A dent in airline security

by Michael
RadicalIslam.org
October 25, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/540/a-dent-in-airline-security

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"Don't have your guy come down there and tell me we can't pull more than three Arab guys out of line for additional security screening, and then tell us after 9/11 that we should have thrown five guys like that off our planes."
—Edmond L. Soliday, former United Airlines vice president of security operations, referring to the transportation secretary's civil-rights attorney.  Quoted in Infiltration , by Paul Sperry

The Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune reports this week on a settlement reached in a case where six Muslim clerics "were removed from a U.S. Airways jet after passengers and airline employees reported that the six were engaging in suspicious behavior."  CAIR is calling it a "victory for justice and civil rights."  Is this "victory for… civil rights" potentially a dangerous loss for Americans of all faiths?

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, worries about the impact of a settlement reached under such circumstances…

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