Stewardesses on United Airlines flight tackled today an unidentified
long-bearded man wearing a thick vest filled with plastique and ball
bearings, shouting in Arabic, who insisted on spreading out his prayer
rug in the pilot's cabin while the plane flew over Manhattan.
They
dragged him out of the first class cabin feet first, his hands tied
behind him. The man was yelling incoherent slurs about infidels,
repeatedly screamed "allahu akbar," insisted on his right to have sex
with 9-year old children, and threatened the stewardesses with the
revenge of a prophet with a scimitar. "May all your infidels fall out of
the skies," he shouted as he was thrown headfirst down the staircase to
the tarmac.
Spokesmen from CAIR, the COUNCIL ON ISLAMIC RELATIONS, rushed to the scene and threatened to sue United Airlines and the United States. Read more.....