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Article: Fear of flying: did Miami show that air-marshal training works? Quite the opposite.(HOMELAND SECURITY)(Miami International Airport)
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- The American Prospect
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- February 1, 2006
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ON DECEMBER 7, RIGOBERTO Alpizar, a 44-year-old man with a history of mental disorder, was killed, in a hail of bullets, by two air marshals at Miami International Airport. After the shooting, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said that Alpizar had run forward in the cabin while the plane was on the runway, yelling "I have a bomb in my bag!" When the marshals confronted Aipizar, the spokesman said, Alpizar ran out of the plane and on to the jetway; when he appeared to reach into his bag, the marshals shot him dead.
It turned out, of course, that Alpizar had no bomb, but government officials from both parties still heaped praise on the marshals' actions. ...