Qatar Airways Plane Attempted Hijack Thwarted

Sky News citing Al Jazerra

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

Breaking...

[LurkedLongEnough]

Another swarthy thwarted.

[proud_yank]

But we do get used to it. Sad, isn't it?

How are you going to be able to sleep when you get back home? Are you coming back soon?

[STARWISE]

Belts, shoelaces, ties, string, scarves, plastic twine .... I'm gonna be carryin' sumthin.

[STARWISE]

MSNBC: 9 planes! 1 with one ingredient, 1 with another .. they would combine for detonation! Things crystallized when the plotters began to look for flights online .. that accelerated arrests.

[BJClinton]

From AP via Yahoo!

By JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer 30 minutes ago

AMMAN, Jordan - A man aboard a Qatari Airways flight fought with flight attendants Thursday, prompting the pilot to return to Amman, but the incident was not a hijacking attempt, a government spokesman said.

Initial reports from airport security officials and a Qatari Airlines spokesman said the man, identified as an Eritrean, tried to force his way into the cockpit carrying a canister that the officials said contained a liquid.

But Jordanian government spokesman Nasser Judeh told The Associated Press that it "was a quarrel and not a hijacking attempt" and that the liquid was medicine.

The man had tried to go to a bathroom 10 minutes after the flight took off from Amman for the Qatari capital, Doha, Judeh said.

When the attendants told the passenger he could not leave his seat yet, he pushed an attendant to the ground before others restrained him, Judeh said. The pilot returned the plane to Amman, where the man was detained.

Airport security officials confirmed the story, saying the man started screaming that he wanted to speak to the pilot to complain about the flight attendants for stopping him.

The incident came hours after Britain announced it had foiled a major terrorist plot to blow up airplanes headed to the United States from London's Heathrow Airport. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the terrorists planned to use liquid explosives disguised as beverages and other common products and set them off with detonators disguised as electronic devices.

[STARWISE]

Liquid on this flight:

A man aboard a Qatari Airways flight fought with flight attendants Thursday, prompting the pilot to return to Amman, but the incident was not a hijacking attempt, a government spokesman said.

Initial reports from airport security officials and a Qatari Airlines spokesman said the man, identified as an Eritrean, tried to force his way into the cockpit carrying a canister that the officials said contained a liquid.

But Jordanian government spokesman Nasser Judeh told The Associated Press that it "was a quarrel and not a hijacking attempt" and that the liquid was medicine.

[Allegra]

How are you going to be able to sleep when you get back home? Are you coming back soon?

I'll be on home leave for most of September. It can't get here quick enough for me! :-D

I'll sleep fine; I've always been one of those people who, once I'm out, I'm out. I've slept through mortar and rocket attacks over here. LOL

[gopwinsin04]

[gopwinsin04]

[SFC Chromey]

8-11 would be AQ. 8-22 Iran.

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Spottswoode: "From what I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.N.C.E has gathered, it would be 9/11 times 100."

[proud_yank]

I'll be on home leave for most of September. It can't get here quick enough for me! :-D

I can only imagine! How long have you been over there?

I can sleep through just about anything too, and love going to sleep through thunderstorms. I just can't imagine rockets & bombs, then going back to complete silence.

Are you on a military base?

[proud_yank]

I'm an idiot, if I had checked your profile I would have known you've been there since Jan 04! :-)

Head, meet desk.

[SFC Chromey]

Kim Jong Il: It will be 911 times 2356.

[Lazamataz]

LIBS: "More fearmongering by BUSH!"

Liberals are straight-up psychopaths.

[Lazamataz]

9/11, 8/10, 7/9?

If your numbering is true, I very much fear the zeroth day of the negative-second month of 2007.

[MinuteGal]

A man on his way to Ah-mmon
Got mad when barred from the john
His ploy was stopped short
Mark up one more thwart
I think I'll have a bon-bon

Leni

[tumblindice]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkk!!!!!

As a 13 year old many moons ago I was `point-man', accompanying some Brownies on a nature hike. Snakes everywhere: on the path, wrapped around trees, hissing, some venomous, most probably not. We must have killed two dozen with shovels. Me no likum.

[MindBender26]

> (John Murtha speaking:) "Well, that DOES it! We should run away from every airport in the world. No more flying - ever. We should cut and run and redeploy to Okinawa."

Psssst, Mr. Murtha.

We ran away and gave Okinawa back to the Japanese about 20 years ago. Pass it on.

[gopwinsin04]

Whoever thought up this movie was a marketing genius! Die Hard with snakes...

[sully777]

How's your vacation in the desert spa today?