Unruly man grounds AirTran flight(Muhammad Abu Tahir: caused F-16 scramble)

AJC ^ | 01/08/10 | Mashaun D. Simon

[TigerLikesRooster]

Unruly man grounds AirTran flight

By Mashaun D. Simon

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

9:16 p.m. Friday, January 8, 2010

The unruly and allegedly drunk passenger who forced an emergency landing of an AirTran jet flying from Atlanta to San Francisco Friday is being held over the weekend in anticipation of federal charges being filed Monday.

Muhammad Abu Tahir, 46, of Virginia was transported to the El Paso, Co. County jail where he will be detained on a federal hold, said FBI officials.

Federal charges for interference with a flight crew are expected to be filed, FBI spokeswoman Kathleen Wright told the AJC Friday night.

The incident occurred on AirTran flight #39 as the plane neared Colorado Springs, Co. AirTran spokesman Tad Hutcheson told the AJC Friday afternoon. The Boeing 737 was almost four hours into the flight, and had 132 passengers and five crew on board.

[TigerLikesRooster]

So it was a 'drunken' Muslim. In light of this, scrambling two F-16's turn out to be appropriate.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[Jet Jaguar]

Muhammad Abu Tahir, 46, of Virginia

Hmmm. I bet that guy is Amish.

[MaxMax]

He could just be a sound principled religious man.

[STARWISE]

Another article which can’t be posted said he grabbed a flight attendant’s arm, then took off his socks and shoes and threw them.

[NoRedTape]

"Muhammad Abu Tahir"????

.......'scuse me........it that an Irish or Norweigan name?

[EyeGuy]

Forced labor under confinement to pay in full ALL the costs of his acting out his Jihadist boner, not to mention full prosecution of any and all criminal behavior.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I bet he has also been Skyping with Anwar Al-Awlaqi over in Yemen, too.

Some of these have GOT to be tests.

Always ask.

W.W.E.A.D.?

What would El-Al do?

[rdl6989]

They seem to like Airtran don’t they?

[TigerLikesRooster]

If you say that to AirTran PR persons, they will freak out.

The worst publicty airline can image: “Jihads love our planes.” :-)

[New Yawk Minute]

Sounds chinese to me...lol

How much more abuse are they going to take before they start using good ole profiling..and keep them off the damned planes. Better yet, throw them all the hell out of OUR country.

[eyedigress]

Satan has got them all tied up in knots. What’s with the damn shoes anyway?

[goat granny]

I think its like giving someone the finger...

[2ndDivisionVet]

What happens on the day that 2-300 of these jihadists take over that many airplanes all over the world?

[nutmeg]

Muhammad Abu Tahir, 46, of Virginia

Hmmm. I bet that guy is Amish.

OH yeah...

[FrankR]

So, what's going to happen when one of the obamites gets overzealous about serving dear reader and orders those F-16's to shoot down a loaded 737 because some nutcase locked himself in the restroom?

American warplanes shooting down an American passenger jet...that should work really well for the kenyan.

He's got all this building up to a high-pitched fervor to cover his own ass, and he's playing right into the hands of Al Qaeda.

America is in the hands of an idiot.

[eyedigress]

I’ll leave that alone.

[American Dream 246]

I think they are testing us. And they are testing very very often us since the flying immams...since a while. This is NOT good. Something big is up.

[Rca2000]

Or...a “cry wolf” plan.

IOW—you get a good number of muslims to ACT like they are a threat...cause a disturbance on some plane or such..over and over..

After enough times of ‘false alarms” and the ensuing ACLU and ACORN, SEIU and CAIR lawsuits over “rights of the poor innocent Muslims”..THEN...the TSA would begin to think”we are overreacting” and start ignoring said actions. At that point the REAL terrorist acts coud go ahead unheeded—till it is too late to stop them.

Just a thought.

[FrankR]

A quiz for the kenyan:

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality… Absolutely No Profiling! Pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.

These events are actual events from history.. They really happened! Do you remember?

HERE'S THE TEST

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:

a.. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry Potter
d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40


2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by :

a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:

a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:

a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:

a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c.. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:

a. The Smurfs
b. Davey Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:

a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:

a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:

a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:

a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:

a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:

a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:

a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people..

They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.