"You want me to check what? Your crazy!"
Posted on 03/06/2007 3:44:51 PM PST by mfnorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Officials detained an Iraqi man during a security scare at Los Angeles International airport on Tuesday but said a suspicious object found in a body cavity search did not pose a threat.
The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, was detained at passenger screening at the airport just before 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
The bomb squad was called as a precaution and authorities said they found wires in his clothing and a magnet inside a lower body cavity.
The man was preparing to board a US Airways flight to Philadelphia. The flight left without the passenger but with his luggage aboard. It made an unscheduled landing in Las Vegas where the plane was thoroughly searched but nothing was found.
That isn't "nothing" - it's a test of the system.
"...they found wires in his clothing and a magnet inside a lower body cavity."
Of course there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this, right???
Okaaaay. Why a magnet up his butt? Trial run bomber checking out security or just a weirdo perv?
a magnet inside a lower body cavity???????
At least he alway knew where north was.
ICK!
You're right, they are testing.
Maybe he is gay and his boyfriend has a lead ****
Probably CAIR will have some explanation for the magnet.
Unfriggingbelievable.
Just a thought,,,put a magnet in your computer and see what happens,,,,
not to worry..our security officials made the plane land in vegas so they could search it..
I think we've all had a magnet in our ass....the questions is, just how big was this magnet?
Take five or six people and conceal disassembled bomb componentry in "body cavities," go to the lav one by one and hide the components ... voila. Bomb.
"did not pose a threat."
It's a rehearsal-of course it poses a threat!!
His prior job was holding notes to the refrigerator.
There's something not being said here. I'm not entirely sure I ~want~ to know what the rest of the story.
Doesn't everyone have a magnet in a 'lower body cavity?'
I know I do.
your exactly right
"a lower body cavity? How many does he have?"
If it was a really thin magnet, that would be two, lol.
Perv or terrorist, perv or terrorist?
...Both?
maybe it was just a method of checking how much iron he has in his diet
It's a great way to get change out of the couch cushions...
"You want me to check what? Your crazy!"
Oh, my gosh! This is possibly the funniest thread I have ever read!!!!
So, are you implying he wanted to sit on someones hard drive?
Maybe he had this problem: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4904256.html
Or maybe he is just a few french fries short of a happy meal.
....and a magnet inside a lower body cavity.
????
I can see testing airport security, but this?
I hear it beats gerbils.
I wonder if that magnet could affect the fly-by-wire systems on the Airbusted?
They should have checked the rest of the passengers. maybe there is a frind of his on board with an assload of C-4.
Well our government is never going to tell us anything they don't have to. I think we can see that there aren't many reasons why someone would pack their tools this way though. High five to the screener that caught him.
well thanks to richard reid we have to remove our shoes...do you think we will now have to lower our pants?
Drat. Imagine all the TSA ass-wanding we little old ladies will now have to undergo just to board an aircraft.
In godfather movies pistols are taped inside toilet tanks.
I don't think it was a test. I'm just wondering now how they are going to search passengers.
Always a good idea to carry a magnet with you when you go on a plane trip.
I sure hope the airlines has some sort of contingency plan for having 4/5/6 middle eastern males lined up to used the lavatory..such as "turbulence" that requires passengers to sit down etc..
You obviously missed the Northwest Airlines thread yesterday...which was "pulled".
Off-duty NWA worker charged with assault for in-flight incident
I agree and now we have to wonder, if congress in their great wisdom allows these screeners to unionize.....Just how many TSA agents will it take to search a cavity?
By the time they figure out whose job it is and if they get "hazzard" pay, it just might be too late.
See Post #41
LOS ANGELES: An Iraqi immigrant with a suspicious device stuffed into a body cavity was detained at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday and a Philadelphia-bound jetliner was diverted to Las Vegas because his luggage was aboard, authorities said.
The device and the luggage were cleared by bomb squads in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
"There never was a threat," said Larry Fetters, security director at Los Angeles International Airport for the federal Transportation Security Administration.
Fadhel Al-Maliki, 35, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, was held for a mental evaluation and for a possible immigration violation, federal officials said.
Al-Maliki is a permanent legal resident who came to the United States in 1994.
He had flown into Los Angeles from Philadelphia on Monday and was booked for a Tuesday return flight when he was chosen for extra security screening. He triggered an alert during the secondary screening and immediately told screeners about the device he was carrying, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.
"He initially said it was therapeutic," she said.
The device had a wire and what may have been a magnet concealed in his rectum, federal officials said.
It did not contain any explosives, Eimiller said.
Al-Maliki said he had flown to Los Angeles for a visit but details were unclear, Eimiller said.
The terminal remained open during the incident and no takeoffs or landings were affected but a US Airways jet en route to Philadelphia was diverted because Al-Maliki's checked luggage already had been screened and put aboard the plane.
Flight 1422, carrying 143 passengers and six crew members, landed at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas about 8:30 a.m.
The Airbus A320 was searched in a secure area away from terminals and cleared about noon to continue to Philadelphia, said Chris Jones, an airport spokesman. Passengers were given options to resume their flight aboard the jet, stay in Las Vegas or return to Los Angeles, he said.
BWAHAHAHA. Assload.
He will do fine until he sits on a metal bench and can't get back up.
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