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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: Eye of Unk

excuse my typos, I just woke up and busting a gut reading about this!


161 posted on 03/06/2007 7:10:56 PM PST by Eye of Unk
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To: Cindy; Velveeta; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

PING (apologies if you're already here... haven't read it all yet.)


162 posted on 03/06/2007 7:20:58 PM PST by cgk (I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn’t. - Ann Coulter)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Now I can't stop laughing!


163 posted on 03/06/2007 7:24:20 PM PST by imjustme
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To: cgk

Yes, I see a lot of laughter here on this thread.

I'm not laughing and thank you for the ping cgk.


164 posted on 03/06/2007 8:25:42 PM PST by Cindy
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To: mfnorman

They could call him "the Splendid Sphincter", but that's already taken by Bawney Fwank.


165 posted on 03/06/2007 8:33:34 PM PST by rfp1234 (Custom-built for Bill Clinton: the new Toyota Priapus.)
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To: PhilDragoo

That's the worst picture of Helen Thomas I've ever seen. LOL.


166 posted on 03/06/2007 10:26:04 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: PhilDragoo
This incident does not have an innocent explanation.

No, it does not.

About December, 2001, I advised Homeland Security of this after I couldn't sleep. (After having dreamed up the scenario of Eye of Unk—only "better"). Perhaps that foreknowledge was the reason HS found this guy, though I expected a far more comprehensive screening technique to result.

9/11 has cost us $1 Trillion. At what cost would the loss of the commercial jet transportation industry be?

167 posted on 03/07/2007 12:28:54 AM PST by Eclectica (Ask your MD about Evolution. Please!)
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To: CindyDawg

The taxpayers will cough up a few $Billion for digital x-ray machines and the techs to run them?


168 posted on 03/07/2007 2:29:09 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: over3Owithabrain
I date with a nurse at one time who told me they had a guy come into the emergency room with a vibrator way up his colon -- it was still running.
169 posted on 03/07/2007 2:37:05 AM PST by Beckwith (The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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To: PhilDragoo

What would you prefer they do? Publicize that the FBI has him under surveillance and has examined all of his emails and phone calls?


170 posted on 03/07/2007 4:09:31 AM PST by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: Cindy

The news blurb on FNC this morning made light of it as well - treated the story as if he was a nutcase ("claimed the rock was from another planet") with no mention of his being Iraqi.


171 posted on 03/07/2007 6:12:26 AM PST by cgk (I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn’t. - Ann Coulter)
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To: CindyDawg

A human butt bomb? Let's hope one or more of the human components passes on falafels for lunch.


172 posted on 03/07/2007 7:06:43 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: LexBaird
His prior job was holding notes to the refrigerator.

Now that's funny.. LOL

173 posted on 03/07/2007 7:15:35 AM PST by Texas Mom (Two places you're always welcome - church and Grandma's house.)
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To: Cicero
Probably CAIR will have some explanation for the magnet

It's to point his ass to the North so that he can find Mecca.

174 posted on 03/07/2007 7:17:41 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Siobhan
Interesting. A magnet in a body cavity could do some damage to a backscatter imager I think.

So magnet-boy goes through first, then others slip through with more dangerous "payloads" while the scanner is partly blind.

Insidious.

175 posted on 03/07/2007 7:19:45 AM PST by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


176 posted on 03/07/2007 8:12:11 AM PST by windcliff
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To: Eclectica

Thank you for mentioning the trillion-dollar-hit our GDP took from 911--no one ever mentions that. It is no small thing--it is the impact which Stalin and Mao et all would have given divisions or cities for. All for boxcutters and nineteen expendable jihadischmucks.


177 posted on 03/07/2007 8:18:54 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
Do you believe what you wrote, that the FBI has monitored all of his emails and phone calls?
178 posted on 03/07/2007 8:23:38 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo

I have no idea and neither do you! But, if they were doing this it wouldn't make sense to publicize it! Either way, we won't hear anything!


179 posted on 03/07/2007 9:18:50 AM PST by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
We agree they should be doing everything to insure the al-Qaeda sleeper cells are not able to operate without total surveillance.

We would expect no more incidents such as described by Special Agent Colleen Rowley.

We would insist they not be precluded from doing their job by the lobbying efforts of CAIR--although public statements by Director Mueller are disappointing to say the least.

180 posted on 03/07/2007 8:30:57 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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