Recon? (UPDATED)
Three United Parcel Service planes have been isolated in Philadelphia because of “suspicious packages” found by crew members of the aircraft according to CBS;
Local and federal authorities are investigating a suspicious package aboard a UPS plane that landed at Philadelphia International Airport at about 9 a.m. from Paris, France. The second plane, from Cologne, Germany, was isolated near the UPS terminal. The plane from Germany landed in Philadelphia at about 8 a.m. and was scheduled to depart at 10:30 a.m. for Louisville, Kentucky. At about the same time, another plane landed safely at Newark International Airport and was isolated, and a fourth plane en route to Chicago was detained in Birmingham, England.
Sounds to me like someone is testing security. Can’t wait to see dicksmith’s post about how Obama is keeping us safe.
Thanks to Old Trooper for keeping us updated.
UPDATE: Old Trooper updates us again;
Federal officials say two packages from Yemen were found on planes that were rigged in some way. One was a UPS plane stopped in the U.K. The other was a FedEx plane stopped in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
A U.S. official told CBS News both planes were searched in response to a specific warning that they were carrying suspicious packages addressed to synagogues or Jewish centers in Chicago.
The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago was notified of the situation at 10:30 a.m. Friday, and officials there are “taking proper precautions,” said associate vice president Linda Haase.
The organization is also advising local synagogues to take precautions, Haase said.
The article goes on to say that synagogues have been warned to not accept packages from “east of New York”. What does that mean exactly? Are Long Island and Boston on our list of terrorist-supporting state entities?
And notice that it wasn’t federal officials who caught the packages – it was alert UPS employees.
UPDATE II; I just heard Sheppard Smith (on my satellite radio) read an AP wire that one of the planes did indeed have explosives in it.
Category: Terror War
That was the first thing I thought about this morning when I read the first reports. Some one is sending out a bunch of packages to see what sort of reaction they get.
I think it’s high time we remove ALL of our military from the Middle East, and from every muslim nation, and just start lobbing nukes into them at random locations whenever one of their assmaggots does something like this.
I would think that the first nuke, however, ought to be set square on Mecca, just as, you know, a statement of sorts.
If this is a probing mission, I’m glad to see we’re onthe ball, but I have to wonder why they are still doing this. If they were serious, they would dispense with the “dry run” mentality and just go for broke right out of the gate.
Again, I’m glad they haven’t figured that part out, yet.
“Can’t wait to see dicksmith’s post about how Obama is keeping us safe.”
They found them, didn’t they. What’s your beef?
Nice post Tim. People like you make Al Quaeda look like the sane ones…..
Anytime, Joe. Happy to oblige.
Old Trooper:
My concern with this situation is all the reporting going on about it. It would have been a LOT better if the security folks had just kept their collective mouths shut. As it stands, with the MSM all over this issue, the folks who sent the packages now know exactly where the choke points are, where the easiest access areas are, and can work on methods to defeat those problems.
If this is a probing mission, I’m glad to see we’re on the ball, but I have to wonder why they are still doing this. If they were serious, they would dispense with the “dry run” mentality and just go for broke right out of the gate.
Again, I’m glad they haven’t figured that part out, yet.
Someone on another blog I was reading compared this to al Qaeda’s attack in Spain before their elections, which ended up scaring their electorate into voting into power the cut-and-run-from-Iraq guy. Since this was conveniently done the weekend before the election, it may be of similar purpose as the Spain attack.
Only, al Qaeda realizes that an attack would hurt Democrats, as Americans would see them as weak. So instead, they plan a ‘dry run’ to try to make the Democrats look good before an election. “See, we stopped them. We’re great on national security. Keep us in power. Ignore the fact that since we took power in JAN 2007 we have destroyed the economy, our healthcare system, the housing market and have plans to do even worse if we stay in power, including adding to our f-ckups the destroying of the energy industry. Yep, ignore all that and focus on our awesomeness on national security.”
I am not a sheep, and I refuse to he herded anywhere.
Particularly by wolves.
Michael,
Is the part in quotes your masterpiece, or the blogger’s you were referring to? No matter – it’s a hilarious rewrite of very recent history. Even got the date wrong (hint: If you’re referring to the Obama adminostration, it should read 2009, January to be precise). Bush put a bullet into the head of the economy, it just took it several years to die.
Tell me again Joe, how was Obama’s incorrect assessment of the direction of our economy, and the subsequent failure of his stimulus plan, Bush’s fault?
The stimulus plan worked – doh! We’d be a lot worse off without it. Ditto the auto bailout.
“The stimulus plan worked – doh!” Umm… there’s an announcement from the Fed come Wednesday that might make you rue that statement.
“Ditto the auto bailout.” Yeah, if you believe in fuzzy math. BTW, do you know who is picking up the tab for GM plant clean-ups & abandoned factories? It sure isn’t Gubmint-Motors…
“Bush put a bullet into the head of the economy, it just took it several years to die.”
Sorry bud, Bush the dumber wasn’t the sole cause of the 21st Century depression. NAFT-CAFTA-GATT, The Federal Reserve, etc. etc. Demo-commies and Republi-nazis alike have put us in the quandry we’re in.
Joe; why do you continue to do this to yourself? As would be said on the old SNL “Joe, you ignorant slut”. January 2007 refers to when the house went back to the democrats. So, I believe you are the one who got the dates wrong, dumbass. What any of that has to do with the continuing/ongoing terror threat, I don’t know, but I’m sure you’ll find a way to blame this on Bush as well.
It appears that the cargo plane with suspicious packages in Dubai did, indeed, contain explosive materials, plus US fighter aircraft have escorted another cargo plane, that entered US airspace from Canada, to JFK airport. This shit is getting serious, precaution, or not.
As they say in the ‘hood; when keeping it real goes wrong.
Joe,
The stimulus plan worked?
Bwahahahahahaha! Holy crap, do you seriously believe that?!?!
We would be SOOOO much better off if nothing had been done. Sweet Jesus, I suppose you’re one of those that also denies the negative effects of Roosevelt’s policies as we tried to recover from the Great Depression. You do realize it’s been fairly well documented that government interference similar to what we’re seeing from your guy prolonged that disaster considerably?
Man o man, Katie bar the door, the worlds gone mad…….lol
The only intelligent thing that Joey said was, “doh!”. As usual. Jacobite, Joe actually does believe that Porkulus worked, it saved or created elebenty-gazillion jobs, monthly, since Obama took office.