
Suria Rachel Emma Clarke
Kevin Francis Cleary
James D. Cleere
Geoffrey W. Cloud
Susan Marie Clyne
Steven Coakley
Jeffrey Alan Coale
Patricia A. Cody
Daniel Michael Coffey
Jason M. Coffey
Florence G. Cohen
Kevin Sanford Cohen
Anthony Joseph Coladonato
Mark Joseph Colaio
Stephen Colaio
Christopher M. Colasanti
Kevin Nathaniel Colbert
Michel P. Colbert
Keith E. Coleman
Scott Thomas Coleman
Tarel Coleman
Liam Joseph Colhoun
Robert D. Colin
Robert J. Coll
Jean Collin
John Michael Collins
Michael L. Collins
Thomas J. Collins
Joseph Collison
Patricia Malia Colodner
Linda M. Colon
Sol E. Colon
Ronald Edward Comer
Sandra Jolane Conaty Brace
Jaime Concepcion
Albert Conde
Denease Conley
Susan P. Conlon
Margaret Mary Conner
Cynthia Marie Lise Connolly
John E. Connolly, Jr.
James Lee Connor
Jonathan M. Connors
Kevin Patrick Connors
Kevin F. Conroy
Jose Manuel Contreras-Fernandez
Brenda E. Conway
Dennis Michael Cook
Helen D. Cook
John A. Cooper
Joseph John Coppo, Jr.
Gerard J. Coppola
Joseph Albert Corbett
Alejandro Cordero
Robert Cordice
Ruben D. Correa
Danny A. Correa-Gutierrez
James J. Corrigan
Carlos Cortes
Kevin Cosgrove
Dolores Marie Costa
Digna Alexandra Costanza
Charles Gregory Costello, Jr.
Michael S. Costello
Conrod K. Cottoy
Martin John Coughlan
John Gerard Coughlin
Timothy J. Coughlin
James E. Cove
Andre Cox
Frederick John Cox
James Raymond Coyle
Michele Coyle-Eulau
Anne Marie Cramer
Christopher S. Cramer
Denise Elizabeth Crant
James Leslie Crawford, Jr.
Robert James Crawford
Joanne Mary Cregan
Lucy Crifasi
John A. Crisci
Daniel Hal Crisman
Dennis Cross
Kevin Raymond Crotty
Thomas G. Crotty
John Crowe
Welles Remy Crowther
Robert L. Cruikshank
John Robert Cruz
Grace Yu Cua
Kenneth John Cubas
Francisco Cruz Cubero
Richard J. Cudina
Neil James Cudmore
Thomas Patrick Cullen lll
Joyce Cummings
Brian Thomas Cummins
Michael Cunningham
Robert Curatolo
Laurence Damian Curia
Paul Dario Curioli
Beverly Curry
Michael S. Curtin
Gavin Cushny
John D'Allara
Vincent Gerard D'Amadeo
Jack D'Ambrosi
Mary D'Antonio
Edward A. D'Atri
Michael D. D'Auria
Michael Jude D'Esposito
Manuel John Da Mota
Caleb Arron Dack
Carlos S. DaCosta
Joao Alberto DaFonseca Aguiar, Jr.
Thomas A. Damaskinos
Jeannine Marie Damiani-Jones
Patrick W. Danahy
Nana Danso
Vincent Danz
Dwight Donald Darcy
Elizabeth Ann Darling
Annette Andrea Dataram
Lawrence Davidson
Michael Allen Davidson
Scott Matthew Davidson
Titus Davidson
Niurka Davila
Clinton Davis
Wayne Terrial Davis
Anthony Richard Dawson
Calvin Dawson
Edward James Day
Jayceryll de Chavez
Jennifer De Jesus
Monique E. De Jesus
Nereida De Jesus
Emerita De La Pena
Azucena Maria de la Torre
David Paul De Rubbio
Jemal Legesse De Santis
Christian Louis De Simone
Melanie Louise De Vere
William Thomas Dean
Robert J. DeAngelis, Jr.
Thomas Patrick DeAngelis
Tara E. Debek
Anna Marjia DeBin
James V. Deblase
Paul DeCola
Simon Marash Dedvukaj
Jason Defazio
David A. DeFeo
Manuel Del Valle, Jr.
Donald Arthur Delapenha
Vito Joseph DeLeo
Danielle Anne Delie
Joseph A. Della Pietra
Andrea DellaBella
Palmina DelliGatti
Colleen Ann Deloughery
Francis Albert DeMartini
Anthony Demas
Martin N. DeMeo
Francis Deming
Carol K. Demitz
Kevin Dennis
Thomas F. Dennis
Jean DePalma
Jose Depena
Robert John Deraney
Michael DeRienzo
Edward DeSimone III
Andrew Desperito
Cindy Ann Deuel
Jerry DeVito
Robert P. Devitt, Jr.
Dennis Lawrence Devlin
Gerard Dewan
Sulemanali Kassamali Dhanani
Patricia Florence Di Chiaro
Debra Ann Di Martino
Michael Louis Diagostino
Matthew Diaz
Nancy Diaz
Rafael Arturo Diaz
Michael A. Diaz-Piedra III
Judith Berquis Diaz-Sierra
Joseph Dermot Dickey, Jr.
Lawrence Patrick Dickinson
Michael D. Diehl
John Difato
Vincent Difazio
Carl Anthony DiFranco
Donald Difranco
Stephen Patrick Dimino
William John Dimmling
Marisa DiNardo Schorpp
Christopher M. Dincuff
Jeffrey Mark Dingle
Anthony Dionisio
George DiPasquale
Joseph Dipilato
Douglas Frank DiStefano
Ramzi A. Doany
John Joseph Doherty
Melissa C. Doi
Brendan Dolan
Neil Matthew Dollard
James Joseph Domanico
Benilda Pascua Domingo
Carlos Dominguez
Jerome Mark Patrick Dominguez
Kevin W. Donnelly
Jacqueline Donovan
Stephen Scott Dorf
Thomas Dowd
Kevin Dowdell
Mary Yolanda Dowling
Raymond Mathew Downey
Frank Joseph Doyle
Joseph Michael Doyle
Stephen Patrick Driscoll
Mirna A. Duarte
Michelle Beale Duberry
Luke A. Dudek
Christopher Michael Duffy
Gerard Duffy
Michael Joseph Duffy
Thomas W. Duffy
Antoinette Duger
Sareve Dukat
Christopher Joseph Dunne
Richard Anthony Dunstan
Patrick Thomas Dwyer
Joseph Anthony Eacobacci
John Bruce Eagleson
Robert Douglas Eaton
Dean Phillip Eberling
Margaret Ruth Echtermann
Paul Robert Eckna
Constantine Economos
Dennis Michael Edwards
Michael Hardy Edwards
Christine Egan
Lisa Egan
Martin J. Egan, Jr.
Michael Egan
Samantha Martin Egan
Carole Eggert
Lisa Caren Ehrlich
John Ernst Eichler
Eric Adam Eisenberg
Daphne Ferlinda Elder
Michael J. Elferis
Mark Joseph Ellis
Valerie Silver Ellis
Albert Alfy William Elmarry
Edgar Hendricks Emery, Jr.
Doris Suk-Yuen Eng
Christopher Epps
Ulf Ramm Ericson
Erwin L. Erker
William John Erwin
Jose Espinal
Fanny Espinoza
Bridget Ann Esposito
Francis Esposito
Michael Esposito
William Esposito
Ruben Esquilin, Jr.
Sadie Ette
Barbara G. Etzold
Eric Brian Evans
Robert Evans
Meredith Emily June Ewart
Catherine K. Fagan
Patricia Mary Fagan
Keith George Fairben
Sandra Fajardo-Smith
William F. Fallon
William Lawrence Fallon, Jr.
Anthony J. Fallone, Jr.
Dolores Brigitte Fanelli
John Joseph Fanning
Kathleen Anne Faragher
Thomas Farino
Nancy Carole Farley
Elizabeth Ann Farmer
Douglas Jon Farnum
John G. Farrell
John W. Farrell
Terrence Patrick Farrell
Joseph D. Farrelly
Thomas Patrick Farrelly
Syed Abdul Fatha
Christopher Edward Faughnan
Wendy R. Faulkner
Shannon Marie Fava
Bernard D. Favuzza
Robert Fazio, Jr.
Ronald Carl Fazio
William Feehan
Francis Jude Feely
Garth Erin Feeney
Sean B. Fegan
Lee S. Fehling
Peter Adam Feidelberg
Alan D. Feinberg
Rosa Maria Feliciano
Edward Thomas Fergus, Jr.
George Ferguson
Henry Fernandez
Judy Hazel Fernandez
Julio Fernandez
Elisa Giselle Ferraina
Anne Marie Sallerin Ferreira
Robert John Ferris
David Francis Ferrugio
Louis V. Fersini
Michael David Ferugio
Bradley James Fetchet
Jennifer Louise Fialko
Kristen Nicole Fiedel
Samuel Fields
Michael Bradley Finnegan
Timothy J. Finnerty
Michael Curtis Fiore
Stephen S R Fiorelli, Sr.
Paul M. Fiori
John B. Fiorito
John R. Fischer
Andrew Fisher
Bennett Lawson Fisher
John Roger Fisher
Thomas J. Fisher
Lucy A. Fishman
Ryan D. Fitzgerald
Thomas James Fitzpatrick
Richard P. Fitzsimons
Salvatore Fiumefreddo
Christina Donovan Flannery
Eileen Flecha
Andre G. Fletcher
Carl M. Flickinger
John Joseph Florio
Joseph Walken Flounders
David Fodor
Michael N. Fodor
Stephen Mark Fogel
Thomas Foley
David J. Fontana
Chih Min Foo
Godwin Forde
Donald A. Foreman
Christopher Hugh Forsythe
Claudia Alicia Foster
Noel John Foster
Ana Fosteris
Robert Joseph Foti
Jeffrey Fox
Virginia Fox
Pauline Francis
Virgin Francis
Gary Jay Frank
Morton H. Frank
Peter Christopher Frank
Richard K. Fraser
Kevin J. Frawley
Clyde Frazier, Jr.
Lillian Inez Frederick
Andrew Fredricks
Tamitha Freeman
Brett Owen Freiman
Peter L. Freund
Arlene Eva Fried
Alan Wayne Friedlander
Andrew Keith Friedman
Gregg J. Froehner
Peter Christian Fry
Clement A. Fumando
Steven Elliot Furman
Paul Furmato
Fredric Neal Gabler
Richard Samuel Federick Gabrielle
James Andrew Gadiel
Pamela Lee Gaff
Ervin Vincent Gailliard
Deanna Lynn Galante
Grace Catherine Galante
Anthony Edward Gallagher
Daniel James Gallagher
John Patrick Gallagher
Lourdes Galletti
Cono E. Gallo
Vincenzo Gallucci
Thomas E. Galvin
Giovanna Galletta Gambale
Thomas Gambino, Jr.
Giann Franco Gamboa
Peter Ganci
Ladkat K. Ganesh
Claude Michael Gann
Osseni Garba
Charles William Garbarini
Ceasar Garcia
David Garcia
Juan Garcia
Marlyn Del Carmen Garcia
Christopher S. Gardner
Douglas Benjamin Gardner
Harvey J. Gardner III
Jeffrey Brian Gardner
Thomas Gardner
William Arthur Gardner
Francesco Garfi
Rocco Nino Gargano
James M. Gartenberg
Matthew David Garvey
Bruce Gary
Boyd Alan Gatton
Donald Richard Gavagan, Jr.
Terence D. Gazzani
Gary Geidel
Paul Hamilton Geier
Julie M. Geis
Peter G. Gelinas
Steven Paul Geller
Howard G. Gelling
Peter Victor Genco, Jr.
Steven Gregory Genovese
Alayne Gentul
Edward F. Geraghty
Suzanne Geraty
Ralph Gerhardt
Robert Gerlich
Denis P. Germain
Marina Romanovna Gertsberg
Susan M. Getzendanner
James G. Geyer
Joseph M. Giaccone
Vincent Francis Giammona
Debra Lynn Gibbon
James Andrew Giberson
Craig Neil Gibson
Ronnie E. Gies
Laura A. Giglio
Andrew Clive Gilbert
Timothy Paul Gilbert
Paul Stuart Gilbey
Paul John Gill
Mark Y. Gilles
Evan Gillette
Ronald Lawrence Gilligan
Rodney C. Gillis
Laura Gilly
John F. Ginley
Donna Marie Giordano
Jeffrey John Giordano
John Giordano
Steven A. Giorgetti
Martin Giovinazzo
Kum-Kum Girolamo
Salvatore Gitto
Cynthia Giugliano
Mon Gjonbalaj
Dianne Gladstone
Keith Glascoe
Thomas Irwin Glasser
Harry Glenn
Barry H. Glick
Steven Glick
John T. Gnazzo
William Robert Godshalk
Michael Gogliormella
Brian Fredric Goldberg
Jeffrey Grant Goldflam
Michelle Goldstein
Monica Goldstein
Steven Goldstein
Andrew H. Golkin
Dennis James Gomes
Enrique Antonio Gomez
Jose Bienvenido Gomez
Manuel Gomez, Jr.
Wilder Alfredo Gomez
Jenine Nicole Gonzalez
Mauricio Gonzalez
Rosa Gonzalez
Calvin J. Gooding
Harry Goody
Kiran Reddy Gopu
Catherine C. Gorayeb
Kerene Gordon
Sebastian Gorki
Kieran Joseph Gorman
Thomas Edward Gorman
Michael Edward Gould
Yuji Goya
Jon Richard Grabowski
Christopher Michael Grady
Edwin J. Graf III
David Martin Graifman
Gilbert Franco Granados
Elvira Granitto
Winston Arthur Grant
Christopher S. Gray
James Michael Gray
Tara McCloud Gray
Linda Catherine Grayling
John M. Grazioso
Timothy George Grazioso
Derrick Auther Green
Wade B. Green
Elaine Myra Greenberg
Gayle R. Greene
James Arthur Greenleaf, Jr.
Eileen Marsha Greenstein
Elizabeth Martin Gregg
Denise Gregory
Donald H. Gregory
Florence Moran Gregory
Pedro Grehan
John Michael Griffin
Tawanna Sherry Griffin
Joan Donna Griffith
Warren Grifka
Ramon Grijalvo
Joseph F. Grillo
David Joseph Grimner
Kenneth George Grouzalis
Joseph Grzelak
Matthew James Grzymalski
Robert Joseph Gschaar
Liming Gu
Jose Guadalupe
Cindy Yan Zhu Guan
Joel Guevara Gonzalez
Geoffrey E. Guja
Joseph Gullickson
Babita Girjamatie Guman
Douglas Brian Gurian
Janet Ruth Gustafson
Philip T. Guza
Barbara Guzzardo
Peter M. Gyulavary
Gary Robert Haag
Andrea Lyn Haberman
Barbara Mary Habib
Philip Haentzler
Nezam A. Hafiz
Karen Elizabeth Hagerty
Steven Michael Hagis
Mary Lou Hague
