Well it looks like it was not a " rock" but, ( no pun ) might of been a
magnet. Maybe he was coming here to look for some meteorites.
Ed
LOS ANGELES An Iraqi immigrant with a suspicious device lodged in a body
cavity was detained Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities
said.
A jetliner bound for Philadelphia, meanwhile, was diverted to Las Vegas
because the man's luggage was aboard.
Officials said the device and the luggage were cleared by bomb squads in Los
Angeles and Las Vegas.
"There never was a threat," said Larry Fetters, a security director for the
federal Transportation Security Administration.
Fadhel Al-Maliki, 35, was held for a mental evaluation and for a possible
immigration violation, federal officials said.
Al-Maliki, of Atlantic City, N.J., is a permanent legal resident who came to
the U.S. in 1994.
He had flown to Los Angeles from Philadelphia on Monday and was booked for a
return flight early Tuesday. He triggered an alert during a security screening,
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.
"He initially said (the device) was therapeutic," she said.
The device had a wire and what may have been a magnet concealed in his
rectum, federal officials said. It did not contain any explosives.
/**/
Al-Maliki said he had flown to Los Angeles for a visit, Eimiller said.
No takeoffs or landings were affected at the LA airport. But a US Airways jet
en route to Philadelphia was diverted because Al-Maliki's checked luggage
already had been screened and put aboard.
Flight 1422, carrying 143 passengers and six crew, landed at McCarran
International Airport in Las Vegas about 8:30 a.m. The plane was searched and
later cleared to continue on to Philadelphia, an airport spokesman said.
___
Associated Press Writer Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
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Mike Groetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fox news is just now reporting that a
certain
foreign national was arrested at LAX airport with
wires hanging off of him.
Upon further investigation, they found a piece of
chewing gum, some more wire and a rock in his "XXX".
As the suspect put it- "the rock is from another
planet" and was in there to protect him....
OK- lets say it is a meteorite ;-)
-what will be the official name of the location
found?
-what lab will(want?)do an analysis on it?
-how long until it winds up on eBay?
-will it replace the current urgent need for Gao
pieces?
I needed a grin tonight- this was it.
Take care
Mike
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