So is the TSA going to retract that story about a "dry run"?

TSA Warning Prompted by Mother Bringing Ice Packs on Cross-Country Flight

ABC News

An unsuspecting senior citizen from Long Island, N.Y. is behind one of the incidents that prompted the TSA to issue a bulletin last week about cases in which they suspect terrorists may have been probing airport security by trying to bring peculiar items on board airplanes.

In her case, Sara Weiss tried to bring ice packs on her flight home.

"I'm not a terrorist. I'm just a 66-year-old woman who's coming back from visiting her son and I have a bad back, so I carry these things," Weiss told ABC News' Lisa Stark.

She may not seem the part -- but on July 5, after visiting her son in San Diego, she was questioned as she was about to board the plane home.

Watch Lisa Stark's full report tonight on "World News with Charles Gibson" at 6:30 p.m. EDT.

"I was showing my boarding pass to the ticket agent," she said, "ready to walk down the hall into the plane when she said, 'Oh are you Sara Weiss?' And I said, 'Yeah.' And suddenly policemen appeared out of nowhere."

According to the TSA bulletin, her checked bags contained two ice packs wrapped in duct tape, and filled with clay -- not the normal blue gel used to keep items cold.

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