Are Muslim Airport workers a clear and present danger.

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Are Muslim Airport workers a clear and present danger.


By Rory Mulholland, Paris

6:03PM GMT 13 Dec 2015





Seventy workers at Paris airports suspected of being radical Islamists have had their security passes revoked since the deadly attacks in the city a month ago.

Security agents have also examined the contents of around 4,000 workers' lockers at Charles de Gaulle and Orly as the airports authority attempts to weed out any potential terrorists working at the busy transport hubs.

French security sources have said that Islamist militants killed in a police raid in a Paris suburb five days after the November 13 attacks wereplanning to attack Charles de Gaulle, France’s biggest international airport.

The radicalisation of airport personnel sparked concern after the crash in October of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt which Western intelligence officials believe was brought down by a bomb smuggled on board by an airport worker.

Augustin de Romanet, chief executive officer of ADP, the company that runs the two Paris airports, said the state authority which issues security passes had carried out a screening after the attacks on Paris, in which 130 people were killed and 350 injured.

"Nearly 70 red badges were withdrawn after the attacks, mainly for cases of radicalisation," he said in an interview with French media.
He said around 85,000 people had secure-zone clearance in the two airports, most of them working for airlines or for several hundred subcontractors.
So-called red badges are issued to people employed in the secure zone of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, working for instance as baggage handlers, aircraft cleaners and suppliers.
"To be issued with a red badge, you have to be cleared by police, and if you work for a company that carries out security checks of in-flight luggage, you need three police checks," De Romanet said.
Some airport workers suspected of links to radical Islam were placed under house arrest under state of emergency powers implemented after the attacks a month ago.
It emerged after the November 13 massacre that dozens of airport staff had their security passes revoked after the terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris in January, but others continued to work despite being on an intelligence watchlist as potential Islamist extremists.

Samy Amimour had worked as a bus driver despite being on an intelligence watchlist Photo: AFP/Getty
There has also been concern about radicalism among bus, metro and rail employees in the Paris region. Samy Amimour, one of the attackers who blew himself up in the Bataclan rock venue in Paris, had worked as a bus driver despite being on an intelligence watchlist.

 

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[h=1]30 Muslim Airport Employees Dismissed Days After Major Terror Threat[/h]
by OLIVER JJ LANE21 Jan 2016



[h=2]Thirty men have been fired from Geneva airport in Switzerland just days after a major terrorist threat. All the men – reported to be baggage handlers – had their security passes removed in December with no reason given by the authorities. It has now been revealed they were all male Muslims with Arabic names.[/h]It has been confirmed today that 28 of the sacked men were French passport holders with Arabic names.
“Almost all are Muslims”, according to reports.
The sackings came just days after a major terrorism alert in Geneva, which saw public buildings and railway stations put into lockdown, and two terminals of the city airport closed.
The revelation comes in the pages of German paper the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which reports the airport worker’s union is still trying to get a straight answer over why the men were dismissed last year.
So far, only that the airport has the right to terminate any employee with an access badge for security reasons at any time has been confirmed — yet the union is agitating to get compensation for lost earnings.
While it has not been established if the 30 men lost their passes suddenly and without warning because they were suspected of being a terror threat, German-language reports suggest that another former airport employee who was arrested by the French security services for Islamic terrorism may have led them to an even larger cell at the airport.
That the men are believed to have been employed to handle baggage — perhaps the most significant potential weak point in airport security — could be significant.
It is thought the bomb that brought down a Russian jet airliner over the Sinai peninsula last year was smuggled on-board inside baggage, and could have been planted by an Islamist baggage handler.
Breitbart London reported earlier this month on the revoked Geneva runway passes, when the fired airport staff were described as “radicalised” baggage handlers. An airport spokesman said at the time the fact the passes had been revoked did not necessarily mean all the men would lose their jobs, remarking: “But in all likelihood, some will not keep their jobs”.

 

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[h=1]At least 50 ISIS sympathisers WORK at Brussels airport, police claim[/h][h=3]AT least 50 Islamic State (ISIS) sympathisers work at Zaventem airport in Brussels, a scathing open letter by airport police blasting its poor security has claimed.[/h]By SELINA SYKES
PUBLISHED: 02:57, Fri, Apr 1, 2016 | UPDATED: 07:33, Fri, Apr 1, 2016

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Brussels airport police have claimed there ISIS sympathisers working at the airportThe employees at the airport in the Belgian capital, which was the target of a deadly attack claimed by ISIS last week, have been identified as supporters of the evil terror group.
Some of the terrorist sympathisers even have security passes which can get them into aircraft cockpits.
The shocking open letter, written by Zaventem airport police officers, comes just over a week after 32 people were killed in twin bombings at the airport and a metro station in the centre of Brussels.






Officers also claim certain people who are suspected of having fought in Syria came to the airport as “fake tourists” to test the airport’s security to plan the deadly attack which killed 14 people.
Airport police officers wrote: “Certain people suspected of having fought in Syria have come to the airport posing as ‘fake tourists’ . We have flagged up their presence but we don’t know if anything was done with this information.”
The letter added that it “was clear scouts had been sent to determine the level of security in order to plan the [Brussels] attacks.”

