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Man Accused of Having Knife in Airport
Associated Press ^ | 9 September 2006 | AP

Posted on 09/09/2006 8:53:10 PM PDT by buccaneer81

Man Accused of Having Knife in Airport

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) - A man with a one-way ticket to Yemen attempted to board a plane with a knife hidden in a book, authorities said.

Mohammed Ghanem, 21, of Hamtramck, was jailed Saturday on $500,000 after being arraigned on a charge of possessing a weapon in the sterile area of an airport.

Ghanem was arrested Thursday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers detected the knife "artfully concealed" in the book, airport spokesman Michael Conway said.

Someone had carved out the inside of the book and placed the knife inside it, said Ghanem's attorney, Nabih Ayad.

"He said he didn't know where the knife came from," Ayad told the Detroit Free Press.

If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

Ghanem was born in Yemen, a republic bordering Saudi Arabia whose 18 million residents are primarily Muslim. He is now a legal permanent resident of the United States and was returning to Yemen to get married, Ayad said.

Ghanem works as a busboy and lives in Hamtramck with family members, but he had a one-way ticket to Yemen, authorities said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: flight; michigan; muslim; yemen
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To: buccaneer81

He was probably just "holding it for a friend". After all, Islam means peace!/s


21 posted on 09/09/2006 9:37:36 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: F15Eagle

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23 posted on 09/09/2006 9:38:49 PM PDT by southland (Isaiah 17:1)
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To: F15Eagle

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24 posted on 09/09/2006 9:38:58 PM PDT by southland (Isaiah 17:1)
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To: F15Eagle

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25 posted on 09/09/2006 9:38:58 PM PDT by southland (Isaiah 17:1)
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To: F15Eagle

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26 posted on 09/09/2006 9:38:59 PM PDT by southland (Isaiah 17:1)
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To: buccaneer81
I'm glad they caught this guy, but after reading this, my faith in airport security has dropped to 0. I'm not sure how true that site is, but given what I've seen with airport security, I can believe it.
27 posted on 09/09/2006 9:43:12 PM PDT by psychoknk
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To: FrPR
Were you Bar-Mitzvah? When?

Is there some good fake answers for that one if Christians want to fly?

28 posted on 09/09/2006 9:43:31 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: psychoknk

What on Earth makes anyone think that a plane can still be hijacked with a knife or box-cutter? The passengers would NEVER permit it! They would know in no uncertain terms that either the hijacker would kill them by crashing the plane or the US military would. As soon as someone on the ground finds out the plane has been hijacked - within a very few minutes a squadron of US fighters would be screaming across the skies at Mach whatever to bring down the plane before the hijacker brings it down himself.

Looking for knives and box-cutters is ridiculous and a waste of time. Better to look for a middle eastern appearing man wearing Herman Munster shoes with a bomb wick sticking out of them and confiscate his cigarette lighter.


29 posted on 09/09/2006 10:57:06 PM PDT by OldTypeAmerican (Better to die on your feet like a man than to live on your knees as a slave.)
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To: buccaneer81
"He said he didn't know where the knife came from," Ayad told the Detroit Free Press.

I see this on COPS a lot. Drugs in the person's pants and they don't have any idea how it got there. Obviously someone is just playing a dirty trick on this fine boy. Sure glad he was made a permanent resident of the U.S.

30 posted on 09/10/2006 12:21:22 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: buccaneer81

I hate when you go to Borders and buy a bestseller and it's all carved out with a dagger inside. It's such a nuisance.


31 posted on 09/10/2006 12:23:35 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Tiggs6

We think alike. Didn't see your comment when I wrote mine above. LOL.


32 posted on 09/10/2006 12:24:22 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: F15Eagle

It does seem rather odd. How many busboys spend their vast fortunes of cash buying one way airline tickets to Yemen? I read elsewhere that the book was a phone book. As if someone is going to carry a phone book to read during the long flight? He would have to be stupid to not think that would not attract attention. This is so stupid that I am wondering if this is not so much a dry run as it is maybe an attempt to create a lot of "noise," as it were. Just a lot of weird things happening that don't make much sense and it gets the authorities distracted and tired. Maybe real attempts or dry runs get lost in the "noise" of all the weird happenings. This seems so dumb that I think it must be a decoy operation of some sort.


33 posted on 09/10/2006 1:28:56 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: buccaneer81
His name was Mohammad?

Wow!

Like, what are the chances?


34 posted on 09/10/2006 3:21:51 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: buccaneer81

This guy is a true hero of the stupid


35 posted on 09/10/2006 3:47:55 AM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: RodgerD

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/nyregion/10muslims.html?ei=5065&en=a8a8128eac7a167d&ex=1158465600&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

This NYT article "More Muslims arrive in US after 9/11 dip"
(via Drudge)

Go figure.


36 posted on 09/10/2006 3:48:05 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: buccaneer81
At least it was a knife and not a penis pump.

That would be embarrassing.

37 posted on 09/10/2006 3:52:20 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Dudoight

By the time America wakes up to the suicide that is islamic immigration, we're going to be in the same boat as France today.


38 posted on 09/10/2006 6:39:57 AM PDT by RodgerD (Reject the Democrat's Migration Explosion Act of 2006. No to 70 million new third-world aliens.)
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To: buccaneer81

Hmmm. "Knife." "Sterile Area." "Suspected Terrorist."

Sounds like a winning combination to me.


39 posted on 09/10/2006 6:43:26 AM PDT by Erasmus (It takes branes to make an alternate universe!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

A bunch of us run around with pretty big antennas on our cars.

When someone asks my buddy, "What do you receive on that?" he replies, "Orders."


40 posted on 09/10/2006 6:45:25 AM PDT by Erasmus (It takes branes to make an alternate universe!)
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