McCauley and Ready would not comment about the June 26 incident, but a confidential TSA report obtained by the Houston Chronicle details a dispute between screeners and a police officer on duty at the airport.
The report states that a man with a Middle Eastern name and a ticket for a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta shook his head when screeners asked if he had a laptop computer in his baggage, but an X-ray machine operator detected a laptop.
A search of the man's baggage revealed a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran, the report said. A screener examined the man's shoes and determined that the "entire soles of both shoes were gutted out."
No explosive material was detected, the report states. A police officer was summoned and questioned the man, examined his identification, shoes and the clock, then cleared him for travel, according to the report.
A TSA screener disagreed with the officer, saying "the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself," the report says.
The officer retorted, "I thought y'all were trained in this stuff," TSA officials reported.
The report says the TSA screener notified Delta Airlines and talked again with the officer, who said he had been unable to check the passenger's criminal background because of computer problems.
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So what they're saying here, correct me if I'm wrong, is that they would let this guy onto the plane with the knowledge he has everything but explosives, having only detected his stuff as a result of the battery.
So if, for example, his mate just had explosives (no battery, no clock...) and also was allowed on...
Did I miss something, or have I called that correctly?
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So what they're saying here, correct me if I'm wrong, is that they would let this guy onto the plane with the knowledge he has everything but explosives, having only detected his stuff as a result of the battery.
So if, for example, his mate just had explosives (no battery, no clock...) and also was allowed on...
Did I miss something, or have I called that correctly?
JB
Yeb, you figured out they are idiots.
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I think the point of this is that the 'man with a middle-eastern name' tried to get on a plane with a "faux bomb" to test security...
He was caught, but they let him on anyway.
So I guess you could say that screening worked, sort of... But the follow through was a bit lacking
I'd have liked to think that anyone testing airport security would be... interrogate/investigated.
All we have now ia a big finger pointing exercise and a CYA fest
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BY JAMES GORDON MEEK in Washington,
ANNIA CIEZADLO in Beirut
and ADAM NICHOLS in New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Assem Hammoud seems to have covered his militant Islamist tracks well, cruising on motorboats & carousing in Canada.
The Lebanese playboy accused of masterminding a suicidal plot to destroy Hudson River tunnels traveled to the U.S. at least once and had recently applied for a new Canadian visa - possibly for another trip to the U.S., sources said yesterday.
The revelation that Assem Hammoud, 31, had been to the United States contradicted the city's top FBI official, Mark Mershon, who insisted Friday that none of the eight suspects in the bomb plot ever entered the country.
But yesterday a senior law enforcement official in Washington said, "We show a record that Hammoud was here around 2000 for what appears to be a family visit on the West Coast.
"Hammoud has told the Lebanese that he has had other trips here. We have no indication that any of those trips were during or for activities connected with this case."
Hammoud, who operated on the Internet under the alias of Amir Andalousli, is accused of conspiring to attack PATH trains under the Hudson River with a team of suicide bombers equipped with backpack bombs.
The plot, busted by the FBI and other countries' intelligence agencies, was to take place in October or November.
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