Wired Iraqi man questioned at L.A. airport

Reuters ^ | 03-06-07

[Eye of Unk]

excuse my typos, I just woke up and busting a gut reading about this!

[cgk]

PING (apologies if you're already here... haven't read it all yet.)

[imjustme]

Now I can't stop laughing!

[Cindy]

Yes, I see a lot of laughter here on this thread.

I'm not laughing and thank you for the ping cgk.

[rfp1234]

They could call him "the Splendid Sphincter", but that's already taken by Bawney Fwank.

[rdl6989]

That's the worst picture of Helen Thomas I've ever seen. LOL.

[Eclectica]

This incident does not have an innocent explanation.

No, it does not.

About December, 2001, I advised Homeland Security of this after I couldn't sleep. (After having dreamed up the scenario of Eye of Unk—only "better"). Perhaps that foreknowledge was the reason HS found this guy, though I expected a far more comprehensive screening technique to result.

9/11 has cost us $1 Trillion. At what cost would the loss of the commercial jet transportation industry be?

[R. Scott]

The taxpayers will cough up a few $Billion for digital x-ray machines and the techs to run them?

[Beckwith]

I date with a nurse at one time who told me they had a guy come into the emergency room with a vibrator way up his colon -- it was still running.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

What would you prefer they do? Publicize that the FBI has him under surveillance and has examined all of his emails and phone calls?

[cgk]

The news blurb on FNC this morning made light of it as well - treated the story as if he was a nutcase ("claimed the rock was from another planet") with no mention of his being Iraqi.

[silverleaf]

A human butt bomb? Let's hope one or more of the human components passes on falafels for lunch.

[Texas Mom]

His prior job was holding notes to the refrigerator.

Now that's funny.. LOL

[Cold Heat]

Probably CAIR will have some explanation for the magnet

It's to point his ass to the North so that he can find Mecca.

[Charles Martel]

Interesting. A magnet in a body cavity could do some damage to a backscatter imager I think.

So magnet-boy goes through first, then others slip through with more dangerous "payloads" while the scanner is partly blind.

Insidious.

[windcliff]

ping

[PhilDragoo]

Thank you for mentioning the trillion-dollar-hit our GDP took from 911--no one ever mentions that. It is no small thing--it is the impact which Stalin and Mao et all would have given divisions or cities for. All for boxcutters and nineteen expendable jihadischmucks.

[PhilDragoo]

Do you believe what you wrote, that the FBI has monitored all of his emails and phone calls?

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I have no idea and neither do you! But, if they were doing this it wouldn't make sense to publicize it! Either way, we won't hear anything!

[PhilDragoo]

We agree they should be doing everything to insure the al-Qaeda sleeper cells are not able to operate without total surveillance.

We would expect no more incidents such as described by Special Agent Colleen Rowley.

We would insist they not be precluded from doing their job by the lobbying efforts of CAIR--although public statements by Director Mueller are disappointing to say the least.