Posted on 12/25/2009 3:15:34 PM PST by granite
Romulus, Mich. - A senior U.S. counterterror official says a passenger aboard a Delta Air Lines flight in Detroit was planning to blow up the plane but the explosive device failed.
The official said the passenger was being questioned Friday evening. It was not immediately clear why the passenger wanted to attack the flight that was arriving from Amsterdam
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WHOOPS! Thanks much granite!
Can someone tell me .. Have there been two different ‘attempts’ to blow up an airliner in the last few days?
I think that there is another post about another failed ‘attempt’ to blow up an airliner but it is a Delta flight that is being discussed.
If this is the case .. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!??
I’m just getting here. Is the same incident that was first characterized as a “fire cracker” being set off?
It’s all a misunderstanding. You see he was only trying to warm himself...looks like a racist attempt to label someone just because they don’t understand the culture of Western countries./s
Yes. First it was firecrackers, then a powdery explosive.
My God.
Same...
Darn those Amish. At it again.
Everybody relax, the President has been briefed on the situation and Janet Napolitano is monitoring events. /s
Can someone tell me .. Have there been two different ‘attempts’ to blow up an airliner in the last few days?
I think that there is another post about another failed ‘attempt’ to blow up an airliner but it is a Delta flight that is being discussed.
Northwest is now a part of Delta Airlines. That may be the source of confusion in the news reports.
Any description of the passenger in question? I think you know where I’m going with this.
23, Nigerian, muslim, and it appears that he has already confessed....
Thank you. Hardly a surpise. Guess he passed through the screening with no problem at all.
Yes it is. Now being said to be an attempt to blow up the plane....but not many more details yet.
After reading the ABC account, I now fear that we’ll all have to be patted down by the TSA for the foreseeable future. Thanks to this Nigerian A-hole.
“Obama then instructed that ‘all appropriate measures be taken to increase security for air travel.’”
A simple new safety advisory would do the job...
Hey, hey, people, let’s not jump to conclusions until we have all the facts. I mean, there could be an innocent explanation for the guy shooting people at Fort Hood and for this as well.
</sarcasm>
This is puzzling. If you’ve ever flown out of Schipol, you would know how tight their security is. Always has been.
I was wondering whether this guy was actually Muslim (it’s certainly the way to bet of late), but the ABC article seems to put him into that category.
It will be interesting to see if it was actually “firecrackers”. If so, the guy is a real underachiever. Most of the IslamoWackos seem to be going for binary explosives these days.
You’ll either have to kill all of the terrorists, or they’ll make a big dent in us. Reasoning and negotiations will not hold much sway with them.
It’ll get worse.
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