Posted on 01/11/2010 9:48:01 PM PST by george76
An AirTran Airways passenger whose actions prompted two military jets to scramble ...
Muhammad Abu Tahir, 47, is due in federal court Wednesday in Denver. An initial appearance scheduled Monday was postponed so an interpreter who speaks Tahir's native Urdu could be found.
He opened the door twice, once to place his shoes and socks outside the door, according to the affidavit. The second time, the door opened to reveal he was shaving with no shirt on.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs5.com ...
They shave their body hair before they do the deed.
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Urdu, the language of many of the Taliban. In fact "Taliban" means "students" in Urdu, and Persian (the language of Iran).
Beer in the Rose Garden time!
That’s the part that made me open the thread (when I saw it on preview). If I was on a flight and I saw a Moslem shaving with no shirt on, I would thrust my foot sooooo far up his @r$e that his spleen would shoot out his nose!
Ping.
charge this slimeball with emotional terrorism and drop him in a hole to think about it - "unruly" hogwash
Hmmm. It doesn’t sound like they’ve got much to go on with this guy. All things considered, I would have dumped the lav on that restroom, and taken a look at the contents. Other than finding some sort of contraband in the tank, he can represent himself as being crazy and he’ll probably end up with some sort of hefty judgement against him. Taking his shoes off in an aircraft lav is proof positive he isn’t playing with a full deck.
I truly wouldn’t mind him spending some time down in Canon City, but what I see here isn’t much to go on. Maybe they ought to do a “Goldfinger” mod on the restrooms so the FA’s can keep an eye on the residents of the lav. Or, just take the door off the hinges. This whole “security” scam is quickly spinning out of control, so I shouldn’t give “them” any stupid ideas. They might just implement them!
one of the commenters at the link had a good observation - this legal alien resident of Virginia for 20 years demanded an interpreter. Seems a lot of riffraff have been claiming Virginia as home - seems a lot of riffraff suddenly need interpreters or prefer to converse not in English, including the Major Hasan fool
I believe this is part and parcel of actual attacks - psychological attacks - maybe to desensitize us? oh, just another crazy -relax, not to worry? his actions were the American equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theatre. We shouldn’t be giving him or anyone else a pass on behavior such as this.
Watch part of the defense being that it was a stews fault for “giving him too much alcohol” (which we have no idea whether he actually drank it or not) and so he was not responsible for his actions
I would pay good money to see that. He had at least five airplane-size bottles of wine on the flight, according to court documents. Did a flight attendant sell him 5 bottles? When this was first reported, he was a young man, with too much to drink in aircraft lavatory. Now we find out he is 47 years old, shaving body hair in the lavatory. He could have been lighting up his underwear also, did anyone think to check the toilet system for PETN? Who is covering for these terrorist? Obama?
Dry run.
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