{"id":2934,"date":"2006-08-16T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/16\/vaseline-and-matches-and-al-qaeda-oh-my-oh-wait-nah\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T16:23:28","slug":"vaseline-and-matches-and-al-qaeda-oh-my-oh-wait-nah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/16\/vaseline-and-matches-and-al-qaeda-oh-my-oh-wait-nah\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaseline and Matches and al-Qaeda, Oh My! Oh Wait, Nah."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within half an hour, we were told of a woman who went berserk on a flight and was found to be carrying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/infoimaging\/feeds\/ap\/2006\/08\/16\/ap2953732.html\">matches, vaseline, a screwdriver, and not one but TWO letters mentioning al-Qaeda<\/a> &#8212; one in English and the other in Arabic. And then slowly these items disappeared and the story became one of a <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14375133\/\">60-year-old woman who became claustrophobic<\/a>, causing the diversion of her London-DC flight to Boston. I can understand the confusion about whether or not a terrorist was on board this flight or if any of this was cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>But where the f*ck did all that other crap come from? Someone <em>clearly <\/em>made all this up. Vaseline? <em>Letters about al-Qaeda<\/em>!? Someone wants you to be scared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within half an hour, we were told of a woman who went berserk on a flight and was found to be carrying matches, vaseline, a screwdriver, and not one but TWO letters mentioning al-Qaeda &#8212; one in English and the other in Arabic. And then slowly these items disappeared and the story became one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}