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the first provable publicity that the agent gave this event was the news conference which happened after American Airlines put material on their website which the agent felt to be untrue and which pictured him in a poor light.

You are DEAD wrong.

Guard for Bush Isn't Allowed Aboard Flight

New York Times | Thursday, December 27, 2001

Posted on 12/27/01 4:22 AM Eastern by JohnHuang2

December 27, 2001

Guard for Bush Isn't Allowed Aboard Flight

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

ASHINGTON, Dec. 26 — An Arab-American member of President Bush's security detail was denied passage on an American Airlines flight from Baltimore to Dallas Tuesday evening after the flight's pilot questioned the validity of the agent's credentials, a spokesman for the Secret Service said tonight.
The agent, who was armed, was originally scheduled to accompany the president aboard Air Force One to Crawford, Tex. He was was on a commercial flight because of a change in Mr. Bush's schedule.
After a mechanical problem prompted the agent's original flight, American Flight 1191, to be canceled, the agent boarded American Flight 363 shortly before 5 p.m., scheduled to depart Baltimore Washington International Airport at 5:15 p.m.
Once seated, he was confronted by airline security personnel, the Secret Service said, and was asked to exit the plane and submit to additional security checks.
After a delay of an hour and 15 minutes, during which the agent was questioned by the flight's pilot, airline officials and airport police, the agent was ordered removed from the flight even though he had offered to have the Secret Service confirm his identity.
Brian Marr, the Secret Service spokesman, confirmed the account of the incident this evening but declined further comment. Phone calls to the airline tonight went unanswered.
A complaint filed today to the Council on Arab-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group in Washington that tracks cases of racial profiling, called the incident evidence that profiling of Arab- and Muslim-Americans at the nation's airports had increased since Sept. 11.
"They didn't see an American, they didn't see a law enforcement professional," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the group. "All they saw was a racial and ethnic profile that they didn't want on their flight."

See there, by December 27th, the agent had already called CAIR.

Now, do you care to change any of your statements regarding the "honor" of this agent?

Oh, I was wrong. By 4:22 A.M. EST on the 27th, The New York Times was already reporting it.

I guess this guy called CAIR from the airport. :-)

Zohrehvandi’s lawyers, Kelli Evans and Christy Lopez, belong to the Washington-based civil rights firm Relman and Associates, whose attorneys are best known for winning large class action settlements in the recent Denny’s restaurant and Avis Rent-a-Car discrimination suits. The firm is representing several other men kicked off planes as well. Evans and Lopez, both veterans of the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, compare Zohrehvandi’s having to wait for a pilot willing to fly him to forcing a customer in a restaurant to wait until a non-discriminatory waitress is willing to serve him. Refusal to provide service to a passenger because of his or her race is illegal, they argue, and federal law appears to be on their side.

See there, by December 27th, the agent had already called CAIR.

I wouldn't be surprised if the ss agent wasn't a CAIR plant and the whole episode with American Airlines was a set up.

You are DEAD wrong.

Dave S is dead wrong on just about every post.

I didnt say there was no news article about this. Obviously I heard it on the radio myself the day after it happened, I beleive.

It was an a spokesperson for the SS, not the agent who was quoted in the article. I dont see any proof one way or the other that the SS agent had anything to do with bringing the case into the newspapers. Plenty of people at the airport had the opportunity to observe a dispute at the gate between an armed arab claining to be a SS agent, a AA pilot, gate personnel, and an airport cop.

As far as CAIR, do you know for a fact that he filed the complaint or that CAIR filed the complaint "on his behalf" but really for their own benefit? I dont know. Im just asking?