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Yet, more inside baseball in the federal agency in charge of enforcing immigration laws–and not doing a very good job at it. Inside baseball that should concern all Americans on the outside:
a/k/a Abu Moskowitz–the ever-ambitious, Islamo-pandering Special Agent in Charge of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) for Michigan and Ohio–may soon be out of his Detroit office on the 18th floor of the McNamara Federal Building. He could be gone in 6 months (not soon enough).
Unfortunately, this high-ranking federal agent–who hung out with a and enlisted the “former” terrorist to –is not being fired, which he should be.

Abu E. Moskowitz: Buh-Bye?
It appears he’s getting a “better” assignment.
Early, this summer, that Moskowitz–the chief federal immigration enforcement officer in the heart of Islamic America–was leaving to take a high position at ICE headquarters in Washington, DC. Now, we hear at least part of the rumor is true. We hear he may soon become the new Special Agent in Charge for Phoenix. If that’s true, pity on all of our friends on Camelback Mountain. And all of those in swanky Scottsdale, where Moskowitz will likely seek to live based on his house in a gazillionaire Bloomfield Hills, Michigan neighborhood.
Roberto Medina, the ICE Special Agent in Charge for Phoenix, is being transferred to the same position in El Paso. Medina was so uncooperative with local law enforcement and their efforts to deport illegal aliens, it makes you wonder why there even is an agency called Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
, things are so bad that principled Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas (for whom I spoke at a November 2005 immigration conference) and Sheriff Joe Arpaio publicly excoriated ICE (and rightly so). In today’s Arizona Republic, Arpaio and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano cheered Medina’s transfer.
But Medina–like his likely replacement Abu Moskowitz–should not be shuffled around like unwanted foster kids. They should be disciplined. That Medina refused to escort illegal aliens to the border and deport them is outrageous and disgraceful. So, of course, ICE rewards him with his dream pre-retirement job of heading ICE’s El Paso office.

Jihad in Arizona?: Abu Moskowitz to Phoenix?
(Muslim Abu M artwork by Preston Taylor Holmes of Six Meat Buffet)
Ditto for Abu M. He has designated the Michigan Islamic community off-limits to investigations and all illegal alien round-ups, sources say. –because after all guys name Jorge and Jesus and Juan hijacked the planes on 9/11. Well, at least he’ll be able to best focus on his efforts to break up Latin Jihad in Phoenix.
According to The Arizona Republic, Sheriff Arpaio and Governor Napolitano wrote this to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff about Medina:

“His hostility to state and local law enforcement, coupled with a ‘we know better than you’ attitude was counter to the mission of his agency and did serious damage to the relations between our state and your department. We are greatly relieved and encouraged that he is being replaced.”

Well, they shouldn’t be too relieved. According to the rumors, Brian Moskowitz is coming.
**** UPDATE, 08/20/06: One high-ranking agent wrote:

When Roberto Medina was an Assistant Special Agent in Charge in Houston his nickname was “Speed Bump” because he was an obstacle to every investigation.

If Medina is the “Speed Bump,” Abu Moskowitz is the “Pan-Islamist Gaping Pothole.” Nice to see ICE is shuffling these problem-child employees around and rewarding them with promotions to the locations they want, instead of giving them well-deserved discipline and demotions. Perhaps they should change the name to Imminent Crony Elevation.

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Uh-oh! Fake “Terrorism Expert” Douglas J. Hagmann and his lawyer finally admit that he plagiarized my work. And then, Hagmann–a fake investigator–makes up new information.
On Wednesday, I posted an item about how –who is positive that UFOs and Bigfoot exist but knows little else–. Yes, he and his falsely-named Northeast Intelligence Network (NEIN) a/k/a HomelandSecurityUS are bastions of plagiarism. By stealing my work, he opened a can of worms and keeps stepping in it.
The guy has no shame. He rips me off and then keeps on whining about it, several days later. It’s like the kid who stole the cookies from the cookie jar and keeps on whining about it when someone caught him. Only that kid is a lot smarter and more deft than Douglas J. Hagmann. His trail of crumbs is a lot less obvious.

