Harry,

If the individual, who by ALL accounts, was acting very irrational, whom
according to numerous passengers and the Sky Marshals, claimed his was
carrying a bomb, whom refused to obey the sky marshals, whom according to
his wife was bi-polar and was on a manic high, whom when asked to lie on
they ground he reached into his luggage, had successfully set off a bomb and
killed innocent people would you think the Sky Marshal's had failed to do
their job?

Is it possible that you are blinded by politics?

"Edward Markey, a Democratic congressman from Mass*achusetts, said: "Thanks
to the efforts of an alert air marshal an individual was prevented from
causing a potentially dangerous situation on the American Airlines flight
that could have harmed passengers and crew members."

Mr. Markey said the incident underscored the need to scrap plans to allow
passengers to carry certain kinds of scissors on to aircraft. " FT.com







"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Yesterday, a poster here claimed that the fellow who was shot dead in
Miami by the air marshals "deserved what he got," supposedly because he
did not pay attention to the guys waving the guns.

What about Ronald Shulz? If he's been killed, did he also "deserve what he
got?"

After all, *any* mentally stable person would know that any American
taking a job in Iraq woule be exposing himself to extraordinary danger and
more than a remote possibility of being shot, kidnapped, tortured, or
killed. Right? Wouldn't you have to be seriously mentally ill to not know
that?

I'm not, by the way, minimizing Mr. Schulz' possible demise, or the agony
his family must be feeling.

But, should Schulz have "known better" than to walk down that jetway from
the plane that flew him to Iraq?

Are the fellow killed in Miami and Schulz both victims of "the war on
terror"?

Do both lives represent equal losses?

Did either one of these men (assuming Schulz is dead; hopefully he isn't
and will be released) deserve to die? Really? Are you sure?

Are these easy questions for you?


U.S. checking claim hostage killed

(CNN) -- The family of an American held hostage in Iraq pleaded for his
safe release as U.S. officials worked to confirm a claim on the Internet
that indicated he had been killed.

Ronald Schulz, 40, an electrician who had been working in Iraq, was
kidnapped by insurgents around November 25. The group demanded jailed
Islamic Army fighters to be released and for compensation be paid to
families in hard-hit province.

On Thursday, several Islamic militant Web sites posted a claim from a
group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq that it had killed "the
American security consultant for the Housing Ministry" after the United
States failed to respond to its demand of the release of Iraqi prisoners.

A similar claim was posted early Friday on a Web site known to be used by
the Islamic Army.

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