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Saudi Man Arrested At Detroit Airport For Owning Pressure Cooker
Meet the new "WMD" whose merest ownership is sufficient to get you arrested. That, and having an Arabic sounding name of course.
From (the soon to be broke?) Detroit News:
Man from Saudi Arabia arrested at Detroit airport with pressure cooker
Federal agents arrested a Saudi Arabian traveler who arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker, a key component used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.
Hussain Al Kwawahir will be arraigned at 1 p.m. in federal court for allegedly using an altered passport and lying to a Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker.
Al Kwawahir arrived at the airport Saturday from Saudi Arabia, via Amsterdam, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in federal court.
He told agents he was visiting his nephew, who attends the University of Toledo.
During baggage inspection, officers noticed a page missing from his passport.
Al Kwawahir told officers he did not know how the page was removed from the passport.
During the baggage exam, officers found a pressure cooker.
Al Kwawahir said he brought the pressure cooker for his nephew because the devices are not sold in the United States, according to the complaint.
Later, he changed his story and admitted that his nephew had purchased a pressure cooker in the U.S. but it was cheap and broken
Moral of the story: don't lie about your pressure cooker. Also, it may be time for Hawkins to change their slogan:
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Bizarro world just keeps getting more and more bizarre.
Wait till it's just a thermos. It's coming.
Words, even thoughts are more dangerous than the biggest pressure cooker on the market. Except for spastica rex's.
When does bernanke get arrested for keeping all of us in a pressure cooker?
Time to short Presto???
That's hilarious. What a f'ing idiot.
Sorry, but unless he has been living in a cave (a distinct possibility) he ought to know that it is stupid for a Saudi to fly to the USA with a pressure cooker.
I know, right? He could have bought it cheaper in Wal-mart.
So basically every three letter government agency now has the right to search every home in the US because Mrs Smith might own a WMD?!
It's for the "children."
F-ing brilliant ploy BTW. Too much push-back from the Secondo Amendmento crowd for the bang-bang sticks, but everybody hates Pressure Cookers now!
Well what would you do if you couldn't afford a plane ticket all the way home to Riyahd, but you could afford a plane ticket from Detroit to Boston... and a preasure cooker, too?
I know what I would do.
Raw diets biatches!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcafnJFJn_s
I bet that wench of a mother from "Blueberries for Sal" owned a pressure cooker.
I could give two shits about the pressure cooker, but I can't argue with detaining someone who has a page missing from their passport.
Still echoes an East German Polizie asking if my papeerz are in order....
Entry into a country by a foreign national is a good reason to ask for papers.
Tell that to that Napolitano DHS dude.
arab + plane + pressure cooker = explosive mix
Are they all really that stupid? Your idiotic bretheren just blew up a bunch of people in Boston with pressure cookers and now you're walking through an airport with one, plus you have fake passport as well? Yes, you are that stupid!
Yes
This was a test probe...
This is RAYCIS!
BTW I'm FAR more worried about terrorist organization such as US Congress/Senate, White House, FBI CIA DHS etc rather than a Saudi tryin to make some curry.
Was he hiding a pack of matches in the pressure cooker? Or box-cutters, or a pair of scissors over 3.35" long?
Just in - Congress is proposing to ban 97 types of pressure cookers. 425 other types of pressure cookers will remain leagal. Leaders are targeting the 97 types of pressure cookers because they are painted black, have an extra handle, and generally, look scary to them.
3D printer plans for pressure cooker leaked on intertubes !
state department on high alert! (all answering machines activated...)
president cutting today's golf outing to 9 holes!
But it is going to take some time before they can finalize the 43,000 pages of regulations needed to implement these new rules.
And there will be background checks and yet another list.
It's just common sense restrictions on your freedom, everybody can agree with that.
Meet the new "WMD" whose merest ownership is sufficient to get you arrested. That, and having an Arabic sounding name of course.
AKA putting two and two together (however haplesslly).
We can't have a "zero tolerance" policy on pressure cookers - I'm guessing there is at least one pressure cooker per Hispanic household in the USA.
Lock 'em up, too. The terrorists. And lets say the word "terrorist" some more to whip the sheeple into a frenzy. Intersperse with imagry of the American flag and Jesus and illiterate white people and other 'Merican stuff.
