Air Marshals Stop 'Shoe Bomb' Attempt On United Jet to Denver (Suspect is Qatari Diplomat)

ABC News ^ | Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | Rhonda Schwartz, Richard Esposito, and Brian Ross

[kristinn]

Federal air marshals subdued a man who authorities say attempted to "light his shoes on fire" on a United flight from Washington Reagan to Denver Wednesday night, federal law enforcement officials told ABC News.

SNIP

The suspect was identified by authorities as a diplomat in the Qatar embassy in Washington, Mohammed al Modadi. The FBI said the man had full diplomat immunity as the 3rd secretary and vice-consul.

[csvset]

Now, let's not get hasty here. I'm sure Mr. Allah Fubar had a perfectly good reason to have that bomb with him. I can assure you that this is not a terrorist incident.

[Tench_Coxe]

"You forget who's sitting in the Oval Office these days."

Things change, especially if one of these a**holes takes it a step further.

[hole_n_one]

MSNBC”s Pete Williams attributed the statement to “The White House”, whatever that means.

[PA-RIVER]

Was he going to a tea party in Denver?

Butch Nippletano must be slapping him around by now.

[Western Phil]

“To the tobacco Nazis, smoking a cig on a plane is WORSE than trying to blow it up.”

Its not the tobacco Nazis that are responsible for the smoking ban in airplane rest rooms. It was a response to the Air Canada flight making the emergency landing in Cincinnati with significant fatalities due to the fire started in the rest room waste container.

[Liberty Valance]

[3boysdad]

How in the heck did he get shoes on an airplane?

Now that's f'ing funny!

[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!

[MindBender26]

Kristinn,

Sorry,

FBI: No Explosives Found on United Jet in Denver

[UnwashedPeasant]

If he is tried in Qatar, he will probably be tried and executed quickly.

Executing a suicide bomber is not a bid deal; he was planning to die anyway.

[marajade]

i don’t watch cnn

[mojitojoe]

We must not mention the word Muslim. Those are Barry’s buds and he’s not going to have it.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Kristinn, kudos for getting the thread and links up so fast...I just checked Drudge (again). Matt is slipping...no siren thingy...no story!!! You scooped him!

;)

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGiv1t3Reg8

chili dog

[NormsRevenge]

I hear ya.. it happens here rarely as well.

[arthurus]

A whole bunch of isolated, if studied intently and at huge expense might just find some coincidental pattern there but it surely would no implicate any non-Christian religion.

[marajade]

we’re watching the smithsonian hd channel about four newborn cheetah cubs

absolutely cute

[arthurus]

He will be given a Chair and instant Tenure at a prestigious Ivy league University.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I don’t believe the government or the press. I find it suspicious that on this flight and the flight the undibomber was on there were air marshals. We were told at one time that there won’t be air marshals on all flights.

[NormsRevenge]

dang it, that’s a channel I don’t get..