but these two pieces from the article make absolutely no sense whatsoever
The two were allowed to board the flight at O'Hare airport last night despite security concerns surrounding one of them, the officials said.
if you have "security concerns", detain the "security risk" here and before said security risk actually gets on the airplane and flies the route.
In addition, officials said, al Soofi was found to be carrying $7,000 in cash and a check of his luggage found a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together, several watches taped together, a box cutter and three large knives. Officials said there was no indication of explosives and he and his luggage were cleared for the flight from Birmingham to Chicago O'Hare.
if powers that be are now, albeit left handedly, posting that his cell phones and liquid antacid are suspicious, why did his luggage get cleared to fly