Does anyone know what happened to the doofus who's luggage got

[acmavm]

blown up by the feds yesterday? Is there a story or article on DU that tells what the deal was?

Or was he just a poor schmuck who now needs to replace his wardrobe?

[tubbacheez]

1. He looked like he stepped out of The Matrix.

But alas, I fear he's probably getting the Abu Ghraib treatment somewhere.

[Sanity Claws]

2. He was deported

I read that he is an Australian citizen born in China. I think I saw that somewhere on line, probably Yahoo.
He was a harmless idiot. This country has gone crazy.

[Bunny]

3. Here's something:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05102/486718.stm

SNIP
WASHINGTON -- Police on Monday tackled and dragged away a man with two suitcases who stationed himself in front of the west side of the Capitol and asked to see the president.

The man was tackled by a SWAT team and charged with disobeying a police officer. A three-hour investigation of the suitcases, including blasting them with a water cannon, revealed nothing threatening, Gainer said.

He refused to identify the man involved other than to say he was 33 years old, from China and carrying no identification.

"He said that if we wanted to know what was in the suitcase, we would have to open it ourselves," Gainer said.
SNIP

[whistle]

4. He was tackled from behind and knocked face down onto...

...the concrete by a swat team guard 2.5 times bigger than him. I think he is either brain dead or was actually a manikin staged to look like a bomb threat by KKKarl Rove.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Reminds me of the NPR story

about the Iraqi refugee who was stopped and questioned by the Border Police miles from the border-he was going across country and wasn't trying to leave! They held him for 8 days over nothing except that he was an Iraqi (he was here legally, had all his paperwork, etc), making him lose his job. He's suing them. Their defense? You don't have to talk to a cop. Yeah, right.

My husband looks Middle Eastern. I'm always afraid some bozo will decide he's from Iraq or somewhere and pick him up. Of course, once he opened his mouth, they'd realize he's a native Texan. And he would know how to call his lawyer.