[vannrox]

No more Mr. Nice Guy...

[BurkeanCyclist]

The incident, however, shook up the other passengers, many of whom said they were shocked at the aggressive response by the authorities.

What do you expect? He was smoking!

[be-baw]

Two fighter jets and an FBI SWAT team to take out a guy having a cigarette. Now THAT'S scary.

[MeekOneGOP]

"We all knew as soon as we smelled smoke that we were probably going to have to turn back," another passenger, Kim Powell, told reporters.

Witnesses on the flight told agents that Naghani was discovered by a flight attendant who loudly told him smoking on airliners was banned by U.S. law.

"The male passenger allegedly became abusive with the flight attendant and made disparaging statements against the United States," the FBI said in a press release.

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Registered DIMocRAT - thinks rules are made to be broken. . .

[NittanyLion]

California Gov. Gray Davis was, by coincidence, holding his own news conference at an airport parking lot, coaxing the public to go back to flying on commercial airliners and promising safety for passengers with the National Guard units to be called up to assist with providing airport security.

That must have been something. "Our skies have never been safer! And with these new...what the?!?" This Iranian guy is lucky the passengers didn't tear him apart after he started berating the flight attendant.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post!

[Semper Paratus]

The next thing that should be smoking is his green card.

[chicagolady]

The incident, however, shook up the other passengers, many of whom said they were shocked at the aggressive response by the authorities.

Give me a Break! I would have been their biggest cheerleader! What did the folks want? For the authorities to be sensitive? No wonder some folks are so victimized, They feel sorry for their own offenders being treated aggresively when the situation calls for it. They should have knocked the hell out of him before the plane landed.

[fourdeuce82d]

why was nobody stomping this guy into the carpet? The issue is not whether he was smoking, the issue is his contempt and disregard for the rules and the people who are supposed to enforce them- at a time like this, with people on edge, we don't need some tweezer stirring up a fuss.

should have given the guy some thumps 'n' lumps.

[FR_addict]

I think some of these guys have been sent out to create disturbances and then yell discrimation.

They believe that we will start lowering our guard because we don't want to be seen as profiling.

I think they are probably correct. We will be back to doing cursory checks of everyone.