>>Look, you order extra seat belts then place them on the deck in front of you. What are they for, restraint of crew or passengers? A good telling off by the captain won't count for much when, at 30,000 ft they play their hidden trump card, whatever that may be now, and they're inventing new ways all the time. Maybe they can't get at the cockpit, but to blow a hole in the fuselage will do a lot of damage.
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>I reread few articles here and there about it, and now I am even more convinced that what happened there was completely wrong. Rights of these
>people were grossely abused.
>Tip of from Arab speaking passanger (??) and you kick out of plane six
>VIP muslim clerics (one of them blind). C'mon Terry where does this lead us ?
>This is simply huge blunder on part of AA practices. Period.

That's as maybe but we were going by what was reported in the orig. URL that was cited, not on what you have subsequently read.

As I said, from that article it seems that the imans acted very provocatively in this day and age and climate. Did you ever see the film "Midnight Express"? The scene where the Turkish customs men suspect him, notice the beads of sweat on his forehead, then feel his rapidly beating heart, then arrest him when they find drugs on him. Now imagine that just before you were to go through customs, there or, say, Thailand, you went for a run, to get yourself all sweaty and breathless, then you stared wide-eyed and worried looking into the guards' eyes, or furtively tried not to look in their eyes. In short, imagine you're deliberately trying to look like you're carrying drugs, just to get their backs up. then you'd only have yourself to blame if you were detained, body-searched, interrogated and missed your flight.

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>>>These poor students were not screaming Alah or anything like that,
>>>yet they were escorted off the plane. Only suspicious point about them
>>>was color of their skin and their charcteristic Arab/MidEastern look. So their right to fly (paid ticket) was groselly abused because some bunch of spinsters form Manchester got overexcited/scarred
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>>Unfortunately it was people of their skin, religion, what have you, who perpetrated the attrocities of 9/11. It's understandable that people will get windy. I'm not looking up the story now but wasn't there something about their being overdressed for the weather, too?
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>No, that happen with Brits comming back from Spain.
>Incident I am refering to happened in Cyprus while ago (published in Cyprus Weekly) again involving Brit holliday makers on a way to UK but from Paphos airport in Cyprus.
>Reason why article took only 1/8th of the page is the fact that
>Pakistani students were poor people without connections, unlike this
>US based hight profile Muslim clerics.
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>>>Once you let massive parannoya grossly abuse rights of particular group of people you well on the road to 50ies not to say 30ies.
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>>>This global maddness invlicted on the rest of the world by US/UK simply has to stop. Things simply have to calm down.
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>>I BEG your pardon! "global maddness invlicted ... by US/UK"? SO the Brits/US did the first attack on the WTC, 9/11, Barli bombings, The American Embassy, et al?
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>That is correct. It is global maddness/paranoya inflicted to the rest of the world by US/UK.
>9/11 was one extreem tragic event wich should hv been dealt with much more dignity and self respect.
>Whole world was with and felt for US that day. Both my wife and I cried together that day, watching people falling down the tower. Whole world was united that day. That alone could hv been most serious blow to terorrisam world wide. World united against it.

SO you think the US, after 9/11, should have just said "Those Al Qaeda, eh? What are they like?!" And that would have been the end of it?

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>Instead it was politicaly exployted (locally/globaly) to such extent that it become ongoing global problem/situation/threat. They barely managed to
>burry/mourn all wictims - new war more deaths were already on their way.
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>It secured defence budgets to two wars (Afganistan/Iraq) , ellection bust to republicans and green light to menu other decisions/activities which would be otherwise impossible/unimagineable in situation where world was groing more stable and secure with the end of cold war.

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>9/11 happened 5 years ago, some mentally ill / evil spirited people did
>what they did.

And there's no more out there just waiting for the next devastating pop at the West?

>But no one really knows or have hard evidence twds who did it. (Do not come up with story about tapes pls)
>Consecutively Afganistan and Iraq were attacked by coallition forces based on above events having a 'strong feeling and a hunch' rather then hard evidence.
>Unless you believe/can swalow WMD story as hard evidence.

The debate about Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't come into this. This is airport and aeroplane security. Are you suggesting that the authorities are only windy about security because of the wars and NOT cos of 9/11? And I've heard lots of condemnation about Iraq, where most people concur that it was a mistake, but I've heard little such about Afghanistan.

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>How talking out your arse can you be? Who started all this madness, and who could stop it
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>What your think-tank bodyparts tells you ?