“An examination by two doctors on board determined that she had no visible
scars indicating any kind of implant.”
Marigot had also given the attendant a book about her personal story, which
was also in French.
The US Airways plane, flight 787, flying from Paris, was diverted to Maine,
where the woman was taken into custody by the FBI before the flight
continued to North Carolina.
The plane and luggage was searched on arrival in Bangor but no explosives or
dangerous items were found, the statement said.
Following the investigations, Marigot was to be taken into custody by US
border officials and sent back to France, the justice department added.
Coming on the heels of a thwarted airline bomb plot by Al-Qaeda’s Yemen
branch, the incident has laid bare US worry over shifting tactics of
militants as they seek new ways – and new technologies, including
non-metallic bombs – to penetrate ever-tighter US security.
Last year, US officials warned airlines that militant groups were studying how
to surgically hide bombs inside humans to evade airport checks.
The head of the House Homeland Security Committee, Representative Peter King,
said there should have been red flags when the woman boarded with no luggage.
“She was flying for 10 days. I think if that had been in the US, she would
have been taken aside for secondary screening,” he said on CNN.
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