False Alarms - three wierd

False Alarms - three wierd incidents in the past three days:

1. The freighter off the Jersey Shore yesterday turned out to be a false alarm.
2. The three Middle Eastern guys who were caught shaving themselves in the bathroom of a NWA flight, causing it to divert to Fort Smith Arkansas, were arrested and will be tried for Interfering with a Flight Crew - but there's no word if they were involved in any terrorist activity.
3. The car chase in the Everglades, which began with a tip from a waitress about suspicious Middle Eastern men and two cars dodging a toll plaza, seems to have ended with three arrests. Bomb dogs apparently sniffed something, but no bombs were found.

In the Florida incident, a waitress supposedly heard a number of Middle Eastern men boasting about bombing something. Note to waitresses - good job, but the ones that are boasting about wanting to be terrorists while having coffee at a truck stop are probably not the A-squad of the Terrorist world. But good job anyway...

More on the Florida incident, from Kathy Kinsley of the Brigade of Bellicose Women.

Manners - Kate O'Beirne on the double-standard many reporters and editors feel about human rights.

Posted by Mitch at September 13, 2002 10:55 AM