Unfortunately a lot of it is also from some paranoid harpy bitch Mrs. Jacobsen.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/skyterror.asp
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2004/07/21/askthepilot95/index_np.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/taylor200407211921.asp
Her original story being on http://www.womenswallstreet.com/
Basically she has some ranting and raving story about a middle-eastern band that give each other super sekret covert arab signs such as "thumbs-up" to one another. Then throws in a few actual incidents in an attempt to validate her own lunacy.