I’d like to know how CAIR and their cronies compute the angles on cases like this. Did they realize that their plan to sue airline passengers who report suspicious behavior wasn’t going over well with the American public? Or were they just afraid of going through the discovery process? Imams drop passengers from lawsuit over removal from flight.

The six imams who were removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis after passengers reported they were acting suspiciously won’t include those passengers in their lawsuit against the airline and police, an attorney for the imams said Wednesday.

Attorney Frederick Goetz of Minneapolis said a motion to amend the complaint to include the names of the individuals responsible for the imams’ removal was entered Tuesday in U.S. District Court. He said that list includes the names of airline employees and police officers, but no passengers.

“We’ve identified the people we think are responsible,” he said.

The Islamic religious leaders were removed from the flight last fall after passengers reported what they considered to be suspicious behavior. The imams, who were handcuffed and questioned, claim the airline discriminated against them and violated their civil rights.

Initially, the lawsuit named as defendants John Does who reported the suspicious behavior, later amending that to identify them as those who “may have made false reports” against the imams with the intent to discriminate.

Last week, lawmakers in Congress reached a deal on a homeland security bill to include language, crafted in response to the imams case, that would give immunity from lawsuits to people who report suspicious behavior.

Goetz said the amended complaint had “absolutely nothing to do” with the action in Congress.