(via Jawa Report) Check out this story from Florida. Could be big.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Jamaican man behavior specialists spotted acting suspiciously was detained and arrested after components used to make pipe bombs, unknown liquids and bomb-making literature were found in his luggage at Orlando International Airport. [...]

Officials said federal behavior identification agents noticed something about the man’s body language that prompted officers to move in near the Virgin Atlantic and Jamaica Airlines ticket counters Tuesday afternoon.

The passenger, who the FBI identified as Kevin Brown, 32, was immediately taken into custody and a portion of the Terminal A in front of Virgin Atlantic was closed to passengers.

During a search of Brown’s luggage, airport authorities found two galvanized pipes, end caps, two small containers containing BBs, batteries, two containers with an unknown liquid and bombing making literature, FBI officials said.

It’s certainly a step in the right direction that we’ve got behavioral specialists casing the airports, similar to the Israelis (more at Hot Air), but I have to wonder why this story doesn’t mention explicitly mention terrorism.

Speaking from a half-empty glass, maybe we didn’t need any trained experts to spot this guy after all…

Passengers waiting to board flights at Orlando International Airport Tuesday said they noticed Brown acting suspiciously before agents moved in.

“He looked rather crazy,” a passenger said. “He was rocking left and right and up and down. He looked a little wacko.”

So if he was acting like that, did someone tip off security or are we really getting better? It’s a win either way since they caught the guy. I just don’t have much faith in the TSA, so it’s hard to come at this in a purely positive way.

Thankfully, the “nothing to see here” label hasn’t yet been pinned on the Orlando arrest.

Annnddd… at least we aren’t getting the old “certainly not terrorism” line from authorities that often are stuck onto incidents within minutes of the news breaking. Does that imply that there is more here than a single man and the Feds already know it? We’ll have to wait and see.

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