Tri-State Terminal Evacuated Over Liquid Explosive In Woman's Possession

[Hooper]

What is the deal? Is there a rash of stuff going on right now?

http://www.wvva.com/News/index.php?ID=4344

Terminal Evacuated URGENT
CEREDO, W.Va. (AP) -- The Transportation Security Administration says the contents of a water bottle in luggage at Tri-State Airport has tested positive for explosives.

Agency spokeswoman Amy von Walter says a bomb squad is on site and a female passenger is being interviewed by the FBI.

She says security checkpoint screeners got a positive test on a machine that uses swabs to find traces of explosives. A canine team then got a positive hit for explosives as well.

A screener noticed the bottle in a woman's carry on bag as she prepared to board a 9:15 am flight to Charlotte, North Carolina.

The terminal was evacuated shortly before noon.

Commercial airline service was temporarily suspended, and about 100 passengers and airport employees were ordered to leave the terminal.

At least one flight was diverted to Charleston's Yeager Airport, about 60 miles away.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Updated: August 17, 2006, 2:32 pm

[CaryW]

West Virginny, liquid explosives and bottle = somebody forgot to finish her 'shine before boarding.

[Diesel Smoke]

Originally Posted by Hooper

What is the deal? Is there a rash of stuff going on right now?

http://www.wvva.com/News/index.php?ID=4344

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Hypersenstivity? My neighbor got pegged for explosives about a year ago as he was headed to Florida for a confrence. He had kept a jacket in his reloading room and grabbed it on the way out the door. It was attached to the bottom of his bag and when the swabbed it, much to his surprise it tested positive. He got held for about two hours, all his stuff and his wifes stuff searched. He ended up having my Dad come and get the jacket and they were on the way, a little upset with the process, but they understood why. Could be a similar situation, although I don't know many women who reload, but there are other things that can set one of those swabs off.

[45acp]

When you said "tri-state" i thought you were refering to the Texas/AR/LA area. Since there like seventy 3 katrillion tri-state areas in the US, you should be more specific.

[CaryW]

Originally Posted by 45acp

When you said "tri-state" i thought you were refering to the Texas/AR/LA area. Since there like seventy 3 katrillion tri-state areas in the US, you should be more specific.

Yeah, but we dont have a real airport.

[tacoma73]

and WV does???

[Hooper]

In this case, the contents of the water bottle tested positive....

It will be interesting to see this one develop...

[Blame Canada]

Water bottle. - Sure. It was probably nail polish remover. Of course it would test positive.

Someone just has to put a "spin" on it to get their name in the paper.

[45acp]

Originally Posted by CaryW

Yeah, but we dont have a real airport.

Bullshit, i have seen twin props in Shreveport.

[Diesel Smoke]

Hmmmm......Getting more interesting!

http://www.wsaz.com/breakingnews/3590966.html

As of 5pm, Tri-State Airport in Wayne County resumed operations. The airport had been evacuated since after 11 this morning.

The Transportation Security Administration reports that two containers of liquid in a passenger's carry-on bag tested postive for explosive residue around 9:15 this morning. A second test was confirmed at 11:25. TSA is waiting for further testing to determine the exact substance.

NBC News reports that federal screeners found four containers of liquids inside a woman's carry-on bag during the screening process this morning. Larry Salyers, Tri-State Airport Director, tells WSAZ the woman is of Pakistani origin, lived in Jackson, Michigan and most recently lived in the Huntington area. She is being detained for questioning.

A federal official says the containers were make-up bottles, and it's not known yet exactly what was inside. However, the official says the woman did seem to have legitimate reasons for traveling and did not fit any suspicious behavioral profile.

The trace analyzers detect minute amounts of explosive material. But they can also give positive readings on items that have come in contact with fertilizer, recently dry-cleaned clothes, and even hot dogs -- anything with nitrate compounds.

The flight in which the woman was going to board was on its way to Charlotte, North Carolina with a final destination of Detroit, Michigan.

FBI officials are on scene.

One flight was diverted to Yeager Airport in Charleston.

WV Senator Robert Byrd's office sent out this statement late Thursday afternoon.

