There was more to the story of the passenger who disturbed an American Airlines flight on Sunday than was reported by most of the media.

While these and most other media reports did state that Almurisi had a Yemeni passport and California identification card, they somehow managed to miss reporting on what he said on the plane that startled passengers as well.

According to the AP, passenger Angelina Marty said that as Almurisi was moving to the front of the plane he was shouting “Allahu Akbar”  which is usually translated to “God is Great,” not something you want to hear on a plane.

The media took great pains to state that authorities were unsure of  Almurisi’s motives and that he had no clear ties to terror groups. Any mention of what he was shouting was largely overlooked, as the video shows.

Normally the media love eyewitness reports. But not in this case. An eyewitness report could lead to politically incorrect conclusions because Almurisi is from Yemen and was shouting the same words that were heard on the Flight 93 cockpit voice recorders as the plane was going  down on 9/11.

With the death of Osama bin Laden last week at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs, the possibility of retribution is very real. The media chose to treat this case as just another disturbed airline passenger — rather than as the  potential threat to our safety and security that it was.

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4 Comments for Media Largely Misses Yemeni Passenger Story

Wildbird

If you realy belived the mainstream leftists news media you would belive everything said by the FLAT EARTH SOCIETY and PINNOCIO

The Major

Did the MSM fail to mention ,,as usual ,,that in the other case ,some SE airline shuttle,,the 2 imams that were kicked off by the pilot,,,were seen PRAYING at or near the flight gate. Passengers complained & THEN the pilot returned to the gate. He will probably get in trouble,,so I will advise him to get his Union Rep ready to fight this. He did not take it upon himself to return,,until the complaints probably included thteats of lawsuits too.
I wanted to respond to Cliff Kincaid’s article about Sweeney of the AFL, a man I knew many years ago,,but Kincaid’s article leaves NO ROOM for comments at all & I think that’s unfair.I worked for a short time with Sweeney’s dad in NYC ,,a real man,,,Sweeney JR is a COWARD & Obama give HIM the Medal Of Freedom last year. One Marxist to another Marxist I guess