BREAKING: London To DC Flight Diverted Due To "Dangerous Situation"
UNBREAKING: Seems Like An Overeaction; Initial Reports May Be Largely Wrong

Update: Read the link below all the way through to get to current state of play. It appears to be little more than claustrophobia and, well, just being an asshole. How that stuff about the notes got out is unclear.

A woman with a screwdriver, vaseline (?), matches, and two notes, one in English, one in Arabic. The note purportedly references Al Qaeda, or is actually from Al Qaeda.

I question the timing of Andrew Sullivan's questioning of the timing.

It's like he's a Rove plant, jumping on the question-the-timing insanity just in time to discredit it.

I always thought he was a huckster. Is he playing a double-game of hucksterism?

A Muddle, But Appears Harmless: From Allah, quoting The Blotter.

Police at Logan Airport tell ABC News that a full search is underway of the passenger jet. The female passenger who originally aroused suspicions has already been searched, and so far authorities have recovered a bottle of petroleum jelly, a bottle of water and literature in what appears to be Arabic but could turn out to be another language. A translator has been summoned to determine language and contents.

A senior homeland security official in Massachusetts tells ABC News that so far neither a screwdriver nor a note referencing al Qaeda has been found contrary to previous media reports.

Now comes the lecturing and hectoring about "overreactions" and "anti-Muslim backlash."

Root causes, baby. We wouldn't overreact if you weren't always trying to murder us.

You must understand the non-Islamic point of view.

Which is, basically: Stop trying to kill us.

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