Posted on 08/25/2006 2:27:29 PM PDT by HHKrepublican_2
HOUSTON — A college student's checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight from Argentina contained traces of dynamite, authorities said, in one of six security incidents Friday involving U.S. flights.
Federal authorities were investigating why the student, who got off the Continental plane in Houston before it continued to Newark, N.J., had the explosive residue, FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap said.
Houston Fire Department Assistant Chief Omero Longoria said the man told authorities he works in mining and often handles explosives. Longoria said federal officials were investigating whether the explanation was true.
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In other incidents:
—A utility knife was found on a vacant passenger seat of a U.S. Airways flight traveling from Philadelphia to Bradley International Airport in Connecticut, state police said.
—A U.S. Airways jet was diverted to Oklahoma City after a federal air marshal reportedly subdued a passenger who was involved in an incident with a flight attendant, officials said.
—An American Airlines flight from England to Chicago was forced to land in Bangor, Maine, for security reasons
—A Continental Airlines Flight for Bakersfield, Texas, was diverted to EL Paso after the crew discovered a missing panel in the lavatory, said Amy von Walter, a Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman.
—An Aer Lingus flight from New York to Dublin was evacuated Friday morning during a scheduled stopover in western Ireland following a bomb threat that turned out to be unfounded, officials said.
In Houston, the dynamite residue was found during a luggage search in a federal inspection station at Bush Intercontinental Airport shortly after Flight 52 landed at about 6 a.m. Marlene McClinton, spokeswoman for the Houston Airport System, said a bomb-sniffing dog "had a hit" on explosive residue during a further search.
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The probes by Al Qaeda continue...
You can also trigger the chemical sniffers if you happen to golf at a course that uses certain fertilizers. So I was told by a TSA person.
And 23 flights were turned back when passengers were discovered with suspicious clear liquids later determined to ba dihydromonoxide.
Are the practicioners of the ideology of death and destruction testing us? Are they finding out that even the littlest "incident" throws the system into shutdown? Maybe they have realized that they can cause real upheaval just by doing these little things.
I trust them as far as I can throw a camel.
TWENTY THREE? where is this figure?
I think he was being sarcastic.
Naaaahhhh... That couldn't be the case.
[Paging Norm Mineta. Mr. Mineta, come to the front desk please?]
Some of these incidents are no doubt innocent, but I believe we are seeing an attempt to cramp up the system without going to the trouble of actual attacks. Also, there may be hope that repeated false alarms will cause security to loosen.
We need to stop dihydromonoxide in our time, before it kills us all! /s
You know, there are certainly some airlines in the Mideast that are not immune to the same incidents.
That bathroom one bugs me. That's the second or third one of those since the liquid bomb plot.
Could be one of many Islamo-Fascist groups... could be with funding from Iran as well. I gotta' feeling that after Israel's pathetic showing in Lebanon... the wheels are turning faster now.
That stuff is deadly. It kills more children every year than guns. It's also highly corrosive, causes global warming, and is a commonly used industrial solvent.
Dehydrated dihydromonoxide is impossible to detect.
You mean we aren't allowed to carry sticks of dynomite on a plane??? They are getting picky.
(Oops...forgot my /sarcasm tag)
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