FBI Clears "Suspicious" Ferry Passengers
Photo of Seattle tourists courtesy of the FBI
About those photos we released to the world, implying you were terrorists...really sorry about that. Clearly, you're just innocent European businessmen who appear to be of Middle Eastern descent.
On Monday, the FBI announced that a world-wide manhunt for two unidentified men who were spotted "acting suspiciously" on a Washington State Ferry last summer has been called off. The previously mysterious men in the photos went to a U.S. Embassy two weeks ago to clear their names. Then, the FBI announced the men were business men from an European Union country and that they posed no threat to America or the Washington State Ferry System.
As for the suspicious photos the men were seen snapping? Landscape shots and photos of the ferry to show family at home—photos that every tourist on a Seattle ferry takes. It's disappointing to know—even in our little liberal corner of the world—that if you happen to be Middle Eastern and you're snapping tourist photos of the ferry, the FBI very well may decide that you have "showed an inordinate interest in the operation of the shipboard systems," and you too could be at the center of an international man-hunt.
