[angkor]

What's your take on post#224?

I saw that before, and thought "Well, he's Syrian. Gotta' appeal to your fans." Maybe like the Beach Boys "Student Demonstration Time."

Here's the missing component to the story, start to finish:

There is not one single mention of anyone - crew or passenger - approaching one or more of these guys and saying "Look, your behavior is upsetting the other passengers," or "You guys seem to be friends, where are you headed?" or anything at all.

Instead it's just a descent into deeper and deeper paranoia.

If I were in that plane, and it was as potentially spooky as described, I might try to set an example by approaching the guys and making conversation. If you're wrong, at least you've interrupted the logistics of their "attack."

[kanawa]

I would like to hear from other passengers. It's a little surprising given the publicity that no one else has come forward. I'm not discounting the possiblilty that this is much ado about nothing. But there are unanswered questions and it behooves us to throughly investigate them.

There is not one single mention of anyone - crew or passenger - approaching one or more of these guys.....I might try to set an example by approaching the guys and making conversation

There is at this point only Jacobsen account of doing just that...

"I decided to try to reassure my husband (and maybe myself) by walking to the back bathroom. I knew the goateed-man I had exchanged friendly words with as we boarded the plane was seated only a few rows back, so I thought I would say hello to the man to get some reassurance that everything was fine. As I stood up and turned around, I glanced in his direction and we made eye contact. I threw out my friendliest "remember-me-we-had-a-nice-exchange-just-a-short-time-ago" smile. The man did not smile back. His face did not move. In fact, the cold, defiant look he gave me sent shivers down my spine."