[Joeaksa]

How much security training do you have? I have a fair amount of training in this area (was Safety and Security officer for McDonnell Douglas Aircraft in Saudi) and would have done the same thing they did. Course the Chinese in his home country would have shot him...

They used an X-ray machine and saw something that "looked like a possible explosive device" so they took no chances and blew it up. This turned up to be a CD or DVD player but PanAm 103 was brought down with a "radio like devise" that then exploded.

All he had to do was talk to them, tell them what he wanted and open his bags to show them there was nothing to worry about in the bag, but no, he wanted to be on the news and make a splash.

Charge... how about threatening a govt employee. Why? Tell me how you would have felt if a guy was right outside your office, refusing to talk to Police and with two large bags of holding who knows what. They then find something that looks like a bomb after this idiot refuses to talk to anyone but the President. You bet that the people in the Capital were threatened. That should be enough to hold him until they find some other charges.

Prison would give him time to think about the folly of his ways and keep him from doing it again for a while, unless you would like to invite him to live with you for a while??

JoeA