Saturday, May 06, 2006
Vigilence
We detained the wrong guys:
Five men detained Saturday after an American Airlines flight landed at Newark Liberty International Airport were found to pose no threat and were released, an FBI spokesman said.
The men — identified only as four Angolan military personnel and an Israeli — were traveling back to their home countries after attending helicopter training school in Texas, said Steven Siegel, a spokesman for the FBI's Newark office.
Fellow passengers on Flight 1874, which had departed from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, became suspicious of the men because they were speaking in foreign languages and had "aircraft flight materials" with them, Siegel said.
Excellent. Americans are still vigilent, and the target is still hard.
3 Comments:
By 
Final Historian, at
Sun May 07, 02:25:00 AM:
In this regard, I think its safe to say that any hopes of using Commercial Airliners full of passengers for the purposes of "guided missiles" will not succeed in the future. At least, not unless the terrorists have a means of subduing/neutralizing those passengers. People know the price of abeyance now.
By 
, at
Sun May 07, 11:53:00 AM:
I love that the FBI agent's name was Steven Siegel. I am not a fan of the actor (and I think his name is spelled different), but it's still a nice touch. May all our airplane passengers treat the terrorists similarly!
By Nancy Reyes, at
Sun May 07, 05:45:00 PM:
Check this out...
http://journals.aol.com/nocon6929/DrBsFinestKindMedicalclinicandFi/entries/784
My grandson's plane from Tulsa was cancaled because a guy went nuts...and a local Okie high school wrestler took him out.
Probably most cases never hit the papers.
And an LA times report on a Jordanian suicide bomber notes that Chicago Homeland security wouldn't let him back into the USA.
http://fkclinic.blogspot.com/2006/04/homeland-security-one-suicide-bombers.html
I bet if someone googled they'd find a lot of cases. Did you know that they land in Bangor ME, when there are troublemakers on overseas flights into the USA? Wonder how many were arrested there?
