Breaking: Second Nigerian on Detroit-bound flight arrested; Update: “Stomach problems”
Jihadists never rest.
And their m.o. has always been: Try, try again.
The Associated Press has learned that a second Nigerian man has been taken into custody aboard a jetliner in Detroit after locking himself in the airliner’s bathroom.
A law enforcement official tells the AP that the incident took place aboard the same Northwest flight that was attacked on Christmas Day. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the incident was ongoing.
Hey, Janet: Still see no indication of a larger threat? System still “working?” Just another lone nut? Nothing to see here, move along…
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More info from Detroit radio station WWJ:
One day after a Nigerian man was charged with attempting to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, another man was detained for unruly behavior after the same flight landed safely in Michigan.
A Delta spokeswoman says all 257 passengers have been safely taken off the plane. Delta operates the Northwest flight.
About 10 emergency vehicles, sirens blaring, surrounded the plane after it landed.
Metro Airport spokesman Scott Wintner told WWJ radio there was a report of suspicious activity on Delta/Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam – the same flight number as in the attempted Christmas Day attack.
Sue Elliott, a Delta spokesperson, told CBS News the passenger in question “was verbally disruptive. Out of abundance of caution the flight crew asked that the plane be met on arrival by law enforcement.”
There were reports that the man detained was also Nigerian. There was no indication he had attempted to cause any physical harm to anyone aboard the flight, or to the airliner, reportedly a Boeing 737.
A law enforcement official tells CBS News correspondent Bob Orr passengers and crew became suspicious after the man locked himself in an airplane bathroom. A search of the plane was being carried out. There was no immediate word of any device being found.
CAIR grievance-mongering press conference in 3, 2, 1…
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Update: Not a terrorism incident, say US officials…
A man who was “acting belligerently” on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight Sunday is not a terror threat and only became disruptive because he had fallen ill and refused to leave the aircraft’s bathroom, according to a U.S. official.
The man was subdued by the flight crew and detained by law enforcement authorities upon landing after the incident bore strikingly similar markings to the attempt two days ago by a passenger to light an explosive aboard another Northwest flight. Both planes originated in Amsterdam, and both men were Nigerian, according to the U.S. official.
The unidentified man made several trips to the bathroom prior to the plane’s descent, officials said, ultimately raising suspicions among flight staff. When he did not answer questions while in a lavatory about an hour before landing, flight staff contacted authorities and asked to have law enforcement authorities meet the plane upon landing.
“We’re going to take extraordinary precautions,” Robert Fucano, Wayne County Executive told reporters at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. “Even if you are sick you have to respond to what people are asking you.”
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Let’s hope these killers don’t have well-laid contingency plans to strike elsewhere.
Trying to flush evidence down the toilet?
Thank God these Jihadists are idiots.
Could he have just been upset with airline food?
One would think someone boarding a plane in Nigeria bound for the USA carrying NO luggage would arouse a little suspection?….no?
Just before 9/11, the big topic raging around the country was DWB-driving while Black, racial profiling. Actually race was only one component but the Black “community” was raging against the Man. Yet profiling worked even if it netted innocents occasionally. Immediately after 9/11 Blacks were screaming for profiling as much as anyone else. It is a good tool and it works if employed by professionals. We would save a lot of effort, money and future potential tragedies if we returned to profiling immediately.
He probably told security he was a nudist.
We are so open…..
You just hit on what may possibly be the cheapest and most effective way to combat airplane terrorism……make everyone fly naked. LOL
No more passengers on flights originating in Nigeria to the USA.
So, how did that nothing on your lap one hour before a plane lands work out for ya?
This guy was just too poor to afford luggage that is why he had none! I pray something else isn’t afoot, NEW Years Eve, or the Super Bowl?
L
Now folks, don’t jump to conclusions! Someone just acted “stupidly” and for goodness sake, don’t bother The One’s golf game. He needs his rest from all that work he has to go as CIC – flying all over the world, giving speeches, throwing WH parties etc.
/sarc/
Given my luck, I’ll get laid off due to the Obama economy and the only job that I will be able to find is as a TSA Body Cavity Anti-Intrusion Specialist.
Oh well…… at least I’ll have Healthcare……. maybe
He’s allowed to have that work style, because he’s not George Bush.
Obama is aware that a major terrorist attack on American soil, carried out by foreign entities, will pretty much be the nail in the coffin of his presidency, right?
It would just be Bush’s fault.
One would think so. I agree completely.
