Terror in the Skies: ‘Human bomb’ threat forces U.S.-bound flight to divert

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A US Airways jet traveling from Paris to North Carolina was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after a "French" passenger handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, raising fears of a terror scenario that security officials had warned about.

What is disturbing is the lack of coverage and relevant reporting on this act of terror in the skies. The would-be terrorist is described as a "French" woman. What's her name? Read the tea leaves. 

The Cameroon-born woman was traveling alone with no checked baggage and visiting the United States for 10 days

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Though French, she is from Cameroon, where Muslims are over 25% of the population and they are increasingly "radicalized";  more on that here. Describing her as French is as relevant as describing the color of her socks. All airline terror, and I mean all, has been Muslim. How is that not of primary import to the story? Why are people kept in the dark? Look at this whitewash of this terrifying episode.

The media is not reporting on this struggle with the terrorist:

Pictured: The moment airline passengers wrestled crazed woman to the floor after she claimed to have a BOMB surgically implanted inside her

  • Fighter jets scrambled to help guide the troubled plane to an emergency landing
  • Worrying links to al Quaeda's latest tactic, as bomb makers claimed to have developed explosive implants
  • Described by a fellow passenger as 'nervous and jittery'

A crazed woman had to be restrained by fellow air passengers after she started raging about having an explosive device implanted within her.

The terrifying incident forced the pilot of U.S. Airways flight 787, traveling from Paris to Charlotte, North Carolina, to divert and make an emergency landing.

Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the the troubled plane and guided it into land at a Maine airport, where passengers were evacuated and the woman arrested.

It is not known whether the arrested woman had any links to a terrorist organisation but it was enough to spark panic in the wake of recent reports that al Qaeda has been trying to make such devices. The plane had to be diverted following the woman's outburst at around 12 noon, as it moved over Nova Scotia, Canada, touching down in Bagnor, Maine which is two hours from its intended destination.

The North American Aerospace Defense confirmed that two F15 aircraft had been dispatched to help with the plane's landing. (more)

Why hasn't her name been released?

(FOX, Charlotte): [Congressman Peter King] says a US Airways passenger whose claim to have a surgically implanted device led to the diversion Tuesday of a cross-Atlantic jet is not listed on terrorist watchlists or law enforcement databases.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said Wednesday the woman, whose identity has not been released, was "checked through all of the databases" and "her name has not shown up anywhere."

‘Human bomb’ threat forces U.S.-bound flight to divert, woman taken into custody National Post

WASHINGTON – A French woman forced a U.S.-bound transatlantic flight to be diverted after claiming she was carrying a “surgically implanted device,” US officials said.

The US Airways plane, flying from Paris, was diverted to Maine on Tuesday where the woman was taken into custody by the FBI before the Boeing 767 continued its journey to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Coming on the heels of a thwarted airline bomb plot by Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch, the incident has laid bare US worry over shifting tactics of extremists as they seek new ways — and new technologies, including non-metallic bombs — for landing a deadly blow against an American target.

Last year, US officials warned airlines that terror groups were studying how to surgically hide bombs inside humans to evade airport security — precisely the threat that emerged when the US Airways passenger made herself known to the cabin crew.

Senator Susan Collins, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, highlighted the concerns shortly after news broke of Flight 787’s diversion to Maine, saying there has been “intelligence identifying surgically implanted bombs as a threat to air travel.”

Collins, briefed on the incident by Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole, said TSA recently issued security directives to airports, airlines, and foreign governments, “advising them to take added screening precautions and to be on the lookout for indicators of surgically implanted explosives.”

The US Airways flight took off without incident from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport bound for Charlotte with 179 passengers and crew.

At some point during the flight, a passenger “handed a note to a flight attendant that said she had a surgically implanted device inside her,” House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King said in a statement.

The Cameroon-born woman was traveling alone with no checked baggage and visiting the United States for 10 days, according to King.

Alarmed crew on board isolated the passenger, and “doctors on the flight checked her out and did not see any sign of recent scars,” King added.

A police source in Paris said that the woman was unknown to French intelligence.

“This woman is completely unknown to French police and intelligence in particular,” the source told AFP, requesting anonymity. “She appears to be psychologically disturbed.”

Andrew Kobayashi, a passenger on the flight, told CNN that the woman, who appeared to be in her mid-20s to mid-30s, was sweating and acting nervous.

“I had briefly noticed her in the back of the plane being a weirdo… (She) seemed on edge, but no more so than anybody who is nervous about flying,” said Kobayashi, who was seated several rows forward of the woman.

Concerned pilots radioed in to North American Aerospace Defense Command, and two F-15 fighter jets based in Massachusetts were scrambled to escort the airliner through its tension-filled descent to Bangor, Maine.

An FBI joint terrorism task force, accompanied by a bomb squad, local police and other security agencies then met the aircraft upon arrival.

“FBI agents and members of a joint terrorism task force interviewed the passenger and others on the plane,” FBI spokesman Greg Comcowich said.

“At this time, there is no indication the plane or its passengers were ever in any actual danger.”

A US official told AFP that the suspect was unlikely to be part of a broader international terror plot linked to groups such as Al-Qaeda.

“It doesn’t appear to be any terrorist nexus at this point,” said the official.

But it served as a blunt reminder of the ongoing efforts by groups like Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to eventually break through tight US security with a functional bomb.

And it came after news emerged earlier this month of a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner.

U.S. officials said the plot involved a non-metallic device, intended for use by a suicide bomber on an airliner, that was an updated version of the “underwear bomb” used in a failed attack on a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009.

