(Fwd) FYI: Plane Turned Around After 9/11 Discussion (AP)

[Ivo Skoric]

How does that saying go? That if you do not protest violations 
against others "they" will come after you at the end, and there will 
be nobody left to raise the voice on your behalf. That saying really 
went a long way in Bush's US - from arresting Muslims to arresting 
Born-Again Christians!!! So, who s safe if just an overheard remark 
will get FBI to turn around flights?
ivo

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4138523,00.html

Plane Turned Around After 9/11 Discussion

Thursday May 27, 2004 1:46 PM

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A plane was turned around on the runway and
returned to the gate after three men were overheard praying and
discussing the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The men - two ministers from Toronto and one of their cousins from 
the United States - were on a Continental flight Wednesday headed to
Newark, N.J.

The pilot taxied back to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, where
members of the joint terrorism task force in Buffalo interviewed the
men and fellow passengers.

The ministers were identified as the Rev. Komal Singh and the Rev.
Yohan Heenatigala. The third man was not identified.

Singh was on his way to an evangelical crusade in Baltimore when he
told another passenger that the passenger's last breath on Earth 
would be his first breath in heaven if he became a born-again 
Christian.

``My first reaction was someone was just talking and someone got
nervous and that's exactly what it turned out to be, but it has to be
checked out,'' said Peter Ahearn, FBI special agent in charge.

The men were released and the flight took off.


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