You're a racist cocksucker.
Well, you know the new ZH policy... if you see something, say something...
"You're a racist cocksucker."
Well, you're anti-homo
I'm curious what the 'true' extent of his passport alterations were. Was said pressure cooker full of gold and silver ball bearings?
Another form of censorship: chaff.
Keep in mind, He was getting OFF plane when they found the cooker.
Keeping merca,
safe.
What, Middle Easern looking people are allowed to OWN pressure cookers?! Something must be done. We need to get in front of this before it spins out of control. Shirly we can create a "Middle Easern looking dude" database and cross references to the Facebook "I love pressure cookers" fan page and Google searches or something. Jeeze. Fucking weak on terror politicians. I am pisseed.
I bet DHS have tagged everyone who has 'liked' Facebook's Fertiliser, Al Qaeda, and pressure cooker fan pages.
They're clever like that.
The United States of Fucking Farce.
BTW, the best pressure cookers come from Italy.
Germany - Fissler or WMF
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/fissler-vitaquick-quattro-pressu...|pressure%2Bcooker|10|best|0|1|24||1&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-Feature_Recipe_Rule-_-
Probably made in China.
Sandmann,
Nice picks but sorry mate, you want a pressure cooker that prepares the very best when your guests are waiting on the finest cusine?
Theres only one friend, the name, the brand, the best,
PRESTIGE, English, beautifull and it works, not like half the fuckers that live here like.
But a time tested, never changing piece of British brilliance, so long as you dont fly with it.
And no, I dont work for prestige, I work for Tefal, load of fucking Jap shit.
;-)
"PRESTIGE, English, beautifull and it works,"
Isn't that an oxymoronic statement, or did I just violate the new ZH policies?
The Aeternum Astral Lux Stainless Steel Pressure Cookers are the best in the world. Simple. Elegant. Lasts forever. Only need to replace the rubber seal once every 5-10 years. Perfect for making the perfect brown rice each and every time.
http://www.albionjuicer.com/pressure.html
You sound like a saleman no2fore,
Never heard of the strange and diabolical machine you are peddling here friend, what you need is a British made PRESTIGE 6 Litre special, a monument to time tested briliance that could never be matched. And on that vague notice of replacing the rubber seal every 5-10 years? What a vague timeline you advertise, where as the PRESTIGE brand from Britain only needs replacing every 6-10 years is a much better actuality of the busy life we lead and the use it will provide I have proved beyond reasonable doubt that the British PRESTIGE cooker is the match you and heaven were waiting for.
Did I tell you that I work for Tefal of Japan? Cheap knocked off shit from the middle east mate, wouldnt touch that shit with a barge pole.
;-)
Nop. Just a very happy user of their product for over 20 years.
no2fore,
I was ribbing you, sorry mate, brilliant products, just a bit dry humour acting as a Prestige salesman.
;-)
Thats me fucked,
I'm on a plane your way on Thursady, only problem is I sell Tefal frying pans and have a nice compact selection in my carry on.
50 Years hard for me then?
Fucking sheer lunacy????? :-(
Dinah Sheridan my ass...everyone knows that's Nancy Pelosi in that picture.
I just got my Pressure Cooker License, and I took my Pressure Cooker Safety class, and got my Pressure Cooker Permit.
Don't forget your concealed pressure cooker permit...
Is that a pressure cooker in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?
Curious, did they perform a background check with the FBI, contact your psychoanalyst and astrologist?
If not, I'm going to hide :)
I just got my Pressure Cooker License, and I took my Pressure Cooker Safety class, and got my Pressure Cooker Permit.
The FBI were smart enough to get suspicious when he didn't also apply for the Pressure Cooker-Prepared Food Eating Permit. They're not dumb, those folks!
But what good is it going to do you if you can't find anything to load into it?
In response to the growing infringements upon our freedoms I have founded the following company
Pressure Cooker Distributed
Our 3D printable pressure cookers will be released shortly
Please support us or you may lose your inalienable right to pressure cook your food
For the love of *censored* don't let the terrorists win
Man from Saudi Arabia arrested at Detroit airport with pressure cooker
Hussain Al Kwawahir will be arraigned at 1 p.m. in federal court for allegedly using an altered passport and lying to a Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker.
