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.
International and domestic flights have different rules. There are situations where bag match is and is not required; the details are not public.
bttt (butt to the top)
a magnet inside a lower body cavity???????
Of course, how else does a muslim with no sense of direction know how to find mecca?
I stand corrected.
What have we Lutherans done? (Lutefisk doesn't count)
"Probably just a new style of pacemaker.."
~~~~~~~~
LATE LAST NIGHT AT HEATHROW:
"Excuse me, Guvnuh, we're going to have to detain you.
"Why would that be?"
"It appears we've detected a terrorist device in your anus..."
"Tis NOT...!!!"
"Would you please 'ave a look at the screen here?"
"Oh, that...."
"Could you PLEASE elaborate on 'that'...???"
"It's a defibrillator for my son's parrot."
"Tis NOT..!!"
"YES IT IS...!!!...See, he's right here, in my carry on.."
"Looks DEAD to me...."
"Tis NOT...!!!"
"Look, I just poked him with this inspection wand...and he didn't even BLINK...."
"'ES just napping".....
etc.
"High five to the screener that caught him."
More like dirty, smelly five.
Magnets can affect the navigational equipment on an aircraft. Most single small magnets are not capable of significantly affecting these instruments from a moderate distance. The US Department of Transportation and the International Air Transport Association have set precise guidelines for the transport of magnets by air. If the magnets you are transporting exceed certain thresholds, they will be considered Class 9 Hazardous Materials and should only be placed on an aircraft by trained and certified personnel. We recommend that you keep all magnets on the ground and transport them by surface transport only.
....Yep...that's BOB all right....!!!
Me neither.
High-speed copy machines have a switch in the chassis near the platen. When the magnet in the cover is lowered to it, the switch engages one or more electrical sequences. Ask your xerox machine's repairman about magnetic switches.
Nineteen jetliners will fall from the sky at noon one day—and everyone will ask, "How'd they do that?" :-(
Oooohhhhh, You're evil ;) Reminds me of that House episode where the convict had the tattoos with prison ink which has a high metal content.
He had flown into Los Angeles from Philadelphia on Monday and was booked for a Tuesday return flight when he was chosen for extra security screening.
Al-Maliki said he had flown to Los Angeles for a visit but details were unclear.
A Muslim man hailing from one of the poorest, most wretched cities in the United States flies 3,000 miles across the country for a one-day visit?
I'm sorry, the moment a man with that name from that city booked that flight he should have been under 24 hour surveillance.
He had flown into Los Angeles from Philadelphia on Monday and was booked for a Tuesday return flight when he was chosen for extra security screening.
Al-Maliki said he had flown to Los Angeles for a visit but details were unclear.
You are correct that the Muslim doing the coast-to-coast round trip in 24 hours with a magnet up his [lower cavity] should be under surveillance.
We have the TSA pushing union consultation before emergency surveillance priorities.
We have the no-profiling dictate of former-transsec Mineta.
We have the full-court denial of jihadi attacks--always the claim that it was the action of a disturbed person.
So, this time it's a mental evaluation and a possible immigration violation.
I'm hitting the button for a:
I guess some people just aren't satisfied with a magnetic personality.
[Someone set him up the bum..." ]
Lol, just last night I was asking about the bad Japanese translation, couldn't recall it.
Haven't read the thread, am painting, perhaps his magnet was for 'health purposes', snicker.
Sorry, bad joke.
In a copier or printer a magnetic switch system is often used to indicate or signal the separation, mating, alignment or docking of components movable relative to one another, by the actuation or non-actuation of a magnetic switch on a first such component, such as a fixed frame member, by a magnet or a second such component, such as a manually movable tray, which magnet and magnetic switch are positioned such that as the components are moved together and docked the magnet actuates the magnetic switch. Copier or printer component position floating magnetic actuator
A simple magnet is a component of burglar alarm switches mounted to windows and doors in residential and commercial applications.
This incident does not have an innocent explanation.
Going to see his guru in L.A., or going to see his contact in a West-coast sleeper cell for materiel and instruction, or, doing a test-run to see how small the magnet has to be to not show up.
Its as simple as how "mules" run dop,they feed the Islamoterrorist a bunch of ballons filled with C4 or a high explosive 12 hours before the flight, the detonator is in the rectum, the wires would connect to a voltage source that nowadays can be anything like a car remote, hitech watch, cell phone or an Ipod.
Next they will try concealing the detonater in an obscure item, mark my words.
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