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MliveU.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ron Smith today told the Detroit News that the second person taken into custody Christmas Day at Detroit Metropolitan Airport had nothing to do with the attempted bombing aboard Flight 253.
In a comment made Saturday on MLive.com, Kurt Haskell, a Taylor attorney, said he saw authorities handcuff a second man after a bomb-sniffing dog alerted them to something in the man's carry-on bag.
Smith confirmed for MLive.com yesterday that a second person had been taken into custody, but today tells the News the person was a passenger on a different flight.
"There was a second person taken into custody, but it had nothing to do with Flight 253," he said. "They did see dogs, but again, it was a totally different incident."
Read more:
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/report_us_customs_says_second.html
This is how it was previously reported:
Second person was detained by U.S. Customs after alleged attack on Flight 253By Sheena Harrison | MLive.com
December 29, 2009, 6:46PM
A person was detained by customs at Detroit Metro Airport on Friday following Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, according to a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
It is unknown why the person was detained or whether the person will face any charges, spokesman Ron Smith told MLive.com.
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Bill Carter, a spokesman with the FBI in Washington, D.C., said in an interview Tuesday that Abdulmutallab was the only person arrested or charged in relation to Friday's foiled attack.
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Kurt Haskell, a Taylor, Mich., attorney who says he was seated a few rows behind suspected terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, told MLive.com on Saturday that he saw a second man taken into custody after search dogs appeared to find something in his carry-on bag.
Read more:
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_tells_msn.html---- --- ----
Both these articles have a lot of embedded links.
Haskell told Alex Jones in his second 1/2 hour long interview on Wednesday (the 1st one was on Tuesday) that not one single news source had picked up on his story. Not true,
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html">Mlive reported it on Saturday and the second article above has details of two other people reporting it.
ETA for anyone who wants to search for them on YouTube:
1st Alex Jones interview is called "Flight 253 WITNESS Kurt Haskell & Alex Jones - No Passport, Bomber Had Inside Help!"
2nd interview with him is called "Kurt Haskell Returns to The Alex Jones Show: Officials Admit Second Man Detained !!"