[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Anyone know of the kid was arabic or is newsmax just being newsmax?

[austinTparty]

Richard Reid is English. So is the kid. Nothing Arab about either one. Reid may be Muslim, but he is of Jamaican and English extraction.

[monkeyshine]

I have no idea, but the obvious lead is that this is some kind of copycat crime. The motive may be unrelated to the method.

[Snoopers-868th]

Don't ya wonder where those planes were that should have shot it down?

[kattracks]

Reuters Photo

[exit82]

This seems like a stretch for the newswriter to ascribe a motive to this 15 year old kid. The 9/11 pilots had intense religious and ideological motives for their actions. Unless this 15 year old kid was a radical Muslim with the same motives, then you could say that this was a copycat flight.

But do we KNOW that? A 15 year old kid could have a lot of motives--the word"apparently" gives a lot of wiggle room while at the same time, allowing for a grave mischaracterization of why this happened.

I'd like to find out more about this kid. It is of interest that his mom and grandmother were at the airport when he stole the plane. I wonder if that if this an integral part of this story.

[GeronL]

'Kamikaze' assumes it was on purpose.

[Post Toasties]

What the hell are we doing letting underage, foreign student pilots get flight training in the US?

[JZoback]

A fifteen-year-old student pilot apparently trying to recreate the 9/11 kamikaze attack on the World Trade Center slammed a stolen Cessna 172 private airplane Saturday into Tampa, Florida's Bank of America building, the city's tallest structure.

This is PURE speculation he was trying to recreate 9/11

Yeah, pure NewsMax.

No wonder my respect for their publication is at a all time low

[metesky]

Skyscraper Hit: from the Tampa Tribune

[PatrioticAmerican]

What was the last thing that went through this kid's mind? (hehe)

[MinuteGal]

I hope the authorities immediately obtained a warrant to search this kid's bedroom. Interesting to see what he has on his computer, in his closet and under the bed. Maybe even in the soles of his Nike's.

Leni