But there are 300 million people in the USA, where this woman was flying to and from. How many Arabic speaking people are here?
How many major terrorist events have happened in this country, with Mandarin, Hindi, English or Spanish speaking people. Oh well forget the Spanish ones.
Lets see,
There was a small group of Arab looking men...check
They spoke Arabic sounding languages...check
They acted suspiciously...check
They were on a plane acting suspiciously...check
Sounds like something else that happened 6 years ago.
One thing to keep in mind. These men were Arabic (or Arabic looking) going to a military base to train our military. That means there was some military based training behind them. These men are traveling together. What's their commonality? Their ethnicity and training. You put a group of US soldiers on a plane it might be hard not to notice that they're soldiers. Its going to be very natural for these men to interact with each other according to there commonalities.
The serious terrorists have a form of military training.
Would terrorists appear much different than these men?
There are an estimated 10.5 million native Arabic speakers in the United States, and these were apparently some of them. I really don’t think the events of 6 years ago are going to be repeated, not only have airline procedures changed, passengers are much more likely to sacrafice themselves than in the past. I have flown a lot both in the US and overseas, and you see a wide range of folks. I sat next to a guy coming home from Hong Kong one time that could have been Osama’s brother, I helped him fill out his entry papers; he was a Pakistani turkey farmer that was going to visit his brother’s turkey farm in Fresno and was a pretty nice guy. Try flying Emirates some time - it would make this woman’s head explode - half the people on the plane are (gasp) Arab, including the flight crew. I can’t go through life afraid of the boogie man.