David Halderman
Maile Rachel Hale
Richard B. Hall
Vaswald George Hall
Robert J. Halligan
Vincent Gerard Halloran
James Douglas Halvorson
Mohammad Salman Hamdani
Felicia Hamilton
Robert Hamilton
Frederic K. Han
Christopher J. Hanley
Sean S. Hanley
Valerie Joan Hanna
Thomas Hannafin
Kevin James Hannaford
Michael Lawrence Hannan
Dana R Hannon
Vassilios G. Haramis
James A. Haran
Jeffrey Pike Hardy
Timothy John Hargrave
Daniel Edward Harlin
Frances Haros
Harvey Harrell
Stephen G. Harrell
Melissa Marie Harrington
Aisha Anne Harris
Stewart Dennis Harris
John Patrick Hart
John Clinton Hartz
Emeric Harvey
Thomas Theodore Haskell, Jr.
Timothy Haskell
Joseph John Hasson III
Leonard W. Hatton
Terence S. Hatton
Michael Haub
Timothy Aaron Haviland
Donald G. Havlish, Jr.
Anthony Hawkins
Nobuhiro Hayatsu
Philip Hayes
William Ward Haynes
Scott Jordan Hazelcorn
Michael K. Healey
Roberta B. Heber
Charles Francis Xavier Heeran
John F. Heffernan
H. Joseph Heller, Jr.
Joann L. Heltibridle
Mark F. Hemschoot
Ronnie Lee Henderson
Brian Hennessey
Michelle Marie Henrique
Joseph Henry
William Henry
John Christopher Henwood
Robert Allan Hepburn
Mary Herencia
Lindsay C. Herkness III
Harvey Robert Hermer
Claribel Hernandez
Eduardo Hernandez
Nuberto Hernandez
Raul Hernandez
Gary Herold
Jeffrey A. Hersch
Thomas Hetzel
Brian Hickey
Ysidro Hidalgo
Timothy Higgins
Robert D. W. Higley II
Todd Russell Hill
Clara Victorine Hinds
Neal O. Hinds
Mark D. Hindy
Katsuyuki Hirai
Heather Malia Ho
Tara Yvette Hobbs
Thomas Anderson Hobbs
James J. Hobin
Robert Wayne Hobson
DaJuan Hodges
Ronald George Hoerner
Patrick A. Hoey
Marcia Hoffman
Stephen G. Hoffman
Frederick Joseph Hoffmann
Michele L. Hoffmann
Judith Florence Hofmiller
Thomas Warren Hohlweck, Jr.
Jonathan R. Hohmann
John Holland
Joseph F. Holland
Elizabeth Holmes
Thomas Holohan
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Adriane Victoria Scibetta
Raphael Scorca
Randolph Scott
Sheila Scott
Christopher Jay Scudder
Arthur Warren Scullin
Michael Herman Seaman
Margaret M. Seeliger
Anthony Segarra
Carlos Segarra
Jason Sekzer
Matthew Carmen Sellitto
Howard Selwyn
Larry John Senko
Arturo Angelo Sereno
Frankie Serrano
Alena Sesinova
Adele Christine Sessa
Sita Nermalla Sewnarine
Karen Lynn Seymour
Davis Sezna
Thomas Joseph Sgroi
Jayesh S. Shah
Khalid M. Shahid
Mohammed Shajahan
Gary Shamay
Earl Richard Shanahan
Neil Shastri
Kathryn Anne Shatzoff
Barbara A. Shaw
Jeffrey James Shaw
Robert John Shay, Jr.
Daniel James Shea
Joseph Patrick Shea
Linda Sheehan
Hagay Shefi
John Anthony Sherry
Atsushi Shiratori
Thomas Joseph Shubert
Mark Shulman
See Wong Shum
Allan Abraham Shwartzstein
Johanna Sigmund
Dianne T. Signer
Gregory Sikorsky
Stephen Gerard Siller
David Silver
Craig A. Silverstein
Nasima Hameed Simjee
Bruce Edward Simmons
Arthur Simon
Kenneth Alan Simon
Michael J. Simon
Paul Joseph Simon
Marianne Teresa Simone
Barry Simowitz
Jeff Lyal Simpson
Khamladai Singh
Kulwant Singh
Roshan Ramesh Singh
Thomas E. Sinton III
Peter A. Siracuse
Muriel Fay Siskopoulos
Joseph Michael Sisolak
John P. Skala
Francis Joseph Skidmore, Jr.
Toyena Skinner
Paul A. Skrzypek
Christopher Paul Slattery
Vincent Robert Slavin
Robert F. Sliwak
Paul K. Sloan
Stanley S. Smagala, Jr.
Wendy L. Small
Catherine Smith
Daniel Laurence Smith
George Eric Smith
James Gregory Smith
Jeffrey R. Smith
Joyce Patricia Smith
Karl T. Smith
Keisha Smith
Kevin Joseph Smith
Leon Smith, Jr.
Moira Ann Smith
Rosemary A. Smith
Bonnie Jeanne Smithwick
Rochelle Monique Snell
Leonard J. Snyder, Jr.
Astrid Elizabeth Sohan
Sushil S. Solanki
Ruben Solares
Naomi Leah Solomon
Daniel W. Song
Michael Charles Sorresse
Fabian Soto
Timothy Patrick Soulas
Gregory Spagnoletti
Donald F. Spampinato, Jr.
Thomas Sparacio
John Anthony Spataro
Robert W. Spear, Jr.
Maynard S. Spence, Jr.
George Edward Spencer III
Robert Andrew Spencer
Mary Rubina Sperando
Tina Spicer
Frank Spinelli
William E. Spitz
Joseph Spor, Jr.
Klaus Johannes Sprockamp
Saranya Srinuan
Fitzroy St. Rose
Michael F. Stabile
Lawrence T. Stack
Timothy M. Stackpole
Richard James Stadelberger
Eric Stahlman
Gregory Stajk
Alexandru Liviu Stan
Corina Stan
Mary Domenica Stanley
Anthony Starita
Jeffrey Stark
Derek James Statkevicus
Craig William Staub
William V. Steckman
Eric Thomas Steen
William R. Steiner
Alexander Steinman
Andrew Stergiopoulos
Andrew Stern
Martha Stevens
Michael James Stewart
Richard H. Stewart, Jr.
Sanford M. Stoller
Lonny Jay Stone
Jimmy Nevill Storey
Timothy Stout
Thomas Strada
James J. Straine, Jr.
Edward W. Straub
George J. Strauch, Jr.
Edward T. Strauss
Steven R. Strauss
Steven F. Strobert
Walwyn W. Stuart, Jr.
Benjamin Suarez
David Scott Suarez
Ramon Suarez
Yoichi Sugiyama
William Christopher Sugra
Daniel Suhr
David Marc Sullins
Christopher P. Sullivan
Patrick Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan
Hilario Soriano Sumaya, Jr.
James Joseph Suozzo
Colleen Supinski
Robert Sutcliffe
Seline Sutter
Claudia Suzette Sutton
John Francis Swaine
Kristine M. Swearson
Brian Edward Sweeney
Kenneth J. Swenson
Thomas Swift
Derek Ogilvie Sword
Kevin Thomas Szocik
Gina Sztejnberg
Norbert P. Szurkowski
Harry Taback
Joann Tabeek
Norma C. Taddei
Michael Taddonio
Keiichiro Takahashi
Keiji Takahashi
Phyllis Gail Talbot
Robert Talhami
Sean Patrick Tallon
Paul Talty
Maurita Tam
Rachel Tamares
Hector Tamayo
Michael Andrew Tamuccio
Kenichiro Tanaka
Rhondelle Cheri Tankard
Michael Anthony Tanner
Dennis Gerard Taormina, Jr.
Kenneth Joseph Tarantino
Allan Tarasiewicz
Ronald Tartaro
Darryl Anthony Taylor
Donnie Brooks Taylor
Lorisa Ceylon Taylor
Michael Morgan Taylor
Paul A. Tegtmeier
Yeshauant Tembe
Anthony Tempesta
Dorothy Pearl Temple
Stanley Temple
David Tengelin
Brian John Terrenzi
Lisa M. Terry
Shell Tester
Goumatie T. Thackurdeen
Sumati Thakur
Harshad Sham Thatte
Thomas F. Theurkauf, Jr.
Lesley Anne Thomas
Brian Thomas Thompson
Clive Thompson
Glenn Thompson
Nigel Bruce Thompson
Perry A. Thompson
Vanavah Alexei Thompson
William H. Thompson
Eric Raymond Thorpe
Nichola Angela Thorpe
Sal Edward Tieri, Jr.
John p Tierney
Mary Ellen Tiesi
William R. Tieste
Kenneth Francis Tietjen
Stephen Edward Tighe
Scott Charles Timmes
Michael E. Tinley
Jennifer M. Tino
Robert Frank Tipaldi
John James Tipping II
David Tirado
Hector Luis Tirado, Jr.
Michelle Lee Titolo
John J. Tobin
Richard Todisco
Vladimir Tomasevic
Stephen Kevin Tompsett
Thomas Tong
Doris Torres
Luis Eduardo Torres
Amy Elizabeth Toyen
Christopher Michael Traina
Daniel Patrick Trant
Abdoul Karim Traore
Glenn J. Travers
Walter Philip Travers
Felicia Y. Traylor-Bass
Lisa L. Trerotola
Karamo Trerra
Michael Angel Trinidad
Francis Joseph Trombino
Gregory James Trost
William P. Tselepis
Zhanetta Valentinovna Tsoy
Michael Tucker
Lance Richard Tumulty
Ching Ping Tung
Simon James Turner
Donald Joseph Tuzio
Robert T. Twomey
Jennifer Tzemis
John G. Ueltzhoeffer
Tyler V. Ugolyn
Michael A. Uliano
Jonathan J. Uman
Anil Shivhari Umarkar
Allen V. Upton
Diane Marie Urban
John Damien Vaccacio
Bradley Hodges Vadas
Renuta Vaidea
William Valcarcel
Felix Antonio Vale
Ivan Vale
Benito Valentin
Santos Valentin, Jr.
Carlton Francis Valvo II
Erica H. Van Acker
Kenneth W. Van Auken
Richard B. Van Hine
Daniel M. Van Laere
Edward Raymond Vanacore
Jon C. Vandevander
Barrett Vanvelzer, 4
Edward Vanvelzer
Paul Herman Vanvelzer
Frederick Thomas Varacchi
Gopalakrishnan Varadhan
David Vargas
Scott C. Vasel
Azael Ismael Vasquez
Arcangel Vazquez
Santos Vazquez
Peter Anthony Vega
Sankara S. Velamuri
Jorge Velazquez
Lawrence G. Veling
Anthony Mark Ventura
David Vera
Loretta Ann Vero
Christopher James Vialonga
Matthew Gilbert Vianna
Robert Anthony Vicario
Celeste Torres Victoria
Joanna Vidal
John T. Vigiano II
Joseph Vincent Vigiano
Frank J. Vignola, Jr.
Joseph Barry Vilardo
Sergio Villanueva
Chantal Vincelli
Melissa Vincent
Francine Ann Virgilio
Lawrence Virgilio
Joseph Gerard Visciano
Joshua S. Vitale
Maria Percoco Vola
Lynette D. Vosges
Garo H. Voskerijian
Alfred Vukosa
Gregory Kamal Bruno Wachtler
Gabriela Waisman
Courtney Wainsworth Walcott
Victor Wald
Benjamin James Walker
Glen Wall
Mitchel Scott Wallace
Peter Guyder Wallace
Robert Francis Wallace
Roy Michael Wallace
Jeanmarie Wallendorf
Matthew Blake Wallens
John Wallice, Jr.
Barbara P. Walsh
James Henry Walsh
Jeffrey P. Walz
Ching Wang
Weibin Wang
Michael Warchola
Stephen Gordon Ward
James Arthur Waring
Brian G. Warner
Derrick Washington
Charles Waters
James Thomas Waters, Jr.
Patrick J. Waters
Kenneth Thomas Watson
Michael Henry Waye
Todd Christopher Weaver
Walter Edward Weaver
Nathaniel Webb
Dinah Webster
Joanne Flora Weil
Michael T. Weinberg
Steven Weinberg
Scott Jeffrey Weingard
Steven George Weinstein
Simon Weiser
David M. Weiss
David Thomas Weiss
Vincent Michael Wells
Timothy Matthew Welty
Christian Hans Rudolf Wemmers
Ssu-Hui Wen
Oleh D. Wengerchuk
Peter M. West
Whitfield West, Jr.
Meredith Lynn Whalen
Eugene Whelan
Adam S. White
Edward James White III
James Patrick White
John Sylvester White
Kenneth Wilburn White, Jr.
Leonard Anthony White
Malissa Y. White
Wayne White
Leanne Marie Whiteside
Mark P. Whitford
Michael T. Wholey
Mary Catherine Wieman
Jeffrey David Wiener
Wilham J. Wik
Alison Marie Wildman
Glenn E. Wilkenson
John C. Willett
Brian Patrick Williams
Crossley Richard Williams, Jr.
David J. Williams
Deborah Lynn Williams
Kevin Michael Williams
Louie Anthony Williams
Louis Calvin Williams III
John P. Williamson
Donna Ann Wilson
William Wilson
David Harold Winton
Glenn J. Winuk
Thomas Francis Wise
Alan L. Wisniewski
Frank Thomas Wisniewski
David Wiswall
Sigrid Wiswe
Michael Wittenstein
Christopher W. Wodenshek
Martin P. Wohlforth
Katherine Susan Wolf
Jennifer Yen Wong
Siu Cheung Wong
Yin Ping Wong
Yuk Ping Wong
Brent James Woodall
James John Woods
Patrick J. Woods
Richard Herron Woodwell
David Terence Wooley
John Bentley Works
Martin Michael Wortley
Rodney James Wotton
William Wren
John Wayne Wright
Neil Robin Wright
Sandra Lee Wright
Jupiter Yambem
Suresh Yanamadala
Matthew David Yarnell
Myrna Yaskulka
Shakila Yasmin
Olabisi Shadie Layeni Yee
William Yemele
Edward P. York
Kevin Patrick York
Raymond R. York
Suzanne Youmans
Barrington Young
Jacqueline Young
Elkin Yuen
Joseph C. Zaccoli
Adel Agayby Zakhary
Arkady Zaltsman
Edwin J. Zambrana, Jr.
Robert Alan Zampieri
Mark Zangrilli
Ira Zaslow
Kenneth Albert Zelman
Abraham J. Zelmanowitz
Martin Morales Zempoaltecatl
Zhe Zeng
Marc Scott Zeplin
Jie Yao Justin Zhao
Ivelin Ziminski
Michael Joseph Zinzi
Charles A. Zion
Julie Lynne Zipper
Salvatore Zisa
Prokopios Paul Zois
Joseph J. Zuccala
Andrew S. Zucker
Igor Zukelman 

