Herb Coleman wrote: > It the story that I find suspicious or at least hysterical. My bet is > that when a serious news organization (if there are any left) > investigates we'll find that Ms. Jacoabson was trying her creative hand > to show how people come to believe what they believe or some such excuse.
There was an article in the NYTimes yesterday, by a "Joe Sharkey". I'll
copy a little of it here: a google search should lead you to the whole
thing, I imagine. Tentative skepticism seems to be the mood of the day. If,
after this publicity, it turns out to be a hoax, I think Ms. Jacobsen is in
some serious trouble.
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
What Really Happened on Flight 327?
By JOE SHARKEY
Published: July 20, 2004
There is no doubt that something out of the ordinary happened on Northwest
Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29. The plane was
met at the airport by squads of federal agents and police responding to
radio messages from the pilots about concerns that 14 Middle Eastern male
passengers had spent the four-hour flight acting suspiciously.
But was the episode a dry run for a terrorist attack, as is now being widely
suggested on the Internet and on talk radio, or an aborted terrorist attack?
Or was it an innocent sequence of events that some passengers, overcome by
anxiety and perhaps ethnic stereotyping, misinterpreted as a plot to blow up
their plane?
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