Posted on 04/07/2010 8:11:26 PM PDT by MindBender26
FBI: No Explosives Found on United Jet in Denver Authorities Say Qatari Diplomat Told Air Marshals, 'I'm Lighting My Shoes'
FBI agents say no explosives were found in the shoes of a Qatar diplomat who was subdued by federal air marshals on a United flight to Denver Wednesday night after allegedly telling the marshals, "I'm lighting my shoes on fire."
Authorities say the diplomat was wrestled to the ground and two F-16 fighter jets were dispatched to accompany the 757 on the final 40 minutes of its flight to Denver. Flight 663 originated from Washington Reagan airport.
A US security official said, "it may have been a massive misunderstanding" and the diplomat's statement may have been a "sarcastic" comment when he was confronted by two air marshals who had been told by flight attendants that smoke was coming from the lavatory.
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Actually I thought it was near fetched!
“This was a dry run, to test defenses”
My thoughts exactly.
Guess the Air Marshals acted stupidly...
“it may have been a massive misunderstanding”
Just the thing everyone jokes about while smoking in an airline bathroom; “I’m lighting my shoe bombs”
Maybe the explosive was flushed.
Check out this facebook. What do the weird hand signals mean?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mohammed-Almodadi/1636045025
"I didn't say I was lighting my shoes on fire ... I was saying that I cannot get any damn SHOE PHONE service on the plane ..."
I admit the possibility of this kind of thing happening. But why is it always a Muslim?
I wonder if he smokes Camels?
He and his friends look gay.
Either a dry run or somebody is lying about what happened.
Perhaps somebody could arrange to have him get dowsed with avgas (accidentally, of course) while, conveniently, a lit match appears in his personal space... Watch the Muslim go instant Hindu... POOF!
You got me. In some countries they vote with ink on their fingers but the red and blue? Vote out United states?
He says he is lighting his shoes. At that point he is an insane maniac at best, a terrorist at worst. It don't matter if there is explosives in them or not. The threat is real.
I can’t even believe what they say whole heartedly. I would not put it past the government to cover things up if they can. Especially since “O” The Islamic protector is in control.
Facebook page of Qatar diplomat. Not a radical islamist mind you. http://www.facebook.com/people/Mohmmed-Al-Modadi/1143459757 Archived for future reference,
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“Another passenger on the United flight, 61-year-old Scott Smith of Laramie, Wyo., said a man was led off the plane in handcuffs from the first-class area after the plane taxied to a stop.
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A senior State Department official said the agency was aware of the tentative identification of the man as a Qatari diplomat and that there would be “consequences, diplomatic and otherwise” if he had committed a crime.
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Foreign diplomats in the United States, like American diplomats posted abroad, have broad immunity from prosecution. The official said if the man’s identity as a Qatari diplomat was confirmed and if it was found that he may have committed a crime, U.S. authorities would have to decide whether to ask Qatar to waive his diplomatic immunity so he could be charged and tried. Qatar could decline, the official said, and the man would likely be expelled from the United States.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100408/ap_on_re_us/us_plane_disturbance
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Holder et al are probably meeting now, deciding how gentle they can be with this dipweed muslim so as not to offend him and the Qataris. After all, it was just a joke... /S
We want our country back!
Mars?
What do you think is going to happen to it? Melt away like the glaciers?
hopefully it would have gotten caught if there were explosives. this is a probe of the system via wisecrack.
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