The hairs on the back of my neck won't go down, after reading this...

[carrrnuttt]

http://www.womenswallstreet.com/WWS/...&articleid=711

Long article, but VERY compelling.

[Pick]

That's a real good article. I enjoyed it thorougly and it does raise important questions about racial profiling.

[Hyatus]

Wow, that article was amazing. Well worth the read, might read it again.

"So the question is... Do I think these men were musicians? I'll let you decide. But I wonder, if 19 terrorists can learn to fly airplanes into buildings, couldn't 14 terrorists learn to play instruments? "

[YogsVR4]

I read that the other day off of Corvetteforums and had about the same reaction. All I can say is the other passengers showed a lot more restraint then I would have.

[Pick]

I agree, they showed a hundred times more restraint than I would have.

[Toksin]

Feed the fear, feed the fear.


That said, very interesting article.

[eversio11]

I would just about have crapped my pants when all the guys stood up as the plane approached L.A.

[FireBball972]

i don't understand, were those guys actually trying to assemble a bomb, or was it an exercise implemented by the U.S.????

[Hyatus]

i think those guys were terrerist on a dry run....

[blindside.AMG]

Originally Posted by FireBball972

i don't understand, were those guys actually trying to assemble a bomb, or was it an exercise implemented by the U.S.????

It could have been a "dry-run" practice by those guys like the mentioned happening on European flights. How could you think it was an exercise implemented by the US?

Great article though. Pisses me off about the anti-descrimination bull-shit.

[FireBball972]

Originally Posted by blindside.AMG

It could have been a "dry-run" practice by those guys like the mentioned happening on European flights. How could you think it was an exercise implemented by the US?

Great article though. Pisses me off about the anti-descrimination bull-shit.

it could have been an exercise implemented by law-enforcement for practice for such an occasion. i was just speculating.

[indyram]

Definately going to have to put some thought on that.

[CougKid3030]

I believe FireBall brings up a good point. Fire departments burn down actual buildings for big tests of how the city would respond to a situation (of course not buildings in use or with people in them). But if the Feds wanted to know how a group of air marshalls or passangers or crew of a plane would react to a situation like the one in the article. It would also explain a lack of media attention, if it was just a drill, and they wanted to keep it hush hush. The FAM could have even been on board to keep anything from happening to one of these middle eastern men if one of the passangers got a little to anxious or irate with the situation.

[YogsVR4]

I don't think it would have been an exercise. Some people are nervous enough on airplanes. Do that if someone on the plane has a heart condition and the shit would really hit the fan.

[Hyatus]

yea it couldnt be like a surprise party or something, were the middle eastern men at the end of the flight all stand up and yell "just Kidding" and bow and then sit down.