Posted on 11/09/2007 8:00:19 AM PST by 3AngelaD
A group of Iraqi Pentagon contractors is suing American Airlines claiming racial discrimination for delaying its flight, but a police report shows that some of the men might have been intoxicated, behaved in a frightening and belligerent manner and scared one family off the plane. The captain of American Airlines Flight 590 from San Diego to Chicago delayed the Aug. 28 takeoff after crew members reported that they "did not feel safe..."
The Iraqi men filed the lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, where they live...
The captain did not alert the passengers to any danger and said the plane had to return to the gate because of an airport curfew. The men left the plane with the other passengers, but the lawsuit says they were singled out ...because they spoke to one another in Arabic.
Once inside the gate area, the lawsuit states, the men "were pulled aside from a crowd of roughly 120 passengers as 'persons of suspicion" inappropriately thought to pose a threat to security."
However, a Port of San Diego police officer reported that he was first approached by one of the men, Dave Al-Watan, "who asked me what the problem was."
The officer's report said that Mr. Al-Watan had red, watery eyes and the odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath."...
Mr. Al-Watan raised his voice to the officers and asked whether the flight had been delayed "because we are from Iraq? Is that why we were removed from the plane?"...
a spokesman for the airline said the company stands by the crew's actions...The men work for contractor Defense Training Systems and said they train with the Marines and the Army as "authentic Iraqis for role-playing scenarios" ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The largest Muslim community in the United States is in Dearbornistan, outside of Detroit.
You go on and deliberately act like it might be a hijacking should be a capital offense because you're weakening the measures designed to protect lives.
Deport, detain. or defenestrate if necessary..
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