I think it was either a dry run -- no matter what the folks who pooh-pooed the idea said on Joe Scarborough's msnbc show last night. If that group of Syrians did all the suspicious activities alleged by the WomansWallStreet.com writer, than it was either a definite dry run or the Middle Eastern fools were jerking our chains for laughs. I suppose the latter is possible.
It may be that the PTB do not want to throw another wrench into the flying public's flying plans at this time. Even if they know it is a dry run.
A deliberate dry run to test our response and laugh at us IMO
I said to my husband last night after watching Scarborough that those 14 Syrians are barely functioning idiots if they were truly innocent & oblivious to how their behavior looked to the rest of the folks on that aircraft. I know there's a machismo factor in the Middle East, but don't you think law-abiding MEs would try to keep a low profile?
One of the things James Woods said on O'Reilly about his observations of the dry run before 9/11 was that the men looked like they were working together...like they were following the same script...something like that. I think the fact that several of the Syrians on Annie Jacobsen's flight standing up when the pilot announced that they would be landing soon sounds like a group of people working together...not a coincidence.