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The exploding cheese airline security story seemed overblown when NBC's Lisa Myers broke it on Tuesday. Now ABC's Lisa Stark (subscription required) confirms the hype by introducing us to one of the four passengers whose oddball carry-on prompted the Transportation Security Administration to speculate that a terrorist cell may be probing screener security with unassembled bomb components. Meet Sara Weiss, aged 66, of Long Island, returning from a visit to her son in San Diego with a pair of clay icepacks wrapped in tape to chill her bad back. Weiss heard Stark's report (subscription required) on the TSA memo yesterday and contacted ABC for a follow-up.
It may not have been just the icepacks that raised suspicion, Stark added. Weiss' job involves the promotion of interfaith understanding. So along with the icepacks was a written report entitled Muslim Americans. That combination was worth three hours of interrogation at San Diego Airport before she was allowed to fly.
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