'Terror dry run' article debunked.

Snopes.com has labeled last week's Women's Wall Street article an urban legend. Follow-up stories to the article (none of which are linked from the WWS site, hmmm) confirm that the men were indeed in a band, one of them is very widely known in Arabic music circles, and that the Federal Air Marshalls on board believed the woman to be over-reacting and "was in danger of panicking other passengers and creating a larger problem on the plane."

Salon has a follow-up story, which includes this: "Pray tell, what happened? Gunfight at 37,000 feet? Valiant passengers wrestle a grenade from a suicidal operative? Hero pilots beat back a cockpit takeover? ... Well, no. As a matter of fact, nothing happened. Turns out the Syrians are part of a musical ensemble hired to play at a hotel. The men talk to one another. They glance around. They pee."

I'm sure there's loads of other commentary going on today, but I'll leave it with the Snopes link and instead go catch up with the Ballard Locks guy.