If you are suspicious then speak up!
So that we can:
take everybody off and conduct a full search.
We may live in the kind of democracy where idiots can do the terrorists job for them, but it obviously needs pointing out (again..) that you leave this democracy behind at the doors of an aircraft.
A search, within the provisions of the already over stringent security rules will indeed have been conducted, but not to satisfy the blind xenophobia of some uneducated nutters. And I use the term advisedly, as (if the report is correct) even when the situation was explained to them, at least one passenger was still reluctant to fly. So maybe uneducateable is a better term.
I find wry amusement at the plight of the self-unloaders who found themselves several hours later in the same boat, as it were.
@Herod: John 11.35! Tee Hee!