List of Victims on American Airlines Flight 11

Anna Allison
David Lawrence Angell
Lynn Edwards Angell
Seima Aoyama 
Barbara Jean Arestegui 
Myra Joy Aronson
Christine Barbuto
Carolyn Beug
Kelly Ann Booms
Carol Marie Bouchard
Robin Lynne Kaplan
Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey
Jeffrey Dwayne Collman 
Jeffrey W. Coombs
Tara Kathleen Creamer
Thelma Cuccinello
Patrick Currivan
Brian Paul Dale
David Dimeglio 
Donald Americo Ditullio
Alberto Dominguez
Paige Marie Farley-Hackel
Alexander Milan Filipov
Carol Ann Flyzik
Paul J. Friedman
Karleton D.B. Fyfe
Peter Alan Gay 
Linda M. George
Edmund Glazer 
Lisa Reinhart Gordenstein
Andrew Peter Charles Curry Green
Peter Paul Hashem
Robert Jay Hayes
Edward R. Hennessy, Jr.
John A. Hofer
Cora Hidalgo Holland
John Nicholas Humber, Jr.
Waleed Joseph Iskandar
John Charles Jenkins
Charles Edward Jones
Barbara A. Keating
David P. Kovalcin
Judith Camilla Larocque 
Natalie Janis Lasden
Daniel John Lee 
Daniel M. Lewin
Sara Elizabeth Low
Susan A. Mackay
Karen Ann Martin
Thomas F. McGuinness, Jr.
Christopher D. Mello
Jeffrey Peter Mladenik
Carlos Alberto Montoya
Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes
Laura Lee Morabito
Mildred Naiman
Laurie Ann Neira
Renee Lucille Newell
Kathleen Ann Nicosia
Jacqueline June Norton
Robert Grant Norton
John Ogonowski 
Betty Ann Ong
Jane M. Orth
Thomas Nicholas Pecorelli
Berinthia B. Perkins
Sonia M. Puopolo
David E. Retik
Jean Destrehan Roger
Philip Martin Rosenzweig 
Richard Barry Ross
Jessica Leigh Sachs
Rahma Salie
Heather Lee Smith
Dianne Bullis Snyder
Douglas Joel Stone
Xavier Suarez
Madeline Amy Sweeney 
Michael Theodoridis
James Anthony Trentini
Mary Barbara Trentini
Pendyala Vamsikrishna
Mary Alice Wahlstrom
Kenneth Waldie
John Joseph Wenckus
Candace Lee Williams
Christopher Rudolph Zarba, Jr.