“This is proof positive that it doesn’t pay to scrimp on homeland security in rural areas. We must not discount an airport or a chemical plant just because it happens to be in a rural state. Fortunately, it appears that an event with potential for serious consequences and calamity has been thwarted. If not for the keen vigilance of the well-prepared security personnel at Tri-State Airport, other resources would have been brought to bear including local firefighters, law enforcement, emergency medical personnel, trauma suites at local hospitals, and the entire public health system. All must be fully trained and properly equipped to respond to a variety of disasters,” said Senator Robert C. Byrd.

[CaryW]

Not a good week for Paki women. I wonder if this one pissed on anything

[UZI 9mm]

Originally Posted by Blame Canada

Water bottle. - Sure. It was probably nail polish remover. Of course it would test positive.

Someone just has to put a "spin" on it to get their name in the paper.

Re- "Baby formula" where they were or still are making the mothers (I would presume) taste or sample the bottle before letting them past

Uh... if you are a loon suicidal terrorist, willing to kill everyone including the baby you are bringing aboard, wouldn't it stand to reason that if the "formula" was poison or some other pseudo toxic explody substance, you wouldn't really give a rat's ass about drinking the shit to "prove" it was safe to bring onto the plane

I'm super curious to find out what was in this bottle. Would nail polish remover test out the same as, what? Nitroglycerin? whoah.

That would be silly, wouldn't it?

[UZI 9mm]

Originally Posted by CaryW

Not a good week for Paki women. I wonder if this one pissed on anything

dammit I missed that! someone pissed on something?

[CaryW]

Originally Posted by UZI 9mm

dammit I missed that! someone pissed on something?

The Paki woman that had the plane grounded yesterday, dropped panty and pissed in the aisle.

[UZI 9mm]

Originally Posted by CaryW

The Paki woman that had the plane grounded yesterday, dropped panty and pissed in the aisle.

bwahahahaha

[Fisheadgib]

Last year my neice and nephew came down to visit and I gave them several jars of salsa that I make, along with some hot sauce, habanero mango jelly, and some really hot beef jerky. Every bit of it set off the explosives sniffer at the airport. As my nephew is a LEO in Michigan, the security people didn't wig out. I guess pepper and spicy foods will set that stuff off.

[45acp]

Originally Posted by CaryW

The Paki woman that had the plane grounded yesterday, dropped panty and pissed in the aisle.

Fawkin sweet, smelly Paki cewter stinking up the plane.

[Diesel Smoke]

Originally Posted by UZI 9mm

Re- "Baby formula" where they were or still are making the mothers (I would presume) taste or sample the bottle before letting them past

Uh... if you are a loon suicidal terrorist, willing to kill everyone including the baby you are bringing aboard, wouldn't it stand to reason that if the "formula" was poison or some other pseudo toxic explody substance, you wouldn't really give a rat's ass about drinking the shit to "prove" it was safe to bring onto the plane

I'm super curious to find out what was in this bottle. Would nail polish remover test out the same as, what? Nitroglycerin? whoah.

That would be silly, wouldn't it?

With the explosives they were going to use, you wouldn't be able to just sip it and go on your merry way. It at the least would cause a violent vomiting reaction, if you were even able to get it down. It would burn your mouth and probably cause a coughing fit.

Nailpolish remover is most commonly Acetone, extremely differen chemically from Nirtoglycerin and other nitrates for that matter. Nitrates is what they test for.

[Blame Canada]

Originally Posted by CaryW

The Paki woman that had the plane grounded yesterday, dropped panty and pissed in the aisle.

I just googled searched, but couldn't find anything on that.

That's too funny thou.

[Hooper]

Originally Posted by Blame Canada

I just googled searched, but couldn't find anything on that.

That's too funny thou.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...318432,00.html

[copeland]

Originally Posted by Blame Canada

I just googled searched, but couldn't find anything on that.

That's too funny thou.

I wouldn't think googling

"Paki woman had the plane grounded, dropped panty and pissed in the aisle."

would net good results...

[Billy_Manfroy]

Originally Posted by copeland

I wouldn't think googling

"Paki woman had the plane grounded, dropped panty and pissed in the aisle."

would net good results...

You have to try "Curry-cooter-urine-shooter" Works much better.

[ironpig70]

and we still allow freight unchecked into the belly of planes

[indulf]

all i get from this thread is that hot dogs might be explosive.



cool

[Diesel Smoke]

So....what happened? We are all still here today??

