FBI questions 3 passengers at airport By SARAH LUNDY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Published by <http://www.news-press.com> news-press.com on August 4, 2005 Three airline passengers were questioned Wednesday after a screener found some suspicious items, including drawings of aircraft and notes in Arabic, in a checked bag at Southwest Florida International Airport. The three - whose names were not released - were among the 156 passengers on a 12:15 p.m. Song Airlines flight bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, said Lee County Port Authority spokeswoman Susan Sanders. The FBI questioned the two men and woman connected to the bag and released them later in the afternoon, officials said. "The passengers were released by the FBI with no conclusive findings that would warrant further detainment," said Lauren Stover, spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration. The screener spotted the suspicious items on a monitor as the bag made its way through the explosive detection system, she said. "We saw some suspicious items none of which were deemed a threat to the aircraft itself," she said. "However, we felt it prudent to work with the FBI and inquire about these items with the passengers themselves." Currency, money orders and drawings of aircraft with notes written in Arabic were found in the bag, officials said. TSA officials requested the airline de-board flight 2068, which was leaving at 12:15 p.m. from the B Terminal. TSA-trained bomb sniffing dogs went over the 757 plane but found nothing, Sanders said. The three passengers connected to the bag voluntarily got off the plane and answered questions by the FBI, Stover said. They stayed behind for more questioning when the plane was reboarded and took off. "They had legitimate reasons for the suspicious papers and drawings," Stover said. The flight arrived in New York 38 minutes late. Four other passengers elected not to take that flight, Sanders said. This type of incident is unusual but expected with security measures now heighten at airports, officials said. In March 2004, an American Airlines flight crew had to evacuate a plane at Southwest Florida International while bomb-sniffing dogs and members of TSA and the Port Authority Police searched for explosives. A search was initiated when a psychic called and reported a bomb might be on board the Dallas-bound plane. Nothing was found. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hgbl12s/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123349077/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
