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Arrested for threatening to burst an airplane

Atlanta, USA - A Saudi announced that in a bar

A Saudi man living in USA, Saleh Al Suwailem, was arrested in Georgia by FBI being charged of terrorist threat against flights. After being refused for an assignment as interpreter for American military men in Iraq, Al Suwailem went into a bar, drank some alcoholics and announced he would have burst the Delta Airlines plane which should have taken him back home to Idaho. Some witnesses alerted military...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 142400
Rome, Italy, 06/08/2006 15:54
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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