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Cigarettes, shoe-bombs, sigh. Airline security makes national news again.

Mohammed al-Modadi lit up a cigarette and burned himself into the annals of airline security incidents. As if breaking the no-smoking rule wasn’t bad enough, he made a joke about shoe bombs. Hi, Jack, nice to cause a nationwide scare with ya’. Ah, Qatar.

The Atlantic breaks down the al-Modadi incident in a minute-by-minute timeline here.

Here’s The Denver Post’s next-day article on the incident, Possible shoe bomb incident on Denver-bound flight.

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