I think this guy just might be the biggest jerk journalist in history!
Imagine taking a GRENADE as a souvenir!
Poor airport security guard -- it had to "eat it" because of this reporter putz!
Here's the link to the story:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3452346&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
Journalist's souvenir grenade kills airports security guard
02.05.2003 8.27 am
AMMAN - A grenade, carried from Iraq as a war souvenir by a Japanese journalist, exploded at Amman airport in Jordan on Thursday, killing a security officer and injuring several other people, a security source said.
"They opened the suitcase and it exploded and killed one security officer," the source told Reuters, adding that the explosion happened next to the luggage-screening machine.
The journalist, who was travelling through Amman en route back to Tokyo, was slightly hurt in the blast along with three people who were nearby.
Information Minister Mohammad al-Adwan told the state news agency Petra the grenade exploded as the security officer was examining it. The X-ray machine had detected a metal object in the journalist's luggage.
"The journalist brought this explosive as a war relic," Adwan was quoted as saying.
The journalist, who was detained after the incident, was taking a flight to Cairo from the Jordanian capital where he was due to travel onwards to Japan.
Authorities tightened security around Alia international airport and began a full investigation of the blast.
******
Jerk! Jerk! Jerk!
:banghead:
Imagine taking a GRENADE as a souvenir!
Poor airport security guard -- it had to "eat it" because of this reporter putz!
Here's the link to the story:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3452346&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
Journalist's souvenir grenade kills airports security guard
02.05.2003 8.27 am
AMMAN - A grenade, carried from Iraq as a war souvenir by a Japanese journalist, exploded at Amman airport in Jordan on Thursday, killing a security officer and injuring several other people, a security source said.
"They opened the suitcase and it exploded and killed one security officer," the source told Reuters, adding that the explosion happened next to the luggage-screening machine.
The journalist, who was travelling through Amman en route back to Tokyo, was slightly hurt in the blast along with three people who were nearby.
Information Minister Mohammad al-Adwan told the state news agency Petra the grenade exploded as the security officer was examining it. The X-ray machine had detected a metal object in the journalist's luggage.
"The journalist brought this explosive as a war relic," Adwan was quoted as saying.
The journalist, who was detained after the incident, was taking a flight to Cairo from the Jordanian capital where he was due to travel onwards to Japan.
Authorities tightened security around Alia international airport and began a full investigation of the blast.
******
Jerk! Jerk! Jerk!
:banghead: