Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport (MLive.com exclusive)

This post has been updated as of 4:57 p.m. Please note the change at the bottom of the story, in which the FBI says no one else was taken into custody.

Thanks for the exclusive info, MLIVE.

A sharp dressed man!? Apparently ZZ Top is involved!

This would appear to be an opportunistic and awkward moment all at the same time! Miss Harrison gets to put her name on an exclusive story by nothing more than the chance that one of the Mlive commenters happened to be an eye witness to the entire event (you can't get much better than this as a reporter) and pug aka Mr. Kurt Haskell (and his wife Lori who has been inadvertently drawn in) of Haskell Law Firm of Taylor, who simply wanted to convey some factual information (from his observations) to set some things straight as far as the comments to the original posting, now has to change his login name and may have some trouble in writing off a pleasure trip as business seeing as how this is now public knowledge.

Thank you chrispaulfan for your informative and insightful comment. The most intelligent part was "baaaah, sheeple, baaah".

chrispaulfan
Congrats on the Idiot of the year award !.
1st) There was a single shooter in the Fort Hood shooting not 3 moron.
2nd) He did try and blow it up on decent for landing which would have been his best time seeing as how if he had succeeded he would have killed everyone on the plane and plenty more when those parts of the plane go crashing into a heavily populated downtown detroit!

3rd) He was on a terror watch list after his father decided to warn the U.S. and Nigerian officials about his son and his intentions back in November.
But the U.. Government decided it was good to just put him on a watch list that apparently nobody actually watches instead of the no fly list he should have been placed on.

And I guess the senate has been to busy pushing that health package that 40% of people want and 60% oppose to actually do their job's and improve the security of our nation.

And somehow voters keep electing stupid people to represent them...........
According to WOOD tv the guy had the stuff in his underwear, wonder what any 7 virgins would have thought if he lost that part?

Thanks Pete Hoekstra and your cronies for not doing more about terrorism.

Ms. Harrison:

Thank you for verifying Mr. Haskell's post. Credibility is the only thing that stands between you and the tabloids. You have served your readers well--seriously. The advent of online news has plunged all of us--but particularly journalists--into unknown territory. You and your readers are making the rules as you go.

My unasked-for advice: no matter how difficult or inconvenient or believable, work to verify your online sources and their stories. It has never been more important than it is now. Again, my thanks and best of luck to you.

Vote No Incumbents.

Mr. Haskell: Thank you for your efforts to verify your post. My condolences to you and your spouse for what must have been a terrible ending to a wonderful vacation.

I doubt very much the flight attendants were "screaming". I'll bet though they were yelling to each other re emergency equipment and commands to the passengers.

Before believing this story, the following questions:
1. Was the terrorist on the flight manifest ?
2. Was the flight cleared for departe by the US authorities ?

according to CNN this was the case (http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/27/airline.attack.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCText)
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Was he on any security watch lists?

U.S. authorities say they were contacted by the man's father ahead of the attack, but whether he was placed on any so-called No-Fly list maintained by the United States is unclear. Dutch officials say the passenger's name appeared on a manifest supplied by the airline, which was passed to U.S. authorities, who cleared the flight to depart.

If this was the case, the guy didn't have a passport, was a Sudanese refugee but still appeared on the manifest under his own name ?

Anyway, from experience i can tell that flying to the USA from the Netherlands without a passport is a big NO GO, so this story, also given the above, is doubtful imho.