Though officials touted the disrupted plot as a success, they acknowledged AQAP remained determined to strike and its master bombmaker, Ibrahim Al-Asiri, was apparently hard at work seeking to circumvent airport security.

Washington says Asiri is the prime suspect behind an attempt by the lethal Al-Qaeda offshoot to send parcel bombs from Yemen to the United States in October 2010.

The packages, addressed to synagogues in Chicago and containing the hard-to-detect explosive PETN hidden in printer ink cartridges, were discovered en route in Britain and Dubai.


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Hainer
Hainer
11 years ago

French woman?

aprilnovember811
aprilnovember811
11 years ago

My husband is a Captain with a commercial airline. When I saw the headline on our computer yesterday, I said to him, I’ll go to Atlas Shrugs and find out the name of the terrorist. We both knew if the name wasn’t present it was going to be a Muslim. If it wasn’t a Muslim, they would have it out there, front and center. After all, as far back as we can both remember, it’s been Middle Easterners hijacking planes. The old media in this country, are going to find themselves the victims of these Jihadists one day. All of their pretending won’t make it go away.

aprilnovember811
aprilnovember811
11 years ago

I think people like her, should be taken care of on the plane. Make sure they don’t come out alive.

aprilnovember811
aprilnovember811
11 years ago

Remember this. She wouldn’t even be searched by the stooges in the TSA. They would bow down to her, out of pc. The only people in black who would be searched are nuns.
Pregnant Palestinian woman interrogated by the IDF
http://youtu.be/M9qy4y-Y5zs

wtd
wtd
11 years ago

Reuters: Woman, [Lucie Zeeko Marigot], won’t be charged for US Airways scare
(Reuters) – The passenger who said she had a surgically-implanted device in her body and caused a US Airways jetliner flying across the North Atlantic to divert to Maine will not face criminal charges in the security scare, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty said Lucie Zeeko Marigot, 41, a French citizen originally from Cameroon, would be taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and returned to France.

Roscoe W
Roscoe W
11 years ago

US Airways was just tested to get response, so next time they know what to do to be sucessful. When do we and I also mean the so called political lawmakers that we are being setup?

InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
11 years ago

I thought the Savior of the world has declared that the War on Terror was ovuh?

Holly Peno
Holly Peno
11 years ago

a dry run?

BMV
BMV
11 years ago

“Fighter jets scrambled to help guide the troubled plane to an emergency landing”
No…not quite, but thanks for playing.
Fighter jets were scrambled to shoot the fckr down if things didn’t get sorted Real Fast Like.
Can you say “United 93” ???
I knew you could.

Richard
Richard
11 years ago

BMV, I think you nailed it! The explanation was that the fighters were to “guide the troubled plane to an emergency landing”, except there was nothing wrong with the plane – and besides, they don’t scramble military aircraft even if the enginges are on fire. They didn’t send Sully any help – well, by the time they did the help was coming from ferries – not f-15s.

Roger Lee
Roger Lee
11 years ago

Let’s say that someone says, “This is a bomb.” Aren’t our lives being threatened? At that point are we not entitled to remove this bomb? I say the pilot should descend to an altitude where the cabin can be depressurized, say 5,000 feet, the door should be opened and the “bomb” thrown out. Wouldn’t that be the quickest way to remove the threat? Oh, the bomb happens to be inside some fanatic? Well, too bad for her.

ItsJo
ItsJo
11 years ago

Roger Lee, what an Excellent post, with a great idea. When someone says they “have a bomb inside them-OPEN the door and toss their sorry asses O-U-T. I think these are now, “Dry Runs” and they are testing/pushing the envelope. Give them a toss, as we call in Swat Teams to defuse any such bomb threats at airports, businesses, etc. Again, good post.

Jan
Jan
11 years ago

A US official told AFP that the suspect was unlikely to be part of a broader international terror plot linked to groups such as Al-Qaeda.
“It doesn’t appear to be any terrorist nexus at this point,” said the official
This woman was clearly one of the unknown (by name) footsoldiers, sent to test out what would actually be *done*, if this had been a real scenario. So now they know. Why isn’t she being prosecuted and jailed ? Why the pretence she’s ‘mentally disturbed’ ? (apart from the fact that all muslims are more or less mentally disturbed/mentally confused).

Harry the Horrible
Harry the Horrible
11 years ago

Someone should have cut her open to “disarm” the device…

PF Wagner
PF Wagner
11 years ago

Its only a matter of time.
None of the existing full body scanners can detect a body cavity bomb. Nor sheet PETN for that matter.
There is, however, one scanner that will. Its called “ODIN” and is made by a small American company, Valley Forge Composite Technologies.
http://www.vlyf.com/odin/
It uses ultra-low radiation – about the same as the scanned passenger is about to get on the flight they are being scanned for – and delivers a near medical quality image.
Interestingly, the technology comes from Russia.
Of course the TSA and others whose job it is to protect the flying public don’t use the best scanner. Maybe because its not made by GE or one of the other beltway bandits?

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
11 years ago

Her religion isn’t mentioned anywhere, nor is her name. Funny that. Of course the television news media didn’t think this story worth reporting, but the reporters and scumbags on the major television news networks might have thought differently if they had been on the plane.
“…two F15 aircraft had been dispatched to help with the plane’s landing.” LOL, I’m sure sparrow or sidewinder air to air missiles certainly would assist a plane’s landing quickly.

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