If you’ve read Annie Jacobsen’s breathless account of a Northwest Airlines flight she took a few weeks ago you know that she took a flight with *gasp* Arabs on board! This didn’t sit well with her, and she wrote a nice long article cataloging how many times the Arabs went to pee. I have to admit, I never finished reading the article- She lost me when she started quoting Ann Coulter.

Now here comes the other side of the story:

Undercover federal air marshals on board a June 29 Northwest airlines flight from Detroit to LAX identified themselves after a passenger, “overreacted,” to a group of middle-eastern men on board, federal officials and sources have told KFI NEWS.

The passenger, later identified as Annie Jacobsen, was in danger of panicking other passengers and creating a larger problem on the plane, according to a source close to the secretive federal protective service.

Jacobsen, a self-described freelance writer, has published two stories about her experience at womenswallstreet.com, a business advice web site designed for women.

“The lady was overreacting,” said the source. “A flight attendant was told to tell the passenger to calm down; that there were air marshals on the plane.”

The middle eastern men were identified by federal agents as a group of touring musicians traveling to a concert date at a casino, said Air Marshals spokesman Dave Adams.

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