New York airport terminal evacuated in shoe bomb scare

Channel News Asia ^ | 03/11/06 | AFP

[Mount Athos]

They got one at the border in 2000, but that wasn't airplane security. The reason they questioned him so intently was because they thought he was nervous, since he was sweating profusely. But he was really sweating because he had malaria... We got lucky

[muawiyah]

We know a young artist who uses a lot of exotic (and very expensive) oil paints. He has that stuff on every single piece of clothing in his possession.

His shoes are always detained for additional checks. They make sure they wand his shorts too!

[Fruitbat]

According to Clark, a male passenger who was selected for secondary screening set off an alarm when his shoes were passed through a detector that checks for explosives.

Any other demographical info...?

Somehow I'm guessing that it's not a Christian pastor or a hasidic Jew.

[pitinkie]

Nothing else yet!

[conservative in nyc]

I was at LaGuardia during this mess. I can't give you a profile, but I do know that security agents were posted at each gate looking for the person while boarding the planes. I managed to get out of there - I don't think they found him yet.

It sounds like they have him on video. But it's really the screeners' fault for letting him go before the machine beeped. The guy probably doesn't even know that he caused the commotion.