This is an odd story:
Federal agents arrested a Saudi Arabian traveler who arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker, a key component used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.
Hussain Al Kwawahir will be arraigned at 1 p.m. in federal court for allegedly using an altered passport and lying to a Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker.
To the point where I’m wondering whether there’s something else going on.
Moe Lane
PS: It is not my intent to critique unsuccessful attempts to blow up portions of my country – if that is what this is – so I won’t point out the obvious flaws in the suggested scenario.
That one could go either way. I’m inclined to believe this one is just a couple misunderstandings, though, since if this is an attempt at terrorism there are some pretty big logic flaws there, as you point out.
I suspect access to real explosive devices is relatively easy in North Mogadishu.
Why wouldn’t you just buy the pressure cooker in America?
I wouldn’t be surprised if our “friends” at CAIR come screaming in with an intimidating lawsuit of some sort. I remember the imams that copied quite a bit of the behavior the hijackers did on 9/11. From the seat belt extenders and getting up and moving about in a coordinated fashion and loudly praying. All this instigation to cause a scene and then sue the airlines and have them go back to sensitivity training and let them continue the actions because it was part of their culture or whatever.