Making a watch list, checking it twice:
Six cases of mistaken identity were behind the pre-Christmas grounding of six Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles over terrorism fears, a police official said Friday.
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Pierre Debue, director of the French border police, said U.S. officials have asked France to check out a few suspicious names on passenger lists nearly every day since Christmas Eve.
One turned out to be a 5-year-old child, and another was a prominent Egyptian scientist, he said. The Wall Street Journal said two other suspected “terrorists” turned out to be an elderly Chinese woman and a Welsh insurance agent.
It’s easy to fault what looks like a mistaken identity, but let’s take the high road: we may have just nabbed a rising 5-year-old star in the Young Al Qaeda Executive Training Program.
Way to go guys!