Has ISIS infiltrated the TSA?

A militant connected to the Islamic State terror organization claims ISIS has successfully planted militants in security positions at Western airports, mass transit stations and other “very sensitive facilities.”

The claim came during a pre-recorded interview Abu al-Ayna al-Ansari, a Salafist movement senior official in the Gaza Strip, gave Breitbart’s senior investigative reporter Aaron Klein on on the reporter’s AM radio show.

Breitbart reported: “Ansari is a well-known Gazan Salafist jihadist allied with Islamic State ideology.  During the interview with Klein, Ansari seemed to be speaking as an actual IS member, repeatedly using the pronoun ‘we’ when referring to IS and even seemingly making declarations on behalf of IS.”

Speaking about ISIS’s infiltration of Western transportation systems, Ansari told his interviewer:

The Islamic State is a state. The Islamic State has agents all around the very sensitive facilities in the world, like metro stations, like airports and other places whether in the West or in the Arab world. We have our mujahedeen implanted in those facilities as workers, as employees, even in the security field in the airports.

And they were recruited to work with the Islamic State and we proved that we succeeded to reach a very deep infiltration in these facilities. We showed it in Sinai with the Russian jet. We show it now. And everybody should understand. This is a state. This state will not disappear. It will only become bigger because this is the message. This is the prophecy of Muhammad and this is the promise of Allah.

The claim is especially concerning for the United States after reports surfaced last year that the Transportation Security Administration’s lax hiring policies have already lead the agency to fail to identify potential terrorists in its job applicant pool.

As we reported last summer:

An Inspector General’s (IG) report Monday revealed the beleaguered agency “did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related information under current interagency watchlisting policy.”

While the review found the agency’s performance in using available employee-vetting practices to be “generally effective,” it also noted that TSA’s limited ability to cross-reference potential hires with all available watchlist information allowed more than six dozen applicants with possible terror ties to be hired and receive security clearance.

The report also notes that TSA left much of the vetting process to airports, which themselves did not uniformly apply the same set of standards to weeding through the agency’s pool of job applicants.

Following the recent terror attacks in Brussels, many U.S. lawmakers have called for more security in American airports. Perhaps instead of creating more hoops for airline passengers to jump through, that security ought to begin with renewed scrutiny on the employees working in American mass transit.

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