Posted on 08/17/2006 8:08:11 AM PDT by shhrubbery!
(CBS4) BOSTON Criminal charges could be filed Thursday against a Vermont woman who caused a disturbance aboard a London-to-Virginia jet that was diverted to Logan Airport.
59-year-old Catherine Mayo is being held by federal authorities in Boston.
Investigators say she was a claustrophobic passenger who became upset and interfered with the flight crew on United Airlines flight 923 Wednesday morning. The pilot declared an in-flight emergency and landed the plane at Logan. The Boeing 767 was escorted by two F-15 jets based out of Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod.
Passengers say Mayo paced the aisles and peppered her incoherent mutterings with the word "Pakistan." They said two plainclothes men on board and flight attendants tackled the woman. She was handcuffed while the flight was diverted.
After a day filled with conflicting reports about what she was carrying, an FBI spokeswoman confirmed Mayo had a screwdriver, lighters and matches when she was subdued...
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs4boston.com ...
May refer to the six steps comment?!?
This series of verses gives us insight into the steps taken by our Prophet to come to know himself, to face up to fear and bear persecution in hopes of coming to live in peace with integrity. Just as the Prophet took these great steps, we can follow him in small steps.
Six steps toward knowing your self and your Lord
http://www.theinnercircle-za.org/index_files/articles/Knowing_yourself_is_knowing_Allah.htm
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True. Someone else mentioned that she might have a brain tumour or have suffered a stroke, if I remember correctly. Her thinking certainly seems off.
Well now, very interesting.
lonely western, low IQ, female, is seduced into Islam = an easy way to bypass the preflight security....
Yup. Dude is probably already back online trolling for the next stupid bitch he can brainwash.
This is a crucial point, so lets dwell on it a little. It is crucial for us queer people, lesbians, transgendered folk and gays, to root our spirituality in an appreciation and care for the body...
That, my dear friends, is a way to live at peace with integritymay we help each other to find it, because nobody finds it alone. That is the way to live as a muslim. That is nothing more and nothing less than islam. "
Well, she got the pull down your pants part right! (As for the "ice," hmmmm.)
You know as well as I that the MSM was directed to 'retract' the initial statements as the gov needed time to do the 'BDA' from the entire incident.
I think the higher ups realized that the truth was going to come out regardless because of the number of witnesses involved and they (the feds) decided they need to go on and tell the truth. Unfortunately if any terror ties (which were immediately denied by the officials) are now coming into light before our friends in the NSA, CIA etc., have had time to react in foreign lands in that I am pretty sure her 'boy friend' and associates are well hidden now.
People in the government rarely feel the need to tell the truth unless there is a distinct gain from it. As in many businesses, people are informed on a need to know basis.
You ever had Top Secret accompanied with SCI, SSBI, and/or DIS clearances at the same time? Please do not try and tell me how such things can work / do work.
It's entertaining to speculate, however, it insults me personally that the LSM and some of the young crack pots in the system assume all in the general public are ignorant and stupid.
I do admire your calm disposition(s) from yesterday, and to some degree you called it as it would happen in the media. However, within 1 hour of landing and Mayo in custody, the OIC's already knew who they had and the risk(s) involved. If there was an agent already on board whether Brit, US or other, then we knew who 'we' had and her ties before the plane was ever landed.
One of the beauties of counterintelligence is making it look like somebody goofed and letting something 'slip'.
Dr. Sydney Freedman
Or urinate in the cabin of an airplane.
Looks as if the michigan.live website is following the Paki connection now (link posted by evets at #130).
Thanks for the link. It is swamped at this time, will see where this leads.
I don't know if you've been to the thread yet, but it appears a woman is also involved in the W VA airport story. I'm just too burned out from this one to follow it.
I want to know where the "claustrophobic" term came from yesterday.....one of the arab writers at Reuters or AP?
It was picked up by 1000s of news organizations and the whole incident was summarily written off.
An excerpt and a lot of truth in that tidbit.
Horowitz is a straight thinker without a doubt.
Thanks for the correction on the correct spelling of the SF 9th Circus Court Land. I couldn't remember the spelling.
From Horowitz's comments, I continuously ponder the sheer numbers of these type people that are now filtered into positions of power and authority in government and corporate America.
The mind set of those discussed in the article, are probably like those picked on a lot in grade school, pacifist, and never could muster the spine to at least stand up to the real bullies even if it meant getting into trouble, getting a bloodied nose, black-eye, or worse case, getting one's butt kicked. Therefore, never having taken that step, (like myself on 3-4 occasions) will never understand why, as Americans, we are faced with a dire need to go after the cowardly bullies in the world who so badly seek to have everything the way they want it.
Having gotten the best of a bully or 2 myself, those black eyes and busted lips never really hurt all that much. Having not stood up would have been a deep cut all my life. The sad thing, it was something I never wanted, but those bullies were real and Sir Lancelot was nowhere to be found.
Interesting for an "American journalist based in Pakistan", Pakistan means "land of the pure." Like old Cathie.
It could be that the plane moonbat is the mother of the Byrd letter writer.
From an earlier post I pondered the question as to why the woman with 'claustrophobia' would make repeated trips back into the Lav? That's a small place for sure.
Awesome to see confirmation of the working theory that Mayo Moonbat connected to Dubai-London from Pakistan, but shocking to see that she bypassed Heathrow security by doing so!
And why was she carrying lighters? My gut is that she was either the mule, intending to supply them to other cohorts on the flight, or the designated "lighter" of something someone else was to prepare.
Perhaps someone (perhaps someone unknown to her) was supposed to set something up in the bathroom, and she would go in and light it? Maybe that's why she kept going in there, to see if it was ready? Maybe that person didn't get it done and she eventually freaked, having been mentally prepared to die a martyr's death on the flight?
Wonder if (and I'm not asking this to be gross or perverted) female martyrs are supposed to shave their bodies, as the males do? I wonder what condition she was in? Tell tale signs of her having planned to die? Wonder what she had in her checked luggage? Wonder what any mail sent to her relatives back home (and still in transit right now) might say?
ROTFL! Give me Ham on 2, hold the Mayo!
But she's perfect for them if they want to do a test-run. In this case they might have been testing to see if someone passing through LHR from somewhere outside the new security zone could board a flight for the US without the additional screening.
For such a test, you wouldn't want to use any real soon-to-be or might-be terrorist; you'd want to use someone who could claim they were doing it as a stunt to prove how inept the process was. Mayo would seem to be perfect for that; as a rabidly anti-American journalist she could be counted upon to do what they asked because they could sell it to her as a great story.
What happened to her after she got on the plane for DCA was irrelevant to them.
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