Officials: Possible terror attack on Northwest jet

[Contrary1]

CNN is reporting it as "fireworks". http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/12/25/airliner.firecrackers/index.html

Who to believe? :shrug:

"A 23-year-old Nigerian man tried to light a powdery substance aboard a Northwest Airlines flight before landing in Detroit on Friday, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News.

Two people noticed the attempt and a third person jumped on the man and subdued him, an airline official told NBC News.

The man is being treated at the burn unit of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, officials said.

The man told investigators that he wanted to set off a bomb over the United States, and the incident is being handled as a possible terrorism attack by both law enforcement and intelligence agencies, senior counterterrorism officials said..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34592031/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[Hydra]

1. You notice that after the truth gets out, someone thought it would be more useful

To have a "terrorism event"?

[Thickasabrick]

2. Well damn.....we are going to have to throw our lighters out again nt

[Warpy]

12. Good. Pack those things in your bags

It's not like you can smoke on the plane, anyway.

Buy some of the nicotine gum to tide you over until you get your bags off the plane. After all, there's no reason to suffer nicotine withdrawal on a flight if you don't have to.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Why isn't Obama protecting us from firecrackers?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/25/2009-12-25_passenger_sets_off_firecrackers_aboard_detroit_bound_delta_plane.html

[Bobbieo]

4. I thought most Nigerians his age were 419ers seated at computers e-mailmg 'undisclosed recipients

trying to scam a few hundred dollars.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. GREAT increased security

So tell me how could somebody get fire crackers onto a plane?

Oh never mind. Will see how the circus is on Sunday at the Airport...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. The security would have been handled by officials in Amsterdam,

not the TSA. I've been through security in AMS and it seemed pretty thorough. I wonder how this dude got firecrackers on the airplane?

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. That;'s what I am thinking

I know that TSA is not that thorough, as much as they claim otherwise, having flown from other places in the world.

I just added time at the airport, instead of family.

[Myrina]

6. Yeah, I heard he set off 'firecrackers' ...

:wtf: How does one get firecrackers past TSA?

[undeterred]

8. Maybe they were in a 3oz shampoo bottle.

:shrug:

[yodoobo]

9. simple. Put them in your pocket

they aren't made of metal.

[Myrina]

16. ... wouldn't an optical scanner see them, as cigarettes maybe?

.. or some other kind of "contraband"?

:shrug:

[high density]

13. Well when you pass security in Nigeria...

Who knows what one could get on a plane.

[spoony]

10. I'm sure this is nothing our drone bombers can't handle.

Thank goodness we're wiping out the terrarrists in Afghanist...er, Pakist...er, Yem...er, Nigeria.

[rug]

15. Amsterdam.

[HoarseWhisperer]

14. Thank goodness for HSecurity & all the rest of our vaunted

military/defense geniuses who only want to protect and defend us. Now, what else do we have to do to make sure our budgets
get hefty increases? Should we designate 2010 as the "Year of Terror"? Would THAT convince you, Mr. and Mrs. Senator?