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MystikMushroom
So he ran to the bathroom?
I don't know about you, but when I have to go to the bathroom bad, I'll run. Who wants to crap their pants in a pressurized metal tube at 27,000 feet?
Moving about the cabin and getting into overhead bins? Really? Um, I do that sometimes because I might have forgotten something in my carry on.
So, basically we have people doing things that people normally do, but because they are Middle Eastern it must be some kind of "dry run" to test security?
3n19m470
Although hijacking an airliner is likely to be out of the question since it is suicidal. Just look at what happened in Shanksville...
Zaphod58
3n19m470
Although hijacking an airliner is likely to be out of the question since it is suicidal. Just look at what happened in Shanksville...
It might be here, but it's happened at least 8 times outside the US since 9/11.
Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 (Chinese: 天津航空公司GS7554; pinyin: Tiānjīn Hángkōng Gōngsī GS7554) is a scheduled passenger flight between Hotan and Ürümqi in China's Xinjiang region. The aircraft operating this route on 29 June 2012, an Embraer ERJ-190, took off from Hotan at 12:25pm; within ten minutes, six ethnic Uyghur men, one of whom allegedly professed his motivation as jihad, announced their intent to hijack the aircraft, according to multiple witnesses. In response, passengers and crew resisted and successfully restrained the hijackers, who were armed with aluminum crutches and explosives. The aircraft turned around and landed back in Hotan at 12:45 pm, where 11 passengers and crew and two hijackers were treated for injuries. Two hijackers died from injuries from the fight on board.
Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554
Eryiedes
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
You're probably right.
Not even the Wermacht would be evil enough to grope children at every checkpoint they operate out of.
-Amitaba-
Wrabbit2000
To play devil's advocate though, it would help ease the paranoid minds of politicians and security 'gurus' in DHS if the enemy we've been fighting for over 10 years didn't occasionally use children as two legged bombs with intelligent guidance systems.
MystikMushroom
So he ran to the bathroom?
I don't know about you, but when I have to go to the bathroom bad, I'll run. Who wants to crap their pants in a pressurized metal tube at 27,000 feet?
Moving about the cabin and getting into overhead bins? Really? Um, I do that sometimes because I might have forgotten something in my carry on.
So, basically we have people doing things that people normally do, but because they are Middle Eastern it must be some kind of "dry run" to test security?
MyHappyDogShiner
reply to post by Tidnabnilims
It really has nothing to do with whether someone is a terrorist, other than what today's definition of one may be.
Terrorism is just a word that gets people's attention, it tweaks that streak of fear in most people, that streak being wider than most are willing to acknowledge honestly to themselves or others.
If one really thinks about it deeply, it becomes fairly obvious that most things people do are out of fear of something or other on at least one level.
Don't give it too much thought though, you might scare yourself.