A scary article...

Please read this article in teh Daily Telegraph. It's about a supposed rehearsal for a highjacking in which one passenger witnessed some suspicious behavior, wrote about it, and then was told it was nothing.

A secret federal investigation has been launched into alarming events on a now-infamous domestic flight last June when a group of passengers claimed that some Syrians were conducting a dry run for a terror attack or hijacking.


Annie Jacobsen, who first came forward with details of disturbing behaviour by the 14 Syrians on Northwest Flight 327, from Detroit to Los Angeles, has been interviewed about events on the flight by four officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). They flew from Chicago to Los Angeles to talk to her, she said last week, even though she was three days from giving birth to her second son.

The revelation that the DHS is conducting a lengthy and expensive inquiry has raised fresh doubts about the insistence of federal authorities that there was no threat to the flight.

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