Yemeni cried 'Allah Akbar' as rammed cockpit door

Another occurrence of a lone jihadi making war on the US.  I'm afraid we'll be seeing more of this since the Osama takedown.  On a positive note, getting the jihadi out in the open allows them to be eliminated.  Unfortunately this ones only been charged with interfering with a flight crew, not attempted mass murder and terrorism.  But this is typical of PC prosecutors; afraid to say "Islamic terrorist".  (Emphesis mine, ed.)

FROM GOOGLE.COM:
Yemeni cried 'Allah Akbar' as rammed cockpit door

By Stephanie Rice (AFP) – 20 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO — A Yemeni man arrested on a San Francisco-bound plane repeatedly shouted "Allah Akbar" as he tried to break into the cockpit, a court heard Tuesday, as he made an initial appearance.

Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al-Murisi appeared sullen as a federal judge told the California resident he was charged with interfering with a flight crew, a felony that can carry up to 20 years in prison.

With an Arabic interpreter by his side, the 28-year-old listened as prosecutor Elise Becker told Judge James Larson how he strode toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 shortly before landing Sunday evening.

Murisi, a slight man with a short beard, "repeatedly yelled 'Allah Akbar' while attempting to enter the cockpit," and struggled as several passengers and a flight attendant restrained him, she said.

An affidavit filed by a federal air marshal says the flight attendant first thought Murisi was confused as he approached the cockpit and the attendant twice tried to direct him to the restroom.

Murisi then made eye contact with the flight attendant, according to the affidavit, and rammed the cockpit door with his shoulder.

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Success of Lone Gunmen May Shift Al-Qaida Strategy

More will be coming to the US.  The lone jihadi attacks have been happening for several years, but not acknowledged by the administration as Muslim terrorism.

FROM NEWSMAX.COM:

Success of Lone Gunmen May Shift Al-Qaida Strategy
Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 07:40 AM

On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal agencies against each other and triggered months of political second-guessing.

In fact, short of mass casualties, the attack allegedly attempted by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had exactly the kind of reaction that al-Qaida is after. And, it appears, that lesson is resonating with the terror network's leadership.

For the first time, the group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and has prided itself on its ideological purism seems to be eyeing a more pragmatic and arguably more dangerous shift in tactics. The emerging message appears to be: Big successes are great, but sometimes simply trying can be just as good.

U.S. officials and counterterrorism experts say the airline attack and last November's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, prove that simple, well-played smaller attacks against the United States can be just as devastating to the democratic giant as complex and riskier ones.

In a recent Internet posting, U.S.-born al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn made a public pitch for such smaller, single acts of jihad.

"Even apparently unsuccessful attacks on Western mass transportation systems can bring major cities to a halt, cost the enemy billions and send his corporations into bankruptcy," Gadahn said in a video released and translated by U.S.-based Site Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamic militant message traffic.

It's a message that officials believe has been evolving for the last year and has turned upside down the prevailing wisdom that the next al-Qaida attack against the U.S. must be bigger and bolder than the one on Sept. 11, 2001.

"It's pretty clear that while al-Qaida would still love to have home runs, they will take singles and doubles if they can get them," said Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Saban Center and a former CIA officer. "And that makes the job of counterterrorism much, much harder."
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