Hmmm. Yup, dodgy thing to happen. Not terribly worrying mind you. Want to see worrying?
It raises the point - that we are still very much at risk from these moslems.
Hmmm. Yes, quite. Of course, I personally feel at risk from all you religious freaks. Afterlife. *pftttt*
Who needs weapons if you have 20 mad men screaming and kicking around in the cabin. If you can´t smuggle weapons across security, you can certainly get 20 ´honnest´ passengers with a valid boarding pass through security.
Yes. He may be innocent, unarmed, peaceful, not bothering anyone, but
NOOOOOOOOOOOO! - he's a muslim!!! Shoot the bastard!!! Hurry!!! He might be thinking about taking over the world!!!! Oh, wait - that's the russians, isn't it?
Those that think passengers would overwhelme terrorists need to have a rethink in my opinion. How do you overwhelme 20 determined and motivated hijackers?
But that's easy! You just convert to islam and be one of them! *sheesh* You so stuuuupid!!!
From the information on the BBC he had the classic profile that should have been highlighted the moment he booked his ticket. If it took until the X-ray machine the system had failed at the first hurdle we should thank the operators and all count ourselves lucky.
Ah, profiling. That wonderful way of watching people because they have the same skin colour as someone else that did something bad once. Pity, really, that it works as well as chocolate frying pans...
Maybe you'd be a little more understanding of just what the US has suffered this last year(or decade for those with short memories) and not so quick to criticize what has to be done in this war of survival.Its either them or us.You choose.But dont whinge or utter platitudes whilst you're sitting on the fence making up your mind.
The US will make up its own mind and if you're not part of the solution,you're part of the problem.WW11 was prolonged by months because Eike was too wrapped up in preserving the Alliance instead of sending his best general(Patton) into the Nazi fray.
The pussy-footing around stops now.
Brenoch and Whisky Zulu,
Your comments are misguided. I feel that to make a mockery of something that could have been a serious situation (it COULD have been, but thankfully wasn't) is very incorrect.
Those members of this forum who have perhaps been directly affected by terrorism acts won't thank you for your comments either!!
Brenoch and Whisky Zulu,
As a member of this forum who grew up in a country that had an active terrorist problem from four hundred years before he was born and who grew up getting used to hearing of parents being shot in front of their children in their homes, kneecappings by the gross, people ordered to leave the country or have their family killed, or that old favorite, 17-year-olds being crucified with re-bars from a building site, I offically thank you for doing the best thing possible in the situation - poking fun at it. If the expletive deletor on the site wasn't censoring me, I could tell you what I think of the ignorant, self-important, puffed-up, bloodthirsty, arrogant, self-rightous, annoying, loud, obnoxious, racist, bigoted, myopic, sabre-rattling, goat-loving sons of brothers that have been posting here like they were members of the nationalist socialist party in Munich in the 1930s.
Honestly, why weren't these posts moderated? Capt PPRuNe, CrashDive, PPRuNe Towers, Sick Squid, are you conducting a social experiment in mob mentality or trying to raise the level of racial bigotry in the forum?
BTW, I know all those quotes came from different people - I don't care. You're all just as bad. Someone got arrested on a plane with a gun, which may or may not have been real. None knows who he's connected to, what his intentions were, or what his religion is or if that even has anything to do with his actions. In response, we get postings that don't bother holding short of branding a large segment of the world's population as bloodthirsty ignorant terrorists, a threat to be eliminated. Frankly, if you want a group like that, you need to look to US foreign policy from the last sixty years.