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- skodaman, on 10/10/2007, -4/+202UK Checkin: Sorry, this Name is on the blocked list.
Parents: But he's 7.
UK Checkin: Oh... OK then. Its probably not the same person arrested 6 years ago then. Off you go.
US Checkin - Sorry, this Name is on the blocked list.
Parents: But he's 7.He was 1 year old when that person was originally arrested.
US Checkin - Better to be safe than sorry. Guantanamo this way -----------> - supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -17/+200LOL your country is *****.
- Jesse, on 10/10/2007, -2/+81"Better safe than sorry" has historically been the excuse of tyrants and cowards to do some truly despicable *****.
- amc178, on 10/10/2007, -3/+64why are they using just an name? why cant they use date of birth as well. I've heard of as similar story about a girl being blocked because her name was on the list, she had the uncommon name of Elizabeth Smith
- raisputin3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+62This happened to my kid on the way back from NYC....They stopped him at every checkpoint and tried to pull him aside ...I refused to "keep moving" as instructed becuase my son was 8 years old at the time. They told me that if I didn't move while they searched him that I would be arrested. My exact words were "Go ahead and try and find yourself in the hospital because you will not be searching my kid, without me present and if you don't like it you can ***** off" Needless to say they attempted to remove me (without my kid) and failed.
Oh, and we are not arabs, do not have an arabic sounding or spelled name. We are plain ol white americans ....This country is ***** - ganjadude4391, on 10/10/2007, -12/+69yeah because a 7 year old from the UK is SUCH a high risk, grow up man see past the propaganda machine. its harassment plain and simple. I am an American and I wont fly, which i used to love flying back when i was younger and even was working on getting my pilots license. But in this day and age flying just is not worth it, ill drive to canada and take a flight from there out
- dattaway, on 10/10/2007, -1/+54How is this security? Its too easy to get a name change. Its worse than wireless MAC filtering. Seems like we are protecting ourselves from good guys rather than bad guys. We are doomed.
- webcure, on 10/10/2007, -8/+58I believe that security is of utmost importance in airports, but it is time to upgrade all of those hi-tech gadgets if they cause a young 7 year old boy suffer like this. This stuff hurts...
- MrDo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+47Nice going, I am sure he will grow up having all warm fuzzy loving feelings about America.
- genezorz, on 10/10/2007, -4/+47Sure they know hes 7 NOW but the question is did they know he was 7 when he was trying to board the airplane.
Wait that argument doesn't work at all.
TSA is such an embarrassment. Is anyone really scared of terrorists? I'm not. I'm scared of my government ***** up my relations with other countries inciting hatred to me when I haven't done anything to anyone (killed a few kittens in my time but thats it)
Give them their sand lands, give me alternative energy and for the love of God just let me live my ***** life happy and without having to worry about what sandy colored person is going to kill me next. - dinostabOMG, on 10/10/2007, -4/+41For all the fire and brimstone you spout about antisemitism in every corner... and considering the kid's name, Javaid Iqbal... I'm going to go with you're a racist hypocrite.
- Spanktacular, on 10/10/2007, -4/+39Yes. Yes, it is. The two replies prior to this, show the current state of critical thinking in my country.
- Brodels, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34It's things like this that have caused tourist numbers to the US (from the UK at least) to drop dramatically. No one wants to be treated like a criminal 5mins after stepping off the plane and that is what it's like in the US from my experiences. People are staying within Europe or travelling to other countries. I went to India, Thailand and Hong Kong over the summer and to actually feel welcomed, or at least not like some kind of suspect, felt good.
- alciadanet, on 10/10/2007, -7/+37"but there could of been some sort of correlation with the terrorist and the family."
So the boy had terrorist genes with liquid explosives running through his veins? - oseik, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29its a retarded system. All a terrorist has to do is show up, find out he can't fly and thus know he's on the system ... change his name and fly another time. A list of names with no pictures or other distinguishing data is useless.
- jsmith39, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30DID you even RTFA? He was stopped because he had the same name as a douche we deported awhile back. Not because "you know, it's reasonable to expect 7 year old terrorists 'round here". So DoH and TSA spent a few tens of billions more of your money and it never occurred to them that of 6.5 billion people on the planet, a few them might have the same name? ***** geniuses running this show now.
- rizhun, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27why does it take 3 hours to frisk a kid for a bomb/knife/9mm ??
- ExplicitSpirit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25This happened to me in Egypt.
Officer: Your name is shared with a fugitive that escaped in 1974.
Me: I was born in 1986
Officer: Interesting turn of events. I'm going to go ahead and detain you while we run a background check.
***** morons. - prammy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Then they might find all the TSA procedures wasteful and inefficient.
- PlasticRabbit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Not that unbelievable, given my experience at JFK.
TSA identified my seven year old for special inspection. Gave me all the documents and sent me with him to the security-checkpoint, whilst not allowing my wife through with our 1 year old. We got through then waited and waited for my wife.
They had stopped her because she did not have her boarding card (they had given it to me before ushering me off). Just by chance I spotted her waving from the other side of the check point. I had to leave my son stood there whilst I went back through the exit and return through with my wife and infant because the TSA would not hand the boarding card to her (apparently it was not to procedure).
When we eventually got through to the check-point again, TSA made a point of pouring all the baby milk out, despite it all being within their recommendations (I even had the print out from their website - but it made no difference they don't even listen to what you have to say).
