Posted on 07/21/2004 4:50:34 PM PDT by Mike Fieschko
Most Syrians are Arabs. And just because a band can play decent music does not mean they are good guys. No reason they couldn't be terrorists too. Some of the 9/11 hijackers had rather mild resumes, after all.
Do the band members attend the same mosque? Follow the same radical mullah?
Dont give me this crap it was all a joke.....They terrified a plane load of people just going about there daily lives .....because they thought it would be funny to terrify the infidels..
Someone should read the riot act to the cabin crew.
This guy can't decide which side of the coin he's on - all that great legal training I suppose.
I'm with Jacobsen - I think Arab terrorists can play music.
Given they were Syrian/Lebanese there's an excellent chance the lead singer and some/all of the musicians weren't even Muslims.
Well I never liked the story...there was the "they bought one way tickets" angle pressed in the expectation these are more suspicious, and they are. But then we found out they had "one way" tickets back home. In reality they had round trip bookings, but for some reason wanted to to and back from different airports. Might have been doing other gigs in the region.
It IS a good piece of journalism. If he found there was no band and no gig, it would have been a good confirmation of the worries of the writer of the original piece.
I guess I'll have to clue in my shiftless sister in law. Maybe she could get a folk harp gig at a casino.
I'm with Jacobsen - I think Arab terrorists can play music.
Lay off. This guy did a nifty bit of investigative journalism.
Being musicians and being jihadists are NOT mutually exclusive categories. They still acted suspiciously, her story still stands. That they were musicians makes it a great cover-up, doesn't it? You were willing to throw out all the RELEVANT details just because they really went to a gig at the end of the flight?? tsk tsk.
I had just read this on NRO and was going to post it myself. This still doesn't explain some of the strange patterns on the flight, but better to be wary & worried than ignorantly blind.
But just b/c they were musicians doesn't mean they were not up to something. I'd like to know what they do on Syria, what type of mosque they attend, etc.
This Cullen guys sounds like an idiot. He read the Jacobsen piece and put 1 & 1 together, but simply chose not to call anybody?
-PJ
Google is great investigative reporting? You should raise your standards.
Buy a clue - if YOU were a terrorist, living in enemy territory, wouldn't you have a day job? A legit cover? Get serious.
Neat disinfo another possibility
Yeah, but the Carrot Top thing makes this all too surreal. That, plus the fact that Nour Mehana is an anagram for Noah manure and A UN Menorah. I don't buy it.
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