Just an update on the story below: Apparently this guy was just a nut and no one was ever in danger but I was just thinking... If I happened to be of Middle Eastern decent and my name was Fadhel al-Maliki one of the last things I would try to do is board a plane with a magnet and wires in my butt.
March 07, 2007
Iraqi national detained at LAX with magnet in his "bum"
March 07, 2007
Iraqi national detained at LAX with magnet in his "bum"
From Doug Hagmann, Director of the Northeast Intelligence Network:
6 March 2007: TSA officials at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) detained a 35 year-old Iraqi national at about 5:40 this morning after he set off an alarm at the passenger screening area at terminal 1. Security officers searched Fadhel Abbas al-Maliki of South Ocean Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, finding wires on his body and what was described as a magnet concealed in his rectum. Al Mailki also was in possession of another, unidentified metal device which is currently being assessed and evaluated by law enforcement authorities. Fadhel al-Maliki intended to board a US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia. Although al-Maliki was detained at the terminal, his luggage remained on the aircraft, which made an
6 March 2007: TSA officials at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) detained a 35 year-old Iraqi national at about 5:40 this morning after he set off an alarm at the passenger screening area at terminal 1. Security officers searched Fadhel Abbas al-Maliki of South Ocean Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, finding wires on his body and what was described as a magnet concealed in his rectum. Al Mailki also was in possession of another, unidentified metal device which is currently being assessed and evaluated by law enforcement authorities. Fadhel al-Maliki intended to board a US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia. Although al-Maliki was detained at the terminal, his luggage remained on the aircraft, which made an
unscheduled landing in Las Vegas for a security screening.
5 comments:
hee hee.
actually, i'm thinking i'm unlikely to board a plane with wires in my butt -- or even put wires in my butt in the first place -- even if my name is Lars Svenson and I'm from Sweden...
I don't know what this country's coming to when a guy can't even board a plane with wires on his body and a magnet in his butt. Thanks to your timely post, I know I won't be doing 'that' again.
you are such a strange, funny man! :-) also liked your steve miller reference on bryan's blog.
Thanks for the comments everyone.
Breaking News!
There was some other weird stuff found in his bum. See Update below:
Al-Maliki told investigators the objects have therapeutic properties, and that he had forgotten to remove them before reaching the security checkpoint. They were described as a magnet wrapped with a piece of gum in a napkin and then coiled with wire; and some kind of round, polished stone.
This guy is defiantly bipolar. (Sorry couldn’t resist)
"a magnet wrapped with a piece of gum in a napkin and then coiled with wire; and some kind of round, polished stone."
--that's the oldest trick in the book.
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