Like the thief-with-chutzpah that he is, Hagmann got mad that I caught him with his pants down. He’s now trying to cover his very exposed rear and can’t.
First, Hagmann demanded I take the post about his outright theft of my work down. Then, he threatened to sue me, claiming he got the information he plagiarized from me from “news sources” and “a federal source.” Of course, he would never sue because we would depose him and force him to produce the non-existent sources. And he’d have to admit the extremely obvious–that I’m the only one from whom he got the info.
Then, he had his silly “lawyer” send me an e-mail in which he basically admitted that his client, Douglas Hagmann, stole my work but that he gave me tiny credit for “developing the same information” that he ripped off from me. So that makes the theft okay. Right?

I have reviewed what you have reported . . . and I believe he has adequately given credit.

Ri-i-i-i-ight. If Hagmann had only resisted the urge to rip off others and had given me proper credit, I’d never have had a reason to expose him as the uber fraud that he is–something I’ve been hearing about for years. But now, his continuing lying and fabricating of information is betraying his phoniness even more.
In a post today, Hagmann admits he’s a plagiarist. He names a number of plagiarists and then states, “I am in good company.” I’m so glad he’s finally told the truth and admitted it. But he still has not changed the entry he stole from me–neither crediting me with the work he shop-lifted, and printing a retraction.
Then, there is the new information that Hagmann makes up. His fabricating skills show us in spades what kind of “investigator” he is. As in, one who can’t even read English and is too lazy to do any real work. Apparently, when he is forced to do his own work instead of stealing it from others, it’s kinda tough for him to perform. No wonder the apparent UFO/Bigfoot afficionado quit “working” as a private investigator. Who would hire him?

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My friend, Katherine Curtis Stethem–sister-in-law of (who was tortured to death by Hezbollah)–has a great piece in the New York Sun.
She notes that even if the phony “ceasefire”–which Hezbollah has already violated–is successful (and it won’t be), Hezbollah is already entrenched. And the strange silence of “ceasefires” gets the necessary fight for America out of sight, out of mind. Her brother-in-law’s murder by Hezbollah is evidence that fighting Hezbollah is America’s fight, not just Israel’s.
Here is an excerpt:

For many, Hezbollah has only recently emerged as a topic of discussion at the water cooler. Hezbollah, however, has been destroying lives and crushing spirits for decades. The torture and ultimate death of Navy Diver Robert Dean Stethem during the 1985 Trans World Airlines hijacking by Hezbollah terrorists is recognized as one of the most brutal slayings of our time. America and our allies have yet to implement cohesive measures to bring Rob’s murderers to justice. Robert Stethem and his family deserve better.

Where will it end? Not with this ceasefire, no matter how expedient the agreement may be nor what solution to the Hezbollah problem Israeli and American leaders ultimately fashion. What hope do we have when the leaders of nations and world organizations allow evil to grow and interweave into the fabric of mainstream cultures? Do we expect to defeat militant extremism by playing to the middle ground? The eyes of the world are casting about for the kind of leadership that can bring about a lasting peace. Hezbollah has been America’s problem at least since the 1980s. Ceasefire or not, now is certainly not the time for Americans to lose focus.

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Back in January, when the ACLU filed its lawsuit contesting the legality of warrantless wiretaps by the NSA, –several of whom are a bunch of Islamofascist lawyers including a blatant liar Mohammed Abdrabboh, who lied in sworn documents (and should probably be disciplined for it).
Today, on his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh read this part of the on the air (THANKS, RUSH!):

Then, there is Mohammed Abdrabboh, a Palestinian attorney and ACLU of Michigan Board Member.
Not only does he represent a number of accused terrorists, he lied in signed documents about it. In the ACLU lawsuit, Abdrabboh’s ACLU claims:

LIAR: ACLU Lawsuit’s Mohammed Abdrabboh

86. As part of his criminal defense practice, Mr. Abdrabboh has represented and continues to represent people the government has suspected of allegedly having some link to terrorism or terrorist organizations.

But in a grievance Abdrabboh filed against ME to the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission (designed to deny my right to free speech and get me to change about him–I didn’t and won’t), a year ago, Abdrabboh wrote (and signed his name to) the following:

Without hesitation, I affirmatively state that I have never represented anyone accused of terrorism or money laundering. I can also affirmatively state that I have never represented or consulted with anyone accused/suspected/indicted of money laundering, let alone money laundering to finance Al-Qaeda. . . . Debbie Schlussel will not be able to provide the ADB [Attorney Discipline Board] with a single court appearance, document or public record that would indicate that I have ever represented a suspected terrorist or money launderer.

