NEW YORK (AP) -- A tractor-trailer carrying a test missile collided with another truck during the morning rush hour Friday, sparking a call to the bomb squad before authorities determined the missile was inert...
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Charges Dismissed Against Saudi National (GA & Idaho - 7/21/06)
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) -- A Saudi national who had been accused of threatening to bomb an airplane has been released from custody after authorities dismissed charges against him.
The discharge order came Thursday, one day after 45-year-old Saleh Al Suwailem appeared before a federal grand jury in Macon, according to his attorney, David Roberts....
More Info. on Saleh Al Suwailem:
Saleh Al Suwailem remained silent Tuesday as he was led in handcuffs from a U.S. District Court, moments after a judge ordered him held without bond for his admitted June 5 threat to bomb an airplane after the U.S. Army refused to hire him as an interpreter.
U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth sent the case against Al Suwailem to the grand jury, which will decide if the Saudi Arabian national should be indicted for making a terroristic threat against an airplane.
"I'll leave that to the discretion of 26 or however many grand jurors may be impaneled," Faircloth said. The grand jury should meet soon, the judge said.
Al Suwailem, 45, allegedly threatened to use a bomb June 5 on the airplane that would have returned him the following day to his home in Boise, Idaho. FBI Special Agent Todd M. Kalish testified Al Suwailem made ...
Hmmmm....jush wondering where I would be if I had made this threat????? What the heck is going on...am I missing something here??? Did 9/11 happen...were we attached by Islamic men in airplanes...many of whom were Saudi Nationals??