Air marshals arrest man who claimed to have bomb on plane

Broward Sheriff's deputies arrested a Jet Blue Airways passenger on a flight from Fort Lauderdale to New York after he told a flight attendant that he had a bomb, according to a police report released Friday.

Angelo Peter Nogara, 44, of Brooklyn, appeared disoriented when he got a flight attendant's attention before the plane left the gate on Wednesday's 8 p.m. flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport, the report said.

The flight attendant approached, and according to the report, Nogara said: "I have a bomb."

The attendant alerted two onboard federal air marshals, who detained Nogara. The plane was evacuated, and the Sheriff's Office Bomb squad searched all the passengers' luggage. No bomb was found.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1216airbomb,0,2035452.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

Just how many air marshalls are there, I wonder. I thought they only worked int'l flights.

Yes, they are on Domestic flights to. Now if Bush has his way they are also going to be on trains, buses, and public transportation fully armed and waiting for someone they don't like the looks of to blow into kingdom come. Kind of like a de facto occupation which is what I think Bush has wanted all along.

Hopefully his little Faux Pas with the NSA spying and its repercussions on the Patriot Act will curb some of the administration's enthusiasm and ability to do this. I can hear it now, "Sorry to be late, honey, the TSA shot off my kneecap one station before I could get off the Metro."

occupation thing are they?

You have a good point. I was thinking that his "base" is one of the most paranoid segments of the population. Sitting there in their tinfoil hats and waiting for the black helicopters from the UN to come and rob them of their "freedoms":toast: It leaves me with a song in my heart.:loveya:

I wonder how they will react to the NSA domestic spying, and the fact that Bubble Boy has signed off on domestic surveillance more three dozen times since he instituted the program? I just read that in an A/P article, link here,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10488458/

That ought to tickle their fancies too, seeing how they feel about the idea of government surveillance of themselves. I live in California. In Orange County when it was still a white conservative bastion, it used to be against the law for someone to take a photo of another person without their permission. Anyone, even tourists. This always to boggles my mind. People who are so meticulous and fearful of their rights being violated, frothing at the mouth like wild dogs to come out and violate everyone else's rights. Fools.:silly:

So you've realized that large segments of the radical, libertarian, and redneck right share many of our primary concerns, and your reaction is to lump them together and mock them in a direct reflection of repugs who try to paint us all as "Uh-murr-ka hatin' cheese eatin' tin-foil hat 'litists"?

They have never been big Bush supporters and they've been railing about him for years. They are not Bush's base by any means; they are not corporate. In the not-so-distant past, huge numbers of them voted Democratic because the party used to do a good job of communicating its core values of workers' rights and personal freedoms. Before the apparent decision to (appear to) live up to Limbaugh's stereotypes of us as elitists with no interest in the real lives of ol'-fashioned rural Americans.

If their concerns - the ones we share, not the fantasies about Grinches that Rove whips up to scare them - are addressed in a real way by the Democratic party, many of them will pull a different lever next time around.

Besides - when we've all got melanomas sprouting from the tops of our heads from ozone depletion, those guys in the aluminum foil hats are gonna be feeling pretty smug :-p

Nope. I haven't had a sudden blinding flash. I knew all along that many different viewpoints have common concerns. I'm enjoying Bush's "base" having their noses rubbed, yet again, into what a fool their fearless leader is. I will continue to do so until I feel that I have adequately said what I think. Then I will address something else.

Frankly, I don't know which of my concerns the groups you mention share. I don't know which of my concerns, you share, and frankly neither do you. You might try asking me what I think instead of telling me. That's always a better way to find out.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at, but it sure sounds like you're sitting in the crosspatch today. Maybe you could explain what you mean a little more clearly, when you're feeling better. Or maybe not.:wtf:

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Might get you offed.

So apparently it's possible to address a bomb threat without killing anyone.

at least they didn't shoot him and can now figure out what the hell happened- if they don't "disappear" him first

Isn't "suicide by cop" an occasional event, where a really out of control, delusional suicidal type will challenge cops to the point where they shoot him? Isn't it possible this guy, knowing about the recent horror, figured he might get a ticket out the same way? Just asking.

for ya around xmas time.

. . . it would be the easiest thing in the world to set up. Makes 'em look so competent and in charge.

Fuckers!

:wow:

Bill McBlueState, you beat me too it!

That's SOP now, isn't it?

It certainly would be interesting, though.

of what was said.

...and ask questions later this time.

I heard an interview yesterday, on "Fresh Air" (WHYY/NPR), Terry Gross interviewed the writer of "The Center Seat" column from "The Wall Street Journal."

He said the Fed Air Marshals are REALLY easy to pick out, because they DO wear touristy, loose fitting Hawaiian shirts, that usually look a little bulky and they tend to not act like the average tourist or business traveler. He said they often bump passengers out of First Class at the last minute, and usually "read" a trashy paperback, instead of opening up a laptop computer.

Travel Tips: The View from 'The Middle Seat'

Listen to this story...(at link above)

Fresh Air from WHYY, December 15, 2005 · Journalist Scott McCartney,
who follows the airline industry, writes the weekly column
"The Middle Seat" for the Wall Street Journal.
McCartney is the journal's travel editor and
deputy bureau chief in Dallas, Texas.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5054928>

This is "generated news" to show Amerika that the air marshals aren't all trigger happy.

December 17, 2005
Bomb Remark Causes Calif. Plane Evacuation
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:25 a.m. ET

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- A Southwest Airlines jet was evacuated Friday on a taxiway after flight attendants overheard a comment about a bomb, but a search of the plane found nothing.

Flight 2074 to Las Vegas departed nearly five hours late after bomb-sniffing dogs searched the plane and found nothing, Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Beth Harbin said.

''Our people are very alert and did what they needed to in this case,'' she said.

A passenger was arrested for investigation of making false bomb threats, Burbank Airport Police Sgt. Ernest Siy. The man, whom he declined to identify, was held at city jail, Siy said.

more http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Airliner-Evacuation.html?pagewanted=print

apparently without air marshals? Was anyone killed?

for reasons unknown, the flight attendant does not like this customer

the flight attendant tells the air marshals that
someone said 'bomb'.

customer is hauled off to jail

other customers, fearing for their own personal freedom,
also claim they heard the word 'bomb'

Is there anyone else here, who doesn't automaticaly
believe everything they read?

with that said, I have no idea what happened here,
in lieu of a tape recording, I just don't believe,
or disbelieve, anyone's story, I just don't know

...are you saying that a general climate of paranoia supported by police intrusion into every facet of our lives gives low-level functionaries the power to arbitrarily play petty power games with members of the general public by crying wolf? And implying that that's, like, bad?

crr-azy ;-)