maybe Annie Jacobsen wasn't as nuts as the Feds made her out to be....
To sum it up, people were praying, basically kissing their a$$es goodbye, the larger dudes onboard were fully in conspiratorial, "let's roll" mode, chicks were crying...
Can you imagine?
And partly due to PC considerations, and the fact that the caught dudes hadn't technically DONE anything (other than the small infraction of travelling on FALSE PASSPORTS), they just
LET THEM FRIGGIN GO.