Posted on 04/01/2008 4:06:25 PM PDT by callisto
Components that potentially could be made into a pipe bomb were found in the luggage of a man preparing to fly from Orlando International Airport to Jamaica on Tuesday, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper said.
The Transportation Security Administration confirmed only that "suspicious" items were found in a search of the man's luggage.
FBI spokesman David Couvertier, whose agency is handling the case, said the items "generated a high level of concern," but he declined to confirm the newspaper's report that the suspicious items included "unassembled pipes with end caps, metal ball bearings and other potentially explosive materials."
The man, whose name was not released, was taken into custody by Orlando Police and turned over to the FBI, according to police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones.
He was ticketed on an Air Jamaica flight scheduled to leave Orlando for Montego Bay, Jamaica, on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the TSA, an officer keeping watch for suspicious behavior singled out the man for luggage inspection. Airport spokeswoman Carolyn Fennell said the man was preparing to check the luggage when he was detained.
Passengers were evacuated from a section of the airport terminal around the Air Jamaica, Air Canada and Air Frontier ticket counters, and 11 flights were delayed, Fennell said.
Do journalists have trouble with commas these days? None of the previously listed materials were potentially explosive. Obviously what was meant was, ". . .other, potentially explosive, materials.
Of course, an item in a list with internal commas would have forced the list to be separated by semicolons. Maybe that’s just too hard for the recent products of American schools.
Amazing how you have to wait, or dig, to get the name.
Dollars to donuts it's...
I believe you correctly answered your answered your question in post #3. Concur.
Mennonites again.
Looks like there’s a beard...
A clear case of ??? profiling and spying. Better let him go before he gets a John Edwards type of sleaze to represent him.
“The man, whose name was not released...”
¿José Jiménez?
The suspect, who has not been identified, was scheduled to fly on Air Jamaica Flight 80 to Montego Bay at 2:55 p.m. when Transportation Security Administration officers spotted him acting suspiciously around noon, TSA and law enforcement officials said. Several officials said the man was “acting strange” and questioned his mental stability.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-oia040108,0,6693870.story
Yes. Several videos here
Passengers waiting to board flights said they noticed the man acting suspiciously before agents moved in.
"He looked rather crazy," a passenger said. "He was rocking left and right and up and down. He looked a little wacko."
...Just asking.
Ping!
I wonder if he was muttering Allah Akbar to himself as he rocked to and fro? Maybe he was counting his 72 anticipated virgins.
Jamaica? I’m voting for crazy Rasta-mon. Possibly a Black Muslim, because he did have a shaved head and a beard, rather than the usual dreads; but I think the emphasis should be on crazy rather than anything else. I’m glad he didn’t manage to hurt anybody on the flight, in any case, because I’m sure it’s no more fun to be killed by a crazy person than by a technically sane one.
Actually if you check out the videos the Rasta-dude is the one describing him as crazy and rocking to and fro.
Got oregano and not ganja, man. Just going to Jamaica to get justice.
“...an officer keeping watch for suspicious behavior singled out the man for luggage inspection.
A clear case of ??? profiling and spying. Better let him go before he gets a John Edwards type of sleaze to represent him.”
He may get off. There was another case I heard of where the defense attorney argued that behavioral profiling (suspicious behavior) is the same as racial profiling and is illegal. DU`ers are accusing the authorities of racism, and are saying the items found are not suspicious.
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