Please Get Back In Your Seats!

http://womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&articleid=711

Long but scary read.

Originally posted by Ace
http://womenswallstreet.com/WWS/article_landing.aspx?titleid=1&articleid=711

Long but scary read.

DAMN scary read.  Our own policies are going to be the end of us.  Airlines aren\'t allowed to use racial profiling to spot terrorists?  That is absurd.

[GmanJoe]

I used to have a roomate who was Muslim and he prayed 4 or 5 times a day. I believe that these men were probably praying in the lavs. That rolled up "thing" in a cloth that the author described sounds exactly like the prayer rug my roomate used.

Just a thought. Remember, all these men PROBABLY had to pray.

They were doing more than "praying" obviously.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by GigaShadow
They were doing more than "praying" obviously.

I\'m quite sure these "musicians" are under surveilance as we speak. With those "dry runs", who knows?
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The McDonalds bad had food in it which was consumed and hence, "empty" when the man left the bathroom.

But then again, that\'s why they chose a McDonald\'s bag right? To make one think exactly that.
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The men shared the two lavatories to pray in. Each lavatory had a prayer rug in it. One man opened the Koran to read some passages.

But....they could have been building something. One person continuing an assembly from the last person\'s.
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I\'m speaking on both sides of the fence here. What makes me skeptical is the bravado they had to do this in front of everyone. They know American passenger will now fight and they know there are air marshalls on board. Why do this so blatantly?

Hence why I think they were just praying. Then again, I could be wrong.

Good analysis, but being Arabic and acting suspicious on a plane is not the work of ordinary Muslims IMO.  Besides only one took a towel into the rest room didn\'t he?  What was the deal with the throat cutting motion and mouthing the word "no"?  I have no disagreement the guy in the yellow shirt was reading out of the Koran - but it could have been reading before preparing to die.  

Who knows for sure, but I would certainly be suspicious of them as well if I were on a flight where that happened.

If they were legit and they were just praying, they should have been bright to know that their behavior would upset the other passengers.  If they were doing something else, they weren\'t very smart about it.  If this was a "dry run" then they probably just added themselves to a few lists that will make it much harder for them to run the attack for real next time.  

I don\'t know exactly what the law says about who can be searched, and what constitutes illegal racial profiling and so forth... but I though one-way tickets were a big red flag no matter what race you are.  Besides I fully expect that the federal government is going beyond the law in collecting information on suspected terrrorists and their movements.  They probably have all sorts of lists like this, and they just have to decide when and how they can legally use the information.

can someone copy paste the whole story, mine screws up after page 3

False

Good find, but the story is half true - she just overreacted apparently.

I bet that dude never did that "no" signal.

Originally posted by GigaShadow
Good find, but the story is half true - she just overreacted apparently.

Yeah. Looks like it.

Its probably happened to a bunch of people. Its just that she happens to be a journalist.

Bleh, racial profiling is for suckers.

Originally posted by Deadly Hamster
Bleh, racial profiling is for suckers.

Why?

you would say something like that you old white bastard :rolleyes:

j/k ...

j/k. had to reiterate. you know how it goes around here.