Hmmm . . . I think a grievance against Abdrabboh for lying either in Court or to the Grievance Commission is appropriate.
In fact, Mohammed Abdrabboh represented Gamil Manea Ahmed Al-Najar, arrested in December 2002 in raids by then U.S. Customs (now Immigration and Customs Enforcement–ICE) for operating a money-laundering business, Najjar Money Transfer, through Dix Dollar Mart–one of six businesses believed to have transmitted as much as $50 million per year to Yemen, in violation of the Patriot Act and other reporting requirements. Customs Agents told me they believed the money was going to finance terrorist activities, likely Al-Qaeda. Abdrabboh is listed as Al-Najar’s attorney on the federal court docket.
So we know only one thing for sure about Mohammed Abdrabboh: He is a liar.
What we also know is that many of his clients are involved with terrorist and other nefarious activities. He appeared at the arraignment for two Palestinian and Lebanese clients accused (and later convicted) of chopping a Jordanian Palestinian to death. All three were under investigation by the FBI for mortgage and real estate fraud and were suspected of sending the proceeds “back home” to the Mid-East for assorted nefarious activities.
Abdrabboh is heavily involved with the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which openly praises Hezbollah–the terrorist group that murdered over 300 U.S. Marines and civilians in Lebanon. In the West Bank, Abdrabboh made a career of legitimizing Palestinian terrorists in his work for Al-Haq, the Palestinian version of the ACLU (only worse, if that’s possible). In work for the United Nations, he co-authored a report on the “Syrian Golan.” (The Golan is in ISRAEL.) Clearly, this man has a political agenda, not friendly to the United States or our key Mid-East ally.
Spying? Taping phone calls? Abdrabboh doesn’t have a problem with that either, when he’s the one doing it. On September 7, 2004, the same day he filed his phony grievance against me, Abdrabboh had one of his friends, a man identifying himself as “Casey Khalil” call me and try to entrap me in a taped phone call. But it didn’t work. The man, whose number came up as “Khalil Companies” on my caller ID, claimed he was a client of Abdrabboh for his mortgage company’s problems with the State of Michigan and wanted information on him.
The ACLU lawsuit claims:

88. The Program has inhibited communications between Mr. Abdrabboh
and his family and friends because he is less candid about his political views and avoids saying things that are critical of the U.S. government over the telephone or through email.

Puh-leeze. Abdrabboh is a vocal member of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, appointed by Michigan’s liberal Democrat governor, Jennifer Granholm. There was a meeting of his commission since the NSA program was disclosed in The New York Times, and he is as vocal as ever. All of these attorneys had a press conference in Detroit, yesterday, upon the filing of the suit. Contrary to being silenced, they couldn’t seem to shut up.

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And they keep on coming. Is Dan Jenkins a Muslim?:

— “Jenkins, Dan” Dan.Jenkins@handleman.com wrote:
Subject: come to michigan
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:29:04 -0400
From: “Jenkins, Dan” Dan.Jenkins@handleman.com
To: dschlussel@yahoo.com
please, we would love to meet you in a dark alley to
talk about out great state and your stuped website
-Dan

The Handleman Company does all the inventory and distribution for music CDs to most major retailers around the world. And apparently they hire imbalanced, violent people as employees.

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The bizarro guy who thinks he killed JonBenet Ramsey looks like Anthony Perkins with Ed Grimley’s wardrobe.

JonBenet Ramsey Murder Suspect John Mark Karr

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It wasn’t just politics that motivated Federal Judge Anna Diggs Taylor to .
Sources say it was Judge Diggs Taylor’s desire to be lionized by the American left, just like her friend and mentor, fellow Democrat and U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Damon J. Keith (who, by the way, only hires minorities for his law clerk positions–White males and females need not apply).
In the early 1970s, Judge Keith, then a Federal Judge in the Eastern District of Michigan–as Judge Diggs Taylor is now–ruled against President Nixon in United States v. Sinclair, a well-known wiretapping case, similar to Diggs Taylor’s case. Keith’s decision in that case lionized him to the American left and solidified his position in left-wing judicial activist sainthood. (The case, however, was different in that Nixon was allegedly wiretapping to defeat political opponents. President Bush did so to save our country from terrorist attacks.) Keith’s decision in the Sinclair was so celebrated by the left, that it became known to the legal community as the “Keith Decision.”

