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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Deborah Burlingame has put out, thus far, the most informative write-up I’ve seen about the incident. Her brother was the pilot of Flight 77. What she wrote about the Imam-ejecting story, is not slanted any more or less than any other story you’ve seen about it, but as you might expect her slant is in the opposite direction. And as frosting on the cake, anybody wondering why the six would have been kicked off the flight, may actually get an answer. Whoever can’t handle that, should take extra special care not to click here.
“Allahu Akbar” was just the opening act. After boarding, they did not take their assigned seats but dispersed to seats in the first row of first class, in the midcabin exit rows and in the rear–the exact configuration of the 9/11 execution teams. The head of the group, seated closest to the cockpit, and two others asked for a seatbelt extension, kept on board for obese people. A heavy metal buckle at the end of a long strap, it can easily be used as a lethal weapon. The three men rolled them up and placed them on the floor under their seats. And lest this entire incident be written off as simple cultural ignorance, a frightened Arabic-speaking passenger pulled aside a crew member and translated the imams’ suspicious conversations, which included angry denunciations of Americans, furious grumblings about U.S. foreign policy, Osama Bin Laden and “killing Saddam.”
The more I find out about this whole thing, the more it impresses me as a thoroughly pants-shitting event for all concerned. I’d like to see someone held to account, and called to explain why the very first news stories about it were worded the way they were. Why they didn’t mention the blocking of the exits. Who is working in our nation’s newsrooms, making important decisions there about what millions of people are supposed to be thinking, who doesn’t see that as part of the story.
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Becky at the political blog I write at, Preemptive Karma, is quite vociferous on your side regarding the imams, and its brought in quite a few comments.
I have to say I agree with you. Regardless of what they meant, they acted suspiciously and should have been removed.
- Alan | 12/07/2006 @ 17:10