Pakistan military abandons US trips after being ‘mistaken for terrorists’

Rob Crilly
London Telegraph
Thursday, September 2, 2010

A delegation of Pakistani military officers has abandoned a trip to the US after being mistaken for terrorists and ordered off an airliner.

The eight officers, led by a two-star Navy rear admiral, were on their way to a meeting at US Central Command.

They had boarded a United Airlines Flight from Washington to Tampa on Monday but were taken off the aircraft because of comments made by one of the men, according to an airline spokesman.

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Pakistani officials said the officer, weary from the journey to the US, had said, “I hope this is the final plane to the destination” causing a female passenger, who believed he was threatening the aircraft, to panic.

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Major General Athar Abbas, a spokesman for the Pakistan military, said the officers had been cleared by subsequent security inspections.

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