9/11 Flashback: US Flight Schools Still Unknowingly Training Terrorists?

[Shadow]

More than a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans, some foreign flight students are still not subject to terror database screening until after they've completed pilot training, according to a new report from the government's watchdog.

"Thus, foreign nationals obtaining flight training with the intent to do harm, such as three of the pilots and leaders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, could have already obtained the training needed to operate an aircraft before they received any type of vetting," says report, published today by the Government Accountability Office.

http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-flashback-us-flight-schools-still-unknowingly-134410668--abc-news-topstories.html

[revelarts]

More than a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans, some foreign flight students are still not subject to terror database screening until after they've completed pilot training, according to a new report from the government's watchdog.

"Thus, foreign nationals obtaining flight training with the intent to do harm, such as three of the pilots and leaders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, could have already obtained the training needed to operate an aircraft before they received any type of vetting," says report, published today by the Government Accountability Office.

http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-flashback-us-flight-schools-still-unknowingly-134410668--abc-news-topstories.html

But the TSA will Feel up Granma, the Amputee Veteran w the colostomy bag, former miss USA, and the former gov of Minnesota EVERY time just in case.

It's security theater. Look busy.

And as far as the Flight schools go well sure but the U.S. Military trained some off them too, they were fighting the bad old Russians back then.

[jafar00]

What a load of BS.

[Shadow]

But the TSA will Feel up Granma, the Amputee Veteran w the colostomy bag, former miss USA, and the former gov of Minnesota EVERY time just in case.

It's security theater. Look busy.

And as far as the Flight schools go well sure but the U.S. Military trained some off them too, they were fighting the bad old Russians back then.

Apparently protecting peoples privacy is more important in flight school?

Bet they don't get their cupcakes confiscated either.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Apparently protecting peoples privacy is more important in flight school?

Bet they don't get their cupcakes confiscated either.

How about FIRST looking for those that have NO INTEREST IN LEARING HOW TO LAND THE PLANES !
THAT WOULD BE A GOOD START..-:laugh2:-Tyr

[Drummond]

What a load of BS.

... OK .. I'll bite.

What do you mean by that post ?

[Drummond]

Apparently protecting peoples privacy is more important in flight school?

Bet they don't get their cupcakes confiscated either.

I take it you're referring to this .. ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8553366/MI6-attacks-al-Qaeda-in-Operation-Cupcake.html


British intelligence has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.

The cyber-warfare operation was launched by MI6 and GCHQ in an attempt to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular to recruit “lone-wolf” terrorists with a new English-language magazine, the Daily Telegraph understands.

When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom” by “The AQ Chef” they were greeted with garbled computer code.

The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.

Written by Dulcy Israel and produced by Main Street Cupcakes in Hudson, Ohio, it said “the little cupcake is big again” adding: “Self-contained and satisfying, it summons memories of childhood even as it's updated for today’s sweet-toothed hipsters.”

It included a recipe for the Mojito Cupcake – “made of white rum cake and draped in vanilla buttercream”- and the Rocky Road Cupcake – “warning: sugar rush ahead!”

It's at times like this I can feel proud to be British .... :laugh::laugh::bow2:

[revelarts]

never heard of that one Drummond, that an interesting piece.

but She's talking about this:

PEABODY, Mass. -- An airport security officer confiscated a frosted cupcake amid fears its icing could be a security risk (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#), according to reports.
Rebecca Hains said the Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas took her cupcake Wednesday. According to Hains, he told her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives.
"I just thought this was terrible logic," Hains said Friday.
Hains said the agent didn't seem concerned that the red velvet cupcake, which was packaged in an 8-ounce mason jar, could actually be explosive, just that it fit some bureaucratic definition about what was prohibited.

"Once he had identified it as a security threat it was no longer mine and I couldn't have it back," Hains told NBC station WHDH.
Hains, a 35-year-old communications professor at Salem State University, said she told the agent she had passed through security at Boston's Logan International Airport earlier in the week with two cupcakes packaged in jars, gifts (http://www.debatepolicy.com/#) from a student. But she said the agent told her that just meant TSA officials in Boston didn't do its job.
"The TSA agent who saw them, picked them up and said, 'these look delicious,' and sent me on my way," Hains told WHDH.

http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_ne...scates-cupcake (http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/24/9676807-frightening-frosting-tsa-confiscates-cupcake)
http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?33788-Frightening-frosting-TSA-confiscates-cupcake&highlight=cupcake

[jafar00]

... OK .. I'll bite.

What do you mean by that post ?

If you worked at McDonalds, you could be unknowingly serving a terrorist a tasty burger.

Besides, haven't the terrorists already been down this road?