Likely Terror Attack ‘Dry Run’ Exposes Dangerous TSA Missteps (Updated)
“f al Soofi was cleared for international travel in Birmingham, Alabama, then he should not have been able to change his ticket to an entirely different continent (Europe) so easily in Chicago — certainly not without his bags coming off the Yemen-bound airplane. The air carrier involved in the Yemen-bound flight has not been named and United Airlines has not returned calls.”
There’s a very easy way around that, and that’s having 2 tickets originating in Alabama.
2 people check in there, one on a flight to Amsterdam via Chicago, the other to Yemen from Chicago.
Both use the same name, both use false passports.
In Chicago, one never shows up for the flight to Yemen, the other shows up for the flight to Amsterdam.
All Chicago notices is that a passenger arriving from Birmingham bound for Yemen doesn’t show up for his flight, while a passenger with the same name boards a flight to Amsterdam.
My guess is that’s how they did it and somehow the records failed to show that there was more than one person with the same name arriving from Birmingham that day.
Poorly constructed search criteria in some database can cause that to happen easily.
