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Teenage girl makes terrorist threat to American Airlines on Twitter
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Do you think she should be punished or cautioned? or would you just take it as a joke?
Do you think she should be punished or cautioned? or would you just take it as a joke?
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ETA: American Airlines cant take her I address either,they can request it from Twitter.
Remember that guy who made a joke threat about the US and they arrested him at customs and deported him back to the UK.
Idiots.
She didnt make a threat though
You don't consider sending a tweet to American Airlines, who lost two aircraft on 9/11, claiming to be a member of al-Qaeda who is about to do "something really big" a threat?
She said she's part of Al Queda which is a terror group, so when you see that someone says that, and they say something big is going to happen you'd assume it's a threat, and i believe American Airlines are justified in taking offense at the remark.
It's a bit like me saying to you for example ... "I know where you live and i'm going to come around your house tonight, you better watch out because something big is going to happen" It's not a direct threat, but it is threatening for sure.
What she said was:
"Hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida (sic) and on June 1st I'm gonna do something big bye"
I'd say that constitutes a rather threatening tweet, especially when you consider that American Airlines had one of their planes involved in 9/11.
Really not sure what she was trying to achieve by tweeting that. We really do need to educate our kids about what social media is for.
Nigella isn't barred from the U.S. She just had to apply for a visa as her public cocaine confession made her ineligible for the visa waiver program.
Two. One hit the North Tower and the second the Pentagon.
Two then ;-). Either way, they have a reason to be careful about threats.
So again, they don't have to let this girl into the US if they don't want to so if she does want to visit the US in the future and they spot who she is then she could find her plans ruined.
Bet she thought it was hilarious, wonder if she'd find it so funny if she lost someone she knew in a terrorist attack.
I don't think the decisions are made on a whim, and going by the fact that Nigella was invited to the Embassy to apply, I'm going to assume her chances are good.
I don't know if this girl will be barred for life, but I doubt she'll qualify for ESTA.
Slap on the wrist for her, huge big whack on the arse for American Airlines for responding publicly to it. They have 800,000 followers and that's what generated the massive fuss about it.
Silly girl, stupid airline person.
Some would say that AA responded to the threat to help show awareness, and also to show that they are aware of the comment made. If they didn't respond they'd get floods of Tweets saying "Did you see that tweet someone sent you?" etc;
Well to my mind she did , it wasn't a silly joke that one could laugh at , she said she was a part of a terror group and that they would do something "really big" on a certain date. Now we all know now she is an idiot but in the first instance what was the airline expected to think, that she was going to bake them a cake ?
Threats or implied threats are not acceptable, especially in the Airline industry.