passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without pass

mlive.com ^ | 12/26/09 | Sheena Harrison

[cyn]

"I am not sure why this hasn’t made it into any news story..." -- noted.

[cyn]

Would not surprise me that there were two or more jihadis on the plane willing to die. If the attack was foiled they could debrief their al Queda masters on what went wrong. The next attack would have the benefit of their real time intel.

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Put this together with today's unfolding incident, also nigerians, also flight 253 (thus confusion re: details in reporting), soon after other incident so more likely to be taken as (oh, excuse us!) overreacting, as is already being said.

Note fine tuning, changing methods to incorporate new rule that psgrs have to stay in seats for one hour before landing >> now passenger gets unruly because he needs to go to br (as some apologists are explaining it already).

These are all terror incidents. Include flights 227 and 297 in it as well, probing, probing, looking to see how psgrs and crew -- and media and authorities -- react.

[txhurl]

In other words they pull for extra screening those they think will go along with the least resistance.

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In other words, whom is least likely to delay the flight.

Caucasian Grandmas.

[ozaukeemom]

It has become almost a joke with me when I go to the airport. I will usually tell the person behind me that I will be pulled out and my bags will be gone through. About 8 out of 10 times I am right. Short, chunky, white middle-aged woman. The TSA people are nice enough, but it is ridiculous. And, it isn’t always at Milwaukee! I’ve flown out of Milwaukee, Seattle, Dallas, Amarillo, Atlanta, Charlotte, Savannah, Burlington,VT, San Francisco and Chicago. The only one I have not been tagged at was in Amarillo. lol I forgot about my nail clippers being in my purse once. Had those puppies confiscated, but not my fountain pen. Go figure.

[Aria]

Our stupid government is more concerned about PC and not hurting a terrorist’s feelings than it is about keeping innocent people safe.

How much more disgusting can this get?

[cyn]

Thanks for posting this. Have you seen any updates?

[bergmeid]

When they say he had a visa, does that mean he had an actual passport with a visa stamped in it, or is reference being made to the State Dept. records that indicate a visa was issued?

[cmsgop]

20 min?, He was lucky. I was on a Peoples Express 747-200 that had a Bomb Threat called on it, we sat on the runway at O’hare for 2 hours.

[Darren McCarty]

We already had one guy already on a plane caught who didn’t look like the stereotype. Richard Reid.

[FReepaholic]

...What also didn’t make the news is that we were held on the plane for 20 minutes AFTER IT LANDED!. A bomb could have gone off then...

This doesn't jive with another passenger's account as reported on the WTMG Radio's website:

"...They got us off faster than anything you've ever seen, and then they shuffled us off to a room where we spent quite a few hours..."