Osama Photo: Terror in the Heartland

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[Is this the nonspecific (Code Yellow) threat Scummy and Rummy warned
us about? Osama Pin-Up Pix?!??  What a way to strike a blow at the
airline industry, and the whole US economy -- Osama pix! Where will
this terrorism lead next? Osama stickers? Osama trading cards? Osama
stamps? Osama dolls in bottles washing up on shores? The horror....]


PHOTO OF BIN LADEN HALTS FLIGHT

Tape used to hang photo is also used by cleaning crew

by the associated press

McALLEN, Texas, April 18 - Federal officials are trying to figure out
who taped a picture of Osama bin Laden inside an overhead bin on an
airliner, delaying a flight and prompting a search of the terminal.

The Transportation Security Administration is investigating
Saturday's incident, which stalled the departure of American Airlines
Flight 312 to Dallas and resulted in a search of the McAllen-Miller
International Airport terminal, spokesman John Clabes said.

Clabes said the plane was preparing for takeoff when the photo was
found. Passengers were ordered off the plane and the terminal was
closed while officials searched and rescreened passengers.

"They didn't find anything," Clabes told The Monitor of McAllen for
Thursday's editions.

An airport supervisor told McAllen police that the blue tape used to
hang the picture of bin Laden is used by a crew that cleans the
plane's carpet.

© 2002 Associated Press.
 
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