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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 03:34 PM
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Passenger jet lands when religious item mistaken as bomb
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia on Thursday after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb, Philadelphia police said.

A passenger was alarmed by the phylacteries, religious items which observant Jews strap around their arms and heads as part of morning prayers, on the flight from New York's La Guardia airport heading to Louisville.

"Someone on the plane construed it as some kind of device," said officer Christine O'Brien, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia police department.

No one was arrested or charged, O'Brien said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100121/us_nm/us_usa_security_airlines
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 03:40 PM
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1. This is what happens when people don't know about one another,.
Now, at least, this is taken into the light and is available for the greater good.
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 03:45 PM
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2. Something like this?
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