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A spokesman for the federal air marshal service confirmed the basics of Jacobsen's story for Daily News syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin. The feds say the men were Syrian musicians en route to a gig and were interrogated in L.A. (Which doesn't explain why they would have mentally terrorized those on the flight.)

Meanwhile, Jacobsen is receiving anecdotal evidence from airline insiders suggesting that her flight was no isolated incident: "One airline pilot told me that what I wrote about is the airlines' dirty little secret. And it's a pretty horrifying dirty little secret because if you say that these are dry runs, one day the dry runs are going to have all been run. And then what?"

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/columnists/9212319.htm?1c

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

I don't get it. You can be arrested for joking at the check-in counter, "Gee, you think I have a bomb in my wallet?" You can be arrested for refusing to take off your shoes or allow yourself to be searched in security.

Another thing you are not supposed to do is stand up in the plane (no, not even to go to the bathroom) within 30 minutes of landing time.

What those 14 'musicians' did was at least against that rule. Of course, on the plane you don't have burly security men, all you have to enforce rules are stewardesses. So what does the rule really mean? What will happen if they break the rule and all 14 of them jump up just before landing?

Musicians or no musicians, THAT'S what those guys were doing: testing.

Furthermore, they were doing the equivalent of a 'bomb joke' on the airplane -- if not actually building a bomb, they were doing things that airlines have been warned might indicate a bomb-making threat in progress. What did they find happened to them? NOTHING.

What's to prevent others in their group from doing the real thing next time? I'm afraid the answer is: NOTHING.

That chick from New York is a glutton for punishment, I guess. I don't think we should be listening to such voices of 'sweet reason' (read PC) anymore. "NEVER AGAIN!"