A high ranking Pakistani military delegation canceled a planned visit to US Central Command (Centcom) headquarters in Tampa today after the 8 men were detained at Washington DC’s Dulles Airport as suspected terrorists.
The delegation included brigadier generals and was headed by a two-star admiral in the Pakistani Navy, who were forcibly removed from a plane to Tampa after a passenger reportedly overheard one of them saying “I hope this is the final plane to the destination,” which she assumed meant he was a terrorist.
After their removal the delegation was interrogated, though TSA officials insist they were not involved in the interrogation and that it was handled solely by employees of United Airlines. One of the officials said he was treated extremely rudely.
During the detention the men showed their passports and a letter of invitation from Centcom, but they were barred from contacting the Pakistani embassy or Centcom during their detention. The Pentagon called the incident “unfortunate” but denied reports that they had apologized to the Pakistani government for the wrongful detentions.
I got a lot of detentions in high school, it is common in those precived to be lesser beings
"i hope this is the final plane to the destination"
lol, the things you get arrested for in the land of the free
"final destination" LOL… Someone got their panties in a wadi…!!! 1.2.3.
Seriously. Only in the land of the fear and home of the knave does this crap become so common place that its now become bitter comedy.
Americans have truly become the most debased and pathetic group of human beings imaginable.
Praise the lord!!! It's finally falling apart. So what's their complaint, Sen Kennedy, aka the Lion of the Senate, was on the No Fly List™. Why a bunch of @#*$@ should be treated better than a US Senator?
Really SMART people like you Good luck should know that treating one's ally like @#*$@ is not a very good idea… And people as stupid as the snitch should be euthanized for the sake of the gene-pool…
hey its great propaganda. Think about it. Builds PR ratings among evangelicals. With that kinda feel good (ugly) footage.
passenger complaints and the TSA -airport officials who acted on them. What jackasses
The Pentagon called the incident “unfortunate” but denied reports that they had apologized to the Pakistani government for the wrongful detentions.
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Master doesn't apologize to servants, never has and never will.
Why did these slaves have to come all the way from Pakistan to confer with the master? Can't they just get their orders over the phone?
Sometimes the refresher course in Pavlovian conditioning has to be meted out at special facilities available only in the Home of the Unfree.
Yes, must be. Never thought of that. Maybe the incidence itself was a part of the training.
Why are they denying that they apologized – surely that would be the right thing – the very least thing they could do?
Apologize? Why on Earth would a government that routinely kills its own citizens in ordinary traffic stops and executions of search warrants apologize to a foreign military delegation?
Karma's nasty. It serves them well. Now when they go back to Pakistan they might think twice before they treat like animals the subjects under their rule, whether because Washington asked them or because they need to maintain their own power.
As far as I'm concerned, they should have been thrown in jail overnight.
Still, the fact that a letter of invitation from the United States government is still not good enough to avoid racists, citizens and officials alike at the airport is quite telling.
But they DID learn some important truths during that visit after all. That not even the United States back home works adequately with its antiterror "wisdom". And that they will march the way of SLAVES if they trust their leaders – the whole establisment being routine liars, degrading not only the pakistanis, but also their own population..
The Pentagon certainly won't apologise.In the eyes of the US, it's unthinkable that the White man could apologise to a few brown-skinned chaps from the other side of the world.
You really have to look very white, red hair preferred, to avoid suspicion, while frequenting American airports today. The Pakistani military delegation didn’t fair better than the secret service guy, assigned to protect G. W. Bush, who was tossed out of an airplane because his Middle Eastern name.
The other day, I had hard time recognizing a friend at the airport; he was traveling back from Australia, where he attends medical school there. The man did a masterful job in coloring his dark hair to golden blond. He confined to me that spending $5 for a bottle of “Just for Men" hair color offers better protection than the US Constitution at American Airports.
I think this is funnier than watching a dog taking a shit,another backfire for the DOHS.
Well after all, they -were- terrists. -All- wogs are terrists, with their agenda to take over the world and cut off everybodies nose. Very cunning of them trying to sneak in disguised as generals and whatnot, only not clever enough, were they. I says good riddance.
Thus ever to collaborators!
It took a lot of courage for them to cancel their visit though–that's a fiscal sacrifice as they won't be paid for a visit they didn't complete.
That's how we recruit terrorists to keep the wars and the defense contracts going. These guys weren't terrorists when they got here, but I wouldn't bet on what they do when they get home.