|
Update: Annie Jacobsen's scary flight with Syrian "musicians"
Long article in the Telegraph. I'll cut and paste some add'l info. some of us may have not seen elsewhere....So what did happen on Northwest Airlines flight 327 on that June afternoon? The above events came to light after Mrs Jacobsen shared her story with a few colleagues, and finally wrote it down. She sent a copy to the Washington Post but did not receive a response. However, she did get a swift telephone call from the Federal Air Marshal Services. Under questioning, a spokesman revealed, the 14 men had said they were musicians travelling to a concert at a Californian desert casino. None showed up on the FBI's most wanted list and since their story checked out they were allowed to go. The band, the spokesman said, "gave their little performance in the casino and two days later flew out on a JetBlue flight from Long Beach to New York". ...Security specialists in America have been warning for some time that terrorists have been boarding US internal flights with bombs split into seemingly innocent parts that allow members of their gangs to pass through checkpoints undetected. The device, they say, is then put together during the flight, probably in the aircraft lavatory, and hence involves multiple visits to the bathroom by all those involved. Gary Boettcher, a member of the board of directors of the Allied Pilots Association, wrote to Mrs Jacobsen, saying that he and many fellow captains had witnessed similar practice runs. "I am a captain with a major airline," he said. "I was very involved with the Arming Pilots effort. Your reprint of this airborne event is not a singular nor isolated experience. The terrorists are probing us all the time." Another pilot, Mark Bogosian, with American Airlines, said: "The incident you wrote about, and incidents like it, occur more than you like to think. It is a 'dirty little secret' that all of us, as crew members, have known about for quite some time." Posted by: rex 2004-07-26 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=38997 |