This is very sloppy, they didn't charge him for owning a pressure cooker, this looks staged anyway as more conditioning for the masses to accept anything the government says.
The government can and does charge people with frivolous charges that almost always get dropped at a later time, assuming you know the law and know who you are.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams
Police try to write every possible charge so when they do sloppy work some of the charges may still stick.
"Hussain Al Kwawahir will be arraigned at 1 p.m. in federal court for allegedly using an altered passport and lying to a Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker."
If it is not illegal to bring it in, why are they asking him about it in the first instance?
Because Customs is one of the few places where you have absolutely no right to privacy. Questions are nuthin compared to what they can do if they want.
Remember the fuss over doing cavity searches looking for MJ inside peeps coming back from Jamaica? Gave new meaning to term "good shit."
Before that fuss caused them to write up some rules for cause, they could order a body cavity search and and abdominal x-ray on anyone they wanted.
Al Kwawahir said he brought the pressure cooker for his nephew because the devices are not sold in the United States, according to the complaint. Later, he changed his story and admitted that his nephew had purchased a pressure cooker in the U.S. but it was cheap and broken.
So POS cooker smuggled out of the US then back in again?
Burn him!
Not the first either: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323316/FBI-surrounds-house-Saudi-student-following-sightings-pressure-cooker-pot-cooking-rice.html
pressure cooker = "domestic" terrorism
The entire economy is a pressure cooker.
we have to keep a lid on it or she's gonna blow
extraordinarily rendition his ass!
They used to hate us for our pressure cooker freedoms...
Get ready for the summer botulism outbreak.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!
Holy fucking shit! Thank GOD they caught this maniacal lunatic! He could have cooked something in that cooker, and then what the fuck chance would our children have of surviving?! Seriously, this catch could easily have saved or created millions of lives! Go big sis! USA! USA!
A while back I posted how a guy form Yemen send a laserjet cartridge filled with explosives. I did not go off. My point was that no one should be sending electronics stuff to US. You would think that you can buy stuff cheaper here and customs should have jump on it. But, logic is not prerequisite to a job.
I got junk for because I should how absurd things are and no one seems to notice until too late.
Next thing would be a bomb in a shoe; people probably forgot about that . Wash, rinse, and repeat.
You think electronics stuff are made in the USA? Have you ever looked at the stickers on it?
I recently purchased a 22 Quart Pressure Cooker to can my home-grown vegetables. Which gets me on the watch list? Or does the combination qualify me for extra special treatment? PS, I don't use Monsanto seeds.
Some of us don't forget the shoe bomber or the mixing liquids in pants bomber because a) they were both mentally retarded and b) both appeared to be security theatre.
On 22 December 2001, a passenger on Flight 63 from Paris to Miami, complained of a smoke smell in the cabin shortly after a meal service. One flight attendant, Hermis Moutardier, thinking she smelled a burnt match, walked the aisles of the plane, trying to assess the source. A passenger pointed to Reid, who was sitting alone near a window and attempting to light a match. Moutardier warned him that smoking was not allowed on the airplane. Reid promised to stop.
A few minutes later, Moutardier found Reid leaned over in his seat. Her attempts to get his attention failed. After asking "What are you doing?" Reid grabbed at her, revealing one shoe in his lap, a fuse which led into the shoe, and a lit match. She tried grabbing Reid twice, but he pushed her to the floor each time, and she yelled for help, and ran to get water.[wiki]
Can you tell me if lighting det cord attached to c4 with a match works?
Primacord is initiated with a blasting cap or by a donor line of detonating cord or other high explosive. It detonates along its entire length at a velocity of approximately 23,000 feet (7,000 meters) per second. It is used to create explosive effects and to build reliable explosive charges. It is used in conjunction with other high explosive materials to form charges, including linear charges, capable of near instantaneous results [wiki]
Here's the entire product manual for primacord (WARNING PDF: MIGHT TRIGGER WARNINGS FROM PARANOID ISPS and clueless security people), and I couldn't see "fire" being a way to ignite it. Electrical current maybe (metal on metal contact a problem: is this due to spark or electrical static charge? serious q'tion, it's page 56 for reference). Maybe I'm cynical, but if you're providing C4 and det cord, the least you could do is spring for a blasting cap that's available on the same damn product line ordering form... If only those terrorists could use Google, and read the tech sheets from the company that made their gear, they wouldn't use matches? BETTER SHUT THE INTARWEB DOWN!
