There were a few other phrases he didn't understand...

I'm just floored by the story about the Japanese businessman who caused an airline flight, destined for Dayton, Ohio, to return to Chicago O'Hare.

He wrote "suicide bomb" on a piece of paper, and OF COURSE, when another passenger saw it, he (or she) was QUITE alarmed and notified a flight attendant.

When questioned, the man explained that he's reading newspapers, in order to learn English, and he writes down words and phrases that he doesn't understand, in order to look them up later.

Is it just me? Or do you think that he probably didn't understand most of the rest of the article he was reading. I can't believe anyone, of any culture, would knowingly jot down random phrases from a newspiece on terrorism... while a passenger on an airline.

[The man was released without charge, and a search of the plane did not yield a bomb, or anything else out of the ordinary.]