Flight diverted, air passenger arrested after religious items mistaken for a bomb

[Liberty Star]

Details are still coming out:



US Airways jet lands when religious item mistaken as bomb

By Jon Hurdle Jon Hurdle – Thu Jan 21

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia on Thursday after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb, Philadelphia police said.

A passenger was alarmed by the phylacteries, religious items which observant Jews strap around their arms and heads as part of morning prayers, on the flight from New York's La Guardia airport heading to Louisville.

"Someone on the plane construed it as some kind of device," said officer Christine O'Brien, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia police department.



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[tangent4ronpaul]

http://jewsribsinbearjaw.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/shekhina_cover_02.jpg?w=300&h=256

[ramallamamama]

http://jewsribsinbearjaw.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/shekhina_cover_02.jpg?w=300&h=256

She's the bomb.

[Bruno]

Will he also be charged with breaking some silly law due to the over-reaction?

[devil21]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Tefillin.JPG/280px-Tefillin.JPG

I can see why someone might go "WTF"??

[LibForestPaul]

Probably a setup. Some Jew needed some money. Nothing better than a good religious persecution suit to rake in the dough.

[t0rnado]

Just because you can't identify something doesn't mean it's a bomb.

[Danke]

Probably a setup. Some Jew needed some money. Nothing better than a good religious persecution suit to rake in the dough.


The device did not explode and only burned the man, who was pounced on by fellow passengers.

wtf?

Could be bad reporting, but "burned" and fellow passengers "pounced" on the man??

[youngbuck]

People are so f'n stupid, I swear.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Well, you can't really blame the poor TSA people for being agraid of religious objects... I mean consider their education:

http://topazbean.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/constantine.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/178736326_7b81c62380.jpg
http://home.fuse.net/Sweikata/MikeMidTerm/Cross2.jpg

Oh, and God help you if you have a prosthetic - those things scare the begezus out of TSA agents!

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2007_Grindhouse/2007_grindhouse_pt_003.jpg

:D

-t

[Liberty Star]

http://jewsribsinbearjaw.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/shekhina_cover_02.jpg?w=300&h=256

what are those pointy things? How can she be allowed on travel like that.

[tangent4ronpaul]

what are those pointy things? How can she be allowed on travel like that.

Think that's bad? - I saw a girl walking arround at a mall and another come to my place of employment wearing very transparent body stockings... They hid NOTHING toes to top of head.... completely transparent and nothing under them....

WOW!

The girl in the pic is very modest by comparison....

-t

[HOLLYWOOD]

What you are seeing now... is the public standard operating procedures of how the US Government, *Classified Portion" in day to day hysteria.

The government doesn't trust anyone and manages on the state of paranoia... now it coming to the public surface via the airlines. With a majority of morons, like flying waitresses, given way to much authority, it plays right into the "States" hand of Propaganda.

Pathetic Paranoiac state we live in... all for a reason, and it's not what most are led to believe.