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Want to get scared out of your wits? Take a gander at this little story. Anybody really think we can afford PC these days?
1 posted on 07/15/2004 1:12:51 PM PDT by big gray tabby
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To: big gray tabby

I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure this was posted in another thread.


2 posted on 07/15/2004 1:13:46 PM PDT by new cruelty (cornbread and ice-tea took the place of pills and 90 proof)
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To: big gray tabby
Want to get scared out of your wits?

Yeah, it's scary that women this stupid are allowed on planes.

How dare those nasty middle eastern men use the bathroom?

5 posted on 07/15/2004 1:17:39 PM PDT by jjbrouwer
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Certainly scared the pants off me.


14 posted on 07/15/2004 1:37:54 PM PDT by Hans
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Holy crap bump!!!


15 posted on 07/15/2004 1:37:54 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" HRC 6/28/2004)
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This may sound like a joke, but it occurred to me that the best way to prevent terrorist activity by a group of 14 Arabs on a flight like this would be to stand up and announce that you've planted a bomb on the plane.

1. The crew will immediately deal with you as if you were a terrorist -- and divert the flight to the nearest airport.

2. Nobody will be permitted to leave their seats -- including the 14 Arabs who were moving back and forth to the lavatories.

3. The 14 Arabs will spend the rest of their lives wondering who the hell this white dude thought he was, trying to hijack their plane.

22 posted on 07/15/2004 1:44:42 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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Wow! That story is terrifying. I don't know if I would have been able to remain as calm as the writer. It appears that they were on a "dry run" of some kind....Unfortunately, it is only a matter of time before something bad happens in the sky again.


23 posted on 07/15/2004 1:46:01 PM PDT by PilloryHillary (johnfkerrysucks.com)
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wow


37 posted on 07/15/2004 2:17:55 PM PDT by y2k_free_radical (ESSE QUAM VIDERA-to be rather than to seem)
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That is frightening. I must say though, I regularly fly out of Metro, and a dozen or so Middle Easterners on a flight is common-place, given the population of Detroit. Given that, however, this story is even more frightening, as not once on any flight that I have been on where are a couple dozen middle easterners do they all act in synch.

In fact, the race doesn't matter. If I saw ANY group of people acting the way this woman described, I would be suspicious. It could be McVeigh types, or eco-terrorists, or any other group.


56 posted on 07/15/2004 2:55:01 PM PDT by Marfoe (http://www.marfoeblog.com)
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OK, I am officially shaken. I just made a couple of flights out of LGA and Dayton. The security checks were the most thorough since my Thankgiving flight in 2001.

I'm thinking the arab suiciders are thinking to blow up an airliner with an infligh assembled bomb during landing over a city is not only easy to pull off,it's unexpected at this point.


62 posted on 07/15/2004 3:14:24 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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These Syrians dudes may have nothing to do with terrorism at all, but to call their behavior on the plane strange would a major understatement. It seems to me almost as though they were looking to provoke some kind of incident or reaction from others on the plane, to see just how far they could go.


69 posted on 07/15/2004 3:53:31 PM PDT by jpl ("America's greatest chapter is still to be written, for the best is yet to come." - Ronald W. Reagan)
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I sure hope our security folks really checked out the validity of their musical gig in the desert. I doubt there are many Syrian night clubs in or near LA. The Aladdin in Vegas purged all the arab decor and entertainment right after 9/11 and still ended up in chapter 11. The last few times I was out there the Luxor also appeared to be almost empty.
74 posted on 07/15/2004 9:26:12 PM PDT by Little John
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Yesterday, I sent the link to this article to Andrew Sullivan.

Today, he leads with it.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/

< / bragging >


89 posted on 07/16/2004 7:15:25 AM PDT by aculeus
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bump.


94 posted on 07/16/2004 7:47:07 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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Chilling story.............PC gone mad and way past time to get rid of Mineta.


95 posted on 07/16/2004 7:52:27 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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What I can not figure out is why the passengers on the plane and the flight crew did nothing about this. At the first sign of this activity, I would have confronted these guys, told them to sit down and stay in their seats for the rest of the flight.

I would have inserted myself into their little bathroom line and barged in ahead of them to see what they were doing.

Were the regular passengers on this flight nuts? Just sitting there witnessing something like this taking place? Talk about watching someone prepare to kill you.

And I agree with you. A must read.


97 posted on 07/16/2004 10:26:37 AM PDT by BJungNan (Stop Spam - Don't buy from junk email ads!)
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the good news is that new regulations came about due to this


98 posted on 07/16/2004 10:30:15 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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http://michellemalkin.com/

TERROR IN THE SKIES III

By Michelle Malkin · July 16, 2004 03:05 PM
I have been speaking with Brendi Rawlin of Porter Novelli (PR rep for Womens Wall Street). According to Brendi, the Washington Post has been sitting on the true story of Annie Jacobsen's "Terror in the Skies" account since last Friday. Dave Adams, the air marshal's spokesman, not only confirmed the story, but has also apparently supplied witness statements and other corroborations of Jacobsen's account. NBC Nightly News, ABC, and Dateline NBC are now on the story as well.

More to come...


105 posted on 07/16/2004 12:17:29 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Tabi Katz

Here's that story.


112 posted on 07/16/2004 2:29:36 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: RonDog; ALOHA RONNIE

this story now being covered on the Tammy Bruce radio show on KABC 790AM in Los Angeles...
(sorry, no streaming audio for this show...)
NOW = Saturday 7-17-04; 4:10 PM PAC TIME)


120 posted on 07/17/2004 4:18:56 PM PDT by VOA
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(pardon the ping...just circulating the news)

this story now being covered on the Tammy Bruce radio show on KABC 790AM in Los Angeles...
(sorry, no streaming audio for this show...)
NOW = Saturday 7-17-04; 4:10 PM PAC TIME)


121 posted on 07/17/2004 4:21:28 PM PDT by VOA
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