This has been making the rounds of various groups/boards for the last couple of weeks, but few have so far risen to the bait (for that is what I consider it to be).
At best it's simply a case of a distraught harpy letting her imagination loose, the
middle-eastern-appearance syndrome if you will. Different cultures behave differently, infrequent flyers do things on airplanes which don't fit the 'norm'. Reminds me of the East Indian choir who were subject to similar scrutiny for 'passing notes' on a flight - although that case was much sooner after 9/11. I imagine the little red book was the Qu'ran, perhaps she would have been less discomfitted had it been the Bible.
A cynic might read something into the timing of the article, coinciding as it did with Ridge's warning that the election might have to be postponed. GWB down in the polls again ? Nah, that couldn't be it.
