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At 8 a.m., about four hours after heightened security restrictions went into effect following a foiled terror plot in Britain, a man at the Delta terminal at O’Hare International Airport tried to use a ticket to go to Bozeman, Montana, but his ticket was out of New York rather than Chicago, police Supt. Philip Cline said at a news conference. A disturbance then ensued. “He was raising his voice for the level for the counter agent to call for the police officer to come over,” Cline said.
The man, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou El Ela, 22, was found to be one of the missing Egyptian students, Cline said.
”He was acting in a strange, erratic behavior, and the Delta supervisor and they went a little farther in their investigation with the ticket, and they discovered that he was one of the missing students that they were looking for,” said Chicago police officer Tim Bolger, who arrived at the scene. “We get disturbances occasionally, but it’s not unusual for people to be a little irate at the ticket counter,” added Bolger.
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El Ela was calm when Bolgar arrived. He was taken into custody and turned over to federal authorities, Bolgar said.
Mayor Daley said Bolger “did a tremendous job” checking out the disturbance. “All of a sudden a name comes up and a person of interest,” Daley said.