"First, Karim told FBI agents that he used the razor blades to shave the bottom of his full beard. Then he said they were for a friend in Houston named Mahmoud. Finally, he said he did not know the razor blades were in his bag.
"This is the first case at D/FW, to my knowledge, where we found razor blades in carry-on luggage where there is no razor in the bag," Schattman said.
In addition, immigration inspectors discovered that Karim's claim that he was a tourist visiting friends in Houston for a couple of weeks was a lie. Immigration authorities found out that Karim, a Pakistani national with Canadian citizenship, had lived in Houston for three years and did not have a residence in another country.
He had a one-way, $3,069 ticket from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to Paris to D/FW and to Houston.
Schattman rejected any notions of ethnic profiling in the case. Since 9-11, though, aviation-safety cases are prosecuted more aggressively as a deterrent, Schattman said.
"If he had been Irish and Catholic, with the same set of circumstances, I believe we would have filed the same case and prosecuted it the same way," Schattman said."
With a handle and the double edged blades protruding....probably about 24 to 29 inches long....
sure could do a lot of damage close up in an aircraft weilding such a weapon
It would probably be safe to say that Hooper is a slow-on-the-draw mouthy whiner that defends the Muslim position about as well as the Ratners defend libs.