Posted on 10/31/2001 7:38:18 AM PST by Koblenz
SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. Customs and FBI (news - web sites) agents in Seattle seized two passengers from a Northwest Airlines Corp. jet inbound from Narita, Japan, on Wednesday and held them for questioning, airport and airline spokespersons said.
Officials kept the rest of the 201 passengers and 17 crew members on board the Boeing 747-200 while the two unidentified men were questioned and their bags searched, said Northwest spokesman Bill Mellon.
``The FBI asked us to hold (the plane) short of the passenger terminal. Customs and FBI agents boarded the flight and have detained two men. They are questioning them and they are checking their carry-on and checked luggage,'' Mellon said.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport spokeswoman Terry-Ann Mohon said passengers are routinely held aboard the plane during such an incident.
The red-eye flight from Narita had otherwise gone normally, Mellon said.
``The were no problems on the flight. No incidents were reported,'' he said.
Officials at the Seattle FBI office declined to confirm any of the details of the incident.
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Perhaps you're thinking of Saki. Wasabi is a spicy paste. Good stuff.
Seriously????
I love wasabi but in small amounts and always mixed with soy sauce. Great over sushi.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
Seriously???? Yep! The first time I saw this happen, I had to go for two Zantacs for my stomach just from watching it! This guy is cold all the time. I make a very hot chilli re spices and he brings his Habanero bottle to move my chilli up to his standards!
"I love wasabi but in small amounts and always mixed with soy sauce. Great over sushi."
We love it over sushi and buy the wasabi dry and wet mixed for carryout sushi!
Unfortunately, they (both the terrorists and the sheeple)want to make us put up with all of that, and right now, they are winning. I don't know how we are going to stop them, but we must find a way. Every time that they hold passengers on a plane for two hours, they drive another nail in the coffin of the airline industry. There are enough real Americans left who won't take that kind of treatment. If it continues, the airlines will have no passengers.
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IIRC, they never did target the Space Needle. I keep hearing that Ressam's explosives were destined for LA Airport.
Anyway, they never should've kept the people away from the Space Needle during the Millenium celebration. Seattle Center (which surrounds the Space Needle) was a restricted access area, with a limited # of entrances, all of which were guarded. Instead, a couple thousand of us ended up watching the fireworks (such as they were) from the sidewalks along the streets that surround Seattle Center. IOW, we were all much more exposed & vulnerable to a carbomb than we would be if we had all been inside the Seattle Center grounds.
(My pet peeve against mayor Schell. :-)
No, not really. Testimony from the FBI and the culprit (I think his name was Ressam) indicated that his real destination was further south at LAX. It is wishful thinking on the part of local officials that he would head to the space needle.
"See we're important, they wanted to bomb us! Now give us some federal funds to beef up our local police."
There were three Americans being held. They cut the head off one, now, there's only two Americans captive. Isn't Islam great!
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