‘They should apologise on national TV’

A PAKISTANI woman whose daughter’s carry-on luggage caused an airport to shut down for nine-and-a-half hours says it was her ethnic background, not a few bottles of suspicious liquids, that set off security officials.

FBI tests turned up no evidence of explosive materials in the bottles carried at Tri-State Airport in West Virginia by Rima Qayyum, a 28-year-old dressed in the traditional Islamic headcover.

No charges were filed against the woman, who was never detained and co-operated with the FBI.