Ya, I always have rocks in my arse to relax

[SouthernJet]

Device triggers LAX alert, diversion of US Airways flight

Magnet coiled in wire hidden in Iraqi national's body sets off alarms. The longtime U.S. resident has a permanent green card, but received special attention because his travel pattern raised a security flag.

By Doug Irving

STAFF WRITER

An Iraqi national with a magnet coiled in wire hidden inside his body drew a bomb-squad response and a terrorism investigation Tuesday when he tried to pass through security at Los Angeles International Airport.

Federal investigators later said the man, identified as 35-year-old Fadhel al-Maliki of New Jersey, appeared to pose no threat. He was being held and questioned by immigration officials because his green card may have expired. He also was scheduled to undergo a mental evaluation.

But airport security agents initially considered the odd assortment of objects in al-Maliki's rectum alarming enough to order an extra search of the flight he was planning to take. It had already taken off by then, but was diverted and landed in Las Vegas. Agents pulled off two bags checked by al-Maliki but found nothing suspicious in them.

Al-Maliki told investigators the objects he had in his body were there for therapeutic purposes, and that he had forgotten to remove them before reaching the security checkpoint. They were described as a half-inch magnet wrapped with a piece of gum in a napkin and then coiled with wire, and some kind of round, polished stone.

"I believe we're about as confused as you until we finish the investigation," said Ethel McGuire, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office.

The Joint Terrorism Task Force was in charge of the investigation. But federal security officials emphasized during an afternoon press conference that they had no reason to think al-Maliki posed a threat and were not aware of any terrorism connections.

Al-Maliki came to LAX early Tuesday to catch a flight to Philadelphia after a one-day visit to Los Angeles, according to federal officials who would not discuss the nature of his visit.

U.S. Rep. Jane Harman said he had purchased his one-way ticket with cash.

Al-Maliki was flagged for extra screening at the security checkpoints. Larry Fetters, the federal security director at LAX, would not give details about what prompted the added scrutiny, but said al-Maliki's ethnicity "has nothing to do with it. It has to do with how you put your travels together."

A security screener ran a metal-detector wand over al-Maliki's body and noticed that it kept going off as it passed his midsection. Al-Maliki "acknowledged immediately" that he had objects inside his body that would set off the metal detector, McGuire said.

Screeners called the Los Angeles Police Department's bomb squad, which examined the objects and declared them nonthreatening. The terminal was never evacuated, and airport officials said the incident had no effect on operations there.

"The good news is that the system worked," Harman said in a prepared statement. "If this was a test case for security at LAX, then we passed with flying colors."

[joewilly]

shouldn't this be in the what do you do to relax thread?

hmmmm travels across the country for a day with a buttload of wire & magnets up his a$$. gets me thinkin something nasty's gonna happen in the friendly skies again soon.

[SoFlaJets]

SouthernJet

Ya, I always have rocks in my arse to relax

and who doesn't?

[Smizzy]

SouthernJet

Ya, I always have rocks in my arse to relax

and who doesn't?

I know right...I just shoved a handfull of gravel up my ass,going to take a nap now!

[SoFlaJets]

I know right...I just shoved a handfull of gravel up my ass,going to take a nap now!

talk about roughage

[joebabyny]

Device triggers LAX alert, diversion of US Airways flight

Magnet coiled in wire hidden in Iraqi national's body sets off alarms. The longtime U.S. resident has a permanent green card, but received special attention because his travel pattern raised a security flag.

By Doug Irving

STAFF WRITER

An Iraqi national with a magnet coiled in wire hidden inside his body drew a bomb-squad response and a terrorism investigation Tuesday when he tried to pass through security at Los Angeles International Airport.

Federal investigators later said the man, identified as 35-year-old Fadhel al-Maliki of New Jersey, appeared to pose no threat. He was being held and questioned by immigration officials because his green card may have expired. He also was scheduled to undergo a mental evaluation.

But airport security agents initially considered the odd assortment of objects in al-Maliki's rectum alarming enough to order an extra search of the flight he was planning to take. It had already taken off by then, but was diverted and landed in Las Vegas. Agents pulled off two bags checked by al-Maliki but found nothing suspicious in them.

Al-Maliki told investigators the objects he had in his body were there for therapeutic purposes, and that he had forgotten to remove them before reaching the security checkpoint. They were described as a half-inch magnet wrapped with a piece of gum in a napkin and then coiled with wire, and some kind of round, polished stone.

"I believe we're about as confused as you until we finish the investigation," said Ethel McGuire, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office.

The Joint Terrorism Task Force was in charge of the investigation. But federal security officials emphasized during an afternoon press conference that they had no reason to think al-Maliki posed a threat and were not aware of any terrorism connections.

Al-Maliki came to LAX early Tuesday to catch a flight to Philadelphia after a one-day visit to Los Angeles, according to federal officials who would not discuss the nature of his visit.

U.S. Rep. Jane Harman said he had purchased his one-way ticket with cash.

Al-Maliki was flagged for extra screening at the security checkpoints. Larry Fetters, the federal security director at LAX, would not give details about what prompted the added scrutiny, but said al-Maliki's ethnicity "has nothing to do with it. It has to do with how you put your travels together."

A security screener ran a metal-detector wand over al-Maliki's body and noticed that it kept going off as it passed his midsection. Al-Maliki "acknowledged immediately" that he had objects inside his body that would set off the metal detector, McGuire said.

Screeners called the Los Angeles Police Department's bomb squad, which examined the objects and declared them nonthreatening. The terminal was never evacuated, and airport officials said the incident had no effect on operations there.

"The good news is that the system worked," Harman said in a prepared statement. "If this was a test case for security at LAX, then we passed with flying colors."

That durka-durka had a homemade electo magnet up there because it felt good? Sounds to me like testing the perimeter defenses.

[war ensemble]

durka-durka mohammed jihad!

[Green DNA]

I'm sure the "new guy" in the FBI office was the one that was ordered to retrieve the objects from the guy's bung hole.

[joewilly]

I'm sure the "new guy" in the FBI office was the one that was ordered to retrieve the objects from the guy's bung hole.

hahaha. I woulda strapped him to a table & brought in a big ass magnet & slowly moved it closer to the scene of the crime