Posted on 08/04/2004 10:11:39 AM PDT by mastequilla
Continuing Questions About Flight By JOE SHARKEY
Published: August 3, 2004
ne of the major remaining questions about Northwest Airlines Flight 327 on June 29 from Detroit to Los Angeles - the flight that was met by federal agents and local police responding to a possible terrorist incident - is this:
Did, as a passenger reported, 7 of the 13 Syrian musicians whose behavior was terrifying some passengers stand up in unison and take strategic positions by the lavatories and the exit door during final approach to Los Angeles, an act that would have been a frighteningly overt and unambiguous provocation?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This story is in danger of being buried, actually.
The Sheep cannot be allowed to think that there is an ongoing threat to America. It undermines the I-Hate-Bush plank of the DNC platform.
And we need to keep pushing it, and pushing it and pushing it....
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Now how in the hell did she know who the air marshals were and where they all were sitting?
If this "financial journalist" is blowing smoke up America's clymer, then she should "stand 100% in front of a Federal judge for sentencing....
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Right, and I'm sure the air marshals make a point to sit where they are unable to see entire sections of the plane...like the rear cabin. Sheesh!
If there was nothing go on on the flight, why were the Syrians met by the FBI, FAMS, the TSA and LAPD when the plane landed? Could be there just fans of Syrian music, but I doubt it.
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The article says that LEO interviewed the flight attendents and their story did no match the story from the couple traveling with their son.
The flight crew would have been concerned about their behavior during landing if it was as described in the original article, and certainly would have remembered it. I have seen them get very nasty when people get out of their seats after the flight attendents are strapped in.
Oh THAT's lovely!
If you were close, I'd make you dinner.
It certainly could have been a "dry run", and what I don't understand is why these guys weren't arrested. People get arrested just for saying silly things like "i'll shoot you" in anger and frustration.
I also don't understand why none of the passengers or crew confronted these guys.
"The enegizer bunny story, it keeps going on..and on..and on..."
Yep, and like the prisoner abuse story which has run on page one of the NYT over fifty times (Watergate only made it 28 times, total, for a bit of perspective, folks) its being done for pure political partisanship.
One flight out of tens of THOUSANDS, folks. Keep that in mind.
You can't arrest somebody because they make you suspicious. They actually have to commit some sort of violation of the law in order for there to be an arrest. As the story progresses, it's beginning to sound like the main worry was that Annie Jacobsen was getting hysterical and was going to cause some sort of disturbance.
"This story is in danger of being buried, actually.
The Sheep cannot be allowed to think that there is an ongoing threat to America. It undermines the I-Hate-Bush plank of the DNC platform."
Actually, I think its designed to highlight Kerry's assertion "We aren't any safer now than we were on September 11th".
One flight out of tens of thousands.....one.
She may have become aware of their identity after the fact.
>>My guess is that the majority of people will become even more cowed and refuse to report untoward behavior for fear of being held up to ridicule.
I'm not so sure about that. A recent Virin Air flight from SFO to London was cancelled because of bizarre behavior by a passenger. That is a pretty major action on the part of the airline--not just a dressing down by flight crew, but the entire flight cancelled.
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I'm getting that feeling.
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