Those Syrian singers, whose bizarre behavior on a Northwest Airlines flight became a national topic of conversation, after a reporter wrote up her observations on an internet site called Women's +Wall Street, may not have been so innocent after all.

According to the Washington Times

The Syrian singer of a band that was detained by the FBI's Terrorism Task Force for suspicious activity during a recent flight to Los Angeles has written about the "glorification" of suicide bombers to liberate Palestine....

"The song opens with the depiction of a mother crying over her son. He has said goodbye to his friends and family and is not going to come back. He went with a weapon in one palm and his heart in another palm and he's not going to come back," Miss Dankowitz said. "He went to fight to free Palestine, Golan Heights and South Lebanon."

Jihadi? Or "The Syrian Wayne Newton"? Your call.

Posted by Richard  07 29 04