List of Victims on United Airlines Flight 175

Alona Abraham
Garnet Edward Bailey
Mark Lawrence Bavis
Graham Andrew Berkeley
Touri Bolourchi
Klaus Bothe
Daniel Raymond Brandhorst
David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst
John Brett Cahill 
Christoffer Mikael Carstanjen
John J. Corcoran III
Dorothy Alma de Araujo
Ana Gloria Pocasangre Debarrera
Robert John Fangman
Lisa Anne Frost
Ronald Gamboa 
Lynn Catherine Goodchild
Peter M. Goodrich
Douglas Alan Gowell
Francis Edward Grogan 
Carl Max Hammond, Jr.
Christine Lee Hanson
Peter Burton Hanson
Susan Kim Hanson
Gerald Francis Hardacre
Eric Hartono
James Edward Hayden
Herbert Wilson Homer
Michael Robert Horrocks
Robert Adrien Jalbert
Amy N. Jarret
Ralph Kershaw 
Heinrich Kimmig 
Amy R. King
Brian Kinney
Kathryn L. LaBorie
Robert G. Leblanc
Maclovio Lopez, Jr.
Marianne Macfarlane
Alfred Gilles Marchand
Louis Mariani
Juliana McCourt
Ruth Magdaline McCourt
Wolfgang Peter Menzel
Shawn M. Nassaney
Marie Pappalardo
Patrick J. Quigley IV
Frederick Charles Rimmele III
James Roux
Jesus Sanchez 
Victor J. Saracini
Mary Kathleen Shearer
Robert M. Shearer
Jane Louise Simpkin
Brian David Sweeney
Michael C. Tarrou
Alicia N. Titus
Timothy Ray Ward
William Michael Weems

List of Victims at the Pentagon (Not Including Flight 77)
Note: USA - United Stated Army; USN - United States Navy

SPC Craig S. Amundson, USA
YN3 Melissa Rose Barnes, USN
MSG Max J. Beilke, Retired
IT2 Kris Romeo Bishundat, USN
Carrie R. Blagburn
COL Canfield D. Boone, ARNG
Donna M. Bowen
Allen P. Boyle
ET3 Christopher L. Burford, USN
ET3 Daniel M. Caballero, USN
SFC Jose O. Calderon-Olmedo, USA
Angelene C. Carter
Sharon A. Carver
SFC John J. Chada, USA, Retired
Rosa Maria Chapa
Julian T. Cooper
LCDR Eric A. Cranford, USN
Ada M. Davis
CAPT Gerald F. DeConto, USN
LTC Jerry D. Dickerson, USA
IT1 Johnnie Doctor, Jr., USN
CAPT Robert E. Dolan, Jr., USN
CDR William H. Donovan, USN
CDR Patrick Dunn, USN
AG1 Edward T. Earhart, USN
LCDR Robert R. Elseth, USNR
SK3 Jamie L. Fallon, USN
Amelia V. Fields
Gerald P. Fisher
AG2 Matthew M. Flocco, USN
Sandra N. Foster
CAPT Lawrence D. Getzfred, USN
Cortez Ghee
Brenda C. Gibson
COL Ronald F. Golinski, USA, Retired
Diane Hale-McKinzy
Carolyn B. Halmon
Sheila M.S. Hein
ET1 Ronald J. Hemenway, USN
MAJ Wallace Cole Hogan, Jr., USA
SSG Jimmie I. Holley, USA, Retired
Angela M. Houtz
Brady Kay Howell
Peggie M. Hurt
LTC Stephen N. Hyland, Jr., USA
Lt Col Robert J. Hymel, USAF, Retired
SGM Lacey B. Ivory, USA
LTC Dennis M. Johnson, USA
Judith L. Jones
Brenda Kegler
LT Michael S. Lamana, USN
David W. Laychak
Samantha L. Lightbourn-Allen
MAJ Stephen V. Long, USA
James T. Lynch, Jr.
Terence M. Lynch
OS2 Nehamon Lyons IV, USN
Shelley A. Marshall
Teresa M. Martin
Ada L. Mason-Acker
LTC Dean E. Mattson, USA
LTG Timothy J. Maude, USA
Robert J. Maxwell
Molly L. McKenzie
Patricia E. Mickley
MAJ Ronald D. Milam, USA
Gerard P. Moran, Jr.
Odessa V. Morris
ET1 Brian A. Moss, USN
Teddington H. Moy
LCDR Patrick J. Murphy, USNR
Khang Ngoc Nguyen
DM2 Michael A. Noeth, USN
Ruben S. Ornedo
Diana B. Padro
LT Jonas M. Panik, USNR
MAJ Clifford L. Patterson, Jr., USA
LT Darin H. Pontell, USNR
Scott Powell
CAPT Jack D. Punches, USN, Retired
AW1 Joseph J. Pycior, Jr., USN
Deborah A. Ramsaur
Rhonda Sue Rasmussen
IT1 Marsha D. Ratchford, USN
Martha M. Reszke
Cecelia E. (Lawson) Richard
Edward V. Rowenhorst
Judy Rowlett
SGM Robert E. Russell, USA, Retired
CW4 William R. Ruth, ARNG
Charles E. Sabin, Sr.
Marjorie C. Salamone
COL David M. Scales, USA
CDR Robert A. Schlegel, USN
Janice M. Scott
LTC Michael L. Selves, USA, Retired
Marian H. Serva
CDR Dan F. Shanower, USN
Antionette M. Sherman
Diane M. Simmons
Cheryle D. Sincock
ITC Gregg H. Smallwood, USN
LTC Gary F. Smith, USA, Retired
Patricia J. Statz
Edna L. Stephens
SGM Larry L. Strickland, USA
LTC Kip P. Taylor, USA
Sandra C. Taylor
LTC Karl W. Teepe, USA, Retired
SGT Tamara C. Thurman, USA
LCDR Otis V. Tolbert, USN
SSG Willie Q. Troy, USA, Retired
LCDR Ronald J. Vauk, USNR
LTC Karen J. Wagner, USA
Meta L. (Fuller) Waller
SPC Chin Sun Pak Wells, USA
SSG Maudlyn A. White, USA
Sandra L. White
Ernest M. Willcher
LCDR David L. Williams, USN
MAJ Dwayne Williams, USA
RMC Marvin Roger Woods, USN, Retired
IT2 Kevin W. Yokum, USN
ITC Donald M. Young, USN
Edmond G. Young, Jr.
Lisa L. Young   

List of Victims on American Airlines Flight 77

Paul W. Ambrose
Yeneneh Betru
Mary Jane Booth
Bernard C. Brown, II
CAPT Charles F. Burlingame III, USNR, Retired
Suzanne M. Calley
William E. Caswell
David M. Charlebois
Sarah M. Clark
Asia S. Cottom
James D. Debeuneure
Rodney Dickens
Eddie A. Dillard
LCDR Charles A. Droz III, USN, Retired
Barbara G. Edwards
Charles S. Falkenberg
Dana Falkenberg
Zoe Falkenberg
J. Joseph Ferguson
Darlene E. Flagg
RADM Wilson F. Flagg, USNR, Retired
1stLt Richard P. Gabriel, USMC, Retired
Ian J. Gray
Stanley R. Hall
Michele M. Heidenberger
Bryan C. Jack
Steven D. Jacoby
Ann C. Judge
Chandler R. Keller
Yvonne E. Kennedy
Norma Cruz Khan
Karen Ann Kincaid
Dong Chul Lee
Jennifer Lewis
Kenneth E. Lewis
Renee A. May
Dora Marie Menchaca
Christopher C. Newton
Barbara K. Olson
Ruben S. Ornedo
Robert Penninger
Robert R. Ploger III
Zandra F. Ploger
Lisa J. Raines
Todd H. Reuben
John P. Sammartino
George W. Simmons
Donald D. Simmons
Mari-Rae Sopper
Robert Speisman
Norma Lang Steuerle
Hilda E. Taylor
Leonard E. Taylor
Sandra D. Teague
Leslie A. Whittington
CAPT John D. Yamnicky, Sr., USN, Retired
Vicki Yancey
Shuyin Yang
Yuguag Zheng

List of Victims on United Airlines Flight 93

Christian Adams
Lorraine G. Bay
Todd Beamer
Alan Beaven
Mark K. Bingham
Deora Frances Bodley
Sandra W. Bradshaw
Marion Britton
Thomas E. Burnett Jr.
William Cashman
Georgine Rose Corrigan
Patricia Cushing
Jason Dahl
Joseph Deluca
Patrick Driscoll
Edward Porter Felt
Jane C. Folger
Colleen Fraser
Andrew Garcia
Jeremy Glick
Lauren Grandcolas
Wanda A. Green
Donald F. Greene
Linda Gronlund
Richard Guadagno
Leroy Homer, Jr.
Toshiya Kuge
CeeCee Lyles
Hilda Marcin
Waleska Martinez
Nicole Miller
Louis J. Nacke, II
Donald Arthur Peterson
Jean Hoadley Peterson
Mark Rothenberg
Christine Snyder
John Talignani
Honor Elizabeth Wainio
Deborah Ann Jacobs Welsh
Kristin Gould White

9/11 6th Anniversary Notes

• I'll be joining Karol Sheinin at Ground Zero on Tuesday evening to help spread the Real Truth about 9/11.  If you want to join the effort, just drop Karol a note.  5:00 pm at Liberty and Broadway.


• Scottish counterrorist hero and baggage handler John Smeaton is slated to attend the annual memorial ceremony.


• On the eve (of the eve) of the first 9/11 anniversary to fall on a Tuesday, Mark Steyn reflects on the state of the post-9/11 psyche.

Manhattan Pipe Bomb May Have Been Sopranos-Inspired

Madon.

Cops believe the amateur bomber who detonated a homemade explosive outside former "Sopranos" star Michael Imperioli's Chelsea theater in New York City was sending "a message" to the actor or his family, sources told the New York Post.
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They were also culling records of actors or writers who may have recently been turned away by the theater company run by Imperioli, who played mob boss Tony Soprano's homicidal nephew, Christopher Moltisanti, on the hit HBO series.
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"It sends a message," a law-enforcement source said. The NYPD believes the bomber has little knowledge of explosives and could have learned how to fashion the pipe bomb off the Internet.

Sources said the motive could have nothing to do with Studio Dante — and could stem from a personal slight that Imperioli is not even aware of — or be the work of a troubled "Sopranos" fan.

Previously: "Small Bomb" Explodes In Manhattan; "Likely Not" Terrorism

Hate Removing Your Shoes At the Airport? There's Hope.

Not much though.

The good news:  Shoe security science has finally given us a machine capable of scanning passengers' shoes even when occupied by feet.

The bad news:  It doesn't work.

Airline passengers hoping to someday go through security without ever having to take their shoes off will have to wait: The nation's airport security chief says a new shoe-scanning machine needs improvement.

"It's not good enough for prime time," Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley said of the ShoeScanner, which scans footwear while worn.

Tests have revealed "security deficiencies" that prevent the machine from consistently finding weapons and bomb parts, Hawley said.
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Screening officials were aware of some of the machine's potential problems when it was approved for the Orlando test, so the TSA quietly added some backup security measures, Hawley said. The extra measures are "labor-intensive" for screeners and make mass deployment of the ShoeScanner unrealistic, he said.

