That is the historical problem with news media, compounded by the growth of the anonymous internet. The truth will never be known but the agenda is promoted. Still the account serves a vital purpose in reminding us that the threat of terrorism still exists and that vigilance is still priority one.
Nancy witness (”NW”): the passenger I saw spoke Arabic.
Reporter (”R”): Do you speak Arabic
NW: No, but I’ve heard it before and am familiar with it.
R: But you can’t be 100 percent sure.
NW: I think so, but I guess not. I don’t speak it.
R: Well if you can’t be 100 percent it couldve been another language.
NW: I guess.
R: So you believe it could have been another language?
NW: Sure, but it sounded Arabic
R: Could’ve even been Spanish, right?
NW: Anythings possible I guess
Story: The witness believed it was Spanish.
The truth will never be known ...
Probably not, but what's blatantly false IS known: it's false that Santa and his Reindeer towed the plane back to gate, and it's FALSE that a simple English-Spanish language barrier, or EVEN an Arab language-English barrier, was the crux of the problem. THOSE are truths we DO know.
The plane was headed for Texas; chances that it didn't have among its passengers several bilingual in English and Spanish are virtually nil. No matter WHAT the language -- if this was a group of more than a dozen travelling companions on a relatively small airplane where conversations and interactions could easily be observed even 15 seats away, it strains credulity to the breaking point to think that at least one among them wasn't proficient in English and the shared language among the travelling companions to translate.
This is NOT about the original email or about the Chaplain. It's about the obviously FALSE explanation that AirTrans and TSA are IMPLYING without actually saying. Some ugly and dangerous sh*t went down, probably related to Islamic terrorists (this WAS an act of terrorism because Americans were clearly terrorized), and officials are covering it up.
That is a truth we do know.