Thanks for Endangering Our Lives:
Judge Anna Diggs Taylor Wants to Be Like Judge Damon J. Keith
From Keith’s bio:

[H]e is most cited for his opinion in United States v. Sinclair, commonly referred to as The Keith Decision. In Sinclair, Judge Keith, sitting on the district court, found that then-President Richard Nixon and then-Attorney General John Mitchell could not engage in warrantless wiretap surveillance of three individuals suspected of conspiring to destroy government property because the surveillance was in violation of the Fourth Amendment. This decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and unanimously upheld by the United States Supreme Court.

Sources say that Diggs Taylor is eager to get the recognition and kudos from the left that Keith got, and saw this case–with a very similar fact pattern–a Republican Administration conducting warrantless wiretaps–as her judicial star vehicle. Her legal Nobel Prize. They say Diggs Taylor’s willingness to engage in misconduct to hijack the University of Michigan affirmative action case is more evidence of her eagerness for a famous, celebrated end to her long legal career in leftist causes.
Judge Keith swore Diggs Taylor in as a Federal Judge in 1979. He told The Detroit Spews:

She’s the type of judge you want to hear the surveillance case.

Of course, she’s the type of judge he wants deciding that case. But not the one America needs.
So glad that risking the safety of Americans helped Judge Diggs Taylor became Miss Lefty Judge America.

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A couple of recommended movies, this weekend, and one really bad one:
* “Snakes on a Plane“–It is what it is–a B-movie–and I liked it.
The story: A man sees a mob boss murder a prosecutor in Hawaii. He and an FBI agent protecting him (Samuel L. Jackson) are on a plane to Los Angeles so he can testify in the trial against the mobster, but the mobster wants to kill him to prevent his testimony. To do so, the mobster arranges for hundreds of aggressive, poisonous snakes to be released on the plane to kill the passengers and crew and damage the flight instruments. ( to find out how they get the snakes aboard the plane, eluding detection from security.) While many of the passengers are murdered by the snakes, together the surviving passengers–from several American walks of life–band together to fight off the snakes.

This movie was highly anticipated in the blogosphere because of its campiness. And it does not disappoint. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, and is a campy B-movie–a very good B-movie. And there are a few gaping plot holes. For example, if the murder happened in Hawaii, why fly to Los Angeles to testify there (the location of the crime is usually where the defendant is tried)? But, then, there would be no “Snakes on a Plane.”
There is a ton of good lines and funny scenes. Among my favorites:

* “Snakes on Crack!”
* “A snake bit my ass!”
* “I’ve had it with these motherf–kin’ snakes on this motherf–kin’ plane!”

Seeing it with a theater full of all-male “Snakes” fans was like like going to see “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Though some real snakes were used in the movie, a lot of the snakes were computer generated images, so they didn’t real or as scary. Nevertheless, I still screamed and jumped in my seat a lot–chills down my spine the whole time– though I was the only one. None of the guys screamed. There was a lot of “snakevision,” allowing you to see through the eyes of the snake, where he’s about to strike.
It was cool the way all the passengers banded together against the serpentine threat to their lives. Loved it when the prissy PETA-esque woman (think Paris Hilton in middle age) who treated her pet chihuahua like a human saw the results of that ill-advised behavior. Ditto for when the only European (read: snobby) on board got his. We’re only mad to see the arrogant P. Diddy-style rap star gets to live. Also, this film provides yet another reason why the “mile high club” isn’t necessarily a good idea. (Sorry for those very minor spoilers.)
Recommended, but NOT for the faint of heart. Gory and creepy. This movie will definitely become a B-movie cult-classic.