Feared Security Breach Diverts Flight to JFK

Assuming this winds up being perfectly innocuous, this is still one eagle-eyed flight attendant.

At 1:53 am, American 136 [en route from Los Angeles to London] was diverted while over Newfoundland to New York due to the questionable boarding circumstances of passenger, a federal official told NBC News.

A flight attendant had witnessed the passenger riding on the Los Angeles employee shuttle bus from the employee parking lot to the airport employee entrance earlier then recognized him on the flight after it was en route to London Heathrow, the official said.

American Airlines security later confirmed the identity of the passenger and the unusual process by which he boarded the aircraft.
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At 3:52 a.m., a JFK TSA agent reported that the flight landed without incident and was met by local law enforcement and TSA at the gate.

False alarm or not, that's some fine vigilance.  Let's just hope the passenger wasn't Muslim, or American (and the flight attendant) might have a lawsuit on their hands.

Ronald Reagan Caused 9/11

Just ask Bobby Kennedy.

If we had left those fuel economy standards intact, Ronald Reagan rolled them back, we would not have had to import one drop of oil after 1986. Think of what that would have done to our history. The World Trade Center would probably still be standing. We would have avoided two Gulf Wars. We would be a prosperous nation. We wouldn’t be bound down in this Mesopotamian quagmire that has destroyed our reputation and destroyed the reputation of democracy across the globe.

Better find a new icon to invoke, GOP hopefuls.  Turns out the Gipper was little more than an Earth-raping proto-jihadi.

(HT: QandO)

Terror Charges Filed Against Wal-Mart Bomb Threat Suspect

Police have identified the man arrested yesterday and now arraigned on terrorism charges in connection with a string of bomb threats against the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Copperas Cove, Texas.

Gregory Dean Rhodes is named in complaints charging Terroristic Threat.
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Bomb threats forced the evacuation of the Cove Wal-Mart Supercenter on Tuesday and Wednesday.

In each case the building was searched, but no explosives were found, police said.

Police are still investigating bomb threats reported on June 7, June 8 and June 16 at the Wal-Mart.

According to the local Killeen Daily Herald, Rhodes is an employee of the McDonald's located inside the Copperas Cove Wal-Mart.

Previously:  Suspect Nabbed, Following 5 Bomb Threats In 2 Weeks At Texas Wal-Mart

Suspect Nabbed, Following 5 Bomb Threats In 2 Weeks At Texas Wal-Mart

The most benign explanation here is obviously someone (or some group) getting a kick out of making trouble for Wal-Mart, costing them time and money and scaring away customers and employees.  A darker possibility would be someone probing Wal-Mart's security protocols and police response times and/or flooding this Supercenter with false alarms to desensitize personnel and local law enforcement ahead of an actual threat (the way a methodical house burglar might deliberately trip your alarm night after night, until you finally shut it off).

COPPERAS COVE – Wal-Mart was again evacuated, this morning, for the fifth time in the past month. Details as to why are still unavailable, but activity had returned to normal by 10:30 a.m.

Police responded Tuesday to the fourth bomb threat reported at the Wal-Mart Supercenter.

The Police Department confirmed that Wal-Mart received a phone call at about 11 a.m. stating that there was an explosive in the building. Customers and employees were evacuated beyond the parking lot perimeter and were not allowed back in until about 2:30 p.m.

The police followed normal procedures in conducting a sweep of the building.

"In the interest of public safety, we do go through the motions every time to keep everyone safe. We evacuate and search the building before giving the all-clear," said Lt. Daniel Austin of the Copperas Cove Police Department.

Wal-Mart has had four reported threats within the past two weeks, but no bombs were found in any of the cases. The first two false alarms were reported on June 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. On each of the consecutive days, the building was evacuated for five hours before an all-clear was given.

If the intent is to desensitize, it may be working.  Bizarrely well...

Wal-Mart shoppers and employees are unsettled by the bomb threats but are taking the false alarms in stride.

"It's a big town..."

It's a town of 30,000.  [Update: As noted by a local military officer in the comments, Copperas Cove is adjacent to Fort Hood, the only two-division Army base in the country and the largest military base in the world.  As it turns out, the Wal-Mart is only a couple hundred feet from the edge of the military reservation.]

"...There are bound to be dangers the larger the town. I'd rather shop here than in Killeen, which is three times the size of us," said Cove resident Rachael Reeves. "Young people are bound to do stupid things. It doesn't really bother me."

The idea of schoolkids being out for the summer and having nothing better to do than scare the townsfolk and waste law enforcement's time isn't that far fetched, but the timing of the threats would well serve someone interested in comparing responses on different days and at different times.

The first two threats occurred on consecutive nights, Thursday and Friday, both at 8 pm.  The third call was made the following Friday at 9 am.  The fourth came the following Tuesday at 11 am.  The next day (yesterday), the fifth threat was made some time around 7 am.

Yesterday morning's call may have been the perpetrator's (or one of the perpetrator's) prompt undoing as police announced they had taken a 29-year-old man into custody late yesterday, in connection with the two most recent threats.  No other details seem to be available, but the local NBC affiliate [video] noted that the store has been receiving repeated bomb threats, not just for the last two weeks, but over the past year.

Dawn Of the JFK Plot Truther Movement

Behold, a new species of terror-denying conspiracy theorist is slithering from the deluded ooze.

JFK airport plot 'a US setup'

[Link to news24.com story]

Port Of Spain - The four suspects in an alleged terror plot to bomb a New York airport were set up in an elaborate plan by the US Republican party to retain hold of the White House, the daughter of an arrested suspect claimed on Tuesday. [...]

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That would make sense. Didn't a GOP member recently say that we needed another 9-11 type attack in order to make the US public throw their full support behind Bush*?

Sounds like the same set-up as the bunch in Fla. that fell flat The Fla. bunch apparently got conned into being terrorist for guns and a pair of boots. This sounds so similar. Their undercover ex-con, drug dealer, got himself a real job with the bush goverment. Sheesh.

Weren't those guys selling hair products or something out of a Miami warehouse?

This JFK "terror plot" has sounded bogus to me since day one.

As long as Karl Rove is not in solitary without access to a phone, I would believe anything like this is possible, if not probable.

Yeah that 'terrorist' plot has bulls*** written all over it.

Even if this is a lie we should spread it as far as we can

God knows those f***ers aren't above lies. We can always retract in a tiny little paragraph at the back of the paper if it proves to be false. Nobody will remember that part.

Isn't that charming?  "Even if this is a lie" (i.e. even if this was a genuine terrorist plot and this woman is lying to protect her terrorist father), we should spread such terrorist propaganda "as far as we can". 

JFK Terror Plot Thwarted

Three suspects are in custody and one is still at large, in connection with a plot to blow up fuel pipelines at New York's JFK Airport.  Authorities have reportedly been onto the plot since last July, when one of the foiled terrorists unknowingly reached out to an FBI informant for assistance.

According to news reports:  One of the men arrested is Russell Defreitas, a former JFK cargo worker originally from Guyana.  Defreitas was apprehended locally.  Abdul Kadir, arrested in Trinidad (located off the coast of Guyana), is said to be a former member of the Guyanan Parliament.  The third suspect in custody was also arrested in Trinidad.  The suspect still at large is said to be in Guyana or Trinidad.

Hot Air is tracking the latest details, including WNBC's identification of the two other suspects:  Abdul Nur and Kareem Ibrihim.  Not clear which is the third captured suspect and which is at large.  [Update: Nur is the one still at large.]

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Update: Hot Air has posted a PDF of the criminal complaint.  While Defreitas is being described by news agencies as a "homegrown" terrorist, his statements make it pretty clear he can also be aptly described as a "radical Islamic" terrorist.

Excerpted from the complaint:

On or about August 1, 2006, the Source met DEFREITAS at a store in Brooklyn and drove DEFREITAS to his residence.  During a discussion of the war then taking place in Lebanon, DEFREITAS and the Source agreed that Muslims always incur the wrath of the world while Jews get a 'pass.'  DEFREITAS confided to the Source that he had a vision that would make the World Trade Center attack seem small.  He did not discuss the details.  Later in the conversation, DEFREITAS said that while it appeared that only Arab Muslims were fighting the war for Islam, many other nationalities of Muslims were involved in the fight as well.
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During the return drive from JFK, DEFREITAS discussed the extent of the damage they could cause.  In particular, DEFREITAS predicted that the plot would result in the destruction of "the whole of Kennedy," that only a few people would escape and that, due to underground piping, part of Queens would explode.  DEFREITAS went on to predict that, as a result of the plot, DEFREITAS and the Source would "get our blessings and our rewards" and "a place in paradise."

NWA Flight 327: Terrorist Dry Run After All

As blog devotees will recall, nearly three years ago, Anne Jacobsen had a frightening story to tell about her experience aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Los Angeles.  At the time, her tale of several ominously behaved Middle Easterners got a heap of blog coverage, along with a few blips of major media attention amid more frequent yawns and dismissals of her supposed alarmism over what, we were assured, turned out to be nothing more than than exceedingly bizarre behavior by a law-abiding musical group.

Maybe Jacobsen was lucky to suffer only derision and disregard.  Today, she might well have been slapped with a defamation lawsuit.

According to the judgment of air marshals, as detailed in a new report from DHS, however, her concern was on the money.

The inspector general for Homeland Security late Friday released new details of what federal air marshals say was a terrorist dry run aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29, 2004.

Excerpts fom 51-page inspector general report:

On the flight, 13 Middle Eastern men behaved in a suspicious manner that aroused the attention and concern of the flight attendants, passengers, air marshals and pilots.

Briefly, the following events occurred. Thirteen Middle Eastern men were traveling together as a musical group, 12 carrying Syrian passports and one, a lawful permanent resident of the United States of Lebanese descent, purchased one-way tickets from Detroit to Los Angeles.

Six of the men arrived at the gate together after boarding began, then split up and acted as if they were not acquainted. According to air marshals, the men also appeared sweaty and nervous. An air marshal assigned to Flight 327 observed their behavior and characterized it as "unusual," but made no further reports at the time.

During the flight, the men again acted suspiciously. Several of the men changed seats, congregated in the aisles, and arose when the fasten seat belt sign was turned on; one passenger moved quickly up the aisle toward the cockpit and, at the last moment, entered the first class lavatory. The passenger remained in the lavatory for about 20 minutes. Several of the men spent excessive time in the lavatories. Another man carried a large McDonald's restaurant bag into a lavatory and made a thumbs-up signal to another man upon returning to his seat.

Flight attendants notified the air marshals on board of the suspicious activities.

