A terrifying account of a domestic US flight, during which 14 men with Syrian passports and one-way tickets took turns entering an airplane bathroom, emptying their bags and exchanging dirty looks while the stewerdesses looked on in terror and women passengers actually cried with fright. Were the men trying to, or rehearsing an attempt to, assemble a bomb on the plane, as the FBI has been warning might happen? Did a planeload of people let their imaginations get the better of them? Either way, shouldn't security have been just a little more stringent?
As experienced by a correspondent for Women's Wall Street (whatever that is?). Follow-up and comments by various airline officials here.
(Via LGF).
UPDATE: See extensive discussions of this story, with every possible angle covered, at MichelleMalkin, Opinionjournal, One Hand Clapping and virtually every other blog under the sun. Bottom line for me: basics of story clearly true (see Annie Jacobsen and Michelle Malkin's follow ups). Whether they ultimately turned out to be terrorists or not, it's clear many lessons in security from 9/11 are yet to be learned.
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