July 10th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
The Houston Chronicle reports that on June 26 a Houston Police Department officer cleared a man to board a plane at Hobby Airport.
The problem with this action:
A search of the man’s baggage revealed a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran, the report said. A screener examined the man’s shoes and determined that the “entire soles of both shoes were gutted out.”No explosive material was detected, the report states. A police officer was summoned and questioned the man, examined his identification, shoes and the clock, then cleared him for travel, according to the report.
A TSA screener disagreed with the officer, saying “the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself,” the report says.
The officer retorted, “I thought y’all were trained in this stuff,” TSA officials reported.
(emphasis mine)
The HPD officer has been reassigned to desk duty.
What did the shoe bomber tell the cop to get clearance?
Time to book Continental at IAH instead of Southwest?
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