In response, an air marshal directed a flight attendant to instruct the cockpit to radio ahead for law-enforcement officials to meet the flight upon arrival. After arriving, Flight 327 was met by federal and local law enforcement officials, who gathered all 13 suspicious passengers, interviewing two of them. An air marshal photocopied the passengers' passports and visas. The names of the suspicious passengers were run through FBI databases, indicating the musical group's promoter had been involved in a similar incident in January 2004. No other derogatory information was received, and all 13 of the men were released.

Perhaps most terrifyingly:

he Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC) logs show no entries regarding Flight 327 on the day of the flight. Flight 327 was logged into HSOC's database on July 26, 2004, four days after the events that occurred on the flight were reported by The Times. The suspicious incident was brought to HSOC's attention by an inquiry from the White House Homeland Security Council.

Wednesdsay's Washington Times will carry the full inspector general's report.

Revisiting this elsewhere:
Little Green Footballs
Hot Air
Power Line
Captain's Quarters
Ed Driscoll

Liberman Blogs About Homegrown Terror

Joe Lieberman (CfL-CT) keyed a piece for The Hill's Congress Blog today, discussing the foiled terrorist attack plotted against the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey that sought to massacre an untold number of American soldiers.

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing today, our fourth on Islamist radicalization, took on a special sense of urgency with the arrests Tuesday of six would-be terrorists who are accused of plotting to force their way into Fort Dix, New Jersey, with automatic assault rifles and kill as many American soldiers as possible.

Though the plotters were immigrants (three of them illegal immigrants), they've all been in the U.S. since childhood and as Lieberman correctly points out, they appear to have been radicalized (whatever that might mean - brainwashed, seduced by the dark side of the Force, irrationally peeved about a cruddy lot in life, etc.) here at home.

What Lieberman also correctly points out however - a point that seems be very secondary to the primary media theme of the "homegrown" (i.e. non-boogedy-boogedy-neocon-scare-tactic-foreign-Islamofascist) brand of the terrorism - is the fact that the cell is absolutely aligned with the ideology and dogma of Al Qaeda and any like-minded terror network.

Though there is no evidence at this time of an operational link to Al Qaeda, there is quite clearly an ideological link — Osama bin Laden’s radical message reached across cyberspace and traditional borders and poisoned the hearts and minds of these six men in New Jersey.

Indeed, they believe that America is inherently the enemy of Islam and that righteous Muslims must carry out murderous remedies against the infidels.  The fact that they received this programming remotely via far-flung cavecasts and DVDs is simply a testament to the increasingly borderless nature of Al Qaeda 2.0.

This is not the first terrorist plot against the U.S. since 9-11 to be stopped before it could be carried out, and it most surely will not be the last to be attempted. But it is another wake-up call to the American people that there are people in this world who so hate our American way of life that they are intent on wantonly killing Americans.

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Update:  Michelle rounds up coverage of and reaction to the Fort Dix Six's bail hearing this morning, where their lawyers revealed that - wait for it - they were entrapped!

Well, that's a load off.  Conspiracies of and by our own government are so much more palatable than the creepy jihadi kind.

Video: Rudy Giuliani's "Home Team" Fundraiser With Dennis Miller

With apologies for the delay, here's the video as promised from last night's "Home Team" fundraiser for Rudy Giuliani, emceed by Dennis Miller and featuring (among other entertainment) Irish tenor Ronan Tynan.  It was held at the Sheraton New York Towers, a complex I haven't been to since sitting for the CFA exam last summer.  As luck would have it, the event was in the very same room where the exam was given.  As I stepped into it, I could've sworn I heard the voice of little Danny Torrance from The Shining, asking, "Is there something bad here?"

In any event, the video below features a few minutes of both Miller's and Giuliani's comments.  Pardon the occasional rough cuts in the video.  I was recording this on a digital still camera, which can only grab so much video at a time, so you may notice the occasional non sequitur.  Just roll with it.

Dennis Miller topics: Global warming, Nancy Pelosi, Jesus, David "Idiot Liberals" Obey, hunting with Dick Cheney, Iraq, and the Global War on Terror.

Miller's best line of the evening:

We are right now, at this point in history, the world's most loved, hated, feared, and admired country simultaneously. In short, we're Frank Sinatra.  And occasionally, Jilly had to bust a camera.

Rudy Giuliani topics:  His New York track record (which is exceptional), tax cuts (33 of which he pushed through as mayor), Katrina, Iraq, homeland security, the Global War on Terror, and energy independence.

He went so far as to identify achieving energy independence as the moon landing of our time and invoked the collective commitment of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon for the occasion, a bipartisan, multiple term-spanning blend of inspiration and dedication that enabled the country to get the job done.  I personally thought the energy independence focus was just slightly overdone.  Only McCain even comes close to Rudy's GWOT-cred and I'd have thought he would make sure that was the undisputed centerpiece of his candidacy.

As for Rudy's prospective efficacy as Terror Fighter in Chief, as Miller points out, it's a comfort to know that terrorists would be afraid of a President Giuliani.  But Rudy's dead seriousness about confronting those who threaten us doesn't diminish his optimism.  Speaking of his experiences on and after 9/11, the candidate offered up his best line of the evening.

I have come face to face with America's soul.  And I've been sustained by it.

Previously:  America's Mayor and America's Neologizing Comedian

Wet Foot, Dry Foot, Fake Foot, Real Foot

In a word, d'oh.

While hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agents intercepted imaginary Cuban migrants during a massive training exercise in south Florida, two boatloads of actual Cubans sneaked ashore on Miami Beach on Thursday.

Boaters dropped off 21 Cuban migrants at a popular nudist beach and left 19 others on another beach a few hours later, the Border Patrol said. Both vessels escaped.

"It's our belief that they were the result of organized smuggling," Border Patrol spokesman Steve McDonald said.

The Cubans arrived on day two of a training exercise to test "Operation Vigilant Sentry," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's plan to halt a possible mass migration from the Caribbean.

How embarrassing.

"We're not embarrassed at all," McDonald said. "It's not uncommon for them (Cubans) to have landings."

Thursday's arrivals almost certainly will be granted asylum, like most Cubans who reach U.S. soil. Cubans intercepted at sea are usually returned to their communist homeland.
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"Since 9/11 it is essential that we work diligently to protect our borders," [Coast Guard Rear Adm. David Kunkel, director of the Homeland Security southeastern task force] said.

Al Gore Saving the World From Unnecessary X-Ray Emissions

On the morning of 9/11, less than a year after the 2000 Presidential election, Rudy Giuliani said something insightful while escaping the smoldering rubble at Ground Zero:  "Thank God George Bush is our President."

In fairness to the brooding runner-up, Gore never had an opportunity to show the world how he would've responded as President.  Maybe he would've taken the terrorist threat and homeland security just as seriously.

Then again, maybe not.

Former vice president Al Gore was involved in a security breach at the Nashville Airport when an American Airlines employee led him and his entourage around security, a clear violation of policy.

"There are no exceptions. Everyone must go through security," airport spokesperson Lynn Lowrance said.

Wednesday at the Nashville Airport, Gore arrived with two others and airport. Sgt. Gary Glover with airport police waited for his arrival and to go through security.

"He made his way to security, waiting for him to come through the check area, then he saw him pop up past security in a sterile area," Lowrance said.

Gore and his group bypassed the metal detectors, a blatant security breach. Lowrance said an American Airlines employee took Gore around security directly to the gate.

"Everyone who comes through this public airport terminal must be screened, so it's a breach of rules. It's serious," Lowrance said.
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A person being escorted by an armed federal officer is the only person allowed to bypass security.

HT: Allahpundit, who lends some perspective.

"Relax. He bought some security offsets beforehand."

Sandy Bergler Corrupting Young Boys

No explicit connection is offered here, but what else are we to deduce?  If kids will mimic the violence they see their characters committing in video games, surely they don't stand a chance at tuning out so vaunted and trustworthy a role model as a former National Security Advisor.

Local YouTube.com misadventures are under investigation by Brookfield police, after they received reports that three youths videotaped themselves spitting into library books and inserting the books into their trousers.

According to police, the boys made the videotapes during recent visits to Merrick Public Library, and then posted the videotapes on the popular Web site.
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Chief Ackerman said no charges had been filed yet. He said interviews with the boys and their parents are being scheduled. The department is considering charges that include a felony — malicious destruction of public property — as well as defacing library material and videotaping and broadcasting the videotape of people without consent.

In other words, these minors could be facing far harsher penalties than the stroke on the wrist Berger negotiated.

Most Honest, Most Ethical, Most Frostbitten Congress In History

Rep. "Dollar" Bill Jefferson (D-LA) is back in the news today.  No, cops didn't find another $90,000 in bribe money stashed in his freezer.

But Congressman Jefferson has turned up in an equally unlikely place:  on the House Homeland Security Committee.

Rep. William Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who's facing an ongoing federal corruption probe, is being granted a spot on the Homeland Security Committee, according to Democratic aides.

The appointment will be announced Friday, according to one aide who requested anonymity because the decision isn't yet official.

Jefferson was removed from his seat on the Ways and Means Committee, one of the most important panels in Congress, by Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) last summer in an attempt to show how seriously Democrats viewed the allegations of corruption.

Yes, let that last point marinade for moment.

But the move by Pelosi, who was still minority leader at the time, infuriated members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who said Jefferson shouldn't be punished unless he is indicted; federal prosecutors have yet to bring an indictment, despite an FBI raid 18 months ago on his home that yielded $90,000 in cash in his freezer.

New Orleans saw fit to return this crook to Washington six months after cops thawed out his illicit stash.  But now, thanks to Democratic leadership that's willing to excuse (if not reward) egregious corruption, so long as it curries favor with a targeted demographic, this crooked sham of a politician will now be all of our problem.

Has the CBC convinced the Speaker to undertake a Congressional affirmative action program?  If Jefferson's appointment goes through, Black members will make up 37% of the Democratic members of the Homeland Security Committee (more than double their representation in the House).

Previously:
Crime Doesn't Pay
A Picture's Worth 90,000 Dollars

Onboard Counter-Hijack System IDs Fishy Passengers As They Blink, Fidget, Whisper the Koran

The Onboard Threat Detection System is still in the development stage, but the ACLU and CAIR must be experiencing palpitations at the mere suggestion of such a wanton intrustion.

Tiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers are to be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism.

Cameras fitted to seat-backs will record every twitch, blink, facial expression or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software which will check it against individual passenger profiles.
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They say that rapid eye movements, blinking excessively, licking lips or ways of stroking hair or ears are classic symptoms of somebody trying to conceal something.

A separate microphone will hear and record even whispered remarks. Islamic suicide bombers are known to whisper texts from the Koran in the moments before they explode bombs.

Thanks to modern technology, the seat back staring you down throughout the flight will be able to distinguish between radicalized neredowells and the merely secularly fidgety.

The software being developed by the scientists will be so sophisticated that it will be able to take account of nervous flyers or people with a natural twitch, helping to ensure there are no false alarms.

But... but my liberties?! you protest.

Mrs Neary said that under the Data Protection Act, all video, audio and other recordings would be destroyed at the end of every flight so that passengers' civil liberties were not infringed.

