Marvel at TSA's Screening Process as Employee Quits, Threatens Terrorist Attack

A guy who puts up a website threatening some ominous incident that will be even worse than Sept. 11 is exactly who you want going through your luggage, right? I'd argue that he was trying to guarantee job security, but he apparently quit, and then called in unspecified threats that shut down parts of Los Angeles International Airport. The Associated Press reports:

A Los Angeles International Airport security screener arrested on suspicion of making threats appears on a website that contains rambling letters criticizing America and a promise of something more devastating than the 9/11 attacks.

Nna Alpha Onuoha, 29, was arrested late Tuesday, hours after he quit his Transportation Security Administration job. He was being interviewed by federal investigators and charges could be filed Wednesday.

The website shows Onuoha posing with crosses and includes several letters filled with religious references. An Aug. 25 posting attributed to him said a message would be released on Sept. 11 and America "will be reduced to nothing."

"Do not expect another 9/11," it said. "What will unfold on this day and on the days ahead will be greater than 9/11."

After he called in threats, parts of LAX were closed and searched, but nothing was found. Before he resigned he was suspended from work for a week in July for allegedly making inappropriate comments to a 15-year-old, according to unidentified sources. Hmm. Could that be this case here?

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Comments

[BoscoH]

D-students rule!

[Heroic Mulatto]

Well, looks like the Progs finally got their "Christian terrorist". On 9/11, no less! Expect much furious masturbation over this over in Progland.

[PapayaSF]

"Nna Alpha Onuoha"? See, even insane immigrants can become US citizens! Celebrate diversity!

The guy was probably driven insane by people constantly asking him to spell his name.

[Heroic Mulatto]

How do you know he wasn't born here?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Ah, never mind.

Onuoha, originally from Nigeria

[Killazontherun]

Alpha turned out to be a real omega. Ha! The jokes on his name just right themselves. Poor bastard, prison is not going to go well for this former govsec fink.

[PapayaSF]

Should we make fun of his name? Nna....

[andarm16]

Like I said in the PM links, the Onion is redundant.

[fish]

Ah...I remember the good old days when all they did was feel up airlines passengers, pull out catheters, and steal from the luggage.

Good times! Good times.

[Andrew S.]

"Do not expect another 9/11," it said. "What will unfold on this day and on the days ahead will be greater than 9/11."

So it's going to be 9/11 times 100?

[Killazontherun]

It's gonna be a 900/1100. Your spigots will swarm with roaches, your baby monitors will pour blood, and your faces will be smoked on barbeque grills in the back yards of every home of a righteous man in Paradise*.

*Google the last if you are curious. Be warned, its horrifying.

[BoscoH]

I bet it's gonna be 9/12. Where is Maxwell Smart when we need him?

[Invisible Finger]

I'd settle for a 9/31

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It's been downhill ever since the piano bars were removed from the 747s.

http://tinyurl.com/p95gch4

And there was no diversity in the past.

[Stormy Dragon]

A Los Angeles International Airport security screener arrested on suspicion of making threats appears on a website that contains rambling letters criticizing America and a promise of something more devastating than the 9/11 attacks.

Wow, talk about an oddly specific law.

[Brandon]

And yet still vague.

[Stormy Dragon]

Yeah, I think I'd base my defense on convincing the jury that the letters weren't actually rambling.

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Terse and crazy rarely meet.