Excuse me, I also need to use the toilet.
"Qatari diplomat was on way to meet with jailed terrorist; Won’t be charged for bomb scare on US airliner" by Matthew Lee and P. Solomon Banda, Associated Press | April 9, 2010
WASHINGTON — A Qatari diplomat was on his way to an official visit with an imprisoned Al Qaeda sleeper agent when he touched off a bomb scare by slipping into an airline bathroom for a smoke, officials said yesterday as the diplomat prepared to leave the United States....
He didn't set his balls on fire, did he?
The prisoner, Ali Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar, is serving eight years after pleading guilty last year to conspiring to support terrorism. Marri, who was arrested after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is accused of being a sleeper agent researching poisonous gases and plotting a cyberattack.
Consular officials frequently visit foreigners held in the United States to make sure they are being treated well.
Why would a government diplomat be visiting a "terrorist" to be sure he is being "treated well," an since when has the MSM offered up excuses for terrorists?
Alison Bradley, a public relations executive hired to speak for the Qatari Embassy, said Qatari diplomats have made multiple visits to Marri in prison since he pleaded guilty. The right to such visits is guaranteed by international agreements, and the US Bureau of Prisons had approved this visit by the diplomat, Mohammed Al-Madadi, in advance, Bradley added.
All of a sudden they care about the law?
Questions remained about why a diplomat on an official trip would apparently flout airline security rules.
Addiction? Must be a long flight.
Law enforcement officials said Madadi later joked that he had been trying to light his shoe — an apparent reference to the so-called shoe bomber, Richard Reid, of 2001.
What that tells you is GOVERNMENTS KNOW!!
They KNOW "terrorism" is a GOVERNMENT CREATED, FUNDED, and DIRECTED enterprise!!!
Otherwise, that is an OUTRAGEOUS and AUDACIOUS ACT!
The US officials who discussed the case did so on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
No explosives were found on the plane, and authorities said they don’t think Madadi was trying to hurt anyone during Wednesday’s scare. He enjoys diplomatic immunity from US prosecution and will not be criminally charged, authorities said.
The State Department official said Qatar had not yet informed the administration how it will handle the case but has assured the United States that Madadi will leave the country....
Yeah, this IS all a JOKE and it is NOT VERY FUNNY at all!!!
Qatar, which is about the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined and has a population of about 1.4 million, is an oil-rich Middle East nation and key US ally.
Yes, the MASK has fallen off the "terrorists," dear readers, and THAT is why the Qatari diplomat is visiting his framed fellow citizen.
You know they tortured this Al-Marri guy in solitary confinement in a Navy brig for years, right? Nothing in this article about his wife and children, either.
It is on the Arabian peninsula, bordered on three sides by the Persian Gulf and to the south by Saudi Arabia. The country hosts the forward headquarters of US Central Command, which runs the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and is a major supporter of operations deemed critical to both campaigns.
So the diplomat was joking around because he not only had immunity, but his nation knows! It is at the center of the U.S. military effort!
THIS GUY KNEW NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN TO HIM, and is given the visitation rights because they could spill the "Al-CIA-Duh" beans!
Qatar’s ambassador to the United States, Ali Bin Fahad Al-Hajri, cautioned against a rush to judgment.
Sorry, Amerikans do that all the time and then forget about it.
“This diplomat was traveling to Denver on official embassy business on my instructions, and he was certainly not engaged in any threatening activity,’’ he said in a statement. “The facts will reveal that this was a mistake.’’
With a "terrorist?"
And then the diplomat quietly leaves the country.
"Envoy who caused scare leaves US
A diplomat from Qatar who caused a security scare on board a Denver-bound airliner has left the United States. A State Department official said Mohammed Al-Madadi departed on a flight out of the country late Friday night. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. Madadi slipped into the bathroom of the plane flight he was on for a smoke and then joked about trying to set his shoe on fire, an apparent reference to would-be “shoe bomber’’ Richard Reid (AP)."
The Globe even hid it in the briefs!
Wow! From a national lead to a hidden brief!
Propaganda purpose accomplished, no?
And that's the end of that story -- flushed down the MSM memory hole like all good turds.