Still...

Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, said: "Watching people constantly on aircraft and trying to work out patterns of behaviour is a difficult road to travel.

"I suspect that it will put people off flying because they will feel uncomfortable if their every blink and twitch is being monitored."

I somewhat ambivalently tend to agree.  The monitoring system seems unlikely to be well-received, even outside the realms of liberty crusaders and Islamic relations counselors.  Then again, we've rebuilt a lot of sanguinness over the last 5.5 incident-free years.  Nothing would put people off flying quite like another spate of hijackings.  If the system turns out to be effective and reliable (and if it manages to avoid triggering false positives every time a passenger gets jumpy, enters REM sleep, or mutters angrily to himself), maybe submitting to constant "terrorist or not" facial evaluation is something we could learn to live with.

24 vs. Aqua Teens

Jack Bauer avenges Boston.

Murtha Barks Threats at Pentagon Over "Pelosi One"

A week ago, I wrote about Nancy Pelosi's unprecedented demands for military transport for her travel needs, as well as those of her family, her staff, and just about anyone else she felt like dribbling out taxpayer-funded spoils to.  Pelosi had whined about the C-20 (a militarized Gulf Stream III) she'd been offered (the same plane made available to former Speaker Dennis Hastert), on the grounds that the plane would have to stop to refuel en route from Washington to San Francisco.  Pelosi wants a C-32 (a deluxe, militarized Boeing 757), costing $22,000 per hour to operate.

The Pentagon rejected Pelosi's demands, attaching several conditions to her use of military transport.

• No more than 10 passengers (C-20's seat only 12 passengers, not including up to 5 crew members);

• No travel to political events;

• Members of the speaker's family cannot fly unless the speaker makes a request in writing. ThePelosi family has to reimburse the U.S. Treasury for the cost of a coach ticket per person for the travel, as well as for any food;

• Members of Congress cannot fly on the plane unless their travel has been cleared with the House Committee on Standards (the Ethics Committee);

• Pelosi's husband can travel for free, but only for official protocol purposes.

Who's running the pool on how long it'll be until "Most Ethical" Nancy breaks one of those rules?

In response, a Pelosi spokesman said only, "We appreciate the Defense Department's continuing concern for the speaker's security.  We are reviewing their letter."

The results of that review appear to include unleashing the berserkery of Pelosi's failed pick for majority leader, Rep. Jack Murtha, who has taken to pounding his chest and threatening the Pentagon with cuts in Defense appropriations as retaliation for their having the gall to defy the demands of Madam Speaker.

Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., the Pelosi ally who chairs the House military appropriations subcommittee, said he has spoken to Pentagon officials about the need to provide Pelosi with a bigger plane that can fly passengers coast to coast in comfort....  "I don't need to pressure them. I just tell them what they need to do." Murtha said.

[Murtha] told CNN that the Pentagon was making "a mistake" by leaking information unfavorable to the speaker "since she decides on the allocations for the Department of Defense."

I can see why Pelosi wanted Murtha as her deputy.  He's like a rabid gorilla, completely unencumbered by consideration of propriety or consequences and ready to be unleashed at whomever the Speaker can't otherwise compel to bend to her whims.

To offer a slightly different metaphor, Nancy is the Congressional equivalent of Veruca Salt.  Jack Murtha is Veruca's doting but spineless father.  The Pentagon is Willy Wonka and a shiny C-32 is the trained squirrel/golden goose.  Anti-Bush proxy voting in the 2006 election is Veruca's golden ticket, et cetera, and so on.

A Capitol Hill source speaking on conditions of anonymity reports Speaker Pelosi has also demanded an all-Oompa Loompa flight crew.

Previously:  The Magnanimous Madam Speaker

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Update:   Here's footage of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) on the House floor kicking off the debate on an amendment he offered to a Democrat bill on global warming issues, in protest of the Speaker's attempted abuse of taxpayer money.  Not to mention her attempted abuse of the environment.

Let's do a little figurin'.  Normally, a 757 would get somewhere around 60 passenger-miles/gallon, but that's assuming it's loaded with 200 passengers.  On the souped up Pelosi One model, after you make room for the "primary passenger's" state room, private lavatory, changing room, entertainment system, etc., there's only room for 50, yielding a resulting efficiency closer to 15 passenger-miles/gallon (or less, if she's not filling every seat).

Her entire entourage could make the trips between Washington and San Francisco in their own individual Hummer H3s and it would be more fuel-efficient.

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Update:  NRCC Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) adds, “With a ticket on Pelosi One Airlines costing taxpayers thousands of dollars per hour, it’s no wonder the Democrats are so eager to raise taxes.”

Cole's office offers this exclusive look at an authentic Pelosi One Airlines boarding pass:

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Update:   Pelosi One releases its first TV commercial.  Come fly the taxpayer-funded skies!

The Vegebombre

On each of the last three days, a mail bomb has exploded in a British office building.  The targets have all been agencies or businesses involved in vehicle licensing or traffic control.

The blast at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, which slightly injured four people, was the third in as many days, striking mainly at institutions and companies involved in regulating motorists and automobiles.

The licensing agency, located at Swansea in south Wales, collects automobile taxes as well as issuing drivers’ licenses. The other targets this week were companies associated with collecting congestion charge fees for cars entering central London and with supplying cameras used to monitor traffic flows.

This follows four letter bombs sent in January, which police believe to be linked to animal rights activists.  No one's been killed or seriously injured (the explosives used were fireworks), but British news reports are drawing the parallel between this string of attacks and Ted Kaczynski's Unabombing campaign against American airports and universities.

One of the January letter bombs bore the name Barry Horne, a garbage man-turned-animal rights terrorist, who was convicted of a string of fire-bombings in 1997.  In protest of the British government's animal rights policies, Horne went on a series of hunger strikes while in prison.  In protest of his hunger strikes, his organs shut down and he died.

Soon before Horne finally wasted away in 2001, the Animal Rights Militia, an organized domestic (well, domestic to Britons) terror group issued a series of death threats to prominent researchers doing what the terrorists felt were dastardly things to lab animals.  In 1982, the same group sent a mail bomb to Margaret Thatcher.

ARM issued the death threats through a man named Robin Webb, the spokesperson of the Animal Liberation Front, an international terror group recognized as a terrorist threat by US Homeland Security in 2005.  ALF prides themselves on the strength of their al Qaeda-like cell structure.  Says Webb:

There is no hierarchy; there are no leaders. There is just a compulsion to follow your heart in pursuit of justice. That is why the A.L.F. cannot be smashed, it cannot be effectively infiltrated, it cannot be stopped. You, each and every one of you: you are the A.L.F.

Police haven't linked the animal-friendly (not counting humans) January bombings and the anti-vehicular-bureaucracy February bombings, but the same type of explosives and packing materials were used in the whole bunch.  Thankfully, no one's been seriously hurt yet, but if someone does get injured or killed, Webb won't lose any sleep over it, so long as the havoc was wrought in the name of animal rights.

Some say it is morally unacceptable but it is equally unacceptable to use animals in experiments. The children of those scientists are enjoying a lifestyle built on the blood and abuse of innocent animals. Why should they be allowed to close the door on that and sit down and watch TV and enjoy themselves when animals are suffering and dying because of the actions of the family breadwinner? They are a justifiable target for protest.

Thank God I'm a Country Terrorist

Here's a homeland security riddle:

Q:  What do you get when you mix pipe bombs, biological WMDs, and a criminal record?

A:  7 years, 3 months.

A Nashville man pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges of possessing the deadly poison ricin along with firearms silencers and explosives under a plea deal with prosecutors to spare himself from life in prison.

Neither William Matthews nor the authorities explained why the 56-year-old had the poison.

Matthews was charged after a tip from his estranged wife led police and federal agents to search his property May 31. They found the ricin in a sealed baby jar, two functional pipe bombs, five gun silencers, three blasting caps and bomb-making materials.
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His guilty plea Monday calls for a prison term of 7 years and 3 months when he is sentenced April 27. The ricin charge alone could have been punished by up to life in prison.

It's possible Matthews is just a disturbed man with a Ted Kaczynski complex (indeed, he was diagnosed as a schizophrenic in the 60s).  But he was stripped of his government job (in a drug court, no less) following a sexual harrassment investigation and he's already been serving time for violating protection orders taken out by his estranged wife.  He appears to be your run of the mill dangerous creep who might slip off the edge and blow some folks up in a shopping mall.  The unexplained possession of a deadly bio-toxin, in light of his prior record, seems to warrant a somewhat more severe slap on the wrist than Williams is walking away with.

New York Presidential Hopefuls' Contrasting Counter-Terror Bona Fides

In the wake of Rudy becoming a full-fledged Presidential candidate, there's renewed pondering afoot about the possibility of a subway series between Giuliani and Clinton.  Not only would it be a battle between "New Yorkers" (to be visualized with duly exaggerated air quotes), but it would be a grudge match for the 2000 Senate race from which Rudy withdrew amid personal and health concerns.

For the time being, we'll table the possibility of a 3-way Big Apple battle, should Mayor Bloomberg decide to write himself a multi-hundred million dollar campaign check and mount an independent campaign (which, for the record, I do expect him to do).

I was chatting with a friend a couple days ago who made the case that Rudy's pre-9/11 record (which accounts for about 96% of his mayoralty) won't bear the weight of a Presidential candidacy and that if he positions himself as a strong anti-terror candidate, the halo effect of the 3+ months of his term that followed 9/11 will simply not prove a big enough campaign quiver.

Bah.

First off, among the locus of living politicians, Rudy may well boast the superlative resume as measured by fighting violent crime, safeguarding his constituents and emergency workers, and (perhaps the best domestic proxy for terrorism) taking on and toppling organized crime.  As U.S. Attorney, Rudy indicted the heads of all 5 New York crime families and secured hundreds of years in prison sentences.  Under his mayoral watch, the overall crime rate decreased by 57%, while the murder rate fell 65%.  By the time he turned the reins over to Mayor Bloomberg, New York had become the safest large city in America.

Hillary, like all politicians in office in the years since 9/11 (particularly those representing New York), has had the opportunity to build a counter-terror record in a highly terror-conscious environment.  Her record so established is hers to call her own (though so too are her bouts of opposition to counter-terrorism), but given the decades-long political and legal careers of the two candidates, it's illustrative to consider their demonstrated terrorism temperaments before homeland security became Job 1.

To that end, let's flash back to this morsel of anecdotal contrast.

In Ramallah in 1999, after listening to Yasser Arafat's wife Suha deliver an address in which she accused Israel of poison-gassing Palestinian women and children in Gaza, Hillary rushed the stage with hugs and kisses for the terrorist's bride.  Clinton later blamed the impropriety on having received an incomplete translation of Mrs. Arafat's remarks.

