First PHOTOS: Head of Al Qaeda in Vermont

[Bluebear]

Here is a sketch and a photo of the woman who had the panic attack whilst concealing bottled water, "Vaseline and notebooks with Al Qaeda references".


This courtroom sketch shows Catherine C. Mayo of Braintree, Vt., left, during an appearance in federal court Thursday afternoon, Aug. 17, 2006, in Boston. Mayo was charged with interfering with a flight crew after disrupting United 923 bound from London to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Mayo was ordered held pending a detention and probable cause hearing next Thursday.


This undated photo released by a family member shows Catherine C. Mayo of Braintree, Vt., who was scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday afternoon, Aug. 17, 2006, in Boston. Mayo was to be charged with interfering with a flight crew after disrupting United 923 bound from London to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

[babylonsister]

1. She's probably an unbalanced person. She supposedly

peed on the floor? Cripes, I don't know. Give her her drugs, let her go.

[Bluebear]

3. Exactly. nt

[bananas]

6. Are you guys being sarcastic?

You think TSA should require everyone wear pampers?

[bananas]

4. From what I read earlier

she only peed on the floor after they wouldn't let her use the bathroom.
Sometimes you really need to pee, it was only a matter of time before someone couldn't hold it in any longer.

[screembloodymurder]

17. I hate being told I can't go when I have to.

When you're 59, you gotta go - when you gotta go. Depends probably wouldn't be legal with the fluid band. The airline Nazis can eat me. This womens biggest mistake was coming back to the US.

[OnyxCollie]

2. So, that's what one of those Al Qaeda types looks like?

I'll pay closer attention to those around me and will be quick to notify the authorities should I notice anyone who looks "suspicious".

[JackNewtown]

7. good one

:toast:

[Canuckistanian]

5. Unother undiagnosed bipolar with a vodka buzz

Why do they hate America?

[izzie]

8. Maybe she has been hanging around all those cows in Vt?

Once she got with people she did not know how to act? This is one odd case. It is so good we got two fighters to help the plane in. This is right up in line for Carl to make a point. She is most likely a Dem. from a Blue state and we should find they very very scary.

[cali]

10. Cute.

From what I've heard (and I live in Vermont, and frequently chat with the cows) Catherine is a peace activist, and yes, she probably is a democrat. She obviously has mental/emotional problems. As someone upthread said, she is likely bi-polar. I feel nothing but sympathy for her.

[izzie]

12. We have no cows but I do talk to the two horses. I like them

She did just sound like a person who had lost it and it is very sad. The Red states will give her more time than Smith got for killing her two boys I am sure. Reason seems to have gone out the window.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. Isn't it interesting

that they could scramble two fighters to escort in a plane with a disturbed person aboard but they couldn't scramble any fighters to escort planes that were hijacked on 911?

[Kiouni]

9. If any thing this was underreported

mcguyver could have taken the plane down with just the vaseline.

[gorbal]

13. I just read some articles about her, poor thing

She is obviously mentally disabled. You wouldn't have wanted my autistic little brother on a plane a few years ago. He was always yelling out things you shouldn't say on a plane. The idea of something like that happening to him puts me in tears.

[Tesha]

14. Background story...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4125662.html

Few knew woman in flight disturbance

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Writer

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Mayo's son, Josh, 31, described his mother as a peace activist and said
she had been in Pakistan since March. She has traveled there often since
making a pen pal before Sept. 11, 2001. The pen pal hasn't been allowed
to visit the United States, he said.

"I guess she just had a bit of a bad time on the plane and everybody's
a little paranoid," he said.

Henry Lefebvre, a neighbor who met Mayo a couple of years ago at a
picnic, said she told him she was headed to Pakistan.

"She said she had a boyfriend there," he said.

When she first visited Pakistan, she sent letters home in which she
sounded like a tourist and, later, ones that didn't make sense, said
Kevin Hall, who rents to her.

In a rambling 2003 column for the Daily Times of Pakistan entitled
"An American in Pakistan: A new kind of arrogance," Mayo criticized
the United States. She wrote: "Once America decided that might is
right, everything else became a cliche, too. When dissent is not
allowed, all truth becomes predictable."

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[Tesha]

15. 'Nuther backgrounder (and it's all Howard Dean's and Cat Steven's fault)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/08/18/arrest_follows_years_of_outrage/

Arrest follows years of outrage

Vermont woman on diverted flight long a critic of US

By Raja Mishra and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

It was March 2003, the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, and into the
office of dumbfounded Pakistani newspaper editor Najam Sethi walked
an articulate, fresh-faced Vermont woman, saying she wanted to vent
her anger at America in his pages.
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Violence-plagued Lahore teemed with anti-American sentiment, yet
Catherine C. Mayo seemed to move about with ease, Sethi recalled.
And writing for the Daily Times of Pakistan, Mayo told about her
1960s activism. About her love of Cat Stevens and Howard Dean.
About the mountains and lakes of her native Vermont. And about
her shame and anger at America.

In an open letter to her granddaughters published on June 24, 2003,
Mayo wrote: ``Governments in the world right now have made terrible
decisions and have caused a lot of fear and bloodshed. But remember,
girls, the world is beautiful, and it is yours."

She wrote for the newspaper until July. ``Then she just disappeared,"
Sethi said.

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[indepat]

16. If this Is some kind of a witch hunt, she doesn't look wicked: but thank-

fully F-15s can be dispatched at the drop of a hat on a moment's notice.