RUN!!! He Looks -- Gasp -- Middle-Eastern!

This morning CNN had their red BREAKING NEWS banners all up and their anchors all breathless with yet another terror attack averted. They even had Chertoff take time off from searching for applicants to fill all those vacant positions, to come, live on the air at an ungodly early hour, to congratulate the airlines employee who alerted the captain to a suspicious passenger in time to have the LA to London flight diverted to NYC where the world was saved yet another horrid headline.

But now, search in vain to find the story on their web site.

What was "suspicious"? Well, the passenger, oh the horror, looked Middle Eastern.

Welcome to the new order.

Seems that some stewardess on the flight had recognized a Middle-Eastern-looking passenger from an employee shuttle bus earlier that day. Since, apparently, the airlines doesn't employ such questionable folk, and there he was, with a paid ticket in his own name and everything, sitting there looking for all the world like a passenger about to visit London, well, now THAT'S cause enough for alarm if I ever heard one.

After an hour or so of sounding the alert, CNN learned that the guy was, after all, just what he looked like -- an airlines employee on vacation. So, now that that's cleared up, here comes Chertoff to praise the stewardess for alertly noticing something suspicious. "That's what we all should do", Chertoff told the bobbleheads on CNN.

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