However, you almost get the impression this Adminstration is so arrogant that they believe with the help of the MSM they can weather anything.
Examples are Climategate along with the contents of and all the vote buying surrounding the Healthcare Bill. All you hear about either is crickets chirping from the MSM. It’s been disgusting.
Wait till what you describe happens. The articles coming out of the MSM will make you think you have passed straight through The Looking Glass.
why are terrorists so obsessed with planes?
If there was just a way we could somehow check Nigerians and other muslim extremist scum before they get on the plance.
I guess we don’t want to profile anyone just to save lives. Politcal correctness is murder.
Reddog I am afraid you have something there. Watch the other hand.Distractions. But it doesn’t take much to fool the FOOLS we now have in Homeland Security and the Whitehouse.
Put 257 people at 550 mph at 35,000 feet. A perfect environment to kill them all violently and spectacularly with a half pound of explosives.
They are very lucrative soft targets.
Apparently that’s the M.O. of the B.O. administration.
Five bucks says if there’s another terrorist attack, the response will be to shut down the Internet to prevent folks like us from shattering the “lone nut” card the administration seems to want to play.
What part of global jihad don’t they understand?
Well, on the bright side, the Green Bay Packers just walloped the Seattle Seahawks 48-10. With Carolina manhandling the Giants, we’ve just secured a playoff berth! That makes me smile.
Indeed englishqueen01….
In the playoffs.
barry’s muslim brothers are determined to wreck his vacation……and, after all he’s done for them…….
Here’s an interesting article from The Onion.
Has more logic than anything I have seen coming out of the TSA.
No lone nuts there; just Islamist nutjobs. We must deport them all and send them back to their countries. None of them should ever be allowed to set foot in the West again. This is war, after all.
I stumbled through the TSA with crap in pockets in New Orleans a week ago they suck. Although I did have my flip flops off.
FINALLY, the Nigerian Foreign Service is coming to deliver my 12 million dollars they emailed me about last year and he gets arrested on the way!!!!
Perhaps a solution to this bathroom terrorist BS could come from how Star Trek Enterprise could eject it’s ‘core’ as some sort of solution for whatever ailed them. Only instead of the core, give the pilot the option to eject the bathroom… Parachute deployment optional.
When you go through the security check, they have no idea whether you’ve checked luggage or not.
I don’t think these new rules are going to make any difference. You can make rules until the cows come home, and the jihadis will find some way around them. What we need to do is to implement the techniques used by El Al. I haven’t heard of any of their planes being hit by terrorists recently — have you? They rely on profiling, and they flush out potential terrorists with great efficiency.
Political Correctness is not only an infuriating way of controlling speech, it is dangerous and potentially deadly. I wonder how many terrorist bombs it will take to make the powers that be admit it.
More stupidity from J-No:
…and if the bomb had gone off, everything would still have worked as it should have if all the body parts were properly picked up.
As to this latest incident, I wonder how many watch lists he was on.
Only prostrate exams from your fellow specialists.
Mass casualties?
SHEEP!!!!
-the US citizenry has become a flock of sheep!!
Instead of organizing and demanding that our government officials-nation wide REALLY deal with the perverted perps protected by CAIR and et al……..we nod SHEEPISHLY and :
take off our shoes …
take off our watches…
allow strip searches….
and NOW…
no leaving our seats the last hour of a flight…
no blankets/pillows…
These are absolutely USELESS measures …and just window dressing …
I-for one-am waiting for us in the US to demand action and not ineffective RoEs and stupidity all around….
C-CS
Jeez this story is just stunning.
I get the sense Jug Ears has left J-No and Gibbs in charge while he’s golfing when reading this.
The hits just keep on coming:
…yet this ditzy broad says the system worked?
“why are terrorists so obsessed with planes?”
Drama. News coverage. Vulnerability of it.
Lots of reasons.
Mostly I think its the airplane food and waits on the tarmac that make them angry.
Sorry, forgot the link.
If you’re born and raised in a 3rd-world hellhole litterpan and can utilize a jet to make a big boom and cause hundreds, if not thousands to perish, all the while getting your face on tv…you take it.
They’re already in an “It’s Bush’s fault” mode. Baghdad Bob Gibbs already said this was a result of policies that had been in place for years. Ergo, it’s Bush’s fault.
They used to be soft targets. Now you have people like us that will not ever let a second party take responsibility for our safety. This results in Nigeran Muslims being taken down by their seat-mates.
cicerokid,
The only reason anyone had chance one of stopping this was the detonator malfunctioned. Given the perps location (A19) by the window over the internal fuel tank if the pffffft had been a boooom, the NTSB would be kicking tin trying to figure out why an airliner went down during a routine descent.