Rewind another 4 years to 1995 (i.e. we get our military secrets back from the Chinese, Monica's dress reverts to a gleam in Bubba's eye, etc.)  Yasser Arafat was attending a concert at New York's Lincoln Center, uninvited.  Mayor Giuliani had Arafat ejected from the premises, saying, "Maybe we should wake people up to the way this terrorist is being romanticized."

Rudy first cut his counter-terror teeth thirty years ago as a member of President Ford's Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism, half a lifetime before Hillary would cobble together her qualified and mealymouthed approval of investigative tools that have enabled us to prevent several devastating attacks since 9/11.

Despite both Giuliani and Clinton being counted among the frontrunners for their respective nominations, the prospect of a subway grudge match actually unfolding in 2008 is very much in doubt.  The gleaming contrast between the time-tested, principle-driven terror-fighting temperaments of the two candidates is not.

Mooninites Invade Boston

Aqua Teen Hunger Force:  #1 in the hood, g.

Turner Broadcasting plans to take responsibility for the "hoax devices" that were found at several locations in and around Boston Wednesday that forced police bomb units to scramble throughout the area.

The incidents were part of a marketing campaign that involved a character from the cartoon show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
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The company said that they have been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco and Philadelphia.
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The cartoon airs as part of the Adult Swim late-night block of programs on the Cartoon Network. It features characters called "mooninites," who were pictured on the found devices. A feature length film based on the cartoon is scheduled to be released late next month.
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The first device was found under Interstate 93, and the state police bomb squad was called and detonated the package in Sullivan Square just before 10 a.m. Officials said it contained an electronic circuit board with some components that were "consistent with an improvised explosive device," but they said it had no explosives.

What a bizarre and forseeably disconcerting marketing campaign.  Not just because of the homeland security implications, but because the Mooninites have long been unambiguously hostile toward Earth.

On the other hand, what terrific news that a feature length ATHF film is in the offing.

Of course there's nothing amusing about needlessly alarming and disrupting an entire city.  But it is mildly amusing that the picture on the local ABC affiliate's website (featured above) was blurred to sanitize Ignignokt's obscene gesture.  All 3 pixels of it.

Nonthrax Shuts Down Tribal Office

A Blackfeet Tribal Office in Montana was shut down last Wednesday after receiving a letter containing a mysterious powder, which officials have not publicly identified, but have determined was not toxic.

A hazardous materials team from Malmstrom Air Force Base, tested the substance and cleared all tribal employees to return to work.

Tribal Vice Chairman Roger Running Crane said an announcement was made on a local radio station at 6:30 a.m. today.
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“The staff is well trained with how to handle these situations,” he said.

The FBI is investigating the source of the letter and hasn’t briefed the tribe on what the substance is.

Sikh Priests Board Plane Carrying Daggers

This is a little alarming.

Airport security in Auckland is being questioned after a group of Sikh priests boarded an Air New Zealand plane wearing ceremonial daggers under their robes.

Passengers became concerned when they noticed the ceremonial kirpan daggers poking out from under their traditional robes at Auckland's domestic terminal while boarding a flight to Napier on Sunday.

(Before we succumb to histrionics, to be fair, they're not precisely "daggers" per se.  A Kirpan is typically more of a sword.)

How could this go unnoticed until passengers spoke up, you ask, what with metal detectors and the like?  Because this commercial flight had no security screening, of course.

Passenger David Anderson, who notified the cabin crew about the daggers, was concerned that security in a post-September 11 terrorist attack environment was so lax.

"There was no security screening whatsoever," he told the New Zealand Herald.

"I checked in electronically. No photo ID was needed. I then boarded the plane without passing through a metal detector or having my bags x-rayed.

"This is the second time I have done this flight and it was the same the previous time.

Well, you huff, surely this is some kind of woeful anomaly that's already being patched up by New Zealand's highest authorities.

Ministry of Transport safety and security group manager Bruce Johnson told the Herald planes with more than 90 seats were deemed most at risk of being held hostage and policy for screening passengers applied to these flights only.

He saw no reason for this security policy to change.

Compelling, Johnson.  The best part is - terrorists are so stupid that it's frankly absurd to imagine they would exploit this statutory security weakness by targeting planes with fewer than 90 seats.  It's essentially foolproof.  And it's great news for overworked airport screeners, because it means anyone headed for one of these smaller planes not only doesn't need official screening, they don't even need to be glanced at long enough to notice deadly weapons plainly visible to fellow passengers.

Fight Them There Or Fight Them Here

Recent testimony from the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency ought to help clear up whatever doubt may linger about that proposition (though the pre-SOTU timing is unquestionably questionable).  (HT: Hot Air)

Mimicking the hijackers who executed the Sept. 11 attacks, insurgents reportedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the United States to orchestrate a new attack on American soil.

Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently testified that documents captured by coalition forces during a raid of a safe house believed to house Iraqi members of al Qaeda six months ago "revealed [AQI] was planning terrorist operations in the U.S."
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"This appears to be the first hard evidence al Qaeda in Iraq was trying to attack us here at home," said ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, former chief counterterrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council.

Officials clarified that there is no evidence of an imminent attack and there's no indication that the suspects made it to the United States, thanks to the plan being uncovered early.

The hunt for suspects continues, however, and some fear that al Qaeda recruits in Iraq could be easily redirected.

"Anyone willing to go to Iraq to fight American troops is probably willing to try to come to the United States," Clarke said.

What was it Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi said about the President's contention that al Qaeda was fueling the insurgency in Iraq as of November 2006?

My response on the president's representations are well known. But the 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again.

Nan might just have to feel sad again tomorrow night in front of the whole world, during her behind-the-President debut at the State of the Union, assuming this momentous new information is "resorted to".

DHS: SOTU Will Be "National Special Security Event"; Tom Clancy Conspiracy Theorists Unsurprised

From a Homeland Security press release dated today:

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has designated the President's State of the Union Address as a National Special Security Event (NSSE).
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A number of factors are taken into consideration when designating an event as a National Special Security Event, including anticipated attendance by dignitaries and the size and significance of the event. When an event is designated a NSSE, the U.S. Secret Service assumes its legally mandated role as the lead federal agency for the design and implementation of the operational security plan. Federal resources will be deployed to maintain the level of security needed for the event.

It's not actually all that notable that this year's address will be tagged an NSSE.  It'll be the fourth consecutive State of the Union to be so designated.  What is notable is how relatively rare such events are.  There have only been 24 (5 of which were Super Bowls) since the designation was created by Presidential directive by Clinton in 1998 - fewer than 3 such events per year.

The Secret Service is tight-lipped about what the added security specifically entails, but indicates there is a "tremendous amount of advance planning and coordination" calling on "a number of our specialized units..."

Giving the SOTU the special treatment seems wise, upon contemplation of the Debt of Honor scenario (the Tom Clancy novel in which a 747 crashes into the Capitol during a joint session of Congress with the President in attendance), but I wonder why they only started doing so in 2004.

After all, the Super Bowl has gotten the works since 2002, which of course makes sense, as that was the year The Sum of All Fears (the Tom Clancy novel in which terrorists detonate a nuke at the Super Bowl) was made into a movie.

But 2004?  Clancy didn't publish any spookily plausible works that year.

The spontaneous creation of the NSSE designation by the vaguely terror-conscious President Clinton in 1998 is of course traceable to that year's publication of Rainbox Six (the Tom Clancy novel and video game in which terrorists target the Sydney Olympics).  The following Olympic games, held in Salt Lake City in 2002, were duly deemed an NSSE.

A couple decades ago, Dan Quayle took some flak for saying on the Senate floor that Tom Clancy's books are "...not just novels.  They're read as the real thing."  Quayle was referring to Red Storm Rising, and specifically to the book positing the importance of anti-satellite missile technology in winning World War III.

In tomorrow's State of the Union, China's successful test of anti-satellite missile technology may well be on the agenda.

Freedom of Bandwagon-Hopping T-Shirt-Wearing

Rock on, Spirit of Australia:

Qantas is refusing to let an Australian man board a plane from Melbourne to the United Kingdom because he insists on wearing a T-shirt depicting US President George Bush as a terrorist.

Alan Jasson, 55, says he wants to wear the T-shirt, but Qantas says written or verbal comments that could cause offence or threaten security will not be tolerated.

Mr Jasson says he is being denied his right to express his political views.

"I have a right to my political views and no one can take them away from me," he said.

Mr Jasson says the ban on his T-shirt is outrageous.

What a jerk.  His reasoning is so asinine, it barely warrants giving the counter-argument.  Even so:

If among his enlightened political views were the idea that the United States should not "bomb" Iran (or, for that matter, that we should "bomb" Iran), it would be just as improper to make such an utterance while aboard.  (Nor, as Greg Focker learned, could he recount his days as a "bomb"adier.)

If Jasson believes it's his specific viewpoint being silenced, why doesn't he try boarding his next Qantas flight with a t-shirt depicting an anonymous terrorist, or just the word "Terrorism" printed on it.  If the flight crew notices it and still lets him on, then we can concede him the point.

Until then, he's just a loudmouth who's hungry for a little attention and desperate to play the trampled citizen.  And a jerk.

(HT: Fark)

Bomb Proof Garbage Cans

I have to say, these sound pretty neat (for trash cans):

The BlastGard MTR series of mitigated trash receptacles dramatically reduces all lethal threats posed by the detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED); namely, primary fragments, secondary fragments, mechanical effects (shock/blast pressure) and thermal effects (contact and radiation burn) from the fireball, afterburn and resultant post-blast fires.

And soon, folks in New York and Washington will have the pleasure of putting litter in its place, without fear of it ever returning as deadly shrapnel.

Recently certified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as an approved product in the war against terrorism, the BlastGard 101 - $4,400 each, discounts for bulk - has been purchased by Amtrak, which owns Penn Station, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which operates the subway in the nation's capital.
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Now, the MTA, the nation's largest mass transportation system, is taking a look.

I do like the idea of bomb-proof trash cans, but with that kind of price tag, how much more expensive would it be to just install explosive sniffers at all the subway entrances?  I assume for the bomb cans to be effective (i.e. to deter a trash can bomber), you've pretty much got to replace them all in a given facility, or the indiscriminate bomber just keeps walking until he finds one of the old bomb-prone wire mesh kind.

For that matter, the indiscriminate MTA bomber would likely just as soon deposit a backpack on a subway car or on a bench.  Or just open up his trenchcoat, make with the "Allahu Akbars" and self-detonate.  The trash can would seem to protect only against decidedly non-suicidal bombers (well, with perhaps one exception).

But to screen for explosive materials at the limited entry points ought to sweep both the suicidal and the merely homicidal.  I suppose there would need to be some kind of trained personnel on hand to deal with false positives (and, of course, with any true positives).  And lately, it seems like more and more stations shift into personnel-less mode during non-rush hours, when they pull the gates over the hoppable turnstiles and make you pass through the rotating, sideways thrasher-style stiles.

I'm sure the TWU would be cool with the new job responsibilities.  They've always had the best interests of their fellow New Yorkers at heart.

(HT: Gizmodo)