Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"While over there, he and some patrolmen were going through different houses and found some books on the Taliban and some unexploded antiaircraft ordnance. Being ex-military and as the military does overseas, they picked them up as souvenirs. He packed them in his bag and flew back with them, like an idiot."

Source: Troy Lyman, whose friend, Shaun Louis Marshall, appears in New York federal court Friday. Marshall faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on charges of bringing live explosives aboard a commercial passenger aircraft. The real question is, how did Marshall, returning to his home in Riverside (CA), get those Soviet-made explosives and ammo all the way from Afghanistan to JFK before being discovered?

FMI: www.tsa.gov