I agree with you in terms of passengers reactions. We are sheep no more. However, if they get on board with a functioning device there is not a whole lot anyone on board will be able to do.
Bearing in mind that JaNo speaks only in euphemisms, “lone nut” probably means “individual Muslim terrorist”. The solution then is to craft an executive order declaring all Muslim men who fit the obvious Muslim terrorist profile to “lone nuts” and so subject to immediate deportation from the US and further banned from flying on any airline anywhere.
With these weasels, it helps to remember that they speak their own language.
Wrong. Your luggage claims are stapled to your tickets or the folder holding them.
No doubt.
The last guy that tried this fried his nutz.
Flyover, this gives us ammo to elicit a real response for airline screening, pc be damned. It’s time to adopt the Israeli strategy.
From the Onion duplicates real life scenario…”airport-security workers will be trained to spot and positively identify humans in the boarding area.”
WHY WHY WHY do idiot liberals feel they must minimize threats against this Country??? It is just against their sensibilities to have to call out any group other than Americans???? God almighty, I cannot stomach these morons.
Could he have been…
Looking for (and destroying) evidence that may have been left behind from the other guy?
Trying to figure out how to light a fuse on an airplane (since it hasn’t seemed to work out very well for terrorists)?
Seeing how long you are able to stay in the bathroom before your are thrown out? What if the guy on Christmas had ignited his bomb in the bathroom instead of in his seat?
this is just my paranoia talking, but nows the time to be paranoid.
Clinton clones.
If that happens they’ll put me on the no-fly list as a terrorist! Have you seen me naked? Scare the crap out of you, guaranteed!
Maybe he swallowed it and it was coming back up?
I believe Sichiban is correct, they don’t care if a passenger has no checked bag – they only care if a checked bag has no passenger.
Rogue Cottage Cheese?
Scary maybe, but threatening? I doubt it. I think the threat of terrorism would be greatly reduced. Laughter would probably be uncontrollable.
Because it’s the only target where a 100% fatality rate is certainly guaranteed.
If you blow up a plane over the US, or the Pacific, those not killed in the immediate blast get to spend the final seconds of their lives in terror before crashing to earth and perishing.
This is why jihadists love airplanes. More carnage.
I can’t believe I have never been chosen to be searched. I am a prime candidate just for my looks (not to mention I always have a few before boarding).
Profile Janet you dumb twit!
I saw the reports on the news this afternoon – first a potential incident, then the more accurate and mundane story of a sick passenger.
Quite a coincidence if true. Still, I couldn’t help but think flying imams.
I bet the guy sues. Jackpot!
Ya know, they probably do. It’s just that their well-laid plans often fail being carried out due to incompetence or are foiled by some alert citizens or some segments of our law enforcement community…so far.
This may very well explain the Obama/lawyer mentality of pc-ness when it comes to defending the USA from those that would do us harm…like kill us.
Hey, DHS! You should keep your eyes out for planes from Haiti. Talk about lax security! You can take 4 bottles of rum on the plane WITH YOU – ON YOUR PERSON! That is NO BULLCHIPS.
I’m beginning to wonder if we would ever hear about it if they did search the plane and found evidence of a bomb. Even if we did find out that the man chickened out and flushed the bomb ingredients, Napolitano would take credit for it and say “the system worked as intended and flying is still safe”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if DHS started publishing a count of lives “created or saved” by the DHS since Obama took office. Every passenger who landed safely would be a “life saved”, and every baby born during flight would be a “life created” I suppose. Even if a few planes went down due to terrorism, the count would still be positive and they would take credit for lives saved just like Obama takes credit for jobs saved even when unemployment increases.
Anything to save the skin of Mr. Historic President and his band of merry leftists, who thus far pay more attention to robbing from the workers and giving to the non-contributors.
Why are you all talking about some guy who had the squirts on a flight and totally ignoring the Iranian protests?
I think you need to adjust that tinfoil hat just a tad.
