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One year ago: Air Tran flight 297

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Douglas J. Hagmann 17 November 2010:  It was one year ago aboard Air Tran flight 297 when a group of thirteen men dressed in traditional Muslim attire were among 73 passengers who boarded AirTran Flight 297 on Tuesday, 17 November 2009, for  a routine flight from Atlanta to Houston. From our report: ?This was a deliberate, well planned attempt to disrupt a domestic flight that was organized in advance of the boarding of these [Muslim] passengers. The purpose of their actions appeared to be multi-faceted, not the least of which was an attempt to change their status from innocuous passengers to victims of religious profiling. The situation was handled in a manner that we believe might have avoided an incident like USAir had in 2006, where everyone from the passengers who reported suspicious behavior to the airline was subjected to legal action by the Muslim passengers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).