A bag exploded near the luggage screening area at Jordan's international airport Thursday evening, killing a security guard, authorities said. Police arrested the suspected owner of the bag, a Japanese journalist who told authorities he had no knowledge that he had an explosive device in his possession. The man detained at Queen Alia International Airport had arrived from Baghdad, said CNN correspondent Rula Amin, who was at the airport when the bag exploded. "He told me, 'It's not me; it's not me,'" Amin said. The official Petra news agency said three other people were injured. It called the bomb a "remnant from the war in Iraq." The bag was checked on an EgyptAir flight to Cairo, Egypt.
Humm, several possibilities come to mind:1 - he was carrying a bomb on purpose, to blow up the plane, airport, or to deliver to somebody else.
2 - he had picked up a explosive device, grenade, shell, RPG, etc, as a war trophy, and it went off.
3 - somebody had slipped a bomb in his bag without his knowledge.
4 - it wasn't his bag, it was the one next to it, but he caught the blame for it. |