May 7th, 2013 at 12:00PM: For some reason, people sometimes mistake me for a terrorist. Once I got interrogated by an air marshal for merely looking out a window, and the following year in London I totally freaked out several people on a bus.
The second incident was, I suppose, partially my fault. I boarded a city bus with a large suitcase, which I put on the luggage rack. Since the rack was right next to the door, I ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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The Day I Was Mistaken For A Terrorist
May 7th, 2013 at 12:00PM: For some reason, people sometimes mistake me for a terrorist. Once I got interrogated by an air marshal for merely looking out a window, and the following year in London I totally freaked out several people on a bus.
The second incident was, I suppose, partially my fault. I boarded a city bus with a large suitcase, which I put on the luggage rack. Since the rack was right next to the door, I ...Scammer Found Selling Fake Bomb Detectors To Airports
Apr 24th, 2013 at 4:30PM: A British court has found a man guilty of selling fake bomb detectors to Iraq and Georgia, the BBC reports. James McCormick, 56, of Langport, Somerset, was found guilty of fraud after making a fortune from detectors he knew didn't work.
He's estimated to have made some $76 million from the worthless devices, which were modeled after a novelty golf ball finder. In his sales pitches he claimed ...World War II Bomb Closes Berlin Rail Station
Apr 3rd, 2013 at 3:00PM:
Berlin commuters got an unwelcome reminder of their city's wartime past today when a bomb from World War II was discovered near the city's main railway station.
The Hauptbahnhof was closed for several hours as bomb disposal experts dealt with the device, the BBC reports. Flights to and from Tegel airport were diverted.
The device was a 220-pound Soviet bomb and was discovered at a building ...Workers find grenade near Gatwick Airport
Aug 10th, 2011 at 9:30AM: Workers digging near Gatwick Airport yesterday uncovered a grenade.
This wasn't terrorism, though. The grenade is believed to date from the Second World War. Workers uncovered the grenade near the airport's railway station. Bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion to get rid of it.
While it didn't pose any great risk except to the poor hardhat who dug it up, rail and flight ...Terrorist gets 15 years for JFK airport plot
Jan 14th, 2011 at 7:30AM: A terrorist who plotted to blow up fuel tanks at JFK airport has been given 15 years in prison, the BBC reports. Abdel Nur, a citizen from Guyana, tried to meet an Al-Qaeda explosives expert in order to blow up JFK airport's fuel depot, and the fuel lines that run below an adjoining neighborhood. He hoped to kill thousands in the attack.
Russell Defreitas, Kareem Ibrahim , and Abdul Kadir were ...Orthodox Jew causes bomb alert by praying
Dec 14th, 2010 at 12:30PM: Do these look like bombs to you? They did to the crew of a New Zealand ferry. So much so that they radioed the police, who were waiting for the man wearing them when the ferry docked. Then the armed cops forced him and a companion to the floor.
All in a day's work fighting terror. Or not.
In fact they're tefillin, known in English as phylacteries , and they're an essential part of Orthodox ...Suspected bomb on airplane was a "dummy"
Nov 19th, 2010 at 12:00PM: Yesterday's potential bomb on an Air Berlin flight from Namibia to Germany turns out to have been an American-made "dummy" used by security officials for training, BBC reports.
The "bomb" consists of a detonator, wires, and a ticking clock and is put in a suitcase and through the system to measure the efficiency of an airport's security. The device did not contain explosives and was detected ...Breaking news: Suspected bomb found on German airline
Nov 18th, 2010 at 11:15AM: A flight from Namibia to Germany was delayed earlier today after a suspected bomb was found in a suitcase. The package included a detonator, batteries, and a clock, the BBC reports. Details are unclear at this moment and it is not known if the device was an actual bomb or simply meant to intimidate.
The suspected bomb was found before it was loaded onto an Air Berlin flight from Windhoek to ...Disruptive passenger arrested in Denver after bomb threat
Nov 1st, 2010 at 11:00AM: A disruptive passenger was arrested at Denver International Airport this past weekend when he said he had a bomb. The passenger was late for a flight to Salt Lake City, missed the connection and left his luggage on the plane. After being "disruptive in the gate area" and making inappropriate comments," a United Airlines spokesman told CNN, the passenger claimed he had a bomb in his bag.
This ...Breaking: bomb explodes in Istanbul's Taksim Square
Oct 31st, 2010 at 12:00PM: Taksim Square, one of the main tourist hubs of Istanbul, Turkey, was the setting of a suicide bombing this Sunday. The square and large thoroughfares surrounding the region are a highly trafficked area in the European side of Istanbul, no doubt part of the reason that it was targeted.
