Americans panicking again..................

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/West/....ap/index.html

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- Seven delegates from the Moroccan parliament were
detained at Portland International Airport for several hours in what
appeared to be a mix-up involving language barriers.

The group, which was visiting the country as part of a goodwill tour,
departed Saturday night after the FBI searched and interviewed them.

The visitors were about to board a 7 a.m. flight when one of the members,
Abdellah Abbassi, left his carry-on bag behind while he got coffee, said
Andrew Coose of the Transportation Security Administration.

The other six boarded the flight before he returned; in the meantime,
someone reported the unattended bag.

Authorities refused to allow Abbassi to board, and the pilot ordered the
other members of the delegation off the flight along with their luggage,
said Coose, the TSA's deputy security director in Portland.

Authorities who searched their bags became alarmed when they found documents
written in Arabic with 911 written on them, Coose said. The delegation could
not speak English to explain the documents, he said.

It turned out that the group's host in Dallas, a previous stop, had given
them instructions to call 911 if they got into trouble, but it was mistaken
for a reference to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Coose called the incident "absolutely unfortunate."

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:16:08 GMT, (The News
Guy(Mike)) wrote:

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 07:28:40 +0100, "Sjoerd"
wrote:

Abdellah Abbassi, left his carry-on bag behind

In light of world events it sounds like a reasonable precaution to me.

Of course, as would a search of the bag to ensure there was no
hazardous material in it. Once it was verified that there was no
hazardous material, they should have been allowed to continue. The
PIC's action of ordering the rest of the party off the plane was
completely over the top though, and is yet another example of yank
over-reaction - again.

Dave

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http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/

You would be too if someone flew a couple of planes into tall buildings and
killed 3000 people.


"Sjoerd" wrote in message
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http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/West/....ap/index.html

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- Seven delegates from the Moroccan parliament were
detained at Portland International Airport for several hours in what
appeared to be a mix-up involving language barriers.

The group, which was visiting the country as part of a goodwill tour,
departed Saturday night after the FBI searched and interviewed them.

The visitors were about to board a 7 a.m. flight when one of the members,
Abdellah Abbassi, left his carry-on bag behind while he got coffee, said
Andrew Coose of the Transportation Security Administration.

The other six boarded the flight before he returned; in the meantime,
someone reported the unattended bag.

Authorities refused to allow Abbassi to board, and the pilot ordered the
other members of the delegation off the flight along with their luggage,
said Coose, the TSA's deputy security director in Portland.

Authorities who searched their bags became alarmed when they found
documents
written in Arabic with 911 written on them, Coose said. The delegation
could
not speak English to explain the documents, he said.

It turned out that the group's host in Dallas, a previous stop, had given
them instructions to call 911 if they got into trouble, but it was
mistaken
for a reference to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Coose called the incident "absolutely unfortunate."

As much as I would be if then planes flew overhead dropping "cargo" that
killed tens of thousands more!

But I digress!


"Peter L" wrote in message
...
You would be too if someone flew a couple of planes into tall buildings
and
killed 3000 people.


"Sjoerd" wrote in message
...

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/West/....ap/index.html

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- Seven delegates from the Moroccan parliament
were
detained at Portland International Airport for several hours in what
appeared to be a mix-up involving language barriers.

The group, which was visiting the country as part of a goodwill tour,
departed Saturday night after the FBI searched and interviewed them.

The visitors were about to board a 7 a.m. flight when one of the
members,
Abdellah Abbassi, left his carry-on bag behind while he got coffee, said
Andrew Coose of the Transportation Security Administration.

The other six boarded the flight before he returned; in the meantime,
someone reported the unattended bag.

Authorities refused to allow Abbassi to board, and the pilot ordered the
other members of the delegation off the flight along with their luggage,
said Coose, the TSA's deputy security director in Portland.

Authorities who searched their bags became alarmed when they found
documents
written in Arabic with 911 written on them, Coose said. The delegation
could
not speak English to explain the documents, he said.

It turned out that the group's host in Dallas, a previous stop, had
given
them instructions to call 911 if they got into trouble, but it was
mistaken
for a reference to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Coose called the incident "absolutely unfortunate."

