there’s reports the other man taken into custody was someone who was videotaping the flight, including the tackling of the terrorist forever to be known as the peckerless wonder
Do you need a passport if you are only escorting someone on the flight and you yourself will not leave the airport and return home?
Where are the airport video? I want to see them! We can see airport videos of people tazered and beaten to a pulp by the security guards. However when it involves a real world terrorist. Nada! Nope. Not going to see it.
Bring on the crickets.
That's it? How about 300 counts of attempted murder?
So if he did have the documents they say he did, what was all the song-and-dance concerning trying to get him on board without them all about? Could KLM mean that they had a record of a passport that was shown in the past rather than seeing the actual thing now?
Did the flier have a passport when he purchased his round trip tickets from Lagos to Amsterdam to Detroit for cash?
Did the flier have a passport to board the plane in Lagos on Christmas Eve, bound for Amsterdam?
By the way, most of the "Lagos to Detroit" tickets rout via Atlanta and not Amsterdam. The thing I heard was Holland does not permit US Armed Air Marshals to board US bound planes from Amsterdam, making a Marshal free rout into the US. Not cool, if true.
I have two questions:
1.How would anyone not flying himself get to the boarding gate to intercede for this guy? He would have had to show ID to get there and certainly if he talked to someone in authority.
2. Where did the bomber’s passport get to if he had one to board?
This story just doesn’t sound right. Of course it could be easily answered if the FBI showed his passport just like his underwear.
Too bad for Obama & other authorities that we have American eyewitnesses who saw what really happened.
So they say that pantybomber had a passport. Was it his original one or a replacement issued on that day? Chances are he probably claimed that he lost his passport and a new one was issued.
The FBI could be splitting hairs here. Perhaps Mutallab did have a passport but didn’t want to present it, suspecting he’d be on the no-fly list.
There are legitimate reasons for competent investigators, if there are any, to want to keep the accomplice story quiet. It seems increasingly likely that there were facilitators in Amsterdam—with the airline, with security, or both—so identifying/finding this guy and connecting dots on the ground in Amsterdam would be key.
” allegedly “?
What’s this “ allegedly “ crap.
Just so much political correctness.
This puke was caught red handed trying to blow up a jet and so as to not hurt anyones feelings he is “ allegedly “?
Hang him from a lamp post and let the people stone him.
Amending my post at #17: It’s the Dutch authorities saying he had a passport. So if there is hair-splitting going on, they’re doing so in concert with the FBI for investigational purposes, or they’re trying to cover their butts. (Probably both.)
Mutallab may indeed have had a passport—but when? Before or after the backroom confab between the mystery Indian man and the manager?
If this was a Northwest Airlines flight, why does all the video I've seen show a Delta plane?
It is impossible to board without a passport in Holland. In fact everyone in The Netherlands need always to be able to show their ID, it is the law. So wherever you are, in the train, your car, a shop, your house, on the street, you have to bring your ID with you.