Details are still sketchy, but it appears that Turkish police were the target of the plot; according to MSNBC, ...Al Qaeda Yemen connection suspected in cargo plane bomb scares
Oct 29th, 2010 at 2:30PM: The simultaneous bomb scares in Newark, Philadelphia and London are now being linked to al Qaeda activity, according to the latest reporting from CNN. On its live blog covering the suspicious item discoveries, CNN reports, "U.S. officials believe that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was behind the plot that caused a security scare at English and American airports on Friday."
In Washington, a ...Uganda defies terrorists and remains open for business
Jul 20th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Way to go, Uganda.
A week after a bomb ripped through a crowd watching the World Cup, Uganda has thumbed its nose at the terrorists and declared it is open for business.
The country's tourism minister says they've beefed up security at public gatherings and are checking public places such as bars and restaurants to improve day-to-day security. Serapio Rukundo, the tourism and wildlife ...BBC simulates Northwest Flight 253 bomb - plane survives
Mar 4th, 2010 at 2:30PM:
The BBC enlisted the help of an explosives expert and a pilot with structural engineering and air accident experience, to determine the kind of damage the would-be Northwest 253 bomber would have caused.
On their site, you can see a video clip of the immense explosion, and the stresses caused to the outside of the plane. Thankfully, the experts concluded that the blast would not have ...Man arrested for Twitter bomb threat at Robin Hood Airport
Jan 19th, 2010 at 12:30PM: In what is probably the world's first Twitter airport bomb threat, a 26 year old man has been arrested when he joked about blowing his airport "sky high".
Paul Chambers was stuck at Doncaster's Robin Hood Airport (yes seriously - that is its name) during the nasty snow storms that hit the UK last week.
When it became clear that the snow could delay his flight, he tweeted the following:
...Video shows the cause of Newark Airport shutdown - a couple in love
Jan 8th, 2010 at 11:30AM: On Sunday, thousands of passengers ended up stuck at Newark airport for several hours, forced to evacuate the terminal, go through security again, and wait for the many flight delays and disruptions that happened as a result.
Some passengers tried to make the best of the situation. Many probably expressed frustration with the TSA employee who allowed a mystery man to walk the wrong way through a ...
Breaking: Mystery canine finding at MSP calls for bomb squad and police *Updated*
Jan 5th, 2010 at 5:15PM: A bomb-sniffing dog has found something at MSP, and everyone is scrambling to find out what.
An inbound flight at 2 p.m. today unloaded a bag in which canine sniffers took a particular interest, and the Bloomington bomb squad arrived around 2:10, according to The Star Tribune. As of now, parts of the Lindbergh terminal have been evacuated. Baggage claim areas including carousel 12 are closed, ...Man ignites small bomb on U.S. bound plane
Dec 26th, 2009 at 8:00AM: A Nigerian man is under arrest after igniting a bomb on a plane bound for Detroit yesterday. Abdul Mudallad, 23, used a powder strapped to his leg mixed with a syringe containing some sort of liquid to set off a small explosion on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam as it made its final descent into Detroit. While the mixture did explode, the explosion was very small and the ensuing ...German tourist arrested for bomb threat at Disney World
Dec 2nd, 2009 at 4:00PM: Seriously folks, who out there doesn't know by now that it's just not okay to make a bomb threat? It's not okay at the airport, and it's not okay at Disney World either. But still, we have yet another story about someone getting arrested for making a false bomb threat.
A 37-year old German tourist told security that he had two bombs in his backpack as he was passing through security at Walt ...Woman makes bomb threat to delay boss' plane
Nov 28th, 2009 at 12:30PM: At some point, most travelers will either come close to missing a flight, or actually miss it and have to wait for the next one. It's not a fun situation to be in - praying that you make it, or that your flight is delayed just a few minutes so that you can get on it, and then sitting in the airport for hours if you do miss the plane - but it's certainly not one that justifies faking a bomb threat. ...FBI hunts for close in Miami-Boston bomb threats
Oct 3rd, 2009 at 12:00PM: The FBI is looking for common denominators in bomb threats on American Airlines flights between Miami and Boston. Two cases have arisen, prompting the FBI to dig a little deeper. The most recent incident occurred on Wednesday, when a flight attendant found "bomb on board, Boston-Miami" written on a bathroom cabinet. A search of the luggage yielded no bombs or other weapons.
On September 17, a ...