Wrong… its too much work these days for the baggage agent (who barely speaks english as a 3rd language) to do that these days. They hand you the claims fresh off the printer and you have to unpeal them or shove them in your pocket yourself. The TSA person with the flourescent light pen doesnt give a rats ass what you brought on board and then they dont even look at your boarding pass anymore when you pass through the metal detector. (Read the public secret “expired” security manual)
Theres no such thing as a coincidence. The guy just happens to be “sick” for a specific period of time at a specific point in a flight which just happens to coincide with an exact other event.
maybe if drugs, weapons and explosives didnt fit up peoples bums, I would be a little more understanding. If I were the sick passenger, and I fit the profile of a guy who just tried to blow up a plane, I would be dang sure everyone knew I couldnt get off the toilet, instead of not responding and then arguing with the crew.
Thats a little biased. Whys it got to be the squirts? Ever tried to pop a blood vessel in your head by straining in an airliner bathroom? Theres no room to maneuver, so it could’ve taken the guy an hour to work through an issue. (no, i havent and the mile high club acrobatics is for the movies too)
Now aren’t you all ashamed for acting stupidly & jumping to conclusions when here it was just some poor schmuck with a belly ache? awwww poor thing.
/sarc/
However it strikes me as just a bit odd that it was another Nigerian on the same flight as the other guy with a bomb? I agree with whoever suggested maybe he was flushing the evidence down the toilet. Coincidence?
moonshot said:
(Do we have to go there?) Because this thread is about a second Nigerian on a Detroit-bound flight behaving abnormally.
If you would like to comment on Iranian protests, then wait for it…or go find one.
Between that and a particularly runny Camembert. Not exactly pinup material. But the wife still loves me, I think.
It’s official – it’s Bush’s fault
“Sharp dressed man” aided Northwest flight “Christmas Bomber” Umar Mutallab onto
plane without passport. Who was involved, why don’t we know about this other
suspect?
Kurt HaskellKurt Haskell’s boarding pass for NWA Flight 253
A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a
passport.
Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his
experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed he was on the flight
by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning
from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday.
Haskell said he and his wife were sitting on the ground near their boarding gate
in Amsterdam, which is when they saw Mutallab approach the gate with an
unidentified man.
Kurt and Lori Haskell are attorneys with Haskell Law Firm in Taylor. Their
expertise includes bankruptcy, family law and estate planning.
While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit,
Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could
board without a passport. “The guy said, `He’s from Sudan and we do this all the
time.’”
Mutallab is Nigerian. Haskell believes the man may have been trying to garner
sympathy for Mutallab’s lack of documents by portraying him as a Sudanese
refugee.
The ticket agent referred Mutallab and his companion to her manager down the
hall, and Haskell didn’t see Mutallab again until after he allegedly tried to
detonate an explosive on the plane.
Haskell said the flight was mostly unremarkable. That was until he heard a
flight attendant say she smelled smoke, just after the pilot announced the plane
would land in Detroit in 10 minutes. Haskell got out of his seat to view the
brewing commotion.
“I stood up and walked a couple feet ahead to get a closer look, and that’s when
I saw the flames,” said Haskell, who sat about seven rows behind Mutallab. “It
started to spread pretty quickly. It went up the wall, all the way to ceiling.”
Haskell, who described Mutallab as a diminutive man who looks like a teenager,
said about 30 seconds passed between the first mention of smoke and when
Mutallab was subdued by fellow passengers.
“He didn’t fight back at all. This wasn’t a big skirmish,” Haskell said. “A
couple guys jumped on him and hauled him away.”
The ordeal has Haskell and his wife a little shaken. Flight attendants were
screaming during the fire and the pilot sounded notably nervous when bringing
the plane in for a landing, he said.
“Immediately, the pilot came on and said two words: emergency landing,” Haskell
said. “And that was it. The plane sped up instead of slowing down. You could
tell he floored it.”
As Mutallab was being led out of the plane in handcuffs, Haskell said he
realized that was the same man he saw trying to board the plane in Amsterdam.
Passengers had to wait about 20 minutes before they were allowed to exit the
plane. Haskell said he and other passengers waited about six hours to be
interviewed by the FBI.
About an hour after landing, Haskell said he saw another man being taken into
custody. But a spokeswoman from the FBI in Detroit said Mutallab was the only
person taken into custody.
What happened to the well dressed guy that tried to get him on the plane? He
didn’t get on the plane with him but, the guy today was a well dressed guy
suppossedly a business man B^()t it was probably the same guy that tried to get
him on friday. Since his attempt failed the well dressed guy tried again today.
It is NO coincidence that the same exact thing happened 2 days later.
For now, I’m cutting this sick Nigerian some slack. Being on a plane with a gastrointestinal problem can mean several trips to the bathroom, especially if the symptoms are cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting. Plus, once there, you aren’t too interested in leaving. Of course, there are other conditions that would promote a trip to the bathroom, including low blood sugar, and hypotension. So, who knows? It may have just been bad timing; there wouldn’t have been a news story if there was no Xmas bomber.
