MSNBC reporting passenger attempted to light explosives DC to Denver
 

Breaking...

Shanny?

Sources told NBC News that the passenger who was subdued was a Qatari diplomat.

"Diplomatic immunity" *flashes ID*

*Gunshot to head*

"It's just been revoked"

They'd have to let Arnold do it.

Air marshall smelled smoke and confronted the guy as he was leaving the bathroom. Air marshall asked him what was going on and he said he was trying to light his shoe. They don't know if he was joking or not.

<!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message --> my guess is this will turn out to be someone who was caught smoking in the bathroom and made a poor joke to the air marshall. I can't imagine a terrorist would admit to someone he was trying to light his shoes on fire in the lavatory.

Oh, fucking super. That should make my screening experience at BWI so much faster tomorrow....

BONG. not BOMB.

bad joke

KnowMo strikes

I'll make you a deal, Arjen, or Aryan, or whatever the **** your name is, I'll make you a little deal. You fold up your tents - and get the fuck out of my country - and I won't do anything to you. I'll leave you alone.


Awesume movie.

No chit. And everyone goes ape chit. You think it would have got this kind of media attention if it had been me trying to sneak in a smoke in the bathroom?

some dark skinned looking Arab is using a lighter on a plane. Lets all panic, flee...:rolleyes:

He's a dipschit, not a terriost. I wish the media would check some facts before freaking out.

Not funny. Maybe the joke sounds better in Arabic.

Yeah, I'm sure if you lit a smoke in an airplane bathroom and then made a joke about a shoe bomb everyone would just have a good laugh.

no, they would probably cuff me and arrest me. Throw my azz in jail upon arrival. but, it wouldn't have been all over the news as a story.

Wow. That falls into the heart of the "what were you thinking" camp.

It would have been in the news the same amount of time, I think.

Diplomat quizzed after mid-air bomb scare

Passenger reportedly joked about lighting his shoe on D.C.-to-Denver flight

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DENVER - A Qatari diplomat trying to sneak a smoke in an airplane bathroom sparked a bomb scare Wednesday night on a flight from Washington to Denver, with fighter jets scrambled and law enforcement put on high alert, officials said.

No explosives were found on the man, and officials do not believe he was trying to harm anyone, according to senior law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36243847/

I hope the handcuffed him in a really uncomfortable position next to a dead Indian and her wailing family for 8+ hours and then proceeded with a cavity search performed by the agent with the largest digits on the force. That would be a good joke in English or Arabic.

Good thing were fighting all those wars man the turrorist are really scared.