  You can read the account urlLink here , if you haven't already. I refuse to link to the original article because it makes me so goddamn annoyed. In a nutshell, a woman flew from Detroit to L.A. on a plane with 14 Syrian musicians, and got so upset over what she thought was a terrorist hijacking in the making that she nearly fainted. The musicians were, in fact, musicians, on zero terrorist watch lists and in no way dangerous. They were Syrian, they used the bathroom, and they knew each other.
I can understand being nervous on the plane. That's just ignorance combined with the general fear induced by air travel. But the part that makes me furious is that she wrote a whole article about it and, despite the involvement in the FBI and other law enforcement agencies (who have all said the men are completely innocent) she still insists that they were doing some sort of "dry run". Let me say it as loudly as the Internet allows: THEY WERE MUSICIANS YOU STUPID BITCH . In their oddly shaped cases? Musical instruments. They congregated in the aisles? They knew each other--any 14 people traveling together would act the same EXACT way, and in fact these men were quiet and disturbed nobody with their actions, only with their race. They went to the bathroom? So did most of the passengers on the 4 hour flight, but because they weren't Syrian this stupid whore didn't notice. I just saw her on CNN saying "I know they were 'just musicians' but apparently all terrorists have to do is learn to play instruments.
I'm sure it was a dry run. " Based on what? What? NOTHING. Law enforcement investigated the hell out of all 14 men, confirmed their booking at a casino out here in SoCal, and ran their names through every single known list of terrorists in existence. She refuses to admit she's a racist moron, even in the light of completely uncontroverted evidence proving that she is.
It wasn't a dry run, they played their gigs and they went home. It was only a dry run if you think every vaguely-Arabic airline passenger is planning on hijacking the plane. If that were the case, every flight from the mideast would be hijacked because (shocker) they're positively full of Arabs! Just had to add my two cents to an already crowded forum. You can read more about this hysterical broad at urlLink Salon.com as well. 
