Well, it sure made me nervous.
What a nightmare. I commend the woman for writing the article. I may email her if there's a link, and thank her.
I'm generally not in favor of profiling, not because I'm PC, but because I believe that the TSA should scutinize everyone boarding an airplane, from babies to blue haired grandmothers in wheel chairs. Nevertheless, there are situations that obviously demand a greater level of scrutiny and intervention, and 14 relatively young ME men flying on the same plane and then acting unusual by any standard throughout the flight should have resulted in an unscheduled landing. And while I realize that air marshalls are not supposed to reveal themselves until the situation requires that they act, I wonder whether that point had been reached on this particular flight. And what about the other passengers who observed the suspiscious behavior? At some point, we have to take control of the situation.