Suffice to say my son was terrified and my wife was hysterical by the time we were reunited again. - DinX, on 10/10/2007, -4/+26Maybe his real name is Stewie.
- killercow, on 10/10/2007, -3/+25Lol,
What did he expect with a t-shirt like that.
"Armed & ready", "target identified"
Seriously though, were's the fun in a tshirt like that on a 7 year old, And where's the threat in a 7 year old on vacation. - morchibby, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24Its racism, pure and simple. Besides, I`m pretty certain terrorists have learned to use fake documents by now. A watch list based on names is about as useful as a colour-coded terror alert. If I were a terrorist, I would have attacked on lowered alert days.
In my opinion, this is all to give the illusion of safety and vigilance on the part of the American government. Just like the ban on liquids not too long ago. What was to stop a real terrorist from using a powder or gelbased explosive/accelerant? - Audiophile27, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24Airport security staff should have common sense before all else
- dinostabOMG, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21I dunno, how many times are they going to stop kids in the airport?
- imofirey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20The exchange rate for civil Liberties to perceived security is costly these days
- dajuggernaut, on 10/10/2007, -7/+26Jesus, how many times do i have to hear about a kid getting stopped at an airport.
- xNIBx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Stories like this is what prevents me from visiting the US, even though these days the US dollar is close to worthless when compared to euro. I wonder how much money the US loses from all these potential european(mainly) tourists who dont visit the US because of all this "security". I mean seriously, millions of mexicans can illegally enter the US each year, do you really think that you can stop bin landen's lackeys from entering the US if they wanted to?
These security measures serve 2 reasons. First one, they want to give the illusion of security to US citizens. Secondly, some companies who sell all these security measures make A LOT OF MONEY. But you cant really stop someone with the amount of money that bin laden has, from entering the country. It is idiotic to think that you can do something like that. The only thing that you can do is spread xenophobia in your country and make foreigners to dislike(or even hate) you even more than before. - tompaine76, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Basically, the TSA mechanism for screen Muslims and Arabs int he US is no different than the "yellow star" Nazi's used for Jews in the 1930s. The yellow star is replaced with digital attributes.
- Endemoniada, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I haven't been to America (yet), but I'd love to go there. The risk of being detained for no particular reason, strip searched and facing the possibility of going to prison for a few years without ever being told why is kind of putting me off though.
A few years back (one year before 9/11), I went to Malaysia, with a quick stop in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia. They treated every passenger with the utmost respect, if they'd forgotten a set of keys when going through the metal detector, they'd just be padded and sent along with the rest, into a great big hall with tables full of fruits and sandwiches. No problems, no delays.
When I'd rather fly to the middle east than to the USA, I think they should start thinking about what they're doing. - prammy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Considering that our Airports filter by name and cannot differentiate between an adult and a child while screening for suspected terrorist, we will keep hearing about such incidents till someone up the chain of command realizes that this is probably not the best way to do things.
- bluefreek, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21Intelligence-based analysis has been used to compile the list and has shrewdly spotted 7 year old boy in suspicion of being a terrorist...
Such a Shame! - Quactaur, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Because, clearly, a sucide bomber would wear the most provocative clothing they could, especially a 7 year old one.
- Audiophile27, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19I Lol'd
- DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20You're also dumb...
- jubalharshaw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Unfortunately (for Americans), many businesses are withdrawing from your country (or cancelling plans to expand) for this very reason - they're sick of having their high-level employees harassed and intimidated by your overzealous security. Of course, your country's (or the government's) enmity towards things like basic science, stem-cell research, technology, the internet (incumbent telcos vs bandwidth), etc, etc are also making your country less of an investment platform and more of a laughingstock.
- CZzyzx41, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Maybe things would be better if ***** stopped posting stupid ***** on the internet.
- Quactaur, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16That's not at all the point; the system is still *****. If he was a 7 year old suicide bomber, the only reason he was stopped is because he shared a name with someone else. That's also the only reason he was searched. The system is harrasing people because of their names. Even if you are so stupid to believe that 7 year olds pose a risk to national security, the fact is the system wouldn't have picked him out as it did for this poor boy.
- CZzyzx41, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Good for you. I do mind.
- dinostabOMG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13It's America's fault that they confused him for a grown man who supposedly posed a national security threat. And even that guy, they determined he wasn't a threat.
- Smegzor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Wait wait.. tourist.. terrorist OMG! Some of the letters are the same! ALERT ALERT ALEEEEEERT!
- jacquesm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14good for you, you made it to be my first friend on digg for standing up for your son like that. I wished there were more people like you.
- spudmanster, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Crap like this is why I will never spend another cent in the US as a tourist. Maybe one day the public will realize the damage that is being done to their reputation. Hell, I travel for work and go out of my way so my flights do not connect and/or route through there at all. Not worth the aggro.
- racco, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14George Bush has the same name as a terrorist. . . . .
so does his dad - vidar808, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Seems that they need to add a little more information to the database. Such as age...
- carriellbee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I hate to admit it, but it's true.
- ScornedPatriot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14That's what happens when you get Catholic Priests involved...
- dinostabOMG, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Is that your idea of a zinger?
- philz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Exactly. I was asked to work in the states. I declined as this DHS, Domestic Spying and insane pseudo-security stuff is not exactly an incentive.
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11OK I have what's probably a dumb question. Now that his passport "contains a sticker saying he has undergone highlevel security checks" and he has obviously passed them, doesn't that mean he won't (or shouldn't anyway) undergo highlevel security checks anymore?
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