EXPLAINS THE MAGNETIC PERSONALITY

You will not find a better lede than this one. Reuters reports:

An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat.

The magnet inside Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm; a bomb squad had to examine the "suspicious item" found during a cavity search.

Maliki lives in Atlantic City; he was headed from L.A. to Philadelphia. He missed the flight -- a magnet in the rectum can do that -- but his luggage made the trip.