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Wake up Europe! It's real

Al Queda needs a new trick. I can say without hyperbole, if an Arabic-looking man even sneezes wrong, he's gonna get jumped by about a million passengers.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
I know, it's mind-boggling. Like that country where they allowed 12 people to board four different planes, hijack them, and run them into...

Oh, wait, that was the USA...
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Or like the country, after 19 people boarded 4 different airplanes and hijacked them, and security measures put in place everywhere, that allowed a guy with a bomb to board and try to blow it up mid-Atlantic...
Get off your ****ing European Superiority complex. I asked a question. Is a civil, thought-out discussion beyond you ******** over there? Or is it all just the USA's fault, and you want to make sure we know?
 
I'm really not a fan of all this Euro-bashing. we need them as much as they need us.
 
rwguinn said:
Does Europe give a damn? What's up?
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Two years ago, flying from Ecuador to Denmark via Miami and London, I somehow managed to forget that I had a bottle of water in my carry on luggage. But this wasn't discovered until i reached London.
Does America give a damn? What's up?
 
EDIT: removed personal attack. I shouldn't have done that. Knee jerk reaction that I caught after the fact, I retract what I said.
 
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Dr Adequate said:
Yes, it has. Since the Madrid bombing, and 7/7, Europeans have decided that the terrorists who keep blowing them up don't exist.

Of course, to dissimulate this, Europeans have put on a big show of heightening airport security. But in their heart of hearts, obviously what they meant was that terrorists could kill whomsoever they pleased.

Anyone who tries to exculpate Europeans for the evil wicked things that anti-European terrorists have done is losing sight of the one ultimate moral principle, that you must always blame the victim. Unless, of course, we're talking about 9/11, which was in no way the fault of President Bush.

But, that one singular exception aside, we have to admit that every time that terrorists suceede fail, it's because the European nations just aren't trying to avert acts of terrorism against them. The fact is that just because they live a few thousand miles to the east of the USA, their whole ideology can be summed up as: "Please kill us in the name of Allah!"

And then people ask why I laugh at right-wing Americans. It can't possibly be because they're crazy in the head, there must be some other reason.
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Would these be Irish-American right wing Americans who actually helped fund terrorism in certain bits of Europe and helped ensure that we've always had rather more robust airport security than pre 9-11 US airports?
 
parky76 said:
the great majority of Europeans I have met in my many travels, actually have respected Americans and America.

but then there was this one Dutch girl in Montreal, who hated Americans...but ended up screwing the first horny soul she could find.

:)
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You? :D

Anyway, wouldn't be surprised if the batteries of the poor Nigerian SOB's laptop had exploded. These things do happen.
 
9/11-investigator said:
You? :D

Anyway, wouldn't be surprised if the batteries of the poor Nigerian SOB's laptop had exploded. These things do happen.
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no, instead of nailing her ONCE, I ended up hooking up with an Ozzy gal who came to visit me in NYC..for a week. One night of patience= 5 nights of hot sex!!!

:)
 
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/12/25/us.airline.incident.passengers/index.html

Passenger: Terror suspect seemed 'stunned'

(CNN) -- Syed Jafry was preparing for his plane to land in Detroit, Michigan, after a long flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, when he heard a noise that startled him.

"There was a little bit of light, a little bit of -- kind of flamish light and there was fire," Jafry told CNN. "And people began to panic."

For a couple of seconds on Northwest Flight 253, nobody knew what was going on, he said.

That pop, officials say, came from a Nigerian man who ignited a small explosive device as the flight descended into the Detroit, Michigan, area. The White House described the incident as an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect was eventually subdued by passengers and crew.

"pop" --> probably overheated lithium-ion battery

As the commotion began, passengers didn't know what to think.

Jafry said he thought the man looked to be in his 20s.
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Passenger Elias Fawaz told WDIV that the detonation sounded "like a balloon being popped" and said he could smell smoke.

That's when he saw a struggle in the cabin.

"We heard, 'What are you doing?' 'What are you doing?' " Fawaz told WDIV.

Within seconds a young man on the flight took matters into his own hands, according to Jafry and other passengers who spoke to CNN affiliate WXYZ-TV.

A man, sitting three or four rows behind Jafry jumped over a group of seats, tackled the suspect and put him in a headlock.

"He handled him pretty good, I think," Jafry said.

Jafry said other passengers and crew members then helped subdue the man and put out flames after the suspect's pants appeared to catch fire.

People screamed.

"Everybody was rushing towards that area and tried to get water," Jafry said, adding that people rushed the man with blankets and a fire extinguisher.

"They put out the fire, brought him up front where they stripped him down to make sure that he had nothing else," passenger Melinda Dennis told CNN affiliate WDIV.

Other passengers told WXYZ the injured suspect was put in the first row of first class.

"He appeared to be more stunned and surprised with the whole act," Jafry said of the suspect after he was subdued.

Most likely explanation: he had no idea what happened to him either.

Passengers, including Jafry, said they could see the suspect was burned on different parts of his body, but he didn't seem to say much or act as if he were in pain.

Jafry said soon after the suspect was moved to the front of the plane, the crew and pilot told passengers the incident was under control.

"And we were on the ground, I think between 10 to 20 minutes after the incident," Jafry said.

Jafry and other passengers were screened again and questioned for about four to five hours before finally being able to meet their friends and family, or reach connecting flights.
 
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