Posted on 04/07/2010 8:11:26 PM PDT by MindBender26
FBI: No Explosives Found on United Jet in Denver Authorities Say Qatari Diplomat Told Air Marshals, 'I'm Lighting My Shoes'
FBI agents say no explosives were found in the shoes of a Qatar diplomat who was subdued by federal air marshals on a United flight to Denver Wednesday night after allegedly telling the marshals, "I'm lighting my shoes on fire."
Authorities say the diplomat was wrestled to the ground and two F-16 fighter jets were dispatched to accompany the 757 on the final 40 minutes of its flight to Denver. Flight 663 originated from Washington Reagan airport.
A US security official said, "it may have been a massive misunderstanding" and the diplomat's statement may have been a "sarcastic" comment when he was confronted by two air marshals who had been told by flight attendants that smoke was coming from the lavatory.
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You obviously hate America First and are a surrender monkey! I think I speak for most FReepers when I say the proper response to this is to immediately hang the terrorist and his family in public, then burn down their houses and all the property of those that look like him in the country, then NUKE mecca. These terrorists have to LEARN that we are the USA USA and what we say goes. And I really don't care if he was just sneaking a smoke. The government knows best and they just need to keep me safe because things in life frighten me!
Stop asking questions like that! Life is scary. Brown people are scary. The American people are ready, willing, and able to abdicate their freedoms, liberties, and economic prosperity to the federal government for the promise of being kept safe from scary brown people with cigarettes.
New rule.
You make a bomb threat on a plane, real or joke, you get airdropped without a parachute.
Your diplomatic immunity only means something when you are firmly grounded.
Like the pranks pulled by the travelling Imam (request seatbelt extenders, don't use them, play musical chairs, etc.).
Test the wires. Get the defenses down. Mock the subhuman kufir. And get CAIR to get up a lawsuit.
If he was smoking on that plane he was subjecting EVERY PASSENGER to a possible case of deadly CANCER by second hand smoke.
Yeah I agree with that...Hence why I said what a sad lot we’ve become.
Hmmm. There were people on the plane that subdued the guy, joking or not. This is just another example of what I’ve been saying since 9/11. ARM THE PASSENGERS!
The passengers are the ones that have thwarted the various attempts at shoe or underwear bombs or what not.
But, I can’t stop all the idiot sheep who believe the government’s sweet lies about protecting them from what scares them.
Americans are fear-driven sheep that abdicate their rights and responsibilities to an evil entity, the federal government, that just wants to control them. Airline security is a prime example of that.
Government lies about protecting you really are the opiate of the masses.
The frightening thing is that it took about 4 readings to seperate you from the FRaliban.
Be well
I must be getting good at imitating them. I don’t like the sarcasm tag.
So will Zero say the Air Marshals acted stupidly in subduing him or that the Qatari dumbass acted stupidly by joking about lighting his shoes on fire?
He’s a total arrogant moron - a Qatari “diplomat,” probably related to some wealthy oil sheik, goes into the bathroom to grab a smoke (smoking being forbidden on domestic flights). Attendants rap on the door, asking what the smokey smell is and what he’s doing in there. This “diplomat” responds, “I’m trying to set my shoes on fire.”
He knows there are no consequences, since he’s a diplomat.
And he probably wants to get sent home anyway. There aren’t as many servants here as there are in Qatar.
Great point!
I see a beer summit coming up. It will be all better then.
It was a probe. And the guy could have thought it up himself.
He doesn’t need to “report” his findings, the MSM will do it for him to jihadists around the world.
Exactly. It was a test, a probe.
Bingo.
It won’t be long before Obama says “the flight crew acted stupidly.”
standard procedure. in a case like this, it is not known what the disturbance was. the jet will shoot down the plane if it attempts to divert towards populated area.
like on 9/11, the plane that crashed in PA would be shot down before it attempts to ram into a building.
He’s a diplomat anyway....can they even do anything to him?
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