• French mom blacklisted from flights because her name sounds like ‘Al Qaeda’
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A young French mom says she has been banned from the U.S. because her name sounds like Al Qaeda. Aida Alic, whose name appears on her passport as Alic Aida, was stopped at Geneva airport as she was about to board a flight to New York and told she had been blacklisted after the Swiss airlines had received notice from U.S. border authorities. "At first I thought it was a joke, then I realized our trip was not going to happen," she told the Dauphine Libere website. Alic, lives in southeastern France and had painted her fingernails in the colours of the Stars and Stripes in readiness for her trip. Read more: [url]http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/french-mom-blacklisted-sounds-al-qaeda-article-1.1769864#ixzz30EDKFumW[/url]
Disgraceful. Seriously, what a joke. Why is this sort of thing even allowed to happen?
What a fucking joke
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;44671483]Somewhat off-topic, but I've always wondered whether it's legal or not to change your name to Allan Queda. Anyone care to enlighten me? :v:[/QUOTE] It's legal, I guess you can't fly though. Also, the no fly list is ten times better than it was two years ago. Which doesn't say much but there used to be entire flights with people on the list for selective screening, because there was no differentiating between people who had the same name. Obviously, it's far from perfect however they're going about it, but it's not as bad as it used to be.
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;44671483]Somewhat off-topic, but I've always wondered whether it's legal or not to change your name to Allan Queda. Anyone care to enlighten me? :v:[/QUOTE] Perfectly legal to change your name to cocaine, but everyone seems to shit a brick when it even just sounds like Al Quaeda.
Hopefully Terry Wrist isn't blacklisted as well. [video=youtube;4wK_yQ6p8hU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wK_yQ6p8hU[/video]
I can just imagine the border agent who double takes, squints and says "wait a minute..."
Kinda like how if you share the name of someone on a no-fly list, you are on the no-fly list. (referring to the story of the little kid in that situation)
Banned from the US because even something sounding even remotely similar to Al Qaeda would probably make everyone in the airport either panic or rabidly attack the woman until she is dead.
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;44671584]Banned from the US because even something sounding even remotely similar to Al Qaeda would probably make everyone in the airport either panic or rabidly attack the woman until she is dead.[/QUOTE] in the real world, most people in an american airport wouldn't give a shit if her name sounds similar i'm pretty sure that everyone would just continue to text on their cellphones or tablets
[QUOTE=darrn;44671644]in the real world, most people in an american airport wouldn't give a shit if her name sounds simmlar[/QUOTE] Until her name is called over the intercom... :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44671652]Until her name is called over the intercom... :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] then everyone would continue to not give a shit, people's names are called nearly every fifteen minutes
I see that the border patrol subscribes to Adam West Bat Logic [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzpfL-_KrFY[/media]
[QUOTE=darrn;44671687]then everyone would continue to not give a shit, people's names are called nearly every fifteen minutes[/QUOTE] Al Qaeda's aren't called every 15 minutes, and factor in that anyone using the PA system at an airport is Middle Eastern with terrible English skills, panic ensues. Edit: people take things way too seriously, must be the ones who would panic over this.
this is just embarrassing
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;44671806]Sounds as funny as those stories about airport security barring people for greeting their friends as "Hi Jack" or "Hey Jack"[/QUOTE] Jack is the bomb!
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44671755]Al Qaeda's aren't called every 15 minutes, and factor in that anyone using the PA system at an airport is Middle Eastern with terrible English skills, panic ensues.[/QUOTE] i dont know why you're trying so much to come up with a hypothetical situation in which people would freak out like the stupid sheep they are over hearing Alic Aida over the intercom but i assure you that even the most stereotypical muslim terrorist caricature could call over the intercom "al qaeda taliban nuclear bomb" and whatever terrorism buzzwords you can think of and still no one would give a shit
The whole "no fly list" needs to be scrapped. It's a blatant violation of due process where you don't get to argue your case, and don't get to see the evidence being brought against you. For fuck's sake, 9/11 was 14 years ago. It's time for America to get over the temporary insanity relating to all things aviation and terrorism and start reintroducing common sense. The only reason the 9/11 hijackings were successful was because Americans believed the best thing to do was sit calmly in their seats and wait for the plane to land and ransom negotiations to start, because that's how hijackings always ended up until that point. Now, if you attempt to hijack a plane, every single passenger will beat you to death. It's just not going to happen again, and it has nothing to do with no fly lists or the TSA.
That doesn't even sound like Al Qaeda wtf I wonder, if I suddenly say "Al Qaeda" in an airport, will people start screaming and praying to jesus while shitfaced in tears and pulling their hair while the entire marine corps plus the navy seals rappel down on me, try to negotiate so I don't detonate and ultimately shoot me after 1 second of negotiations, deeming it a good job and playing the Real American song? Holy shit... "The terrorists" fucking WON when you tucked your tail between your legs and started to live in fear. [editline]29th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;44671832]Jack is the bomb![/QUOTE] Maybe if I hire a bunch of people to say that over and over again as they pass by a couple of agents, they'll go nuts and do something rash. Since apparently everyone "sleeps with a knife under their pillow"...
[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;44672274]That doesn't even sound like Al Qaeda wtf I wonder, if I suddenly say "Al Qaeda" in an airport, will people start screaming and praying to jesus while shitfaced in tears and pulling their hair while the entire marine corps plus the navy seals rappel down on me, try to negotiate so I don't detonate and ultimately shoot me after 1 second of negotiations, deeming it a good job and playing the Real American song? Holy shit... "The terrorists" fucking WON when you tucked your tail between your legs and started to live in fear.[/QUOTE] yeah dude thats totally what will happen the terror men won
[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;44672274]That doesn't even sound like Al Qaeda wtf I wonder, if I suddenly say "Al Qaeda" in an airport, will people start screaming and praying to jesus while shitfaced in tears and pulling their hair while the entire marine corps plus the navy seals rappel down on me, try to negotiate so I don't detonate and ultimately shoot me after 1 second of negotiations, deeming it a good job and playing the Real American song? Holy shit... "The terrorists" fucking WON when you tucked your tail between your legs and started to live in fear. [editline]29th April 2014[/editline] Maybe if I hire a bunch of people to say that over and over again as they pass by a couple of agents, they'll go nuts and do something rash. Since apparently everyone "sleeps with a knife under their pillow"...[/QUOTE] Depending on how loud it was, either nothing would happen or you'd get a few confused stares from passerby. Nobody is going to care that much, except maybe the security staff.
I'd like to know just who is the officer that sat down, saw that name and thought "Yep, that name is going to cause a lot of trouble, the only sensible action is to ban her from traveling to the US"
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44671755]Al Qaeda's aren't called every 15 minutes, and factor in that anyone using the PA system at an airport is Middle Eastern with terrible English skills, panic ensues.[/QUOTE] i agree that we should kill people with funny sounding names and accents to prevent people from becoming panicked
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44671652]Until her name is called over the intercom... :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] her name's actually Aida Alic, so the only possible place anyone would see or hear her referred to as Alic Aida is on her passport, so that doesn't matter [quote]Especially as my name is pronounced Alitch. It is of Yugoslav origin.[/quote] and also this, if it was pronounced correctly there also would be no problem
But her name can be pronounced alyk aida, yes but also aida alyk, aid-alyk, which sounds like a fine name.
Also barred from the flight was her boyfriend, Benjamin Ladden.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;44671832]Jack is the bomb![/QUOTE] Total bummer.
Whaat? Whaaaat?!
This fucking paranoia is starting to piss me off. Seriously come on.
America does it again.
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