I was surprised Wednesday afternoon when the train that comes before mine was so late that it got there a few minutes before my train. Although this is a commuter train, it shares part of its route with the Amtrak rail between Fort Worth and Dallas. When I got home, there was a story on the news about two men who were arrested at the train station in Fort Worth, who had no citizenship or immigration papers, fake airline IDs, a large amount of cash, and box cutters. They were on an Amtrak train and began arguing, making enough of a disturbance that the police were called. They were on a train heading to San Antonio, because the plane they were on from Newark to St. Louis to San Antonio never took off again after its St. Louis stopover.

Well, the police came out, then the drug dogs were called, then immigration, etc. I figured alot of the story was speculation, conjecture, and downright rumor (like the car bomb outside the Pentagon), or that they were arrested too hastily because they were Middle Eastern (like the poor guy arrested in Dallas on April 19, 1995 simply because he was Arab and had just driven down from Oklahoma City).

Now they are in FBI custody in New York, because subsequent investigations reveal that they have knowledge of the terrorists plans and are at least loosely associated with Osama bin Laden.

To think, they were in Fort Worth (creepy feeling crawling all over skin)!

When my dad was in the service, San Antonio (where we spent a large portion of his Air Force career since he was a flight instructor) was always high on the possible enemy attack sites because of large number of Army and Air Force bases, and the basic and pilot training functions on the Air Force bases. Most of those bases are closed, now, though, so I'm wondering why they were trying to get there. There was some speculation that the plane they were on was also supposed to be hijacked, probably between St. Louis and San Antonio. But who knows if this is true, or where they would have eventually crashed. Oooh (creepy feeling crawling all over skin again)!