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I do think this was a set up and He will sue.

Could be a set-up, but he was arrested. From Another Delta Flight Scare in Detroit

.....................About 10 emergency vehicles, sirens blaring, surrounded Northwest flight 253 as soon as it landed Sunday. .........

............... "The aircraft has been moved to a remote location for additional screening. TSA and law enforcement met the aircraft upon arrival, the passenger is now in custody."

Sue Elliott, a Delta spokesperson, told CBS News the passenger in question "verbally disruptive."

"Out of abundance of caution the flight crew asked that the plane be met on arrival by law enforcement," said Elliott.

There were reports that the man detained was also Nigerian...................

.....................A law enforcement official tells CBS News correspondent Bob Orr passengers and crew became suspicious after the man locked himself in an airplane bathroom. A search of the plane was being carried out. There was no immediate word of any device being found.

The source told Orr early indications are that the man became ill and spent long enough in the lavatory to cause concern. ..................

He'll have lots of explaining to do. He might not feel like filing any suit if he's harrassed enough by federal officials.

From SkyNews,

......"The 30-year-old is reported to have boarded in Lagos with no luggage.

Airline crew said on the Amsterdam to Detroit leg of Northwest Airlines flight 253 he became verbally disruptive.

Two people told Fox news the man then locked himself in the toilet for over an hour.

On touchdown the man was arrested by FBI agents who were waiting on the runway."..............

IF this ends up being a lawsuit (either preplanned or after the fact), bring it on... I’d like to see treatment of the flying imams that led to their being able to bring suit revisited.

We PAID them, apologized to them, and emboldened others to engage in similar behavior — again, that’s what happened in Airtran flight 297 from Atlanta just after Ft. Hood and before T’giving and United flight 227 in DIA on 12/09/09.

As I understand it (need to look into it more), congregating in the aisles and hanging out in the bathrooms (not sure how this is enforced, lol) is already AGAINST airline regulations!

I think it was inadvertent but for a split second, I saw a guy in Swat gear who could have been local swat or the feds. When the guy with the large automatic weapon realized he was on camera, he backed up behind a fence. This was from today’s incident. They must have been guarding all the luggage which was spread out on the tarmac. They must have been concerned that sleepers from Michigan were going to show up.