Women’s Wall Street journalist Annie Jacobsen has published a second story related to her original Terror in the Skies, Again? that discusses among other things, the media reaction to her amazing story. This is my second post related to this series of events. Read my first entry here.

NBC was the first major news outlet to contact WomensWallStreet. The producer I spoke with on the telephone said the FBI had confirmed that 14 Syrians were on the flight, they confirmed the details about what happened upon landing in Los Angeles, and they said that the accounts from the flight attendants regarding what happened during the flight matched the accounts given by me and my husband to the FBI after we landed.

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And I now have another important question… Is there a link between my experience on flight #327 and the arrest of Ali Mohamed Almosaleh by customs agents at the Minneapolis Airport on July 7 (approximately one week after my flight)? Almosaleh was traveling from Damascus, Syria, to Minneapolis on KLM/Northwest Airlines. According to CNN.com, “Agents found Almosaleh to be carrying what they described as a suicide note and DVDs containing anti-American material.”

It was initially reported by CNN.com that the man “is not known to the intelligence community, and that his name was not on any terrorist watch list.” The following day, on TwinCities.com, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that Almosaleh “had something with him indicating a connection with at least one known terrorist.” So, did a more thorough check of the man reveal this critical new information? Remember, according to Adams, FAM checked the 14 Syrian men on my flight against the terrorist watch lists. They found no match, so they let them go. I wonder what might have happened if the 14 Syrians on my flight had been looked into more thoroughly?

- Annie Jacobsen, Women’s Wall Street

So right now we are only investigating people that are on a “terrorist watch list.” While this is a good start, unfortunately right now this is the only thing that we can be doing because there are many Liberals who will scream out “Racial Profiling!” at the first sign of interrogations of people of Middle Eastern dissent.

And if this is a matter of being politically correct and not ‘profiling’… then the hell with you, Norm Minetta. Your personal squeamishness is not worth risking the lives of the people you’re supposed to be protecting.

- Will Collier, Vodka Pundit

I fully understand the analogy that everyone from the Middle East isn’t a terrorist therefor I am not advocating interrogation of every person from the Middle East, but when they act suspicious, you bet the better ask them some questions. Our enemy has shown their face to us. That face is predominantly arabic. This profiling should not offend people because it will help make us all more safe.

Believe me, I hate the questions and the added security checks of frisking, taking your shoes off, etc. as I seem to be one of a few that always gets pulled out of line. I do not fit the description of a terrorist being as I am a white Texan, however if they pull me out to either try to balance the extra security check or they just want to be random, I’m all for it. It helps to ensure every passenger’s safety.

Hat tip to Martini Pundit.

UPDATE: It seems as if the 14 Syrian band members all had expired visas and were in the country illegally. What happened to the background checks that were supposedly done before the flight took off from Detroit? What happened to the LAPD and FBI that interviewed the band after the flight landed in Los Angeles? How in the world could this have happened? All of this from a country that has state sponsored terrorism. Just amazing.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

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