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Wired Iraqi man questioned at L.A. airport
Reuters ^ | 03-06-07

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.


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To: null and void

"Someone set him up the bum..."

All your butts are belong to us?


101 posted on 03/06/2007 4:31:31 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Make your time[er]...


102 posted on 03/06/2007 4:32:00 PM PST by null and void ("It is not your aptitude, but your attitude that determines your altitude." - Rev. Ike)
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To: silentreignofheroes

I'm not putting that magnet near my computer! I don't know where it's been!


103 posted on 03/06/2007 4:32:15 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Rushmore Rocks

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.


104 posted on 03/06/2007 4:32:55 PM PST by WestCoastGal (NO MORE MR NICE GUY!! 5-31-07 ~ MIDNIGHT GIT-R-DONE)
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To: null and void

Look,

You're only allowed SO many carry ons....

Gotta have a "BACK UP" for your laptop, cell charger, and game boy.....!!!


105 posted on 03/06/2007 4:33:01 PM PST by JB in Whitefish
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To: null and void

LOL, we're getting a little slow on the uptake. Nearly 100 replies before somebody went there.


106 posted on 03/06/2007 4:33:18 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Americanexpat
John Glenn also got the nickname "Magnet A$$" in the Korean War due to his plane getting so many holes in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn
107 posted on 03/06/2007 4:33:20 PM PST by omnivore
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To: Rushmore Rocks

your obviously a very hot blond-haired, blue-eyed 64 year old scandanavian woman.


108 posted on 03/06/2007 4:33:51 PM PST by mfnorman
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To: RegulatorCountry

"He didn't bother to conceal his shaped charge IED, though."

Boy! Is that an understatement!

:0)


109 posted on 03/06/2007 4:34:28 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: LexBaird
"His prior job was holding notes to the refrigerator."

He used to do a job an American did not want to do... holding food coupons on the refrigerator.
110 posted on 03/06/2007 4:34:47 PM PST by JSteff
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To: mfnorman
Magnet Therapy for the relief of pain
111 posted on 03/06/2007 4:35:58 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I just can't say Democrat with out the ick)
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To: mfnorman

"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"....???


112 posted on 03/06/2007 4:38:04 PM PST by JB in Whitefish
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To: Mr. Jeeves

That was my first thought as well.


113 posted on 03/06/2007 4:38:52 PM PST by Kellis91789
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To: mfnorman
They probably did a wand search and the guy started screaming:

Palomino! Palomino!

114 posted on 03/06/2007 4:39:16 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: SW6906

Would that really happen?



That depends on which direction the magnetic field "pulls" it. We could hope for a scene out of "Alien."


115 posted on 03/06/2007 4:40:18 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear

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..


116 posted on 03/06/2007 4:40:49 PM PST by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: ThomasThomas
"Magnet Therapy for the relief of pain"

And all this time, I've been swallowing the Advil, not stuffing it. No wonder it didn't work...
117 posted on 03/06/2007 4:41:00 PM PST by omnivore
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To: mfnorman

Calling Richard Gere.


118 posted on 03/06/2007 4:42:53 PM PST by JSteff
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To: PhilDragoo

"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.


119 posted on 03/06/2007 4:44:04 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: omnivore

Well, THAT had to be a shocking discovery....!!!


120 posted on 03/06/2007 4:44:13 PM PST by JB in Whitefish
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