[jimbo123]

Part II of Mr. Jacobsen's story.

[jimbo123]

Make that Mrs. Jacobsen's story.

[Dog]

And I now have another important question... Is there a link between my experience on flight #327 and the arrest of Ali Mohamed Almosaleh by customs agents at the Minneapolis Airport on July 7 (approximately one week after my flight)? Almosaleh was traveling from Damascus, Syria, to Minneapolis on KLM/Northwest Airlines. According to CNN.com, Agents found Almosaleh to be carrying what they described as a suicide note and DVDs containing anti-American material.

What if this guy was one of the 14 sent back on a different flight.

[Redbob]

"I think about the meaning of dry run. And then I think about what it means to be politically correct. And I keep coming up blank."

Maybe Mrs. Jacobsen needs some formal training in rational thought,

[marblehead17]

ping

[TomGuy]

Gary Boettcher, Member, Board of Directors, Allied Pilots Association, said, Folks, I am a Captain with a major airline. I was very involved with the Arming Pilots effort. Your reprint of this airborne event is not a singular nor isolated experience. The terrorists are probing us all the time.

According to Mark Bogosian, B-757/767 pilot for American Airlines, The incident you wrote about, and incidents like it, occur more than you like to think. It is a 'dirty little secret' that all of us, as crew members, have known about for quite some time.

This brings us to the heart of the matter -- political correctness. Political correctness has become a major road block for airline safety. From what I've now learned from the many emails and phone calls that I have had with airline industry personnel, it is political correctness that will eventually cause us to stand there wondering, How did we let 9/11 happen again?

More on PC showed up in this thread this morning: Political correctness

[Egon]

Ping II.

[Tamzee]

Major networks and liberal mainstream newspapers will give this as little attention as they can get away with...

... it makes John "the threat of terrorism is exaggerated" Kerry look like a moron.

[Taquito]

They played at a wedding in the middle of nowhere in Iraq and got bombed by an American plane.


(I hope)

[iceskater]

Do you have a link to part I? Somehow I missed it.

[NavySEAL F-16]

Calling Norm Mineta! Calling Norm Mineta!

[Tamzee]

Follow-up article from "Terror in the Skies" journalist with updates...

[stainlessbanner]

she's back

[True Capitalist]

I can't read the whole article at the above link. Midway through I keep getting the error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

Can someone please post the entire article here?

[pgkdan]

Where exactly did this band of 14 musicians play? What was the name of the band? Who booked the band and what kind of music did they play? Did anyone follow up and actually witness these 14 men performing at their desert casino gig

Very good questions. I for one would like to know just what these characters did sfter landing in LA.

[pgkdan]

Where exactly did this band of 14 musicians play? What was the name of the band? Who booked the band and what kind of music did they play? Did anyone follow up and actually witness these 14 men performing at their desert casino gig

Very good questions. I for one would like to know just what these characters did after landing in LA.

[blanknoone]

The thing that bothers me the most is that the flight attendants didn't ask them to sit down during the descent second rush to the lavatory while the seatbelt sign was on.

[badbass]

I see a couple of posts referring to an effort to "bash Bush", but if something happens like 9/11 again, due to the political correctness of Norm Mineta, I will become the biggest Bush basher ever. I'm planning on voting for Presdient Bush as of now, but this P.C. crap has got to stop and stop now. Mineta should have been fired long ago, and President Bush is the only one who can do it, as far as I know. The buck has to stop somewhere. The fact that this type of stuff is going on now, after 9/11, means that President Bush is culpable. The fact that nothing has happened so far seems to be just dumb luck, judging from the comments from people in the airline industry. I don't give a damn if its a donkey or an elephant, somebody has got to extract their heads from their rectums and get this solved.

[Quilla]

Thank you for the ping. WWS must be getting some terrific traffic - I'm getting an error message when I attempt to open the third page of Ms. Jacobsen's article. Someone posted her first article in its entirety on the original thread. Hopefully, someone can access and post this one as well. Talk about a cliffhanger - I'm anxious to read it all.

[baseballmom]

Thanks for part II. Been following this since it was first posted on FR.

Michelle Malkin was on our local talk radio this am talking about it.

Pretty scary stuff. People better wake up. I'm due to fly United from Philly to San Fran in Sept. I won't be afraid of confronting suspicious behavior. Call me a racist, call be a -itch, call me whatever, but DON'T call me DEAD.

[WestCoastGal]

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