Sunday, October 08, 2006

No Fly list

CBS news got a copy of Homeland Securities vaunted no fly list and was able to identify the following oddities:

On the list

Saddam Hussein - Don't we know where he is and wouldn't we know if he were getting on a plane?

Evo Morales: president of Bolivia -- Heads of state frequently opt for commercial airlines when traveling

14 of the 19 9/11 hijackers -- Unless they have been resurrected, they aren't flying again anytime soon.

Every one in the world named Gary Smith, John Williams and Robert Johnson.

Not on the list and this truly defies logic:

The 11 men arrested in Britain last month for suspicion of plotting to blow up airplanes with liquid explosives.

Apparently, we didn't have time to update the list during the year the British government had them under surveillance.

Sadly, we have spent $114 million dollars to parse this data base, and this is what we have come up with.

An , active duty reservist on his way home from Iraq, found out first hand how effective the No fly list is.

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