Thread: Wired Iraqi Man Triggers Scare At LA Airport

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Wired Iraqi man triggers scare at L.A. airport

Tue Mar 6, 2007 6:35pm ET


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.

A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum.

"He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity," Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.


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Maliki, 35, who lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was preparing to board a US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia.

The flight left without Maliki but with his luggage aboard. It made an unscheduled landing in Las Vegas, where the plane was thoroughly searched but nothing was found, officials said.

Passengers were not evacuated and no flights were disrupted by the incident at Terminal One at Los Angeles airport.

"There never was a threat," Fetter said.

He said police and the FBI were called in from "an abundance of caution" because Maliki was "so bizarre in his behavior."

Maliki, who had a U.S. green card, was being questioned by immigration officials about his immigration status.


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If this isn't a wakeup call I don't know what is. Imagine if he were wired with a bomb and actually detonated it upon the security approaching him?
It's time to seal our borders, put armed guards on duty there and step up the deportations/raids.

Another case of radical Islamists probing our security systems. This guy should be prosecuted exactly as he would have been if the wires had led to a packet of C-4.

Originally Posted by CrocketsGhost

Another case of radical Islamists probing our security systems. This guy should be prosecuted exactly as he would have been if the wires had led to a packet of C-4.

Exactly. Now he knows that he needs to figure out a different strategy of concealment. I guess somebody will have to be blown up in the US before they take this fiasco seriously.

Anybody, radical enough to stick something like this up his,well you know where, should be taken very seriously, this is the kind of people we are fighting here, what normal man would do something like this? Yikes!

I'm worried their going to put all the refugees from Iraq in the US.

Send the time bombs to a muslim country!

I would really like to know what explanation the Iraqi gave to authorities on why he had a magnet and wires inserted in his glutimusmaximus. Gee I wonder why the liberal media did not mention that. Maybe that behavior is covered by our constitution!

Originally Posted by CCUSA

I'm worried their going to put all the refugees from Iraq in the US.

Send the time bombs to a muslim country!

Thursday, February 15, 2007
U.S. to allow many more Iraqi refugees in America PDF | Print | E-mail

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ANNE GEARAN - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to greatly expand the number of Iraqi refugees allowed into the country and to pay more to help Iraq's Arab neighbors cope with the human tide fleeing increasing violence and economic hardship in their country.

The decision to allow about 7,000 Iraqis to come to the United States answers mounting political and diplomatic pressure on the administration to do more to remedy the consequences of a war it largely started. Only 202 Iraqis were allowed in last year.

The administration also said it will immediately contribute $18 million for a worldwide resettlement and relief program. The United Nations has asked for $60 million from nations around the world.

Although the United Nations estimates that 3.8 million Iraqis have fled their homes since the war began nearly four years ago, the United States has allowed only about 600 to settle in the United States.

The U.S. proposal also includes plans to offer special treatment for Iraqis still in their country whose cooperation with the U.S. puts them at risk. Expanding visa programs for those Iraqis would require legislation in Congress, State Department Undersecretary Paula J. Dobriansky said Wednesday.

Some 2 million Iraqis have left their country, and an additional 1.8 million are believed to have relocated inside Iraq. The refugee flow has increased sharply as sectarian violence has increased over the past year. The numbers have overwhelmed the hospitality of Arab neighbors such as Syria and Jordan.

The United Nations says most of those who have been uprooted have no desire to come to the United States, and want to return to their homes in Iraq when fighting stops.

But allies, U.N. diplomats and lawmakers of both parties have recently told the administration that the small number of Iraqis the U.S. has allowed in looks miserly.

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a hearing last week that the United States could bring in 7,000 Iraqis this year -- exactly the number announced Wednesday.

The move is a step in the right direction, considering the United States is a "chief cause" of the refugee problem, said Carolyn Saour, an Iraqi-American Christian living in Houston. Still, 7,000 "is severely low for the amount of damage that's been done over the years," she said.

