[Dr. Frank fan]

Wow. I guess she doesn't like being called hysterical and racist - go figure :-)

I can't believe the gall of this guy making up out of whole cloth something like "they have performed in the past six months in places such as the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School". Kudos to Mrs. Jacobson if only for exposing that lie.

A lot of people have taken it upon themselves to amateur-psychoanalyze Mrs. Jacobson and (without evidence at all) declare her to have been simply panicky and hysterical on this flight and thus not reporting anything accurately. But the more her concerns are waved away with cries of "racist", sloppy thinking, and out and out lies, the more I think something really was fishy on that flight.

It's never been at all clear to me why the discovery that these 14 men really did play music at a club in Los Angeles, precludes them (or at least some of them) from having been terrorists performing a dry run. For some reason the concept "maybe it was both" seems to be lost on a lot of people.

(A lot of whom are the same people who think that "Saddam sought uranium" and "such-and-such document was a forgery" can't both be true at the same time, either.)

When will a sufficient number of us grow up from this sloppy-ass thinking? When it's too late? Or sooner than that? Let's hope the latter.

[Old North State]

The 9-11 commission cited a "failure of imagination" as a reason we were unable to prevent the attack from succeeding. Mrs. Jacobson does not suffer from this failure, so the Muslim apologists try to smother her with cries of racism and hysteria. You can't have it both ways. You can't be imaginative and politically correct. If we are to use our imagination we cannot limit it by looking away every time someone might yell racism, especially when they yell it every chance they get.

[doberville]

As others on this forum have stated: If THEY are getting on my flight; I am getting off.

I expect that this behavior, done with any frequency amongst fliers, would produce changes in airline policies.

[Kackikat]

During the reign of the Jamaican Drug Kingpins, known as the Jamaican Posse...they too were musicians...that is how they traveled undetected for years.