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Passenger Describes Subduing Suspect
northernlight ^ | December 22 | reuters

Posted on 12/22/2001 8:38:22 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde

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To: classygreeneyedblonde
Let the Francophobes on this forum note that here a Frenchman acted bravely.
21 posted on 12/22/2001 9:00:03 PM PST by aristeides
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
They (the airports) are only hurting themselves

Unfortunately some of the blame also lies with the passengers. People opted for convenience rather than security, so the airlines didn't see the need to upsell security on their flights, which would have added on to the ticket prices.

22 posted on 12/22/2001 9:00:20 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
That guy on the left is a dead ringer for Mark Brunell. I thought he was supposed to QB the Jags in the Metrodome tomorrow.:)
23 posted on 12/22/2001 9:02:22 PM PST by Kryptonite
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
When will these people learn...maybe it will take a couple hundred planes to be hijacked,or bombed before (heaven forbid it doesn't happen anymore) they wake up
24 posted on 12/22/2001 9:03:05 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
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To: classygreeneyedblonde
pekerwood

"Peckerwood" is just about the kindest word I can come use to describe somebody even JUST accussed
of endorsing or trying to replicate 9-11.
(I first put the term into my vocabulary after seeing the movie "The Right Stuff")
25 posted on 12/22/2001 9:03:59 PM PST by VOA
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To: gorush
Can C4 be detonated by a fused blasting cap (as one would w/ TNT). Inquiring minds want to know.

Yes

26 posted on 12/22/2001 9:04:50 PM PST by spectr17
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To: GretchenEE
Im an EE student don't take it up unless your real smart my IQ( according to various test) is somewhere in the 130-140 range and its still REALLY hard.
27 posted on 12/22/2001 9:05:31 PM PST by weikel
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To: spectr17
Well, there you go.
28 posted on 12/22/2001 9:06:59 PM PST by gorush
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To: theDentist
He's lucky he wasn't beaten to death.

You got that right. If I'm in that situation, the guy is going to be severely hurt. I'll take my chances with a NY jury aquitting me of a charge of "using excessive force". LOL!

29 posted on 12/22/2001 9:11:17 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: VOA
Now these people working at this airport are as much to blame .

Look at this guy ....he's middle eastern and with a name like richard reid.hello whats wrong with this picture .i know this much isin't right...........then he has no luggage........prolly a one way ticket........he knows they would be suspicious if he had a middle eastern name like mohammed or abul or something..

30 posted on 12/22/2001 9:14:42 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
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To: Kryptonite
Well if he's not there .........lol
31 posted on 12/22/2001 9:16:03 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
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To: spectr17
Can C4 be detonated by a fused blasting cap (as one would w/ TNT). Inquiring minds want to know. With a blasting cap or primacord yes. With a match no. I suspect this man was just a nut. However, he displayed actions that could easily have been interpreted as lethal. He is very lucky a passenger did not break his neck. It is not that difficult.
32 posted on 12/22/2001 9:16:23 PM PST by cpdiii
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To: gorush
We used to cook our C-Rats with C-4. Occasionally some moron would take little pieces (pretending they were picking their nose)and flick them in the fire. This guy obviously didn't know what he was doing. Semper Fidelis!!
34 posted on 12/22/2001 9:17:01 PM PST by MCFujiTanker
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I hope the airlines somehow rewards these people for their bravery......they saved the people on the plane and the airline
35 posted on 12/22/2001 9:17:57 PM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
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To: Anamensis
They drugged him and made him watch "Legally Blonde"? Oh boy, we're going to be hearing from Amnesty International on this one.

LOL, that's a real "milk spitter"!

I wonder, would it have been more torturous to make him watch it without the benefit of the numbing effect of the sedatives.

Seriously though, it truly is a wonder that the cretin really wasn't killed. There would have to be some real effort to pull me off of him if that happened to me. It had to be one hell of an experience.

36 posted on 12/22/2001 9:18:20 PM PST by jrewingjr
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To: jrewingjr

Tough to leave him alive on plane (as a mere passenger), but our guys need to interrogate him so that our bombers will hit the proper retaliatory targets.

37 posted on 12/22/2001 9:21:39 PM PST by Southack
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To: paul544
just setting fire to c4 will not cause it to explode..we used to burn it to heat up c-rats...BUT don't stomp it to put it out!!!!!!!!
38 posted on 12/22/2001 9:22:47 PM PST by cajun-jack
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To: VOA
And if a jury was ever insane enough to convict, dollars to doughnuts they (i.e., the jury) would be hung!!!
39 posted on 12/22/2001 9:23:23 PM PST by my trusty sig
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