Saudi Man Charged With Plane Bomb Threat

[ECH1969]

A Saudi man who authorities say was upset about being denied a job as an Arabic interpreter for the U.S. military in Iraq was charged with threatening to blow up a Delta Air Lines flight.

Saleh Al Suwailem, 45, of Boise, Idaho, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday.

Al Suwailem was at Fort Benning on Monday being interviewed for the job when he learned he would not be hired because he was denied security clearance, federal authorities said in court papers.

After being told to fly home to Idaho the next day on a Delta flight, he started drinking with some acquaintances and blurted out, "OK, I'm going to bomb the plane," authorities said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3947464.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. people with short tempers shouldn't drink.

it's hazardous to their freedom.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

2. A Saudi did that - Well lets invade Iran then. That will teach those

Saudis a lesson - just like when we invaded Iraq. Surprised that even made the news. Anyone know the makeup of the Toronto bombers. They have been pretty quite about that. Are they all from Saudi?
Well with friends like that who needs enemies.

[MADem]

3. Who could have EVER thought that someone from Saudi Arabia

could have ANYTHING to do with endangering a planeload of passengers???? And why not run his clearance BEFORE ya give him a plane ticket???

If he's any relation to Osama, BushCo will have him safely home in Riyadh in no time....

[The Stranger]

4. Yes, it is extremely bigoted to assume all Saudis bomb planes.

Sort of like assuming African Americans are criminals. Or all Latinos are illegal aliens. It is the same fucking thing.

And this man apparently said this while he was drunk. White People collect assualt rifles, grenades, guns, and bomb making materials, and store them in the woods, and no one even peeps the word "terrorist."

But a drunk brown person makes an ass of himself at a bar, and all of the sudden planes are falling from the sky.

This kind of xenophobic, racist, bigoted, hatemongering stereotyping bullshit has got to stop.

[MidwestTransplant]

5. Only Iraqis hijack planes....duh.

Don't you remember 9/11