* “The Illusionist“–THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES OF THE YEAR! I loved it. Even though it’s a period piece (circa late 1800s) and has romance, it’s not a chick flick and has several big stars. Guys and women will be charmed by this story of Eisenheim, an illusionist–a magician (Edward Norton)–who performs amazing feats. His fantastic tricks are the focal point of the plot. David Copperfield and Harry Blackstone have nothing on Eisenheim.
At the time of the Habsburg in Vienna, Austria, Eisenheim–the son of a carpenter commoner–is trying to win over the beautiful Countess (Jessica Biel), who was his childhood friend, from whom he was separated as a matter of class. She is about to be engaged to the Crown Prince, and Eisenheim performs amazing magical feats to a growing following of Austrians. He is under the investigative and repressive eye of the pandering Inspector (the magnificent Paul Giamatti) and the violent, jealous Crown Prince, who fear his magic show will spark a revolution and want to stop his relationship with the Countess.
If you see any movie this year (other than “” and “Invincible“), make it this one. Light and enjoyable. What the movie-going experience is supposed to be about. FANTASTIC!
* “Trust the Man“–Trust this woman, and skip this awful waste of time. David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Maggie Gyllenhaal and other actors you don’t care about play self-absorbed New York City characters about which you care even less. The movie is about their dysfunctional relationships. Who cares? No-one. And certainly not enough to waste 103 minutes on this lousy, boring movie with a sappy, predictable ending. Tell Oscar the Grouch to get out of the trashcan. We need to make room for this garbage.

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Regular readers of this site know that political correctness–NOT counterterrorism–is the #1 interest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That’s why it’s frightening that the FBI is the lead agency in all terrorism investigations.
But those who are not frightened by that, need to read “Old-School Academy in Post-9/11 World,” a report that tells us everything we suspected about the FBI. Reporter Sari Horwitz got special access to the FBI Academy in Quantico, which trains all new agents. It’s starkly clear that the FBI remains in a 9/10 world, completely clueless and useless five years after 9/11.
This beginning excerpt says it all:

In a classroom at the FBI Academy in Quantico, instructor Rodney Loose was trying to introduce the history of Islam to a new group of future agents. He had one hour.

The 50 men and women would be joining the ranks of an agency whose top officials have declared fighting terrorism to be its No. 1 priority. They listened intently as Loose rushed through his topics: Sunnis and Shiites, the Koran, Mecca and Medina, four-part Arabic names, and the five pillars of Islam.
“Can you tell us about sleeper cells?” a recruit asked.
“I’m sorry, I don’t think we’re going to have time to get into this,” a frustrated Loose said. “I wish I had more time to go through this. But it’s just not possible.”
Since the FBI came under withering criticism for its part in the intelligence community’s failure to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the bureau has added 37 hours of counterterrorism training at Quantico for new agents. But that represents just 5 percent of the curriculum, and only one hour is about Islam, Arabic culture and understanding the terrorist mind-set
With so little time, Loose could just make it through Page 7 of his 14-page handout. No time to discuss suicide bombers, Islamic extremism or terrorist psychology.

More:

For now, agents attend classes in the academy’s maze of aging buildings. They spend many days role-playing in “Hogan’s Alley,” a replica of a 1950s small town created by Hollywood set designers that Keith Slotter acknowledge “served us well for the bank-robbery scenario” but not so well for counterterrorism.

Read the whole thing.
Again, this is the agency that is supposed to be the LEAD on terrorism. Hardly comforting. Nor is the story from last year about depositions in the lawsuit by an Arab FBI agent, Bassem Youssef. Youssef’s lawyer deposed FBI Director Robert Mueller and FBI Counterterrorism directors. , they didn’t know the most basic things about terrorism that any idiot who reads a newspaper surely knows.
Mueller and the others, for example, didn’t know who the blind cleric, Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, was and how he was tied to Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden. As anyone with a slight clue knows, Sheikh Rahman was convicted for being the spiritual leader of the 1993 Al-Qaeda bombing of the World Trade Center. Hello? . . . Rahman was a key figure in Islamic terrorist groups in Egypt, and it is incredible that Mueller & the other FeeB “terrorism” chiefs didn’t have a clue who he was.
Here’s an excerpt from about this and the astounding ignorance of the FBI’s top terrorism people:

