What puzzles me from the first report (the newspaper link in the first post starting this thread) is that the French authorities appear to have held Reid back BECAUSE he was on a one-way ticket without luggage, he missed his original flight, was put up at American Airlines expense and permitted by the airline to travel on the following day. Has this information been corroborated? If so it makes one wonder about the sanity of of the airline officials in Paris that they overrule the authorities. What is the situation here - if authorities suspect but airline overrules? Can a person not be searched under relevant terrorism laws? and if so...wouldn't the clothes/shoes have tested positive for explosives?
I am totally puzzled.
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