The United Nations wants to resettle 20,000 of the most vulnerable refugees this year. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres called the U.S. pledge "a relevant contribution."

Guterres has implicitly criticized the United States in the past for allowing other nations to shoulder so much of the burden. He met with Rice on Wednesday, and afterward described a "very frank and very positive discussion on how to work better."

Asked if the U.S. contribution was, in essence, too little too late, Guterres was diplomatic.

"The problem is so huge that nothing is, any time, enough," Guterres told reporters. "But I think it's very good stuff -- a very good step in the right direction."

The U.N. estimates that 40,000 to 50,000 people flee Iraq each month with dwindling options of where to go. Most have fled to Syria and Jordan, both of which have recently tried to restrict the influx.

Other Iraqis relocate inside their country, with some leaving neighborhoods that were once mixed among Sunnis and Shiites and resettling where their sect is more concentrated. Unlike most of the movement to other countries, some of the internal relocations will probably be permanent.

The U.N. says some 500,000 fled their homes to other parts of Iraq in 2006 alone and the number could reach 2.3 million -- nearly one in 10 Iraqis -- by the end of 2007.

This month, Guterres' Geneva-based agency made an emergency appeal for $60 million to help fleeing Iraqis.

"Unremitting violence in Iraq will likely mean continued mass internal and external displacement affecting much of the surrounding region," it said.

U.S. diplomats have discussed the refugee problem directly with the Jordanian and Syrian governments in recent days, Dobriansky said. That is notable because of the administration's reluctance to engage Syria in high-level discussions about security in Iraq.

Syria has taken in an estimated 1 million Iraqis. It was the last Arab country to take in large numbers.

Although Jordan is a key U.S. ally, the chief government spokesman in Amman did not sound impressed with the U.S. pledges Wednesday.

Nasser Judeh said 7,000 is still a small number compared with the 700,000 Jordan has had to accommodate.

"Seven thousand Iraqi refugees is just 1 percent of the number we have," Judeh said.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page A7.
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Here they come!!!! Be prepared. Utahs Bosnian transplant did not work. (Trolley Square Shooting February 12, 2007) Coming to find out the family never wanted American citizenship they opted for Croatia instead.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/6342662.html

Iraqi national questioned over suspicious object at LAX
Updated, 4 p.m. Mar 6, 2007
A man with a half-inch magnet coiled in wire hidden inside his body draws a bomb-squad response and a terrorism investigation.
By Doug Irving
Staff writer

An Iraqi national with a half-inch magnet coiled in wire hidden inside his body drew a bomb-squad response and a terrorism investigation Tuesday when he tried to pass through security at Los Angeles International Airport.

Federal investigators later said the man, identified as 35-year-old Fadhel al-Maliki of New Jersey, appeared to pose no threat. He was being held and questioned by immigration officials because his green card may have expired. A mental evaluation was planned.



But airport security agents initially considered the odd assortment of objects in al-Maliki's rectum alarming enough to order an extra search of the flight he was scheduled to take. The plane had already taken off by then, but diverted and landed in Las Vegas; agents pulled off two bags checked by al-Maliki but found nothing suspicious in them.

Al-Maliki told investigators the objects have therapeutic properties, and that he had forgotten to remove them before reaching the security checkpoint. They were described as a magnet wrapped with a piece of gum in a napkin and then coiled with wire; and some kind of round, polished stone.

"I believe we're about as confused as you until we finish the investigation," said Ethel McGuire, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office.

Originally Posted by jean

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/6342662.html
Al-Maliki told investigators the objects have therapeutic properties, and that he had forgotten to remove them before reaching the security checkpoint. They were described as a magnet wrapped with a piece of gum in a napkin and then coiled with wire; and some kind of round, polished stone..

Thanks for finding the info......I'm not sure I feel any better.
I think a foot up his rear end may be more therapeitic!