Unfree Amerika: Airline passengers subjected to body searches and intrusive questioning!
ROMULUS, Michigan - December 31, 2009 - As Detroit’s airport was rattled on Sunday by a second frightening incident in three days, passengers at airports in the United States and around the world encountered stiff layers of extra security, with international travelers undergoing newly required bag inspections, body searches and questioning at security checkpoints and before they boarded planes.
At the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, officials detained a passenger who caused a disruption aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam, the same flight involved in a terrorism attempt on Friday, when a Nigerian man caused a fire by injecting chemicals into a device taped to his leg.
Pilots on Sunday declared an emergency after a second man, also a Nigerian, spent an unusually long time in an airplane restroom, said Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Sara Kuban.
In a similar scene to the one Friday, the plane was taken to a remote corner of the airport, far from the terminals, where emergency vehicles surrounded it. All of the baggage was removed from the plane, lined up on the tarmac and searched by explosive-sniffing dogs.
At the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, officials detained a passenger who caused a disruption aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam, the same flight involved in a terrorism attempt on Friday, when a Nigerian man caused a fire by injecting chemicals into a device taped to his leg.
Pilots on Sunday declared an emergency after a second man, also a Nigerian, spent an unusually long time in an airplane restroom, said Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Sara Kuban.
In a similar scene to the one Friday, the plane was taken to a remote corner of the airport, far from the terminals, where emergency vehicles surrounded it. All of the baggage was removed from the plane, lined up on the tarmac and searched by explosive-sniffing dogs.