The point is, sending explosives to the US may be illegal, but sending ink cartridges or pressure cookers is not. Explosives, like drugs and other items someone wants to smuggel, can be hidden in all manner of objects. Ink cartridges and pressure cookers are not explosives, and to bring them into the US is neither a crime nor suspicious. In addition, logic is not a prerequisite for posting.
I was going to link to this, but the original source is the Daily Mail via Beruit via Saudi Arabia on Friday. Now even the Nigerian Tribune is running it (I was their 360ish viewer! Raising advertising profits in Africa from across the globe!). Translated: there's a lot of FUD in this story, and I've not seen any reporter actually contact the FBI yet.
Tyler, give them a call, get a scoop!
Some one set up us the pressure cooker.
racism against pressure cookers. :( life is not fair
Maybe he was on his way here...
http://rt.com/usa/westland-michigan-hostage-bomb-222/
The US Gov making it easier every day to bang you up or beat you to death, your choice just resist arrest.
First they will come for your pressure cookers. Your children will be next.
Saudi planes let pilgrims cook on board. Clearly this airline did not let him cook his own meals during the flight. Which airline was it ?
Do we really care if someone blows up Detroit? It's a cesspool and financial trainwreck. Scrape it and start over.
The guy probably got in trouble for altering his passport (note to terrorists in training, slip a $100 to the Afgani border guard not to stamp your passport), not the pressure cooker.
They hate us for our pressure-cooked freedom-fries.
I think the next time I fly I will rub one out into a small plastic specimen cup. I wonder what they'll say when they ask what it is and I say "my essence."
Serves him right, everyone knows you can't ship pressure cookers with the lid and the pot in the same container. Sheesh...
dp
PUBLIC NOTICE: If you look for a pressure cooker for your mother on Amazon, the FBI will be notified, and the IRS will audit the fuck out of you.
You have been warned.
First they came for the pressure cookers, but did not own a pressure cooker...so I said nothing...
God forbid if you use it to can items out of your garden, or venison out of that deer you shot, and store some food and be self-reliant!
Can't have that, now, can we?
I think the point that is being missed is the pressure cooker was discovered after landing. It was in the belly of that jet all the way.
i'll bet he was cooking up some diabolical plan
lol
Absolutely the best way to cook the books.
Race/religion issues aside, you have to be pretty fucking clueless to try and bring a pressure cooker on a plane this close to the Boston episode. Look what they did after the stupid shoe dick. I'm still amazed they don't make us take our underwear off after that retard either.
I have often thought of :
going to Iran to pick up those very special pressure cookers not available anywhere else.
hiding it in my bag
lieing about my reasons for bringing it on plane
cutting a page out of my passport, probably the page to Iran
Just kidding NSA web bots
My name is Presshi-cook Al Wa and I am student at culinary school…
you will pry my pressure cooker out of my cold dead hands
It wasn't registered...
i get nervous now thinking about all those meals MOM prepared for us in her trusty PC.
so many recipes, so many pressure cookers!
www.missvickie.com
I have a pressure cooker. It's a Mirro, I believe; nothing fancy, but it works just fine. I use it to make pulled pork, some soups, and to can vegetables.
Oh, wait. I don't have it all any more, more's the pity. There was this boating accident...glug-glug-glug...I was keeping precious metal coins in it...
Damn.
Pot = illegal
When I cook a pot of chili I laugh at danger though death is my co-pilot and the devil dances on my pressure regulator.
Maybe Obummer's goose was meant to be put in it and then cooked
What scheming !!
Now the DHS can use the pressure cooker to cook their own goose.!!!
And my dumb-ass went and bought body armor 'cause I thought THAT was the next thing to be banned. Shoulda, coulda, woulda gotten a pressure cooker.
Can you 3D print a pressure cooker?
So, ordering one of these will get me on yet another watch list?
Then, the nice men at the airport will touch me all that much more passionately?