(Apologies if this has already been posted; I did check for it but haven't seen it mentioned previously.)
There is a very interesting article in today's Women's Wall Street (nope, I never heard of it before either) that is a first-person narrative of the writer's experience with some suspicious passengers on a recent (June 29) flight.
Now, something about the writer's tone makes me feel that she's a bit of a conservative (and possibly more likely to be overly suspicious of Middle Eastern-looking fellows), and she does commit the unpardonable sin of referencing and linking to Ann Coulter's webpage, but the facts of the narrative are really quite interesting. Assuming that the writer is not making any of this up, it certainly seems that Something was going on on this particular flight.
What do you think? Is the writer paranoid? Does she have an overactive imagination? Or did she really witness a practice lap?