"Terrorist!" She cried

A woman named Annie Jacobsen took an airplane trip a while back, and found herself co-passenger with a group of Syrian musicians. Apparently she harbors an irrational phobia of all things Syrian, for she has made a name for herself claiming these fourteen men were, in fact, terrorists conducting a dry run. She has written a series of "articles" hallmarked by an increasing breathlessness as she details an encounter with her own, personal, "terror in the skies."

Unsure where to begin with this absurd scare mongering, I turn you over to Patrick Smith, who pens the "Ask The Pilot" column for Salon.com. A man affiliated with truth, he has written a series of articles rebutting Jacobsen's paranoid assertions, which seem to be holding steadfast against the twin tides of fact and reality. This is a story illustrating the old saw, "truth is stranger than fiction."

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