WASHINGTON (AFP) - A 24-year-old American man was detained at Oklahoma City airport while attempting to carrying a homemade bomb onto a plane, the
FBI said.
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The incident happened on Wednesday at the airport in the southern state of Oklahoma after a security screener "noticed something suspicious in his carry-on bag", said a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spokesman in Oklahoma City, Gary Johnson.
"The bag was set aside. He was detained. Later it was determined that the device appeared to be an improvised explosive device. He was arrested by the FBI," the spokesman added.
"From our initial investigation, we have found no ties to any terrorist group or activity."
The man, who was not immediately named, was believed to be headed for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is expected to appear before a court on Thursday to be formally charged.
Goldblum
08-11-05, 11:54 AM
Oh good lord, we don't want him here.
digitalfreaknyc
08-11-05, 11:56 AM
Wow. Someone did their job.
*applause*
X
08-11-05, 12:00 PM
I wouldn't be so quick to judge. Who hasn't forgotten a bomb in their luggage from a previous car trip?
Thor Simpson
08-11-05, 12:19 PM
If he was caught at security, how do they know he was trying to board a plane? Maybe he just had a ticket and was using it to blow up the toilet in the terminal Starbucks. That's a far lesser crime.
Mordred
08-11-05, 12:33 PM
If he was caught at security, how do they know he was trying to board a plane? Maybe he just had a ticket and was using it to blow up the toilet in the terminal Starbucks. That's a far lesser crime.Normally you don't need "carry-on" baggage when going to Starbucks.
Thor Simpson
08-11-05, 12:54 PM
Normally you don't need "carry-on" baggage when going to Starbucks.
Um... you need "carry-on" baggage to get a bomb into the terminal Starbucks' toilet though. Did he have any <i>checked</i> bags, that's the question.
wildcatlh
08-11-05, 02:14 PM
If I had to *guess* at a quite plausible non-disastrous reason, he could've been carrying it on with no intention of actually detonating it, just so he could be the one to have found it and get the attention and publicity and interviews on the morning shows that would've gone with it.
(but I haven't the foggiest as to why this guy would do such a thing either way)
uberjoe
08-11-05, 02:42 PM
Maybe he was just a statistician.
OldDude
08-11-05, 02:50 PM
If I had to *guess* at a quite plausible non-disastrous reason, he could've been carrying it on with no intention of actually detonating it, just so he could be the one to have found it and get the attention and publicity and interviews on the morning shows that would've gone with it.
Well, now he's going to get the "attention" of a federal pound-him-in-the-ass prison.
:banana:
General Zod
08-11-05, 02:59 PM
I wouldn't be so quick to judge. Who hasn't forgotten a bomb in their luggage from a previous car trip?
:lol:
OldDude
08-11-05, 03:14 PM
Some later articles:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-11T055022Z_01_SPI121009_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-OKLAHOMACITY.xml
Oklahoma man held before boarding plane with bomb
Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:50 AM BST
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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man was taken into custody after he tried to carry a bomb on board an airplane on Wednesday in Oklahoma City, an FBI spokesman said.
Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr., 24, was detained on Wednesday morning after a security screener using an X-ray machine saw the device in his luggage as he tried to board a flight to Philadelphia at Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City.
"Although the investigation is in its initial stages we have found no apparent connection to any type of terrorist activity or group," FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said.
Johnson said the screener saw an "improvised explosive device" in Dreyling's carry-on luggage.
A woman answering the phone at Dreyling's home on Wednesday night declined to discuss the matter.
Johnson said Dreyling would be charged in federal court on Thursday with possession of an explosive device at an airport.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/12356384.htm
. . . The incident is the first report of an explosive being intercepted at an airport checkpoint since airport security was heightened after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. . . .
johnglass
08-12-05, 02:03 PM
Another update, looks like X was on to something (http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-airport-arrest,0,1435512,print.story)
August 12, 2005, 8:16 AM EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Federal agents arrested a college student after finding a small explosive device in his baggage as he passed through an airport security checkpoint.
Officials have found no apparent connection between University of Oklahoma student Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr. and any terrorist group or activity, said Agent Gary Johnson, an FBI spokesman.
Dreyling, 24, was released on $10,000 bail Thursday after appearing in federal court. He faces a federal charge of trying to get on an aircraft with an explosive device. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Dreyling was going through the security checkpoint at Will Rogers World Airport on Wednesday when a Transportation Security Administration employee noticed something suspicious in his bag on the X-ray machine, Johnson said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Troester described the device as a carbon-dioxide cartridge with a black-powder detonator.
But Dreyling's landlord, former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys, said he had created a "glorified firecracker" and forgot it was in his luggage.
"I know Charlie Dreyling quite well," Humphreys said. "I appreciate what the authorities are doing making our airlines safe. I have every confidence that they'll find out Charlie Dreyling is a fine young man and no terrorist."
Dreyling had planned to take a Delta flight to Philadelphia through Atlanta, airport spokeswoman Karen Carney said. The arrest did not disrupt any flights, Carney said.
Dreyling told authorities he built the device for entertainment value, never intending to hurt anyone and forgot that it was in his carryon bag when he brought it to the airport, according to an affidavit.
General Zod
08-12-05, 02:38 PM
I'm sure my local airport will get a real kick out of my Alarm Clock w/Flares device I tie together with some tape to make sure I don't lose any of the pieces. It's purely for entertainment value.
X
08-12-05, 03:47 PM
A CO2 cartridge filled with black powder is a pretty dangerous item to have in one's possession. It's not going to take out a plane but it can do a real job on someone's body.
DVD Polizei
08-12-05, 04:31 PM
Take him out to the local garbage landfill, and have him detonate the device.
Then shoot him in the back of the head.
Have lunch.
General Zod
08-12-05, 04:38 PM
Take him out to the local garbage landfill, and have him detonate the device.
Then shoot him in the back of the head.
Have lunch.
This is one of the most disgusting and repulsive things i've ever read posted on here!
Who would want to have lunch in a landfill? :wacko:
Thor Simpson
08-12-05, 07:11 PM
I hope they're providing a prayer mat and holy book for this guy while he's being held! :mad:
Mordred
08-12-05, 11:33 PM
This is one of the most disgusting and repulsive things i've ever read posted on here!
Who would want to have lunch in a landfill? :wacko:rotfl
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