Posted on 08/18/2006 6:42:54 AM PDT by Kieri
Suspicious liquid found in former Mich. woman's luggage 8/18/2006, 6:13 a.m. ET By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER The Associated Press
CEREDO, W.Va. (AP) — A woman whose daughter's carry-on luggage caused a West Virginia airport to shut down for 9 1/2 hours says it was her ethnic background, not a few bottles of suspicious liquids, that set off security officials.
Initial laboratory testing by the FBI turned up no evidence of explosive materials in the bottles carried at Tri-State Airport by Rima Qayyum, a 28-year-old Pakistani woman dressed in the traditional Islamic headcover.
No charges were filed against the woman, who was never detained and was cooperative when interviewed by the FBI.
Qayyum's mother, Mian Qayyum of Jackson, Mich., told The Associated Press that her daughter is four months pregnant, lives in Barboursville and is innocent. Her daughter had moved to West Virginia from Jackson.
"It was not only a false alarm, it was racial discrimination because there was nothing," Mian Qayyum said. "They should clear her name and apologize on national TV."
The FBI did not return messages Thursday night seeking comment on the allegations.
A screener noticed a bottle in Rima Qayyum's carry-on bag as she was going through security before her 9:15 a.m. flight Thursday to Charlotte, N.C., airport authority president Jim Booton said.
The terminal was evacuated at 11:25 a.m. after two bottles of liquid in the bag initially tested positive for explosives residue twice, and a canine team also got a positive hit. Chemical tests of the bottles' contents later turned up no explosives, said Capt. Jack Chambers, head of the State Police Special Operations unit.
The woman had purchased a one-way ticket to Detroit by way of Charlotte on Wednesday. The flight eventually left for Charlotte without her.
Rima Qayyum planned to return to the airport Friday to take another flight, her mother said.
Rima Qayyum planned to return to the airport Friday to take another flight, her mother said. The airport resumed normal operations Friday morning.
"She just had water to drink because she is pregnant and she had a face wash that had a drop of bleach on it," Mian Qayyum said.
U.S. authorities banned the carrying of liquids onto flights last week after British officials made arrests in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound planes using explosives disguised as drinks and other common products.
The TSA screening looks for a range of explosives residue, some of which can be found on common household items, said TSA spokesman Darrin Kayser.
"Anytime a prohibited item is brought to a checkpoint, then you are going to be immediately more interested in that bag," Kayser said.
Two airlines — Comair and US Airways Express — serve the airport. Commercial airline service was suspended, and about 100 passengers and airport employees were ordered to leave the terminal, Booton said.
After the evacuation, many passengers decided to stay and wait it out.
"We bought them pizza, soft drinks ... tried to make them comfortable as could be in this situation," said Larry Salyers, the airport's manager. "We had them in the parking lot, under trees, in conference rooms, the firehouse."
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Associated Press writer Kelley Schoonover contributed to this report.
I'm not even certain that Islam is a religion any more than Marxism is. Both are political ideologies.
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4105-P. EMPLOYMENT(S) – SUBSTITUTE TEACHERNameErica M. Dixon Tamra D. Johnson Ian C. Nolte Rima Qayyum 4106-P. RESIGNATION(S) – COACHINGName / Effective DateSchool / SportMatthew Stead Eff: 10/13/05Barboursville Middle Boys Basketball, Assistant Coach Brad Maynard Eff: 10/13/05Barboursville Middle Wrestling, Head Coach, Donald Lucas Eff: 10/06/05Beverly Hills Middle Boys Basketball, Head Coach Cynthia Machmer Eff: 10/12/05Milton MiddleGirls Basketball, Assistant Coach William Meadows Cabell Midland High
One would think that a substitute teacher would know better than to take prohibited items.
It may have something to do with a total prohibition on alcohol even as a cleaner among the Mohamedians.
But bleach is harsh agent to be using on facial skin.
"She just had water to drink because she is pregnant and she had a face wash that had a drop of bleach on it," Mian Qayyum said.
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I notice that, too. Bleach on my face? I don't think so.
As others on this thread have observed, they are just testing the screening, and screaming "racism" to divert attention and to get help from the ACLU.
Correct me if I am wrong but her destination was Charlotte. Is there not a known organization of peace in that Charlotte?
Some people don't care about rules and think the whole idea of any real threat is blown totally out of proportion.
She may be that dumb that she thought she was exempt.
LOL. My head's gonna explode, bring on the duct tape. First with the so-called "crazy lady" peace activist, now with this "poor" Pakistani lady being picked on because of her dress and religion.
I'm posting this Monty Python script to restore my sanity...we need to quit "repressing" these people. (end/sarcasm)
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes—
WOMAN: Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would—
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more—
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an Emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away! Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
????? Who puts bleach on their face??
And why have they still not told us what was in the bottles? Acetone or hydrogen peroxide are "not explosives" in and of themselves.
Michael Jackson?
OT:(kinda). A LONG time ago, I worked the night shift cleaning crew at a Meijer's (Thrifty Acres). When we were done sweeping, and sometimes floor-stripping and re-waxing, some of the guys would play "mix the chemicals", just to see what happens.
If "Burka Girl" had say a 16oz bottle of bleach, AND a 16oz bottle of ammonia......
OBTW....DO NOT try this in say a 5x8 laundry room, or an enclosed space (like a cockpit).... it makes this rising wispy looking gas.....
Touche.
In the ongoing battle in the WOT, just why do you think you have a right or need to know that?
It's enough that they told us what they did.
no trial run here folks /s
But I heard that it can make your nose fall off.
"Suspicious Liquid Found in Former MI Woman's Luggage (RACISM! alert)"
They found a 40 of Old English 800?
I wonder if they have raided her home yet? What could have been on the outside that triggered things, could have been there accidently, or deliberately (this is a test, do not change your channel)!
Did they evacuate and close down the airport?
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