Scary story

[Ramrod]

Dry run?

As Annie Jacobsen took her seat on a plane she noticed a group of Middle Eastern men. At first she tried to ignore them. Then they started to act suspiciously

Source: The Sunday Times

[MadGamer]

Scary bloody scary

Originally Posted by Wayne A

Scary bloody scary

Well Bil Laden has wildy succeeded in one thing.He has made us as paranoid as himself.

Not really that scary, Come on how many planes do you know that have been hijacked compared to the amount that fly per day. The chances of any of us being on a plane when it next happens are extremely remote

It is the same way the mind works when you are walking down a street and a gang of asians are walking towards you, you usually become very anxious. Theres no point with being terrifyed everytime you see a group of middle easten men on a plane. Its the way the media works and the image that is implanted on your brian day after day after day. Most people wont have ever even have been a victim of crime from a arab or muslim but are still scared of them

Do you get scared when you see a irish man in london? Why not? We have had a lot more terrorist attacks from the IRA than the middle easten terrorists

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Well Bil Laden has wildy succeeded in one thing.He has made us as paranoid as himself.

I dunno, I'd stilll be scared with a dozen or so men acting that strangely on a flight 9/11 or no 9/11......

Sounds suspiciously like an urban legend to me.

Does anybody remember the one going round where a woman/man returns a man's dropped wallet and in thanking her he warns her to stay out of a certain place on a certain date?

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by pwalthew

Sounds suspiciously like an urban legend to me.

Does anybody remember the one going round where a woman/man returns a man's dropped wallet and in thanking her he warns her to stay out of a certain place on a certain date?

I remember that one

Dave Adams, spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service, backed up Annie Jacobsenââ‚à ƒâ€šÃ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s diary of events †â€ÂÂÂ� but not her interpretation of them. He told The New York Times that air marshals on board flight 327 were sufficiently concerned by the menââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s behaviour to thoroughly inspect the lavatories. But †œnothing looked like it was in disarray after these people went insideââ‚Ã⠀šÃ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ÂÂ�. None of their names appears on a terrorist blacklist. The men were, he says, members of a Syrian band. †œThey gave their little performance in the casino and two days later they flew out.ââ‚ ¬Ã‚ÂÂÂ�

So their instrument cases contained......instruments!!!!!!

and what did they guy with the goatee mean?

Also it seems odd that this women would go to the FBI for hours after taking their young son on a 4 and a half hour plane journey? why would a group travel to a casino for 2 nights then go back? why didnt the casino get a local band?

sounds a pile of rubbish to me

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Damien

and what did they guy with the goatee mean?

Also it seems odd that this women would go to the FBI for hours after taking their young son on a 4 and a half hour plane journey? why would a group travel to a casino for 2 nights then go back? why didnt the casino get a local band?

sounds a pile of rubbish to me

Why would people who've been talking arabic throughout the flight mouth "no" instead of "la"?

As for the 2 nights, it's probably because the flights were cheaper, although the thought of 14 Syrians going to a casino is a bit strange!
Big band.

come to think of it, why did the FBI interview her for hours? there where loads of people on the plane such as staff and that goatee man so why interview too regualr pessenegers

it like the amount of people who say how they walked ppast the site of the docklands bomb a few mintues before it went off, if they where all right then it wwould mean that for some reason there was a sudden rush of thousands of people running past at the same time

[danielf]

And what is this?

About 20 minutes later the same flight attendant returned. Leaning over and whispering, she asked my husband to write a description of the yellow-shirted man sitting across from us. She explained it would look too suspicious if she wrote the information. She asked my husband to slip the note to her when he was done.

Surely the flight attendant could write a note in the galley without it being suspicious? And passengers slipping notes to flight attendants is not suspicious?

why on earth is The times publishing such rubbish....oh wait murdoch, i forgot

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Why would people who've been talking arabic throughout the flight mouth "no" instead of "la"?

As for the 2 nights, it's probably because the flights were cheaper, although the thought of 14 Syrians going to a casino is a bit strange!
Big band.

If they were Arabs how can they say No in English?

Originally Posted by Wayne A

If they were Arabs how can they say No in English?

.............

Ummmm......they...learn...it

If you english how can you say Bonjour?

Originally Posted by Ramrod

I dunno, I'd stilll be scared with a dozen or so men acting that strangely on a flight 9/11 or no 9/11......

Or was the woman just thinking they were acting strangely because if 9/11?