A Qatari diplomat went to grab a smoke in an airplane Lavatory and then joked about trying to light his shoes.....then all hell broke lose. Including air fighter escorts for the airplane.
Ah but, Qatar's U.S. ambassador, Ali Bin Fahad Al-Hajri, cautioned against a rush to judgment.
"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 on his Washington embassy's Web site. "The facts will reveal that this was a mistake."
Brown Lloyd James, a law firm representing the Qatar embassy, said Thursday morning that the diplomat, Mohammed Al-Madadi, had been released by authorities after questioning and was on his way back to Washington. The firm said Al-Madadi is the embassy's third secretary. Read it all
here.
The story continues............No explosives were found on the Washington-to-Denver flight. Authorities speaking on condition of anonymity said they don't think the envoy was trying to hurt anyone during Wednesday's scare and he will not be criminally charged.
And what do you think would happen if you or I had done that????????
1 comment:
Deacon Warren - very good work on your blog. Rick
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