SAN FRANCISCO -- A crazed man whose political and religious beliefs are completely irrelevant and so won't be mentioned who pounded on the cockpit door as an American Airlines flight from Chicago approached San Francisco on Sunday evening has no clear or known ties to terrorism, police said on Monday.
| And no one's going to say otherwise, even if the smart boys at FBI toss his life completely. |
Authorities have not established a possible motive for why
| None. They're clueless. No, really, the authorities are clueless. |
Rageit Almurisi, 28, got up from his seat and went toward the cockpit door 10 minutes before the flight was supposed to land, San Francisco police Sgt. Michael Rodriguez said.
| Maybe he was upset over paying $8 for a Bloody Mary? |
But Rodriguez told the San Francisco Chronicle that Almurisi had no clear connection to terrorism.
| Rodriguez wouldn't know, would he. The good sergeant likely has been conditioned by all the lefty politics in San-Fran to keep his mouth shut. |
Almurisi, who had a Yemeni passport, was yelling in Arabic unintelligibly as he brushed past a flight attendant, Rodriguez said.
| How do we know it was unintelligible? Perhaps it made perfect sense in Arabic. |
A male flight attendant tackled him,
| Good job. Hope you drove your knee into Almurisi's kidneys... |
and other crew members and two passengers -- a retired Secret Service agent and a retired San Mateo police officer -- aided as he banged on the cockpit door, Rodriguez said.
"They were able to get him to ground and a flight attendant put him in plastic handcuffs," Rodriguez told The Associated Press.
| After landing on him a few more times. |
The Boeing 737 carrying 162 people landed safely at 9:10 p.m. and the man was taken into police custody.
| Here's hoping they thumped him down the jetway... |
The flight came from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
| What was his stop before Chicago? |
Though he carried a Yemeni passport, it wasn't clear if Almurisi's nationality was also Yemeni, Rodriguez said.
| He could have been a Pakistaini... |
During the scuffle, Almurisi sustained some bruises in his kidneys and was checked at a hospital before being transported to San Mateo County Jail, the officer said.
| Let's hope he's peeing blood for a few days... |
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