It's beginning to look more and more as if the incident involving the six flying imams -- and their lawsuit againt the airline and passengers alike that followed their removal from the flight -- were and are a planned stunt designed to test defenses and weaken security.
As reported at Little Green Footballs, one of the six imams is the former imam of the Islamic Center of Tucson, which was also attended by two Saudi students who made repeated attempts to enter the cockpit of a plane during a flight from Phoenix to Columbus in November 1999, in what the FBI has since concluded was a 9/11 dry run. At the time, CAIR raced to the noisy defense of the students who tried to enter the cockpit, claiming that they were victims of discrimination.
Based on its track record of standing up for too many who are up to no good, I am beginning to CAIR less and less what CAIR has to say.
Update 4/20/07: Joe Kaufman and Gary Gross at FrontPageMag probe more deeply into the connections between Omar Shahin, Al Qaeda and other terrorist-related organizations, and CAIR. The picture that emerges is a disturbing one.
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