Wired Iraqi man questioned at L.A. airport

Reuters ^ | 03-06-07

[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.

[CindyDawg]

You, too, huh? :')

[Eva]

It's the only thing possible, a test to see how sensitive the screening devices are. Wait a while until those screeners become unionized, then try it again.

[Tarpon]

Yep, testing it out with fake bombs materials.

[Americanexpat]

A friend of mine in Nam was awarded 7 piuple hearts. I swear he had a magnet up his a%%.

[KoRn]

"Isn't there where everyone carries their magnet?"

That's what I was wondering. No one has ever said anything about mine. /shrug

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Lower our pants? No, not when IR inspection & detection is available.

[steveo]

"A$$ is the place for the helpful hardware, man."

Now that there is funny.

[Responsibility2nd]

"Does this magnet make my butt look big?"

[SW6906]

"Ha...put him in a MRI scanner and turn the power on....magnet promptly exits though body at high speed.....like in an electromagnitic rail gun."

BWAHAAHAHAHAA!!!!!

Thanks for belly laugh!

Would that really happen?

[silentreignofheroes]

Good one,,though you never know..

I'm saying magnets affect electron flow ,,controls in an aircraft are sometime electronically controled..These people are idiots,but smart idiots..

[Bigh4u2]

"The "assembler" could just lock himself in and refuse to come out. By the time an air marshall could try to break in and subdue him, it just might be enough time to pull it off."

That already happened in another thread!

:0)

[JB in Whitefish]

" "He initially said it was therapeutic," she said.

The device had a wire and what may have been a magnet concealed in his rectum, federal officials said."


TWO THEORIES:

1. His chiropracter is laughing all the way to the bank...

2. Barney Franks will want to an "in depth" review....

[JB in Whitefish]

Wouldn't that be "fake BUM materials"....????

[Jet Jaguar]

Spell check can fix that.

[RegulatorCountry]

"That already happened in another thread!"

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

[hophead]

"I'm in favor of racial profiling."

Islam is a religion, not a race.

[null and void]

Yeah! That's it! Someone set him up the bum...

[A CA Guy]

a magnet inside a lower body cavity???????

Probably just an initiation ritual into becoming a cult leader for Islam. You never know.

Nothing to see here, just offer your head and leave.

[COBOL2Java]

well thanks to richard reid we have to remove our shoes...do you think we will now have to lower our pants?

"Our friendly TSA employees are here to help you! NOW BEND OVER!"

[PhilDragoo]

The theory was that individual components would not be identified as being such, that they would be brought to the assembly point (the lavatory) by individual passengers, there to be retrieved and assembled. It could be detonated there if it were powerful enough, or, in the case of the shoe-bomber type plan, taken to the specific location and detonated. TWA 800 was said to have been tested on previous flights to refine the seat location for the bomb to achieve criticality.