Fake. Look at how it's folded, and see the border...it doesn't match for 2009 bording passes.
;-)
Posted on 12/26/2009 11:55:38 AM PST by American Dream 246
A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport, and believes at least one other person from the flight was arrested on Friday at Detroit Metro Airport.
Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed he was on the flight by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday.
Kurt HaskellLori and Kurt HaskellHaskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an unidentified man.
While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”
Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner sympathy for Mutallab's lack of documents by portraying him as a Sudanese refugee.
The ticket agent referred Mutallab and his companion to her manager down the hall, and Haskell didn't see Mutallab again until after he tried to detonate an explosive on the plane.
Haskell said the flight was mostly unremarkable. That was until he heard a flight attendant say she smelled smoke, just after the pilot announced the plane would land in Detroit in 10 minutes. Haskell got out of his seat to view the brewing commotion.
“I stood up and walked a couple feet ahead to get a closer look, and that's when I saw the flames,” said Haskell, who sat about seven rows behind Mutallab. “It started to spread pretty quickly. It went up the wall, all the way to ceiling.”
Haskell, who described Mutallab as a diminutive man who looks like a teenager, said about 30 seconds passed between the first mention of smoke and when Mutallab was subdued by fellow passengers.
“He didn't fight back at all. This wasn't a big skirmish,” Haskell said. “A couple guys jumped on him and hauled him away.”
The ordeal has Haskell and his wife a little shaken. Flight attendants were screaming during the fire and the pilot sounded notably nervous when bringing the plane in for a landing, he said.
“Immediately, the pilot came on and said two words: emergency landing,” Haskell said. “And that was it. The plane sped up instead of slowing down. You could tell he floored it.”
As Mutallab was being led out of the plane in handcuffs, Haskell said he realized that was the same man he saw trying to board the plane in Amsterdam.
Passengers had to wait about 20 minutes before they were allowed to exit the plane. Haskell said he and other passengers waited about six hours to be interviewed by the FBI.
About an hour after landing, Haskell said bomb-sniffing dogs detected something in a fellow passenger's bag at Detroit Metro Airport. He says the FBI told passengers to move to another area of the airport following the incident. “They said, 'It's not a safe area. Read into that what you want.' I interpreted it to mean that there's a bomb in his carry-on.”
Though Haskell says he saw that man led away in handcuffs, he has yet to see anything discussed publicly about a second arrest – even though he believes it may somehow be connected to Mutallab's foiled terror attack. “I know what I saw.”
A call to the FBI on Saturday afternoon has not yet been returned.
Cedar this guy had this smuggled onto the plane stuff in his anus.
So you mean to tell me, that 1 hour and 5 minutes before landing is NOT a good time to detonate a bomb assembled in the bathroom or at your seat?
The whole idea that NOW we not only make the terrorist behave and sit in his seat...what about the guys who see something and want to jump hias ass to STOP HIM.
The GUY who jumped this nut, leapt out of his seat to do so, so now HE TOO will be breaking the law.
The idea to make people stay in their seat would have had detrimental consequences YESTERDAY! It was due to the fact someone DID leap out of his seat to stop this.
Janet and Obummer have this all wrong. They are doing the work for the terrorist to make it EASIER for them to detonate a bomb.
Fake. Look at how it's folded, and see the border...it doesn't match for 2009 bording passes.
;-)
.......WHY wait....
Fear of death
Maybe because it is equipped with a sensitive smoke detector?
I am assuming “vegetarian” isn’t because of an animal-rights stance, unless it was a photo-safari. :-)
Are you giving a pass to a guy who claims he saw a suspicious boarding but said and did nothing?
I believe if it were a known liberal who'd done that, there would be outroar at him--with people posting about how he left everyone at risk.
BOOKMARK
True, but nw would have not let him aboard w/o it.
Atsa Rog!
This was the scenario a few years back.....multiply planes were to explode once they were close to their destination in the US.
Thankfully the plot was found out.
yep...Gondring (troll) you got him.
there’s NO WAY a piece of paper could be folded.
my guess...you’re on 0bama’s payroll/morning-conference-calls to troll...........
On what airline/flight did he come into Amsterdam without a passport/visa. Do Nigerian authorities use their watch list and/or no-fly list for non-US airlines and non-US destinations? The more I think about it the more questions I have.
“You really think a muslim needs a passport in UK? Please...”
Yeah, isn’t Islam part of the European Union ?
Leni
..but they haven't yet....have they?
I flew through Amsterdam several years ago and am a grandmotherly type. My friend and I were pulled from the line and questioned extensively. And yes, we definitely needed our passports.
If true, than no more planes from the EU. Just not safe enough.
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