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Friday, December 16, 2005 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Setting the record straight on security. Plus: Annie Jacobsen lives!
By Patrick Smith

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  • Thursday, December 15, 2005 09:31 PM

    Annie Jacobsen, Northwest Flight #327 and the Scary Arab Minstrels

    Minor fact change:

    Annie Jacobsen's misadventure and related coverage happened during the summer of 2004, not 2003 as it says in the article.

    I wrote extensively about Jacobsen and the Arabs-who-Queued-in-the-Sky that summer. Here is an overview post with links to a great deal of previous coverage elsewhere:

    http://www.liberalavenger.com/2005/09/annie-jacobsen-and-xenophobic-horror.html

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