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Hundreds were injured in the terrorist attacks in BrusselsOfficers said they were “surprised on numerous occasions” because the suspects were rarely those “with a long history of radical beliefs or extremism”.
In its most shocking revelation, the open letter said: “Even today, there are at least 50 ISIS sympathisers working in the airport. They have a security pass and can access airplane cockpits.
“In the past, certain people’s security passes have been confiscated but, obviously, not everyone’s.
“The suspects are mainly shop assistants, cleaners and baggage handlers.”

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Two suicide bombs were detonated in the international airport by ISIS terroristsVincent Gilles, president of the largest police union in Belgium, said in a television interview that “quite a few airport workers had praised the Paris attacks”.
Mr Gilles also spoke about systematic security flaws, bureaucratic incompetence and the employment of baggage handlers with criminal records.


Hans Bonte, the Mayor of the region Vilvoorde, where Zaventem airport is situated, also confirmed the problem, according to Flemish newspaper Het Belong Van Limburg.
Brussels airport police officers also expressed their concern about Zaventem’s security, accusing airport chiefs of “bad management”.



Officers said the all areas of the airport are “very accessible to anyone” and called for passengers to be searched before entering the building, as well as banning vehicles within a 100 metre radius.
The letter went on to call for airport workers being investigated by anti-terror services to be removed immediately and for a more thorough screening of staff.
Belgian security services have come under increasing scrutiny in the wake of the Brussels and Paris attacks.
Belgium, which is at the centre of the investigations into the Paris attacks, has been criticised for failing to tackle extremism in troubled areas such as the Brussels district of Molenbeek.

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Much of the small international airport was damaged by the deadly blastsThe small European country, home to just 11 million people, has also more jihadi fighters in Syria and Iraq per capita than another other European Union (EU) state.
Brussels airport remains closed and is not expected to start running flights until Saturday.

 

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Arabic graffiti found on passenger jets at French airports

Published time: 30 Nov, 2015 14:05


Arabic graffiti inscriptions, with some reading “Allahu Akbar,” have been discovered in the past weeks on a number of EasyJet flights docked in France, local media reported. Spanish airline Vueling also suffered a similar incident.

At least five cases were recorded at the airports in Lyon and at Charles de Gaulle in Paris, according to a police source, La Tribune reported.

Investigators believe that that these inscriptions were written before the arrival of the aircraft in France.








An inscription reading "Allahu Akbar" was found on the fuel door of an Easyjet aircraft at Charles de Gaulle Airport on November 24, an airport source told the media. The flight had arrived the day before from Budapest, Hungary, and the inscription was erased before any passengers boarded the plane, the source added.

The same inscription was also found two days earlier, also on board the British company's plane, written on an access hatch to the cargo hold, while the EasyJet plane was stationed in Lyon. That plane came from Marrakesh, Morocco.

Spanish airline Vueling also reported a similar incident in on November 19. Two Arabic inscriptions were discovered on board, prompting evacuation of 157 passengers on board over possible terrorist threat.




A source close to the investigation told La Tribune, that the graffiti are "not a phenomenon linked to the attacks" in Paris that killed over 130 people on November 13. It added that this has been happening for months on a number of airlines including EasyJet.


The British company, which serves 17 airports in France, acknowledged that a "small number" of graffiti in Arabic had been discovered in the "last two weeks," according to AFP.


"Our security team is used to assess any potential threat." These graffiti were not "considered a security problem both by us and by the authorities," company said.

 

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Minneapolis- St. Paul International Airport (MSP)

An estimated 1,000 Somalis work at the airport.




Approximately 200 Somalis work for ABM providing facility services. Somalis working for ABM are members of Local SEIU 26. Union representation has enabled labor disputes between ABM and its employees to be resolved at the bargaining table rather than in the media (as in the case of the taxi drivers).
Many Somalis work in the ground crew which includes luggage handlers, cabin cleaners, restroom attendants, airline fuel fillers and electric cart drivers. These ground crew workers have seen a lot of changes in recent years, including wage regression.
Ground crew workers used to earn above minimum wage with benefits but they lost wages and benefits when Delta acquired North West Airlines. Delta established its own subsidiary called Delta Global Services (DGS) and contracted to provide ground services.
DGS started hiring employees at minimum wage, attracting primarily new immigrants. Luggage handlers, for instance, tend to be older and speak little English.
Those who speak English work as cabin cleaners, electric car drivers and wheelchair operators.

 

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[h=2]Somali Charged in Terrorism Ring Worked at Major U.S. Airport[/h]DECEMBER 28, 2015


In the latest disturbing example of the government’s failure to root out foreign Islamic terrorists a young Somali man, who bragged about building rockets that could strike landing planes, worked at a major U.S. airport as a baggage handler.


This month the Somali, 20-year-old Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, was charged with conspiracy to help the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). He became the 10th Somali man to be charged with terrorism in Minnesota in a very short period of time.

 

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I believe so!

 

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Problem solved.

 

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Is Guesser an airport worker.

 

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obuma doesn't think so-but those christians.....