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Middle East
Suitcase Explosion Kills One in Jordan
2003-05-01
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.
Posted by:Steve

#6  Better luck next time...
Posted by: Raj   2003-05-02 09:31:34  

#5  "No live grenades allowed. I'll just pull the pin, and see if it's live..."
Posted by: Hermetic   2003-05-01 16:06:16  

#4  The officer was testing the piece and it exploded, killing him instantly and injured three others.

I'm kinda wondering how the security guard "tested" the piece.....

"Khalid, please hand me that hammer. I need to check this to make sure it's okay."
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-05-01 15:46:27  

#3  Sorry, Raj, it was Door #2.
A Jordanian airport security guard was killed Thursday at Amman's international airport when a piece of ordnance taken from Iraq exploded while the bag of a Japanese journalist was being searched, officials said. Edwan said a Japanese journalist "who had come from Baghdad was returning home via Cairo when the security guard asked him to open his bag." He added that when the guard saw a "piece of metal, the journalist told him it was a souvenir from the war in Iraq. The officer was testing the piece and it exploded, killing him instantly and injured three others."
Raj, thank you for playing "What's In Your Bag?".

Posted by: Steve   2003-05-01 13:09:53  

#2  I'll take Door #3, Monty...
Posted by: Raj   2003-05-01 12:46:34  

#1  Better luck next time...
Posted by: Raj   5/2/2003 9:31:34 AM  

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