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Continuing Questions About Flight
NY Times ^ | 8/3/04 | Joe Sharkey

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: flight327; jacobsen; mehana; nourmehana; syria; syrianband; terror
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The enegizer bunny story, it keeps going on..and on..and on...
1 posted on 08/04/2004 10:11:40 AM PDT by mastequilla
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To: mastequilla

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.


2 posted on 08/04/2004 10:14:39 AM PDT by Old Sarge
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To: mastequilla; All

And we need to keep pushing it, and pushing it and pushing it....

Anybody have an ID for NYT?


3 posted on 08/04/2004 10:15:50 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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To: mastequilla
According to the NYT, "Ms. Jacobsen argued yesterday that air marshals on the plane (there were at least two) had no way of seeing the men rising because they were sitting in the front of the plane, a 757."

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....

4 posted on 08/04/2004 10:20:01 AM PDT by tracer
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To: tiamat

Login as follows:
"nottimes"
"nottimes"

NeverGore :^)


5 posted on 08/04/2004 10:22:05 AM PDT by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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To: nevergore

Thank you, FRiend!

I knew there was one, just couldn't remember it!

Thanks!

:-)


6 posted on 08/04/2004 10:26:00 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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To: tracer
According to the NYT, "Ms. Jacobsen argued yesterday that air marshals on the plane (there were at least two) had no way of seeing the men rising because they were sitting in the front of the plane, a 757."

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!

7 posted on 08/04/2004 10:28:04 AM PDT by johnfrink
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To: tracer

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.


8 posted on 08/04/2004 10:33:11 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: tiamat

www.bugmenot.com


10 posted on 08/04/2004 10:35:45 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: mastequilla

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.


11 posted on 08/04/2004 10:38:36 AM PDT by webstersII
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To: rwfromkansas

Oh THAT's lovely!

If you were close, I'd make you dinner.


12 posted on 08/04/2004 10:39:16 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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To: civil discourse

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.


13 posted on 08/04/2004 10:39:31 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: mastequilla

"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.


14 posted on 08/04/2004 10:41:39 AM PDT by Badeye ("You haven't posted anything to even remotely cause me to reconsider this position.")
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To: jocon307
It certainly could have been a "dry run", and what I don't understand is why these guys weren't arrested.

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.

15 posted on 08/04/2004 10:42:47 AM PDT by johnfrink
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To: Old Sarge

"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.


16 posted on 08/04/2004 10:43:00 AM PDT by Badeye ("You haven't posted anything to even remotely cause me to reconsider this position.")
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To: tracer

She may have become aware of their identity after the fact.


17 posted on 08/04/2004 10:44:20 AM PDT by tje
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To: civil discourse

>>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.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1184356/posts


18 posted on 08/04/2004 10:44:39 AM PDT by Betis70
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To: tiamat

It is a great site. :)


19 posted on 08/04/2004 10:46:52 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: rwfromkansas

I'm getting that feeling.

Thank you again!


20 posted on 08/04/2004 10:52:04 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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