Airline Security: Joke or Farce?
Charles Johnson
Tue Mar 6, 2007 at 8:35 pm PST • Views: 436
We all have to take off our shoes and hand over any bottled liquids to the TSA when we get on a plane. But put a magnet inside a “lower body cavity” before boarding a flight at LAX, and they’ll let your luggage travel ahead even though you’ve been detained by a squeamish screener: Wired Iraqi man questioned at L.A. airport. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Officials detained an Iraqi man during a security scare at Los Angeles International airport on Tuesday but said a suspicious object found in a body cavity search did not pose a threat.
The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, was detained at passenger screening at the airport just before 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
The bomb squad was called as a precaution and authorities said they found wires in his clothing and a magnet inside a lower body cavity.
The man was preparing to board a US Airways flight to Philadelphia. The flight left without the passenger but with his luggage aboard.
Massive security hole, anyone? (No pun intended.)
UPDATE at 3/6/07 9:01:37 pm:
LiveLeak.com has video of the guy being loaded into a car at LAX.
Frank says: