Eyewitness: “I Never Heard the Word ‘Bomb'”
`At least one passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 924 maintains the federal air marshals were a little too quick on the draw when they shot and killed Rigoberto Alpizar as he frantically attempted to run off the airplane shortly before take-off. [..]
�I never heard the word �bomb� on the plane,� McAlhany told TIME in a telephone interview. �I never heard the word bomb until the FBI asked me did you hear the word bomb. That is ridiculous.� Even the authorities didn�t come out and say bomb, McAlhany says. �They asked, �Did you hear anything about the b-word?�� he says. �That�s what they called it.� [..]
�I was on the phone with my brother. Somebody came down the aisle and put a shotgun to the back of my head and said put your hands on the seat in front of you. I got my cell phone karate chopped out of my hand. Then I realized it was an official.�
In the ensuing events, many of the passengers began crying in fear, he recalls. �They were pointing the guns directly at us instead of pointing them to the ground,� he says �One little girl was crying. There was a lady crying all the way to the hotel.�’
That’s the best way to fight terror. Putting shotguns to innocent peoples heads and making children cry. Take that, Osama!
