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New York airport bomb plotter handed life sentence
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday sentenced an Islamist militant to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of participating in a plot to bomb New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Russel Defreitas, 67, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Guyana, was found guilty in…
TSA agents admit to stealing $160,000 from bags at JFK Airport
Law enforcement authorities said Wednesday that two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers had been arrested for stealing from bags at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown identified agents Davon Webb, 30 and Persad Coumar, 44, as the suspects. Coumar had been an agent since…
Anti-stimulus Republican Allen West endorses stimulus-funded projects
WASHINGTON – Freshman Rep. Allen West (R-FL), who won his House seat partly by bashing the stimulus and government spending, this week hailed stimulus-funded projects for creating jobs and boosting economic growth. “It’s time for incumbent Ron Klein to admit his ideas just don’t work. The stimulus failed to produce…
TSA tests less-revealing airport scanners
The US Transportation Security Administration began rolling out new airport scanner software Tuesday that produces less revealing images of travelers. The new software “enhances privacy by eliminating passenger-specific images and instead auto-detects potential threat items and indicates their location on a generic outline of a person,” the TSA said. McCarran…
US airlines cancel flights as winter storm bears down
CHICAGO/ATLANTA – US airlines canceled thousands of flights on Tuesday ahead of a blizzard that has promised near-record snowfall in the U.S. Plains and the central Midwest. The storm was expected to stretch across 2,000 miles — dumping up to 2 feet of snow in the central and upper Midwest,…
Russian state media assails Activision, ‘Call of Duty’ in wake of airport terrorist attack
Since Moscow’s busiest airport was hit by a suicide bomber who killed 35 people and injured 150 others, at least one state-sponsored media outlet has embarked on a narrative that should be familiar to Americans who’ve watched their media since the Tucson shootings: searching for someone, or something, to blame.…
Suspected suicide bomber strikes busy Moscow airport
Moscow’s busiest airport was devastated by an explosion Monday afternoon, caused by a suspected suicide bomber, according to Russian state media. The attack hit Moscow’s Domodedvo airport, the Russian capital’s busiest of three. State news agencies reported 35 fatalities and an additional 150 people were injured by an explosion near…
TSA bans bikini woman for ‘unusual contour’ around buttocks
A woman who became a YouTube sensation earlier this month when she went through airport security in a bikini spent a night at the airport Tuesday because of TSA agents’ concerns about an “unusual contour” around her buttocks. Tammy Banovac says she is hand-searched every time she goes through airport…
Bomb scare at US airport over ammunition primers
A US man was detained Tuesday after ammunition parts in his luggage exploded as baggage handlers were moving it from one plane to another at Miami airport, officials said. The Miami-Dade bomb squad responded after the explosion, which took place as a baggage handler was taking luggage off of American…
‘Patriot Pilot’ reveals identity after angering TSA with YouTube video
An airline pilot who said he was punished by the with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting a video on YouTube showing flaws in airport security revealed his identity on Monday. Fifty-year old Chris Liu, who had gone by the pseudonym “The Patriot Pilot” and was deputized by the…
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