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• Chimes: Student sits next to terror suspect on Christmas flight
  drew_s
  Jan 16 2010
  

  My sister's exclusive with friend Jay Howard, who sat next to the would-be Flight 253 bomber.

  Quoted: “When I moved his blanket, he has his hand down his pants, and at first I’m looking at him like, ‘What on earth are you doing with your hand down your pants?’ When he removed his hands from his pants, fire erupted from around his hands, and Jasper [Schuringa, another passenger] tried to put the fire out.”

  Quoted: “He’s 23, like our age, trying to blow up a plane. ... He had extremist views and he wanted to kill us all, but he didn’t seem like that bad of a guy. That’s a weird thing to say, but I’ve kind of thought about this; these so-called terrorists are so dehumanized, but my interaction with this kid was that he was an ordinary guy, just a human being.”

  Quoted: “The only thing I could wear on my feet where these humongous slippers, those bubble slippers in the golf shoe style,” he said. “It was hilarious because I was waiting in line to go through the X-rays, and I had to stand there in my ridiculous clothes, and I had to listen to people’s ridiculous stories about their terrible days and how they didn’t get coffee on their last flight. I thought, ‘You have no idea.’”

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