[N]one of the top FBI brass felt knowledge or expertise in terrorism was important in the least. No surprise, since it would disqualify all of them, who–shockingly–don’t know the most basic characteristics regarding Islamic terror.
That FBI Director Robert Mueller didn’t know how the blind cleric, Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, was linked to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, would be hilarious–if it weren’t so pathetic and disturbing. (Rahman was the spiritual leader for the ’93 WTC terrorist attacks, and was convicted for it. Now, in prison, the attack he inspired was an Al-Qaeda attack. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is the uncle of Ramzi Youssef, mastermind of the ’93 WTC attacks.) Ditto for FBI Counterterrorism director through 2003, Dale Watson, who could not tell the difference between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims. That is significant because the major Islamic terrorist groups are allied with particular Islamic sects–Hezbollah is Shi’ite and is funded by Iran’s Shia government; and HAMAS and other Palestinian terrorist groups, as well as Al-Qaeda, are Sunni. (Though, these days, the groups have started to work together. They hate each other, but they hate us more.)

This reminds me of my own recent interaction, working with an FBI agent “investigating” an Islamic terrorism-related case in the heart of Islamic America, the Detroit area. The agent told me he was an expert in counterterrorism, that he had a Master’s Degree in the field. Well, somebody needs to sue someone for malpractice in education.
The agent did not know that there were several sects of Islam. He didn’t know about Shi’ites and Sunnis, which floored me since most Islamic terrorist groups are tied to one or the other of the two largest sects of Islam–ie. Hezbollah is a Shi’ite group, and Al-Qaeda and HAMAS are Sunni. The agent didn’t know what a hijab (Islami headscarf) was or pretty much anything else on Islam. He was fricking clueless.
But when it comes to pandering to the most extreme Muslims, the FBI is expert. Special Agents in Charge–like Michigan’s –are excellent at breaking pita and eating falafel and shawarmeh with men they know are agents of Hezbollah and HAMAS. They can bow down and applaud extremist Hezbollah agent imams–like , head of the second largest mosque in North America and a well-known agent of Iran–with aplomb.
So when the FBI constantly announces that this case or that case “isn’t connected to terrorism” and “there is no imminent threat,” you’ll know that, very likely, it’s the exact opposite.

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My review of “Snakes on a Plane” will be posted shortly. If you’re planning on seeing the movie and don’t want to read even a tiny spoiler (very minor to the “plot”)–how they get the snakes onto the plane–stop here.
**** Tiny Spoiler Alert ****
Before I saw “Snakes on a Plane,” last night, I thought—-that they got the snakes on the plane in carry-on baggage, including a guitar case and briefcase. I had a few posts about it, including one in which , and another with links to . But the video was a red herring.

The way snakes got onto the plane in the movie highlights the heretofore and continuing lack of adequate cargo screening. In “Snakes on a Plane,” mobsters get snakes on the plane by packing them inside cargo boxes. There is a timer inside the boxes to explode the boxes open with enough force to free hundreds of poisonous and/or deadly snakes (including a giant boa constrictor) without harming them or causing any noticeable explosions on the plane. A corrupt baggage handler who works for the small Hawaiian airline puts the snake-filled boxes in the cargo hold. He also sprays the flower leis the airline gives everyone, with pheromones to make the snakes violent and aggressive.
The movie–a good, campy B-movie with a lot of funny lines–unwittingly raises the persistent cargo concerns that have yet to be addressed, almost 5 years after 9/11. As we know, very little of airplane cargo is checked. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal rerported that most cargo is unscreened, with best estimates of only 10-15% of cargo that flies actually inspected. “It’s one of the most disturbing issues out there,” Robert Francis, former Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board told the Journal.
Further, many cargo and baggage handlers remain unscreened in proper background checks. At Detroit Metro Airport, for example, sources say that some ex-cons without complete background checks, remain baggage handlers and cargo loaders for planes.
Most cargo and baggage handlers are innocent, law-abiding, low-paid workers who do hard work and a lot of back-breaking heavy lifting, loading and unloading bags and containers. But, it would be very easy for a mobster–or terrorist group–to pay one of them off to load boxes of snakes onto a plane. Especially when adequate background checks and screenings have not been performed on all of those working the job.
While it’s only a movie–and, again, a B-movie at that–the fact remains that cargo is very inadequately screened. Could someone get snakes onto a plane in the cargo hold? Very easily. And incendiary device? That, too.
And not just on the make-believe, silver screen.