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18-month-old baby pulled from flight, parents interviewed by TSA
YahooNews ^
| 5/9/2012
| Eric Pfeiffer
Posted on 05/10/2012 2:30:28 PM PDT by South40
The parents of an 18-month-old girl say they were "humiliated" after being pulled off a plane and told their young child had been placed on a no-fly list.
After boarding a JetBlue flight in Ft. Lauderdale, the parents of young Riyanna, who asked to remain anonymous over fears of repercussions, were told the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) wanted to interview their toddler.
"And I said, 'For what?'" Riyanna's mother told ABC affiliate WPBF 25 News on Wednesday. "And he said, 'Well, it's not you or your husband. Your daughter was flagged as no fly.' I said, 'Excuse me?'"
Whoever is to blame, the parents say they believe the incident began because they are both of Middle Eastern descent and because the wife wears a hijab, a traditional headscarf.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: tsa
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:30:28 PM PDT
by
South40
To: South40
Not THEM, the hijab and headdress wearers. The BABY. It sounds like a name confusion.
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:32:04 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
To: HiTech RedNeck; South40
Did they expect exploding diapers????
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:34:00 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: South40
The baby was likely a name match to a record and they had to check it out.
I would have laughed it off and considered it a great adventure, but then I’m a little weird.
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:34:45 PM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Running in circles and screaming is not a strategy.)
To: SandRat
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:35:49 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
To: South40
Who knows, maybe her first word learned was detonator. lol
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:36:17 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
To: South40
Mall cops are never wrong. Don’t tell them their job.
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:37:21 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Barack Obama has cut and run from what he called "the right war".)
To: South40
Everyone under 15 should be on a no-fly list.
To: South40
"TSA did not flag this child as being on the No Fly list,"
"TSA determined the airline had mistakenly indicated the child was on a government watch list."
Classic doublespeak going on by the dipwads at the TSA.
To: South40
I just do not want to fly anymore...planning a cross country trip and I'll probably drive the entire way by myself...hubby can't get as much time off and he'll fly and drive back with me....
its bad enough that the planes cram you into tiny little seats with no leg room, and make dozens of people use the same tiny little br, but now the feds are making the getting on a plane a nightmare...
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:41:15 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: Blue Highway
Was the chil' perhaps named mohammad, ala, bilal, jehan, mose, .......
Middleeasterners only have a limited supply of names ~ most of them are named mohammad
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:44:26 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: cherry
At 5’18” you can imagine that I have ALWAYS hated flying!
Please, please, put me on the dam no-fly list!
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:44:36 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
To: Blue Highway
“Classic doublespeak going on by the dipwads at the TSA.”
— — —
Remember, these TSA dipwads were hired in the day after 9/11 because they were incapable of finding any other other useful work in the public sector.
To: South40
A 2011 poll from the Pew Research Center found that Muslim Americans say they believe they are disproportionately singled out by airport security officers. I can't imagine why that would be!
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:49:54 PM PDT
by
iowamark
To: South40
The comments below the article are great.
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:50:29 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: SandRat
Did they expect exploding diapers???? Well I have sat next to some babies who's diaper did not explode but it still put me out. PU!
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posted on
05/10/2012 2:51:07 PM PDT
by
ProudFossil
(" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
To: South40
Only 18 months old , but they seem to blow up so fast.
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posted on
05/10/2012 3:00:39 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
To: South40
I bet it was the 2-year long al-queda training camp the 18-month old went to...
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posted on
05/10/2012 3:05:02 PM PDT
by
moovova
(OBAMA: The first US President to come out of the closet.)
To: South40
You caught me! You caught the Tater!
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posted on
05/10/2012 3:05:27 PM PDT
by
Lockbox
To: South40
Whoever is to blame, the parents say they believe the incident began because they are both of Middle Eastern descent and because the wife wears a hijab, a traditional headscarf.No! No! No! TSA is EEOC compliant. They treat everybody equally stupidly. "We'll have to question the baby some more."
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posted on
05/10/2012 3:12:05 PM PDT
by
the_daug
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