so we let acutal real terrorists we were warned about board planes flying into the us, with bombs strapped to their crotches. BUT
we're not smart enough to take an 8 year old boy off of the list?
Meet Mikey, 8: U.S. Has Him on Watch List
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.
Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.
Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.
“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. “It’s not a myth.”
Michael Winston Hicks’s mother initially sensed trouble when he was a baby and she could not get a seat for him on their flight to Florida at an airport kiosk; airline officials explained that his name “was on the list,” she recalled.
The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2. He cried............
pic: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Michael Hicks, 8, a Cub Scout in Clifton, N.J., has the same name as a suspicious person.
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