Mideast men with 'razors' yanked off American jet

WorldNetDaily ^ | February 12, 2003 | Paul Sperry

[Cyclops08]

For that matterm WHERE does a couple of hiardressers get $10,000?!

[Kevin Curry]

Kudos to the flight crew for refusing to take off.

Agreed. But now the airline will be the target of a lawsuit.

[BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL]

Maybe they were worried their "virgins in paradise" might be financially motivated...

[Revolting cat!]

For that matterm WHERE does a couple of hiardressers get $10,000?!

When you stop getting your haircuts at a barber college, you'll know!

[ysoitanly]

The French deny they had any L'Oreal products in the bag with them.

[Barnacle]

Kudos to the flight crew for refusing to take off.

I'll second that. This is absolutely crazy!

[Ichneumon]

"Any ideas as to why two suicide hijackers would need $10,000 in cash????"

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........lots o' people around here have a strong distaste for logical thinking of any kind.

You're not doing too well yourself there -- they could have been making a "test run", like the ones that actor James Woods believes he saw a few weeks before 9/11, and taking either "expense money" with them, or funds for another cell at their destionation point.

Now your turn -- what logical reason would "Iranian hairdressers" have for carrying $10,000 in cash?

[TheGrimReaper]

the men claimed to be Iranian nationals, but were not carrying passports

Anybody see anything wrong with THIS picture??
A US citizen trying to travel in __________ [fill in country of your choice] without a passport is going to have some serious problems.... yet these "gentlemen" are allowed to reboard another flight??

[Kevin Curry]

Now your turn -- what logical reason would "Iranian hairdressers" have for carrying $10,000 in cash?

How did they get the cash? By a hawala transaction using intermediaries to make the origins of the money virtually untracebale? That is how terrorists have been financed by their Iraqi/Iranian/Saudi sponsors.

[Lady Heron]

Yes, and some absolutly refuse to see any evil in the strange behavior and actions of muslims.

[paul51]

Anybody see anything wrong with THIS picture??

Exactly. This is unbelievable. We never learn

[StormEye]

"The two passengers had Virginia IDs, but were not U.S. citizens. A source familiar with the incident told WorldNetDaily that the men claimed to be Iranian nationals, but were not carrying passports."

Let me get this straight:
We have two foreign nationals, possibly hostile
with IDs that say they are citizens of Virginia but
they are not US citizens.
(How can a person be a citizen of Virginia but not of the US?)

Next, they claim they are Iranians (definitely a hostile
nation) and they have NO passports to show who they are or when
they entered the country, how long they have been here, no explaination
of why they are here and they are traveling around with ten grand in cash
and the "authorities" let them go! If Americans get "caught" hauling around
ten thousand dollars in cash the automatic assumption is "Drug Dealer" and
their money may be confiscated. But apparently the government doesn't mind
"Iranians" doing this. Isn't America a great country.
It really cares about other country's citizens.

[Quix]

AMEN!