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Officials: Possible terror attack on Northwest jet (Subdued by flight crew and passengers)
MSNBC ^ | 12/25/09 | NBC, msnbc.com and news services

Posted on 12/25/2009 2:06:37 PM PST by jimbo123

A 23-year-old Nigerian man tried to light a powdery substance aboard a Northwest Airlines flight before landing in Detroit on Friday, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News.

Two people noticed the attempt and a third person jumped on the man and subdued him, an airline official told NBC News.

The man is being treated at the burn unit of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, officials said.

The man told investigators that he wanted to set off a bomb over the United States, and the incident is being handled as a possibile terrorism attack by both law enforcement and intelligence agencies, senior counterterrorism officials said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; alqaeda; deltaflight253; flight253; jihadinamerica; muslim; northwestflight253; nwa; terrorist
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To: ColdOne

You are correct.

It is former servicemen/women, Bible readers and Bible readers, people twho tithe, attend a church service at least once a month, ect. that homeland security is worried about.


21 posted on 12/25/2009 2:21:29 PM PST by sport
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To: jimbo123; Richard Kimball; cleveland gop; big'ol_freeper; Jersey Republican Biker Chick; Bender2; ..
Never fear, the Obama Justice Department will clear the guy... He was just practicing his religion, burning incense for the voodoo gods.
22 posted on 12/25/2009 2:21:49 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: driftdiver

I disagree. Quick trial by jury. If found guilty by fellow passengers, Captain pushes a stick and the accused and sentenced immediately departs the a/c via some sort of ejection device.


23 posted on 12/25/2009 2:23:07 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: samtheman
Where'd the "journalist" get his "Journalism Degree", Wal-Mart?

Yeah, over by the pre-paid phones. But you have to buy minutes for them or they expire. /s

24 posted on 12/25/2009 2:23:17 PM PST by Spitzensparkin1 (UN:global-socialists against freedom in action. No taxation without representation! No UN in our US.)
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To: sport

25 posted on 12/25/2009 2:24:34 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: jimbo123

I am sure by now the FBI has conclude not terrorist intent.


26 posted on 12/25/2009 2:26:09 PM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: jimbo123
Just watched "An American Carol" which was a Christmas Present to my son.

Reminds me of the scene in the movie of a Rosie O'Donut-produced documentary where the num boards a bus, shouts out, 'Hail Mary Full of Grace!" and yanks on her rosary to self-detonate.

Cheers!

...and Merry Christmas.

27 posted on 12/25/2009 2:26:12 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: BAW

I will also bet the passenger that jumped the POS was a Conservative American who did not vote for zer0


28 posted on 12/25/2009 2:27:12 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: driftdiver

You are right. How silly of me to even think something like that about those who consider themselves to be our lords and masters.

I live in Florida and they are going to charge us fifty dollars to renew our driver’s license and we have to have at least four different kinds of i.d. along with a social security card. This is, so they say, to make us secure.

I have a feeling it will be like that everywhere else.


29 posted on 12/25/2009 2:27:26 PM PST by sport
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To: samtheman

Delta Airlines merged with Northwest Airlines back in 2007(?) and the DELTA name brand covers both.


30 posted on 12/25/2009 2:27:36 PM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: Cicero

I’m sure he must from the Christian area of Nigeria. /my sick sarcasm


31 posted on 12/25/2009 2:28:22 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: jimbo123

Was this a different flight from the Delta “fireworks” reported earlier? If so, it seems coordinated to hit Christmas day.


32 posted on 12/25/2009 2:28:31 PM PST by USArmySpouse
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To: All

http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=12316

An explosive device went off in the lap of a 23-year-old Nigerian man aboard a Northwest Airlines flight sometime before landing in Detroit on Friday in what is being viewed as a possible terrorist attack, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News.


33 posted on 12/25/2009 2:28:58 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: Bender2

Detroit....Amish Country...right??


34 posted on 12/25/2009 2:30:24 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: USArmySpouse

It was the same incident. The liberal media reported it as fireworks because they don’t want people to think it was a muslim terrorist attack on Christmas.


35 posted on 12/25/2009 2:30:52 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: Dallas59

Now that picture just makes me ill. Lots of people wonder how long till the fall of the US? It fell a long time ago, we just are in denial.


36 posted on 12/25/2009 2:31:23 PM PST by arkady_renko
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To: jimbo123; Squantos; Eaker; humblegunner
An explosive device went off in the lap of a 23-year-old Nigerian man aboard a Northwest Airlines flight

Using your genitals to smother the flames... even Eaker knows better than that!

37 posted on 12/25/2009 2:31:51 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: jimbo123

In his lap? I hope he is nutless. LOL


38 posted on 12/25/2009 2:32:35 PM PST by healy61
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To: jimbo123

In his LAP???


39 posted on 12/25/2009 2:32:37 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: jimbo123

Well, if it went off in his lap, I hope it burned his gonads off so he won’t be able to reproduce anymore little jihadists. As for those who jumped him, and assuming he was attempting a terrorist act, too bad they didn’t break his neck. That would’ve solved a host of problems, me thinks. However, the current government wouldn’t think so, would they?


40 posted on 12/25/2009 2:32:55 PM PST by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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