One way, with no luggage, fresh out of Yemen with his father screaming his was going to the dark side and the government cleared his name on the pre-flight check from Amsterdam. I’d say the gun was cocked with the finger on the trigger.
Even just the one-way ticket should have flagged him for additional screening. No dot-connecting required. In a way, it shows Al Qaeda is too cheap to buy a round-trip ticket to avoid notice. On the other hand, it shows TSA is too stupid to follow its own basic guidelines.
You can’t see a smoking gun when the bullet is already through your forehead and exiting out where your cowlick used to be.
Did I do the wrong thing by giving up a military career in intelligence because of having to deal with blithering idiots like this dolt? YES! Because I would have been in the same boat with the CIA.