Shoshana Hebshi, Ohio woman shocked by being taken from plane in US Shoshana Hebshi told The Associated Press

in a telephone interview Tuesday that she believes she was targeted because of her Middle Eastern appearance.

This photo supplied by its subject, Shoshana Hebshi, was taken on Sept. 13. Hebs hi said she was strip-searched after being led in handcuffs from a Frontier Airl ines flight from Denver to Detroit on Sept. 11. (Shoshana Hebshi/AP) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------By Jeff Karoub, Associated Press posted September 14, 2011 at 12:43 pm EDT An U.S. woman who was one of three people taken off an airplane at Detroit's air port and questioned on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks sa ys she was shocked when armed officers stopped at her row and ordered her off. Shoshana Hebshi told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday that she believes she was targeted because of her Middle Eastern appearance. Hebshi, who describes herself as half-Arabic, half-Jewish with a dark complexion, said s he endured nearly four hours in police custody that included being forced off an airplane in handcuffs, strip-searched and interrogated. Authorities say fighter jets escorted the Denver-to-Detroit Frontier Airlines fl ight after its crew reported that two people were spending a long time in a bath room the two men sitting next to Hebshi in the 12th row. IN PICTURES: Airport Security The FBI has said the three didn't know each other. One man felt ill and got up t o use the restroom and another man in the same row also left his seat to go to t he bathroom. The FBI said they never were inside together. Hebshi told the AP she didn't notice how many times the men went to the bathroom . "I wasn't keeping track," she said. "I really wasn't paying attention," said Hebshi, a freelance writer, editor and stay-at-home mother of twin six-year-old boys. "I was minding my own business ping, reading, playing on my phone." Hebshi has written extensively on her blog about the incident, saying she felt " violated, humiliated and sure that I was being taken from the plane simply becau se of my appearance." She said by email Wednesday morning that she planned to speak with representativ es from the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan later in the day. She has made no firm decisions about taking legal action, but said "it seems there are some civil rights violations to consider here." After the plane landed, she wrote several posts on Twitter about what was going on as those aboard waited while police descended. "A little concerned about this situation. Plane moved away from terminal surrounded by cops. Crew is mum. Pass slee

engers can't get up," she wrote at one point. Later she wrote, "I see stairs coming our way...yay!" Her last post said, "Major ly armed cops coming aboard." It's then than she says the officers ordered her and the men, whom she described as Indian, to get up. She said she was patted down and taken by car to a holding cell. A uniformed fem ale officer eventually came in and told Hebshi to take off her clothes. After the strip search, another officer who identified herself as a Homeland Sec urity agent led Hebshi to another room, Hebshi said. There, a man who identified himself as an FBI agent asked her a series of questions while a female agent to ok notes, Hebshi said. Hebshi said that when she asked what was going on, the male agent told her someo ne on the plane reported that she and the men on her row were "conducting suspic ious activity." FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said the three passengers were questioned but n ot arrested before federal authorities determined there was no reason to suspect or hold them. She also said FBI agents who questioned the passengers were not i nvolved in any strip searches. "We received a report of suspicious activity on that particular plane," Berchtol d said. "We did not arrest ... these passengers. ... We didn't direct anybody to arrest them." Airport police are under the supervision of the Wayne County Airport Authority, which operates Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In an email to the AP, agency spoke sman Scott Wintner said airport police "responded appropriately by following pro tocol and treating everyone involved with respect and dignity. " Wintner said the decision on how to respond was a call made by the Airport Autho rity's CEO, who he said is Arab-American. Hebshi said that finally, after being fingerprinted and allowed to call her husb and, she was told she and the men were being released and that nothing suspiciou s was found on the plane. She said an official apologized and thanked her for un derstanding and cooperating. Hebshi said she received another call of apology from an FBI agent Monday, befor e she wrote her blog post. "I can understand they were just doing their job," she told the AP. "My beef is with these laws and regulations that are so hypersensitive. ... Even if you're a n innocent bystander, you have no rights." AP left email and phone messages seeking comment Tuesday night with Frontier Air lines. The flight was one of two for which fighter jets were scrambled Sunday after cre ws reported suspicious activity on Sunday, officials said. In both cases, it inv olved bathroom use. In neither case did authorities find anything to substantiat e the suspicions. On Tuesday, a US Airways flight from New York to Phoenix was diverted to St. Lou is after crew became concerned about the activities of three male passengers, al l three of whom were Israeli citizens. Investigators determined there was no ter

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