Wired Iraqi man triggers scare at L.A. airport

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Wired Iraqi man triggers scare at L.A. airport
Tue Mar 6, 2007 6:36 PM ET



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.

A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum.

"He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity," Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.

Maliki, 35, who lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was preparing to board a US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia.

The flight left without Maliki but with his luggage aboard. It made an unscheduled landing in Las Vegas, where the plane was thoroughly searched but nothing was found, officials said.

Passengers were not evacuated and no flights were disrupted by the incident at Terminal One at Los Angeles airport.

"There never was a threat," Fetter said.

He said police and the FBI were called in from "an abundance of caution" because Maliki was "so bizarre in his behavior."

Maliki, who had a U.S. green card, was being questioned by immigration officials about his immigration status.

[rehmwa 2]

It turns out, he had just misplaced his spare house key hidey box. "Oh, I've been wondering where that went..."

Damn it, you can't go around 'profiling' people like this. It's a serious violation of their rights.

Just because someone is a little brown, the metal detector shows a magnet up his ass, lots of wires, and "Bomb looking" stuff, doesn't mean you can just go off half cocked and ask him to take his shoes off and then get hate probed.

It's just wrong.


Damn Republicans.

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It turns out, he had just misplaced his spare house key hidey box. "Oh, I've been wondering where that went..."

Damn it, you can't go around 'profiling' people like this. It's a serious violation of their rights.

Just because someone is a little brown, the metal detector shows a magnet up his ass, lots of wires, and "Bomb looking" stuff, doesn't mean you can just go off half cocked and ask him to take his shoes off and then get hate probed.

It's just wrong.


Damn Republicans.

Correct - it's college girls with flour-filled condoms in their bags you need to worry about.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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The plane took off with his luggage on board! I thought that anyone who was denied boarding for whatever reason had to have their luggage removed from the aircraft before it was allowed to leave?

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The plane took off with his luggage on board! I thought that anyone who was denied boarding for whatever reason had to have their luggage removed from the aircraft before it was allowed to leave?

The TSA folks must have been too distracted by X-ray backscatter images of the good looking passengers to care.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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The plane took off with his luggage on board! I thought that anyone who was denied boarding for whatever reason had to have their luggage removed from the aircraft before it was allowed to leave?

The TSA folks must have been too distracted by X-ray backscatter images of the good looking passengers to care.

Or the baggage handlers just assumed it highly unlikely the bags got correctly placed and didn't bother to look on the tarmac for them

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[GQ_jumper 4]

Or the baggage handlers just assumed it highly unlikely the bags got correctly placed and didn't bother to look on the tarmac for them

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