Suspicious Item Detected In Man's Butt At LAX
March 6, 2007 11:33 am US/Pacific
Suspicious Item Detected In Man's Butt At LAX
(CBS) LOS ANGELES digg itAn Iraqi national was detained and questioned at a passenger-screening area at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday morning after a suspicious item was found in the man's rectum during a body cavity search.
The item, which is still being examined, poses no apparent threat, an FBI official said.
Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, was selected for a more thorough check by screeners in Terminal One of the airport at about 5:40 a.m. Al-Maliki, who lives in Atlantic City, was taking a US Airways flight to Philadelphia.
Al-Maliki remains in custody as federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials go over his immigration paperwork. Federal officials say his green card may have expired.
Ethel McGuire, assistant special agent in charge of the Los Angeles FBI office, said this afternoon that al-Maliki had "a magnet, wires and I don't know what the other item was. It's being evaluated as we speak." After al-Maliki was searched, the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad was called to the airport to examine the suspicious item.
The flight took off with al-Maliki's luggage on board. The airplane was ordered to land in Las Vegas, where the passengers got off and the luggage was searched.
Al-Maliki's luggage was "clean," officials said at a news conference this afternoon at LAX.
Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, said the strong reaction arose from "an abundance of caution."
He said the reason security officials were so cautious was that al-Maliki was "so bizarre in his behavior."
Fetters did not elaborate.
Authorities currently have no information indicating al-Maliki has ties to any terrorist organizations, FBI official Laura Eimiller said. She said authorities so far haven't ruled out that the device could have been medical in nature.
No other flights at LAX were affected by the investigation.
(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. )
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Suspicious Item Detected In Man's Butt At LAX
(CBS) LOS ANGELES digg itAn Iraqi national was detained and questioned at a passenger-screening area at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday morning after a suspicious item was found in the man's rectum during a body cavity search.
The item, which is still being examined, poses no apparent threat, an FBI official said.
Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, was selected for a more thorough check by screeners in Terminal One of the airport at about 5:40 a.m. Al-Maliki, who lives in Atlantic City, was taking a US Airways flight to Philadelphia.
Al-Maliki remains in custody as federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials go over his immigration paperwork. Federal officials say his green card may have expired.
Ethel McGuire, assistant special agent in charge of the Los Angeles FBI office, said this afternoon that al-Maliki had "a magnet, wires and I don't know what the other item was. It's being evaluated as we speak." After al-Maliki was searched, the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad was called to the airport to examine the suspicious item.
The flight took off with al-Maliki's luggage on board. The airplane was ordered to land in Las Vegas, where the passengers got off and the luggage was searched.
Al-Maliki's luggage was "clean," officials said at a news conference this afternoon at LAX.
Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, said the strong reaction arose from "an abundance of caution."
He said the reason security officials were so cautious was that al-Maliki was "so bizarre in his behavior."
Fetters did not elaborate.
Authorities currently have no information indicating al-Maliki has ties to any terrorist organizations, FBI official Laura Eimiller said. She said authorities so far haven't ruled out that the device could have been medical in nature.
No other flights at LAX were affected by the investigation.
(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. )
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