Common Folk Using Common Sense

From Reuters:

An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.

A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum.

“He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity,” Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.

Maliki, 35, who lives in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was preparing to board a US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia.

Uh, why would someone go to the airport wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside their rectum? Wouldn’t that be outside the realm of normal behavior? How can that not be considered an apparent threat? Having lived near a large airport for the last 47 years, and having worked for a major international airline for the last 17 years, I can honestly say that I have never gone to the airport while wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside my rectum.

I see no doubt but that this guy was testing airport security for a future smuggling of something more deadly that a magnet in someone’s rectum - like a bomb.

Iraq, al-Maliki

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