Credo, W.Va.-- Authorities said a passenger at Tri-State Airport near Huntington would not be charged with a crime Thursday, hours after items in her luggage caused the airport to be evacuated and shut down for hours.

The passenger was a 28-year-old woman who is originally from Pakistan, said Larry Salyers, the airport's manager.

She was identified as Rima Qayyum by WILX-TV in Lansing, Mich.

Qayyum had two bottles in her carry-on bag that raised red flags for airport screeners.

The woman's mother told the Associated Press that her daughter, who is four months' pregnant and lives in Barboursville, was targeted because of her nationality and Islamic headcover.

Mian Qayyum said, "it was not only a false alarm, it was racial discrimination because there was nothing.

"She just had water to drink because she is pregnant and she had a face wash that had a drop of bleach on it,'' Qayyum said from her home in Jackson, Mich.

Qayyum said her daughter was attempting to travel to Jackson where she previously lived. Her daughter will try again today, she said.

After initial tests concluded late Thursday, the liquid inside those bottles was determined not to be explosive, State Police Capt. J.C. Chambers said. But a residue on the outside of the containers could still be ruled explosive, he said.

Additional testing will take place today.

No charges were filed against the woman, who was cooperative when interviewed by the FBI.

"We want to make sure we know who she is. We want to make sure what she says and what she volunteered to us is correct. We want to make sure we know the exact contents of the containers,'' said FBI spokesman Jeff Killeen.

The woman's whereabouts were not immediately known Thursday night. Salyers said she left the airport with federal authorities and Killeen declined to say where she was.

Transportation Security Administration screeners saw several bottles in the woman's luggage during an X-ray examination of the bag as passengers were boarding for a 9:17 a.m. US Airways flight to Charlotte, N.C.

Two of the plastic bottles later set off "sniffer" machines designed to detect explosives. Then, a State Police bomb-sniffing dog reacted two different times to the items in the luggage, State Police Capt. J.C. Chambers said.

The airport was evacuated just before 11:30 a.m. Thursday.

State Police and the TSA said the suspicious items had "explosive residue." Some of the items that can trigger an alarm from screeners can be found on common household items. The plastic bottles were inside plastic bags, and contained substances that have yet to be identified.

Liquids and gels have been banned on American flights since London authorities said last week they had foiled a plot to bomb trans-Atlantic flights. The people arrested allegedly planned to mix certain liquids on the planes to create explosives.

The woman bought a one-way ticket on Wednesday from Huntington to Detroit via Charlotte, Salyers said. She was traveling alone and checked one other bag, he said.

Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents took samples from the bottles in the woman's luggage, after a remote-controlled robot retrieved the bottles from the main terminal.

The items were then taken onto the airport runway and driven far from the terminal.

Explosives experts with the State Police and the National Guard tested the liquids.

The remaining passengers on the woman's flight were able to board and continue their flight to Charlotte. But other flights were cancelled at Tri-State, leaving more than 50 passengers looking for other travel options after they were told to leave the terminal. Passengers and airport workers were moved to a nearby building.

Most passengers, following the new flying rules, were left without any standard personal items like soaps and contact lens solution because they were packed in checked luggage.

Frank and Nancy Walker, from near Dallas, were set to board a 12:30 p.m. flight but had to look for other options after a visit with family in Huntington.

"We were trying to go through screening when they came and said you need to move out of the terminal," Frank Walker said.

A US Airways Express flight was diverted to Yeager Airport in Charleston, said Brian Belcher, Yeager's marketing director. He said US Airways got taxis for the passengers and had them driven to Huntington.

Everyone except law enforcement officers was kept several hundred feet from the terminal until it reopened just after 6 p.m. Outbound flights were expected to resume this morning.

Airport Police Chief D.A. West said screeners picked up on the suspicious items just as flights were beginning to board for the day. He said State Police and other agencies responded quickly.

Salyers said he was proud of employees and said the operation was efficient.

"It worked so perfectly I thought it was a drill," he said. "I thought it was just a test at first."

Staff writer Jim Balow contributed to this story. To contact staff writer Charles Shumaker, use e-mail or call 348-1240.

Looks like a case of racial profiling Maybe they could follow the damn rules. There's an idea, give no one a reason to look at you twice, I mean wheres the common sense in that? Idiots!