Woman claims Pakistani descent caused arrest

And if you are there, check out the other one too:
‘Guards had no right to shoot’
Why I love the idea of people getting weapons.

Initial laboratory testing by the FBI turned up no evidence of explosive materials in the bottles carried at Tri-State Airport in West Virginia by Rima Qayyum, a 28-year-old Pakistani woman dressed in the traditional Islamic headcover.

No charges were filed against the woman, who was never detained and was cooperative when interviewed by the FBI.

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Chemical tests of the bottles’ contents later turned up no explosives, said Captain Jack Chambers, head of the State Police Special Operations unit.”

I do wonder if all the bloggers who cried terrorist, will apologize or something like that.

“The US experienced its second terror alert in two days yesterday when 100 passengers were evacuated from an airport in West Virginia after explosive residue was found on two bottles in a passenger’s hand baggage.”

Note the “residues” and the “on”.

She did not carry bottles filled with liquid explosive.
She carried bottles that had residues of substances that can be explosive.

I bet, if you check, you can find at least on bottle like that in my garage.

Did anyone notice that they don’t say the liquid in the bottle was explosive. Only some residue on the bottle – on the outside of the bottle.

Still, it is good press.

Umm.. If we find intelligent life on Venus, does it mean that the theory of intelligent life on the Mars, which we pooh-pooh, suddenly becomes valid?

Now, I don’t try to pooh-pooh the London plot, that probably was a real plot, but this incident has nothing to prove or disprove the validity of the London plot.

It only shows that liquid explosives are still around, and in use, as they were for the last 30 or so years.

Note that “supposed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt” applies here too, like in Hadita or any other case.

So far, she has not been proven guilty.
Just remember the innocent tourist executed in Thailand for smuggling cocaine – which, as later turned out was not the case, he was innocent and duped by someone, who planted the cocaine in his luggage without him knowing of it.

I would stict to the law and the constitution – innocent until proven guilty.

WSAZ

The Transportation Security Administration reports that two containers of liquid in a passenger’s carry-on bag tested postive for explosive residue around 9:15 this morning. A second test was confirmed at 11:25. TSA is waiting for further t…