Posted on 03/06/2007 3:44:51 PM PST by mfnorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Officials detained an Iraqi man during a security scare at Los Angeles International airport on Tuesday but said a suspicious object found in a body cavity search did not pose a threat.
The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, was detained at passenger screening at the airport just before 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
The bomb squad was called as a precaution and authorities said they found wires in his clothing and a magnet inside a lower body cavity.
The man was preparing to board a US Airways flight to Philadelphia. The flight left without the passenger but with his luggage aboard. It made an unscheduled landing in Las Vegas where the plane was thoroughly searched but nothing was found.
"Someone set him up the bum..."
All your butts are belong to us?
Make your time[er]...
I'm not putting that magnet near my computer! I don't know where it's been!
I see you found this one.
Even the bomb sniffing dog wouldn't sniff that.
Even this thread will become hysterically funny, this guy had to be up to something.
Look,
You're only allowed SO many carry ons....
Gotta have a "BACK UP" for your laptop, cell charger, and game boy.....!!!
LOL, we're getting a little slow on the uptake. Nearly 100 replies before somebody went there.
your obviously a very hot blond-haired, blue-eyed 64 year old scandanavian woman.
"He didn't bother to conceal his shaped charge IED, though."
Boy! Is that an understatement!
:0)
"your obviously a very hot blond-haired, blue-eyed 64 year old scandanavian woman."
....Hey, Baby...wanna see my magnet....???
Alternative Reply:
"Is that a compass in your pocket, or are you just happy to be flying over the North Pole"....???
That was my first thought as well.
Palomino! Palomino!
Would that really happen?
Well maybe we have an idea in this case,,,
Magnets can also teach facts of Life,,ever try to put two North poles together,,nature does'nt allow it..
Calling Richard Gere.
"TWA 800 was said to have been tested on previous flights to refine the seat location for the bomb to achieve criticality."
I'd think the first class lavatories would do the trick, on everything but the largest commercial passenger jets, so long as it's powerful enough to pierce the fuselage. Of course, suspicious activity would be more likely to be observed and disrupted, that close to the cockpit door.
Well, THAT had to be a shocking discovery....!!!
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