[Publius6961]

They are Iraqi-Americans.

I have not seen a single official statement to that effect.
Do you have a source? Or just enjoy making stuff up?

[james500]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/08/passenger-freak.html

“We are good people, not a bad people,” Dave Alwatan, an Iraqi-American, tells a Chicago TV station. “How can we be bad if we are helping our people here — American people? Why are we getting treated like that?””