[Kieri]

The terminal was evacuated at 11:25 a.m. after two bottles of liquid in the bag initially tested positive for explosives residue twice, and a canine team also got a positive hit. Chemical tests of the bottles' contents later turned up no explosives, said Capt. Jack Chambers, head of the State Police Special Operations unit.

Yes, those chemical tests and dogs are SOOoooooooo racist.

Kudos to the police AND the dogs for doing a successful job!

[markomalley]

Of course, never mind that there's a prohibition on liquids. If you are the correct "race," those prohibitions shouldn't apply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/sarc

[theDentist]

They serve water on the plane, and there are places inside airports that will sell water. She knew not to bring them, and she did anyway. Testing security perhaps, but even if not, we're not taking chances with anyone.

[FreePaul]

Just another test to see what they can get through the screening. They will keep it up until they know more about screening than the screeners. Maybe they already know.

[DBrow]

Clothes are not racist, Islam is not a race, and an X-ray scanner that shows bottles is not racist.

Our perimeter is being probed.

The "racist" charge justifies ACLU et cetera to help.

[BaBaStooey]

This passenger should have read Ann Coulter's book or columns. One way tickets raise suspicions. According to Ann, this usually results in small, thin, blond, blue-eyed women being targeted with the toughest searches at airports, but apparently this one-way ticket thing managed to snag a Muslim woman.

[Xenalyte]

"She just had water to drink because she is pregnant and she had a face wash that had a drop of bleach on it," Mian Qayyum said.

All my facial products have bleach on them . . . NOT. The bleach stays in the laundry room, far away from things that go on my face or in my eyes.

[CholeraJoe]

Fry me a f&ckin' liver. 99.9% of the terrorist acts committed against Americans in the last 15 years have been by Muslims. (OKC being the only exception, and the last chapter hasn't been written on that one)

You pass the collection plate at the Hajji house (mosque) to collect money for "freedom fighters" (terrorists) and expect ME to believe that Islam is a religion of peace?

Don't try to play the race card on me b*tch!

[MAD-AS-HELL]

just curious to know what the TSA does with people who have colostomy bags??? Do they tell the person they can't bring the bag on the plane?

[weegee]

"It was not only a false alarm, it was racial discrimination because there was nothing," Mian Qayyum said. "They should clear her name and apologize on national TV."

And I suppose it is racism in Atlanta and among the press that has kept Richard Jewel (white guy) from getting his apology after being accused as the Olympic Park Bomber for a much longer period of time.

A screener noticed a bottle in Rima Qayyum's carry-on bag as she was going through security before her 9:15 a.m. flight Thursday to Charlotte, N.C., airport authority president Jim Booton said.

The terminal was evacuated at 11:25 a.m. after two bottles of liquid in the bag initially tested positive for explosives residue twice, and a canine team also got a positive hit. Chemical tests of the bottles' contents later turned up no explosives, said Capt. Jack Chambers, head of the State Police Special Operations unit.

It may be profiling that she was screened but not that she was detained.

[garyhope]

"Racism, racism, racism, racist, racist, racist"

It's the slogan of the times. The last refuge of the scoundrel. The words slide so easily off the forked tongues don't they?

"Rima Qayyum planned to return to the airport Friday to take another flight, her mother said. "

I think she should start walking and keep walking and then swim.

[kentj]

This is exactly the thing that shoulb be done - further finger prints, eye scans, cavity searches, and library card inspections should also be done.

Oh an while they are in "there" they might just as well leave a little locator with a detonator attached so if they do get out of line it blows their radical freaking ass off. (just a suggestion)

[ARealMothersSonForever]

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:feJAimIe-3sJ:boe.cabe.k12.wv.us/Agendas/11-1-05/November%25201,%25202005%2520Regular.pdf+Rima+Qayyum&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

4105-P. EMPLOYMENT(S) – SUBSTITUTE TEACHERNameErica M. Dixon Tamra D. Johnson Ian C. Nolte Rima Qayyum 4106-P. RESIGNATION(S) – COACHINGName / Effective DateSchool / SportMatthew Stead Eff: 10/13/05Barboursville Middle Boys Basketball, Assistant Coach Brad Maynard Eff: 10/13/05Barboursville Middle Wrestling, Head Coach, Donald Lucas Eff: 10/06/05Beverly Hills Middle Boys Basketball, Head Coach Cynthia Machmer Eff: 10/12/05Milton MiddleGirls Basketball, Assistant Coach William Meadows Cabell Midland High

One would think that a substitute teacher would know better than to take prohibited items.

[retrokitten]

"She just had water to drink because she is pregnant and she had a face wash that had a drop of bleach on it," Mian Qayyum said.

????? Who puts bleach on their face??

[From One - Many]

no trial run here folks /s

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Suspicious Liquid Found in Former MI Woman's Luggage (RACISM! alert)"

They found a 40 of Old English 800?

[Seamoth]

The terminal was evacuated at 11:25 a.m. after two bottles of liquid in the bag initially tested positive for explosives residue twice, and a canine team also got a positive hit.

I had a laptop test positive for explosives once (I got it through security successfully before and after this incident--strange), and I'm white.

[pageonetoo]

Initial laboratory testing by the FBI turned up no evidence of explosive materials in the bottles carried at Tri-State Airport by Rima Qayyum, a 28-year-old Pakistani woman dressed in the traditional Islamic headcover.

I wonder if they have raided her home yet? What could have been on the outside that triggered things, could have been there accidently, or deliberately (this is a test, do not change your channel)!

[NavyCanDo]

Remember the post 9/11 sharp object ban, how some people even the media were testing the ban by trying to sneak banned items on board just to prove a point that TSA was another Bush failure? I was expecting to see a story by now about someone who was able to get away with bringing bottled drinks on board, and it would be printed on the front pages with titles that the TSA new screening is a failure.

My hats off to the TSA for catching this.

[DBrow]

"She just had water to drink because she is pregnant and she had a face wash that had a drop of bleach on it,"

So Mom knew that the positive explosive hits were due to something placed on the outside of the bottles!

I wonder if it really was bleach, or if it was something else. Now the enemy knows an upper bound to detection capability- we put this amount on the bottle, and the wipe was positive. The x-ray picked it up: the density was 1.12 g/cm3.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I'm all in favor of profiling. Muslims walk or swim.