So now they are blaming ZZ Top?
LOL, GW, ZZ Top whatever, it’s never Obama’s fault!
How does one get a visa without a passport?
Apparently per Obama and Gibbs Bush knows…..
I’m sorry, but if you ask any of those passengers if they had experience any terror during this incident I believe most would say they had. This moron is a terrorist. Plain and simple. Call a duck a duck.
Not sure I understand why they’re targeting Detroit; LAX would certainly seem to be a more tempting target, no?
The Detroit and outer areas have an extremely large muslim population. They actually have call to prayer 5xs a day in Dearborn. It would make sense to do this in a highly concentrated are of muslim to be a martyr
Perhaps he was experiencing radiation sickness, was a “mule” bringing in materials. just sayin.
Some goofball tries to light up his shoes, we all take off our shoes.
This nut tries to light up his diaper, so we get double-screenings, the TSA pat-down, and lose access to our carry-ons one hour before landing. (So he’ll light up 61 minutes before landing…way to go TSA)
I can’t wait to see how America reacts to the new TSA procedures that come after some random moron tries to light up something that is hanging out of his rear end.
The terrorists are winning – not by blowing things up, but by making our government create Nazi concentration camps at the airports.
graysonret: He gets NO slack in my book. I would argue that he may have had an “uppy tummy” because he swallowed the ingredients for a bomb inside a condom and was trying to retrieve them. Perhaps said condom ruptured and that is why he was in the bathroom losing his
lunch, BOMB.In my world any muslim who wanted to fly either into or within the U.S. could fly ONLY on Muslim Air, not on ANY American carrier. BTW, Muslim Air would only be equipped with this sort of air vehicle:
http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu/hosted_resources/calendar/January.html
That way, any attempt to light a match would fail due to the airstream and there would be no luggage, no bathroom, no flight attendants, no crew, they would have to pilot the airplane themselves — Welcome Aboard!
continuing in nail49, the Independent reports that the Nigerian on the Christmas Day attempt had also complained of stomach upset, had gone to the latrine, and then covered himself with a blanket. Given what has happened, it’s not too far fetched to suspect a possible repeat attempt, and maybe the second Nigerian backed out and dropped the gear into the “pretty blue water”. I wonder if anyone thought to sieve the fluid to see if anything harder than excrement was in the latrine waste hold tank?
We could get a Navy “A”-ganger in there to dive the tank.
Rogue; if that happens, mrcakes will be singled out for assault w/a friendly weapon..
…there is no such thing as coincidence…
Not in this world.
It was the new jihadist underwear called, “Fruit of the Boom!”
“It was the new jihadist underwear called, “Fruit of the Boom!””
He needs to get his money back – It didn’t boom it burned.
watch list should = no fly list!!!
On December 28th, 2009 at 1:31 pm, Ronbo said:
“It was the new jihadist underwear called, “Fruit of the Boom!””
He needs to get his money back – It didn’t boom it burned
Does that include my 2 moslem friends, that I’ve known for years, who are very conservative in their religion, and I think very highly of? One is an ER doctor for years, the other an employee of a food market. In other words, if someone came after them for their religion, they would find them in my home, defended by me, a devout Christian. Don’t let yourself become a radical, Nail49. It’s just as bad as radical liberals.
A drawback to suicide-bombing is that it’s tough to hone your craft with a practice run… and with this clown, failure pretty much leaves one a eunuch.
Now we have to live without pillows and blankets… and no bathroom privileges… sheesh… just wait until your landing is pushed into a endless holding pattern… and those Bud Lights are coursing their way to your bladder…
And pity the inconvenience faced by our righteous leader, who had to pull away from his Maui beach chaise to mumble some indecipherable pulp about maintaining security… Great job, Prince… Putting those blankets away has surely shut down al-Queda…
graysonret: Perhaps I should have used the ’sarc’ tag for that particular part. Point taken, but let’s at least allow ‘profiling’ to set apart your friends from the radicals who should have been picked out of the crowd.
Right now everyone gets the same treatment at the hands of the TSA — that included Joe Foss, former Gov of SD and WW II recipient of the Medal of Honor which TSA tried to take from him because it “could be used as a weapon.” Why should HE get a hard look, but we can’t even look sideways at someone who has shown ‘all the signs’ of those about to do something?