[hummingbird]

A Saudi graduate student...Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, 33..."

Is this kind of old to be a graduate student...being a student, is this how he is able to remain in country?

Cindy, I like your profile page!

[Letitring]

Some of those 'students' are alot older than 33. Professional students, I call them. Seems a certain flavor of ME man keeps going back to OUR schools, in order to obtain multiple degrees, with varying interests. I've also noticed these men have a boundless sense of energy. Where does it come from? Look at the guy who was a pilot onboard that Red Sea crash. In and out of this and that, for years.

[JustPiper]

Plane Diverts to Dulles Because of Security Threat

Saturday, January 10, 2004

CHANTILLY, Va. — The FBI took one passenger into custody Saturday after an American Airlines commuter flight was diverted to Washington's Dulles International Airport (search) because of a security threat.

One official told Fox News flight crew received a note mid-flight from a passenger that said he had a bomb on board.

Flight 4959, operated by American Eagle (search) and carrying 19 passengers and a crew of five, left New York's LaGuardia Airport at 10:57 a.m. bound for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (search). It landed at about noon at Dulles, which is 33 miles away.

The FBI detained one passenger after questioning the 23 others on the flight, said Tara Hamilton, spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (search).

She referred questions about the threat to the FBI. Calls to the FBI were not immediately returned Saturday.

An American Airlines spokeswoman, Lisa Bailey, said that upon approach to National Airport, a threat was made against the plane and the crew decided to divert to the other Washington area airport.

Airport police and security dogs were checking all luggage from the fight and conducting a sweep of the plane, Hamilton.

Fox News contributed to this report.