United 923 Update: Not Terrorism, Per Se

...but it certainly does sound terrible.  This isn't exactly archetypal behavior for a "peace activist", is it?
(HT: Drudge)

A self-described peace activist responsible for the diversion of a London-to-Washington flight Wednesday acted bizarrely for hours, made references to al Qaeda and hijack training flights, and was restrained by two passengers after she urinated in the aisle.
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According to an affidavit and passenger accounts, [part-time Pakistan resident Catherine C.] Mayo began pacing the plane from the front to aft lavatory and asked a flight attendant, "Is this a training flight for United Flight 93?" -- the flight hijacked on September 11, 2001, that crashed into a Pennsylvania farm field.

Mrs. Mayo demanded to speak with an air marshal, saying the contents of her bag would be of interest. Her bag contained a screwdriver, body lotion, several cigarette lighters and a bottle of water. The affidavit did not say how she smuggled the items on board, despite being screened twice at London's Heathrow Airport.

When confronted by the captain, Mrs. Mayo made a reference to bomb assembly, saying, "There are six steps to building some unspecified thing."

"She made reference to being with people associated with two words," the affidavit said. "She stated that she could not say what the two words were because the last time that she had said the two words she had been kicked off a flight in the United Arab Emirates."
The captain ordered her restrained, and the passengers and a flight attendant tackled her and placed her hands in plastic cuffs.

Described by her attorney as "just barely lucid", Mayo does sound a tad deranged.  Still, it's not as though she was ranting and raving and pulling her hair out.  Relieveing oneself mid-cabin is kind of out there, but beyond that, she seemed simply intent on toying with the passengers and flight crew, trying her best to convince them (with the help of a bagful of contraband smuggled onto the plane) that she was planning to blow up the plane.

I'm skeptical of the "Oops, I'm nuts" defense based on the information out so far.

Mrs. Mayo told passengers she was an undercover reporter testing security to see whether she could sneak restricted items on board.

As a columnist for the Daily Times of Pakistan, Mrs. Mayo criticized President Bush -- calling him "a president not elected by the people"-- and the war in Iraq. "The folksongs of the 1960s will never be written again because of President George Bush. He has hampered the liberties of my country in the name of September 11. Songs now can only talk of patriotism they cannot mention peace," she wrote.

Seems pretty pre-meditated and rationally motivated to me.

Previously:
London-Washington Flight Diverted

Elsewhere:
Karol's got lots more on the aftermath over at MichelleMalkin.com.