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You're not gonna believe this article!!

FBI releases pilots after questioning (Texas)
By ANNA BOUDREAU
Staff Writer

Four men who landed an airplane in Stephenville Friday prompted law enforcement officers to investigate their suspicious actions, but the FBI freed them in Fort Worth following separate interrogations.

“Four males flew into our airport and left the airport using a golf cart to go to Hard 8 Barbecue to have lunch,” said Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant. “After lunch they went over to the DPS office and went into the driver’s license office to acquire about getting Texas identification cards.”

Bryant said the lady working in the driver’s license office became suspicious of the men because each had numerous passports and identification cards — something she learned in her training should indicate there might be trouble.(snipped...click link for rest of the article)

http://www.empiretribune.com/EMPIRETRIBUNE/sites/EMPIRETRIBUNE/1172edition/myarticles941773.asp?P=941773&S=425&PubID=15411

2,072 posted on 03/02/2004 10:37:31 AM PST by Velveeta

Good grief. That is amazing. Yep...us Texans, we're a trusting lot. "Seems like some good ol' boys to me, nothin' to worry 'bout, thank ye ma'am." (NOT!!!)

2,088 posted on 03/02/2004 10:53:40 AM PST by watchwoman

I'm really becoming numb by the FBI. It is really sad when a proud law abiding citizen loses trust in law enforcement officers.

2,090 posted on 03/02/2004 10:55:56 AM PST by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

2,098 posted on 03/02/2004 11:03:36 AM PST by JustPiper (The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it)

something she learned in her training should indicate there might be trouble

holy moly, anybody should know that

2,131 posted on 03/02/2004 12:46:24 PM PST by knak

Snipped from the CIA website, I hope that's legal.......

Nationality: noun: Maldivian(s) Ethnic groups: South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs Religions: Sunni Muslim Languages: Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic),

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, how did they rule out that these guys were not terrorists scoping out the area. Where was their regular pilot if they were students? From Maldives and they are ok??????

This letting people off the hook so easily is really getting to me. Why did they take off running when she said she was going to get a trooper? There's a lot of unanswered questions. Also the Maldives is a great place to learn how to scuba dive

2,182 posted on 03/02/2004 5:40:35 PM PST by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)

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