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 07:28:40 +0100, "Sjoerd"
wrote:

Abdellah Abbassi, left his carry-on bag behind


In light of world events it sounds like a reasonable precaution to me.



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Peter L wrote:
You would be too if someone flew a couple of planes into tall buildings and
killed 3000 people.

Sorry to be blunt but... GET OVER IT.

Bush has killed 3 times more Iraqis than were killed at WTC.

It is much better to have one plane crash per year and the rest flying full
and airlines profitable than to put in so many fear messages that nobody
flies, airlines are going belly up, Boeing firing people left and right etc etc.

You cannot let terrorists prevent you from living a normal life. And that
means you must prevent your government from going overboard with 1984 style
measures which, in the end, will do far more damage to your economy and
lifestyle than one very bad day in 2001.

Americans should wake up from this nightmare and realise that it has been made
far worse by the Bush regime that it really was.

Yes, 9-11 was a disaster of biblical proportions, not because of the number of
dead, not because of the plane crashes, but because of the people trapped and
the sheer size of the structures that fell down and it was all shown live to
the world.

Had the BAM earthquake been shown live, with 30k people killed, perhaps it
would have put the WTC disaster in perspective.


The intelligence community should be told to do their work behind the scenes
and their information must not be used as propaganda to exagerate the theaths
to keep the public in fear.

It is as if the United States of America was being artificially maintained in
a state of shock even since 9-11.

When Americans who would kill to prevent a government from issuing identity
cards for fear of "big brother" end up supporting the Patriot Act and stuff
like CAPPS, it means that there is something seriously changed with the
american psyche. American should realise that the real threath is their own
government who exagerates the threaths for their own political purposes.

(nobody) wrote in
:

Peter L wrote:
You would be too if someone flew a couple of planes into tall
buildings and killed 3000 people.

Sorry to be blunt but... GET OVER IT.

Bush has killed 3 times more Iraqis than were killed at WTC.

Hmmm... Since only about 2400 were killed in the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, I guess that to you, WW-II was just a big mistake.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

In article ,
Bert Hyman wrote:

(nobody) wrote in
:

Peter L wrote:
You would be too if someone flew a couple of planes into tall
buildings and killed 3000 people.

Sorry to be blunt but... GET OVER IT.

Bush has killed 3 times more Iraqis than were killed at WTC.

Hmmm... Since only about 2400 were killed in the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, I guess that to you, WW-II was just a big mistake.

no but attacking Mexico for Pearl Harbor would have been -- Irag had
nothing to do with 9/11 and we have abandoned the war on terror to
scratch Bush's Saddam Hussein itch

In article ,
Bert Hyman wrote:
(nobody) wrote in
:

Peter L wrote:
You would be too if someone flew a couple of planes into tall
buildings and killed 3000 people.

Sorry to be blunt but... GET OVER IT.

Bush has killed 3 times more Iraqis than were killed at WTC.

Hmmm... Since only about 2400 were killed in the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, I guess that to you, WW-II was just a big mistake.

Yeah, really. We should have just laughed it all off (accidents will
happen, you know...). Let Europe fall to the Germans; let the Japanese
take over the Pacific Rim. Really, not our problem.

What *were* we thinking?

In article ,
wrote:


Peter L wrote:
You would be too if someone flew a couple of planes into tall buildings and
killed 3000 people.

Here in the UK we've had 3000 killed over the past 30 years, some of
them financed by Noraid. We've had the centre of Manchester destroyed
by bombs, we've had soldiers and priests killed in Aldershot, we've
had Canary Wharf bombed with 100 wounded, 2 dead and £85 million worth
of damage, we've had pub bombings in Guildford and Birmingham (I was
in there the night it happened), we've had the Queen's cousin killed
by an IRA bomb, we've had buses destroyed in London by IRA bombs, we
had 29 people killed by a 500lb car bomb in Omagh. Throughout all this
we managed to carry on without getting our panties in a twist.

IOW, you just don't care.

As long as none of the above-mentioned mayhem affects you (or your loved
ones) personally, it effectively didn't happen. There's a fairly valid
argument that if something, like 9/11, doesn't affect either you or a loved
one, then it effectively did not happen. I can certainly understand this
position.