Airline mechanic accused of plane sabotage may have ties to ISIS
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
God works through bad times and good times to advance his kingdom. Today's podcast explores ways his Spirit is moving today and invites us to invest our lives in eternal significance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:20.2 | On July 17th, an American Airlines Boeing 737-800 was approaching the departure runway in Miami |
| 0:27.8 | and powering up its engines. |
| 0:30.0 | Then the crew got an error message and aborted the takeoff. |
| 0:33.4 | A mechanic named Abdul Majid Maruf Ahmed Alani later admitted to federal agents that he |
| 0:39.0 | tampered with the plane. He said he was upset about an impasse over a union contract and |
| 0:44.5 | wanted the flight to be delayed or canceled so he could get overtime work. Now prosecutors say |
| 0:50.1 | Mr. Alani had videos on his cell phone that showed mass murders committed by the Islamic State. |
| 0:56.0 | They also alleged that he wished Allah would harm non-Muslims and that he had a brother in Iraq who may be involved with ISIS. |
| 1:04.0 | A federal judge denied bail to Mr. Alani, stating that the mechanic may be very sympathetic to terrorists. |
| 1:10.0 | Al-Qaeda's leader issued a call on September 11th for Muslims to attack the stating that the mechanic may be very sympathetic to terrorists. |
| 1:18.1 | Al-Qaeda's leader issued a call on September 11th for Muslims to attack targets in the U.S., Europe, Israel, and Russia, |
| 1:23.7 | and ISIS claims to have conducted more than 1,800 attacks in the first half of 2019. |
| 1:27.1 | Here's the part of the story you won't read in today's news. During these years that the Islamic narrative has been dominated by radical jihadists, more Muslims have come to Christ than ever before in Islamic history, but their stories and even their names are unknown to most of us. |
| 1:42.3 | God is at work in good times and in hard times. Amid the historic energy boom in the |
| 1:48.8 | Permian Basin of West Texas, ministers are giving away Bibles and sharing their testimonies with |
| 1:54.7 | oil field workers coming to the area in record numbers. One such ministry has distributed more |
| 2:00.8 | than 350,000 copies of |
| 2:03.0 | Bibles, customized for oil workers around the world. One worker picked up a Bible and later told |
| 2:08.9 | the minister what happened as a result. I went home last night, read all of the Gospel of John. |
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