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Breaking- Airliner emergency landing in Ft. Smith Ark. Three mideast types locked in bathroom.
Fox 13 news memphis station | september 11, 2002 | Drawsing

Posted on 09/11/2002 8:46:40 AM PDT by Drawsing

My wife just called me with this. I can't find it anywhere else. She saw it on the local TV channel.


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To: jlogajan
I bet you're right. If this is the case, these guys have got to be pretty stupid. It's like a marine going to visit Iraq right before an invasion... hey, didn't Scott Ritter do that?
121 posted on 09/11/2002 9:23:48 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: FITZ
Dam right! Why don't we boycott boarding a plane when a tan head shows up?
123 posted on 09/11/2002 9:24:42 AM PDT by Drknows
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To: jlogajan
Police investigate van in Palm Bay

FLORIDA TODAY Staff

PALM BAY, Fla. - Police have been called to investigate a suspicious van at the Walgreens store on Malabar Road.

Traffic has been stopped from traveling both ways in front of the Walgreens, which is just west of I-95.

Several Palm Bay police officers and Florida Highway Patrol officers are on the scene and directing drivers to make u-turns. Police dogs trained to sniff for explosives and narcotics have been called in and will thoroughly inspect the van before the area is cleared.

Fire rescue trucks are arriving on the scene and police officials are asking witnesses to move back. Publix, Burger King, Arby's and Wendy's, which neighbor the Walgreens, are all being evacuated.

"I'm very upset because of the anniversary of what happened," said Gerri Clendening of Palm Bay, on her way to her bank. "I'm every edgy today. You know something probably is going to happen."

Police were alerted to the van which witnesses say has been idling in the parking lot for more than 12 hours.

Tuesday the government stepped up terrorism warnings and increased alert status from elevated to high. Although the threats were not specific, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft warned that car bombings could bring the next round of terrorism.

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge asked Americans to be alert. "If you see something suspicious, report it," he said.

Florida Today staff writers Valeria Pearcey and Jennifer Ellis contributed to this report.

124 posted on 09/11/2002 9:26:22 AM PDT by blam
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To: Thinkin' Gal; dighton; aculeus; general_re
Northwest Airlines Plane Diverted To Arkansas After Report Of Suspicious Passengers

(Fort Smith, AK-AP, September 11, 2002) — A Northwest Airlines jet was diverted to Fort Smith's airport Wednesday after three passengers locked themselves in a bathroom, officials said. The other passengers departed from the plane safely.

Flight 979, an Airbus A320 traveling from Memphis, Tenn., to Las Vegas, landed at Fort Smith late Wednesday morning, Northwest spokeswoman Mary Beth Schubert said.

Police and firefighters surrounded the aircraft. No one was reported hurt.

Jim Harris, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Huckabee, said the three men were appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent.

The Bush administration had raised the nation's terror alert warning to its second highest level Tuesday - code orange - signaling a "high risk" of attack with the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at hand.

The state Department of Emergency Management said some sort of negotiations were held between officials and the three passengers in one of the plane's bathrooms.

"Passengers were taken off and they are negotiating through the bathroom," said Jennifer Gordon, a spokeswoman for the department.

The FBI was interrogating the three men, the Transportation Security Agency said. It wasn't clear who reported suspicions to the airline.

The TSA said the three men had been acting strangely on the plane, but gave no specifics beyond saying the three locked themselves in a bathroom.

No other air traffic in the area was affected, said Dave Steigman, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Agency.

(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)--- Last Updated: Sep 11, 2002

125 posted on 09/11/2002 9:26:53 AM PDT by Orual
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To: Paradox
I expect that you've hit close to the truth.
126 posted on 09/11/2002 9:26:53 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: cardinal4
spilled a whole cup of coffee on the keyboard !!!
since joining FR I have a cheap new keyboard
and mouse just for these occasions
it is money well spent
127 posted on 09/11/2002 9:27:00 AM PDT by cactusSharp
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To: 1Old Pro
The smell must have been awful.

You're not kidding.

128 posted on 09/11/2002 9:27:58 AM PDT by b4its2late
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To: Lazamataz
Suitcase Iraqis.
129 posted on 09/11/2002 9:28:17 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Las Vegas? Wasn't that the "den of sin" that one of these sorry bastards were referring to?
130 posted on 09/11/2002 9:29:25 AM PDT by bootless
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To: Lazamataz
Well, before I was old enough to log on here with my own account, I would lurk on my dad's account.
And he's been on since 1935 (actually, right after he came home from the first Masters golf tournament, but thats another story).
131 posted on 09/11/2002 9:30:21 AM PDT by Maximum Leader
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To: thesharkboy; ItisaReligionofPeace
You can also place your mouse pointer over the name of the poster on the thread, and see the sign-up number in your taskbar (mine is at the bottom of my window)
132 posted on 09/11/2002 9:30:35 AM PDT by justshe
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To: thesharkboy
I'm number 80,070? Wow. When I signed under my original name (November 2000) there were only around 50k members. FR has grown!
133 posted on 09/11/2002 9:31:12 AM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: 1Old Pro
And that was BEFORE they sat on the toilet and took their morning "Osama". Remember that verse from the Qu'ran: "Where three or more are gathered in my name, it will be the elevator in the engineering department of any major US university, and the infidels shall flee from the smell thereof."

Or maybe these three guys misunderstood and heard "Islam is a religion of pees..."

134 posted on 09/11/2002 9:31:18 AM PDT by Treebeard
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To: Orual
A suspicious passenger taking a long bathroom break prompted a security alert on a Lufthansa plane
135 posted on 09/11/2002 9:31:33 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: AppyPappy
Don't forget to pull the pin on the soap.
136 posted on 09/11/2002 9:31:51 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: cactusSharp; AppyPappy
Yes, I have to admit AppyPappy nailed that one. Im still laughing!
137 posted on 09/11/2002 9:31:53 AM PDT by cardinal4
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To: bootless
Las Vegas? Wasn't that the "den of sin" that one of these sorry bastards were referring to?

Oh yeah... There are some fancy buildings in Vegas you could fly a plane into and kill 100s.

138 posted on 09/11/2002 9:32:06 AM PDT by far sider
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To: StolarStorm
Did you hear about the Congressman who is going to Baghdad today? I'm not kidding.
139 posted on 09/11/2002 9:32:11 AM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: MotleyGirl70
There's plenty of room if you chop them into small enough pieces.

ROTFLMAO! Is is okay to laugh today? Because your post is way funny!

It's okay to laught today, MotleyGirl70!!!! I was LOLOLOLOLing also.

Hey, in the 40's there were college contests for stuffing a dozen+ people in a single phone booth.

I'm sure you could stuff three in an airplane bathroom, especially if one is fit down the commode. LOL

140 posted on 09/11/2002 9:33:15 AM PDT by RooRoobird14
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