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Wired Iraqi man triggers scare at L.A. airport
Reuters ^
| 3-6-07
Posted on 03/06/2007 9:02:53 PM PST by STARWISE
An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.
The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.
A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum.
"He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity," Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.
Maliki, 35, who lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was preparing to board a US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia.
The flight left without Maliki but with his luggage aboard. It made an unscheduled landing in Las Vegas, where the plane was thoroughly searched but nothing was found, officials said.
Passengers were not evacuated and no flights were disrupted by the incident at Terminal One at Los Angeles airport.
"There never was a threat," Fetter said.
He said police and the FBI were called in from "an abundance of caution" because Maliki was "so bizarre in his behavior."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: almaliki; fadhelalmaliki; flight1422; iraq; iraqi; la; las; lax; losangeles; magnet; maliki; philadelphia; usairways; wires
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To: STARWISE
...but OMG .. this world anymore is terrifying .. God help us and save us, I pray.
Yes, it's funny, but in all seriousness I've noticed more sinister, darkly complexioned males hanging around certain parts of this west coast town I live in.
It's really noticeable, and they usually fixate on me (I'm a pretty big, very American looking guy), as if they're looking for a really tough infidel to take out.
I'm not kidding, our country is now flooded with Muslim "immigrants" (5 million since 9/11), and sooner or later they will start small scale actions all over the place, IMO.
I'm shopping around now so as to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights, and I suggest everyone else bear their rights in mind too. Just having a piece on you could save yourself and numerous others should SJS break out (Sudden Jihad Syndrome).
Otherwise, I have a joke for you, a farmer, a brain surgeon, and an Iraqi national were walking through the mall with magnets up their butts and....
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:23:09 PM PST
by
starbase
(Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
To: Grizzled Bear
....most likely a sub woofer.....his but has probably been stuck to the refrigerator for years.....
To: TASMANIANRED
A "You ain't gonna believe this s**t" ping
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:23:51 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Grizzled Bear
Of course there was no threat. He just read that popular science magazine article titled "Make Yourself a Speaker." Did anyone find out whether he was a woofer or a tweeter? Depends on if it was Taco Bell for lunch.
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:23:55 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(McCain / Feingold - 2008 ... "Shut Up or Go To Prison")
To: NorCalRepub
To: All
Think this will be the lead on Katie's News tomorrow?
To: Army Air Corps
Strange butt plug that is for sure...
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:30:06 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(Heus, hic nos omnes in agmine sunt! Deo volente rivoque non adsurgente)
To: Shortstop7
Sure. It will be discussed immediately after a panel of Global Warming skeptics debunk the GW theory and just before jveritas is interviewed about Pre-War documents.
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:30:31 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: TASMANIANRED
Maybe it was a defective flatulence converter. He could always call John Edwards to help him sue the manufacturer...
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:31:45 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: STARWISE
Some sources on the net are reporting: Securities officials reported that
two men with electrical cords "either wrapped around or coming out of their bodies" were being questioned. The men also were in possession of "magnets," Los Angeles TV Channel 5 reported." Here is a
link to one. This is not a good sign. I wonder how much longer it will be before we pick up a "passenger" with a surgically implanted device.
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:31:48 PM PST
by
zadox
To: STARWISE
Maliki was "so bizarre in his behavior."Yes, I think having a magnet in his a** would qualify as "bizarre." I hope he's in custody and undergoing interrogation-with-panties-on-his-head to find out what terrorist cell he's a part of and what they're planning.
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:32:50 PM PST
by
hsalaw
To: STARWISE
I wonder if it was a cow magnet?
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:33:15 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: TASMANIANRED
(Pushing the edge of propriety for the sake of humor....)
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:33:32 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(McCain / Feingold - 2008 ... "Shut Up or Go To Prison")
To: spokeshave
Correcto.
Simply another test of the system.
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:33:33 PM PST
by
MistrX
To: zadox
This is not a good sign. I wonder how much longer it will be before we pick up a "passenger" with a surgically implanted device.
Yeah, "alternative" carry methods, get the bomb components on board, plane goes Boom Boom
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:33:42 PM PST
by
starbase
(Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
To: SpaceBar
Passengers were not evacuated...
Thank God!
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:33:59 PM PST
by
hdstmf
To: STARWISE
Observations:
-How on earth does one sit down with something like that in your--orifice??
-Could he have intended to erase the computer software on the airplane in hopes of crashing it?
-Betting pool to see how long before ACLU sponsors this fellow against the US govt for racial profiling???
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:34:43 PM PST
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
To: hdstmf
Hee-hee, you said 'evacuated'...hee hee hee
;-)
/Beavis off
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:36:04 PM PST
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
To: zadox
This is not a good sign. I wonder how much longer it will be before we pick up a "passenger" with a surgically implanted device.
For some reason I just had an image women with breast implants made of blasting gelatine.
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posted on
03/06/2007 9:36:15 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: zadox
The two men claim may have just been a garbled translation.
Other things I read earlier.
The guy came over here in 1994.
He was found with the magnet, wires (accounts differ, some are that the wires were separate from the magnet and not found in the *ahem* cavity) and a "polished stone".
He is alleged to have said that the items were "therapeutic"
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