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Home Front: WoT
Man with multiple Passports bolts from Security Screeners
2008-02-26
Moved to Home Front: WoT, as that's what this looks like. AoS.
A man carrying multiple passports, including one from Lebanon, bolted from security screeners at Miami International Airport on Monday afternoon, leaping 25 feet off the second-floor concourse and breaking his arm and ribs. He was whisked away to the jail ward at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where on Monday night he was being questioned by local, state and federal investigators.

The man, who identified himself as Faid Beydoun, 42, was bound for Los Angeles. His jail record lists an alias: Miguel Garcia.
Two other men, also headed to Los Angeles, were taken off a later flight still on the tarmac. They told investigators they had paid for the man's plane ticket and that he was their Miami Beach party guide.

None of the men was found with any weapons or dangerous material. Miami-Dade police, in a news release late Monday, charged Beydoun with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence. His jail record lists an alias: Miguel Garcia.
We've been waiting for this - use of Hispanic covers for Islamicists from the middle east and elsewhere.
At least one of the other men hails from Bahrain. The two men described Beydoun as a well-known party promoter who knows the best U.S. night spots. The men had apparently been partying in Miami-Dade, spending lavishly.

At Concourse D, just after 2 p.m., Beydoun passed through a security checkpoint but was flagged for a secondary inspection by federal Transportation Security Administration officers. He had a Lebanese passport and a fraudulent U.S. passport, investigators said.

''He bolted and knocked a few people out of the way, '' said Mark O. Hatfield Jr., TSA's airport security director. Chased by Miami-Dade officers, the man jumped over the second-floor departure concourse and landed outside the baggage-claim area. Despite the broken bones, he ran a bit further. ''The officers on the first floor were able to apprehend him and place him under arrest,'' said Miami-Dade Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, a spokesman.

Miami-Dade police were investigating the men along with South Florida's Joint Terrorism Task Force, and a host of federal and state agencies including the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The concourse was never evacuated, although one security lane was closed briefly.
Posted by:DepotGuy

#6  This story should have a Joel Cairo graphic.
Posted by: bruce   2008-02-26 17:10  

#5  Didn't the 9-11 attackers "party lavishly" before the attack?

Yes.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-02-26 15:28  

#4  Chased by Miami-Dade officers, the man jumped over the second-floor departure concourse and landed outside the baggage-claim area.

I'd pay good money to see that! Well, maybe not the jump, but definitely the landing.
Posted by: Grease Dark Lord of the Algonquins9226   2008-02-26 12:59  

#3  I have a feeling that these guys, and everyone even vaguely associated with them, are going to gain a new and deep appreciation of words like "interrogation", "biometrics", "indefinite", and "rectal".
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-02-26 12:23  

#2  And the plot thickens...

Cops: Airport jumper spurred by coke stash

Faid Beydoun, the man who bolted from a security screening line at Miami International Airport and jumped from the second-story concourse, has also been charged with cocaine possession.

Beydoun was bound for Los Angeles. Two men he had been staying with in South Beach were pulled from another LAX-bound flight, still on the tarmac, and questioned. Beydoun had given one of them his luggage pieces to check in -- and it contained cocaine, police say. The two businessman had purchased Beydoun's fare to Los Angeles.

The men described Beydoun as a well-known party promoter who knows the best U.S. night spots. All three had been staying at the Delano Hotel, spending lavishly.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-02-26 11:03  

#1  Didn't the 9-11 attackers "party lavishly" before the attack?
Posted by: charger   2008-02-26 10:53  

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