There is a very short piece on the front page for the Women's Wall Street Journal that says the mainstream media is working on picking up this story. I hope that those organizations will try to verify the details of the original report and report either verification or a failure to verify the details. Unfortunately if they fail to verify any of the specifics we will be likely be left with no-news. The original report raised all kinds of red flags for me too. Dennis
________________________________ From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 7/19/2004 3:35 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: Terror in the Skies (Was: More on profiling) Stephen Black wrote: > I agree with Paul. It's a very disturbing account and could well be a > hoax. On the other hand, it may be true. Others think similarly. See > Michelle Malkin's blog on this at http://michellemalkin.com/ One of those reads "I asked how she [Annie Jacobsen] felt about suspicions that her story had been a hoax. She hadn't heard of these suspicions and instead has been hearing overwhelming corroboration of her experience in thousands of e-mails, many from pilots and flight attendants reporting similar incidents. She has been shocked that "for whatever reason, the story didn't develop" in the mainstream media". Are we to believe that this kind of incident has happened thousands of times? Or at least hundreds of times (if we assume that many of the emails were from people sharing flights)? That hundreds of times groups of obviously Arabic people shuffled back and forth to the lavatory in groups, emptying the contents of mysterious bags there, and giving each other the thumbs-up sign when they return? This sounds more like a good explanation for the "Why don't people see UFOs anymore?" question than it does for homeland security issues. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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