It was initially reported as an attempted shoe bombing. Next the idea was that it was what can only be called a very ill-considered joke on the part of the man taken into custody. Now it seems the guy in question was smoking in the airplane restroom and when the plane crew asked what he was doing he said something that sounded like he was saying he was lighting his shoe on fire. As you might expect, at that point all hell broke loose.I vaguely recall this was basically the plot for Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay...
The reports remain contradictory -- whether he making a joke or simply misunderstood. But no one seems to believe he was trying to detonate anything. And they've apparently determined that there were no explosives involved.
But I'm not really laughing right now. At all. This guy's a diplomat? I'm thinking "not for much longer."
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Yea what an idiot.
This day and age you cannot make comments like that, maybe between friends if you both have a common understanding of the context from which it's being made. Anyone else will take you seriously and react as such.
AP - Anonymous US officials report today that it has yet to be determined if diplomatic immunity will protect a Qatari diplomat from having to eat the cockmeat sandwich.
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