Here is another passenger who confirmed the 2nd passenger’s arrest:
Abdul Akin Sadiku, a Nigerian living in Canada was on the same flight with the terror suspect, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, He shared his experience with NEXT in an interview from his Canada base. Excerpts:
When you got down at the airport, what kind of situation did you meet?
The first things we noticed before the plane landed was, we saw fire ambulances all over the place; police cruisers all over the place. All of them were waiting for us to land.
We landed and they took us to a desolate part of the airport and they got us off the plane. But before the rest of us, they took the suspect off; and they then took off the guy that tackled him. They checked him for damages. Then they came into the plane to look at the scene of the incident and make sure that people did not touch the area that got burnt. We got out of the plane and were taken to a place where we were quarantined.
They did not do any immigration check or anything. They never told us anything. For six hours, we just sat there. Only later, they started allowing us to go to the bathroom; one person at a time. Except, if an adult were going with a child. Then they brought a dog to sniff peoples’ bags. It did, and they later took away one guy whose bag was repeatedly sniffed by the dog. They handcuffed him and we don’t know what happened to him anymore. They later started interviewing us.
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5502770-146/story.csp
Interesting story that corroborates Haskell.
What I liked best about Haskell’s comments today was the part where he said “If this other guy they arrested was on a different flight, why did the co-mingle us?”
I agree with him. What other passengers would you let into the same room with the 253 folks? It is plausible people at the airport were that dumb, but I highly doubt it.