August 21, 2004

Terrorist detained at international airport....

I can't believe nobody has so few people have really blogged about this...

Between March 1 and April 6, airline agents tried to block Mr. Kennedy from boarding airplanes on five occasions because his name resembled an alias used by a suspected terrorist who had been barred from flying on airlines in the United States, his aides and government officials said.

Instead of acknowledging the craggy-faced, silver-haired septuagenarian as the Congressional leader whose face has flashed across the nation's television sets for decades, the airline agents acted as if they had stumbled across a fanatic who might blow up an American airplane. Mr. Kennedy said they refused to give him his ticket.

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UPDATE: "Give the man his dues!"
Eric throws a grenade my way to see if my blind Net eyes flinch...and I did.
He actually posted about it before I did...Fair is fair!

Posted by Kyer at August 21, 2004 01:17 AM
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