വിമാനത്തിലെ ബാത് റും ഏറെ നേരം ഉപയോഗിച്ചതിനു അറസ്റ്റിലായ മൂന്നു പേരില്‍ രണ്ടു പേര്‍ ഇന്ത്യാക്കാര്‍. യുധവിമാനങ്ങളുടെ അകമ്പടിയില്‍ ഡിറ്റ്രോയിറ്റില്‍ഇറക്കിയ വിമാനത്തില്‍ നിന്നു അറസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്‌തെങ്കിലും പിന്നീടു നിരുപാധികം എല്ലാവരെയും വിട്ടു.
നടി സംയുക്താ വര്‍മ്മക്കും ഗ്രൂപ്പിനും ഏതാനും വര്‍ഷം മുന്‍പു സംഭവിച്ച അതെ അനുഭവമാണു സെപ്റ്റംബര്‍ 11-നു ഡെന്‍ വറില്‍ നിന്നു ഡിട്രോയിറ്റിലേക്കുള്ള ഫ്രോണ്ടിയര്‍ എയര്‍ലൈന്‍സ് ഫ്‌ളൈറ്റ് 623-ല്‍ യാത്ര ചെയ്തവര്‍ക്കുണ്ടായത്. മൂന്നു പേരും ഒരെ റോയില്‍ ഇരിക്കുന്നു. പരസ്പരം പരിചയം ഇല്ല താനും.
അവരില്‍ ഒരാള്‍ അയോവയില്‍ നിന്നുള്ള ആരബ്-യഹുദ വംശജ ഷോഷന്ന ഹെബ്ഷി. അവരാണു ട്വിറ്റര്‍ മുഖേന വിവരം ലോകത്തെ അറിയിച്ചതു.
ഇന്ത്യാക്കാരിലൊരാള്‍ക്ക് അസുഖമായിരുന്നുവേന്ന് എഫ്.ബി.ഐ. പിന്നീടു പറഞ്ഞു. അയാള്‍
ബാത്ര്‍റൂമിലേക്കു പോയ പുറകെ മറ്റെയാളും ബാത്ത് റൂമിലേക്കു പോയി.
ഇതു കണ്ട ഒരു യാത്രക്കാരി വിമാന ജീവനക്കാരെ സംശയം അറിയിച്ചു. 3 ഭീകരര്‍ 9/11 ദിനത്തില്‍ സ്‌ഫോടനത്തിനു എത്തിയിട്ടുണ്ടെന്നു ഹില്ലരി ക്ലിന്റണും മറ്റും പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചതും അവരുടെ ഓര്‍മയിലുണ്ടാകാം. മൂന്നാളും ഇരുണ്ട നിറക്കാര്‍. പോരെ പൂരം.
ദേശീയ തലത്തില്‍ ആകാംക്ഷയായി. രണ്ടു എഫ്-16 യുധ വിമാനങ്ങള്‍ യാത്രാ വിമാനത്തിനു അകമ്പടിയായി.
വിമാനം ഇറങ്ങിയപ്പോള്‍ യുധ്ധ സന്നധരായ ആയുധ ധാരികള്‍ വിമാനത്തില്‍ കയറി. മൂന്നാളെയും വിലങ്ങു വച്ചു ചോദ്യം ചെയ്യാന്‍ കോണ്ടു പോയി.
മണിക്കൂറുകള്‍ക്കു ശേഷം മൂവരെയും വിട്ടയച്ചു. ഇന്ത്യാക്കാരുടെ പേരോ വിവരമോ പുറത്തു വിട്ടിട്ടില്ല.
ഷോഷന്ന ഹെബ്ഷി എഴുതിയത് വായിക്കുക
http://shebshi.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/some-real-shock-and-awe-racially-profiled-and-cuffed-in-detroit/

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Shoshana Hebshi will never forget where she was on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.

She and two other airline passengers were handcuffed and strip-searched after flying into Detroit on Sunday.

No charges were filed against Hebshi, a self-described "half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife living in suburban Ohio," or the two men sitting next to her, who were flying in from Denver when the crew of Frontier Airlines Flight 623 alerted authorities that they were reportedly behaving suspiciously.

In a blog post titled "Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit," Hebshi, an American citizen, told her tale of temporary detainment, which she had begun to share with Twitter followers in real-time — until handcuffs were placed on her wrists.

Hebshi, a writer and editor and mother of twin sons, didn't know the other two passengers in Row 12. They were Indian men, she wrote. And they didn't know each other. But they got a lot closer when they were all crammed into the back of a squad car.

What happened, according to Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuk, begins with a bathroom.

"One of the males, who was not feeling well, got up to use the restroom during the flight. The other male got up at approximately the same time to use the restroom. The female remained seated in her row," the FBI said in a statement.

Crews reported the men sitting next to Hebshi were spending "an extraordinarily long time" in the plane's lavatory, Kowalchuk said.

Amid heightened security fears on the tenth anniversary of the 2001 attacks, no one was taking chances.

Authorities were notified, Kowalchuk told msnbc.com, and F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to escort the plane as it landed in Detroit. The plane landed on a remote tarmac and waited for backup.

Hebshi did not return emails from msnbc.com, and had taken down contact information on her blog Tuesday. The names of the other passengers detained on Sunday have not been released. But Hebshi recalled the incident in great detail on her blog; the FBI did not comment on the specifics of the detainment.

After the plane landed, far from any terminals, the captain told everyone to remain in their seats or "there would be consequences," Hebshi wrote. A group of officers had gathered outside.

Twitter

Hebshi tweeted from the plane before officers arrested her, instructing her to not bring her phone.

"A little concerned about this situation. Plane moved away from terminal surrounded by cops. Crew is mum. Passengers can't get up," she tweeted at the time.

Still unaware that she and her seatmates were the ones police were coming for, Hebshi's concerns at that point were more mundane. "We had been waiting on the plane for a half hour. I had to pee. I wanted to get home and see my family. And I wanted someone to tell us what was going on," she wrote.

"Before I knew it, about 10 cops, some in what looked like military fatigues, were running toward the plane carrying the biggest machine guns I have ever seen."

Plane is stormed
Hebshi sent one more tweet about armed officers as they stormed the plane.

They stopped at Hebshi's row, yelling at the three passengers to get up. Hebshi asked if she could bring her phone; one of the officers told her she couldn't as he yanked her out of her seat.

"What a cliffhanger for my Twitter followers!" she quipped in her blog post.

The three were asked if they had any explosives on them, and then put in the back of a squad car next to the plane.

"The Indian man who had sat next to me on the plane was already in the backseat. I turned to him, shocked, and asked him if he knew what was going on," Hebshi wrote. "I asked him if he knew the other man that had been in our row, and he said he had just met him. I said, it’s because of what we look like. They’re doing this because of what we look like. And I couldn’t believe that I was being arrested and taken away."

Locked up and strip-searched
Meanwhile, the other 113 passengers on board were bused from the tarmac, some to nearby police headquarters for questioning, and bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in to inspect luggage from the plane, a passenger told The Associated Press. Nothing suspicious was found.

Hebshi and her seatmates' next stop would be holding cells at the airport police station. Police interviewed them one at a time, according to her post.

"I heard the officers discuss my impending strip search. They needed to bring in a female officer. At least they were following protocol, or something to that nature. Still, could this really be happening?" she wrote.

Muslim American travelers say they are still carrying 9-11 baggage

Hours later, after being strip-searched and interrogated by the FBI and Homeland Security, Hebshi was allowed to leave.

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