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To: unclewest who wrote (340358)	12/28/2009 4:49:36 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

He may have been sitting above a fuel tank but he was not going to damage that tank while seated in an aircraft seat with 3 ounces in his BVDs. AQ's demo men know that. They are highly skilled. Therefore I do not believe the intent was to take out the aircraft by damaging the fuel tank. I certainly defer to your experience on this one. Something else then? Could this have been a probe to test security and also to see what the reaction would be? CLAIM: Man videotaped entire flight... They were sitting about 20 rows behind Abdulmutallab, in a center aisle with her husband and daughter a row ahead of her and their two new adopted children, a six-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy. Her daughter said that ahead of them was a man who videotaped the entire flight, including the attempted detonation. "He sat up and videotaped the entire thing, very calmly," said Patricia. "We do know that the FBI is looking for him intensely. Since then, we've heard nothing about it." 620wtmj.com