Iraqi man detained at LAX – had suspicious device up his ass

March 6, 2007 at 4:14 pm in News

Lede of the Week

From Reuters today:

An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

The man, Fadhel al-Maliki, who lives in Atlantic City, was acting strangely, prompting security to search and probe him. A police bomb squad was also called in for a peek.

“He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity,” Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.

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