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| US fears aircraft from Latin America could be used for attacks |
| 2003-12-24 |
| U.S. officials fear that commercial aircraft from Europe and Latin America will be hijacked and used to attack targets in the United States, a high-level European official said Tuesday. "They are concerned about several specific flights -- not just flights from Europe but also from Latin America," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Monday that U.S. officials had information indicating that "Al-Qaeda seeks to use aircraft as weapons in suicide-type attacks" similar to those carried out on September 11, 2001. But he told reporters that the United States has also "shared information with our international partners so that they can enhance aviation security and address the threats that we face out there." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #7 Agreed JAB. Misdirection, but let's hope they're that dumb. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-24 5:22:08 PM |
| #6 al-Reuters has picked up the story, too, but there is very little there so far. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2003-12-24 2:11:58 PM |
| #5 3 Air France flights from Paris to LA have been canceled per an ABC radio news report from 3 minutes ago. (Developing, as Drudge was say...) |
| Posted by: eLarson 2003-12-24 2:01:49 PM |
| #4 Going after planes yet again strikes me as too obvious. Hopefully we are considering the likliehood that these intercepts are designed to throw us off the trail of other ops. |
| Posted by: JAB 2003-12-24 9:02:54 AM |
| #3 Hugo better hope they don't take off out of Venezuela. That would be very bad news for Hugo... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-12-24 8:37:15 AM |
| #1 I saw a blurb on Drudge (not that it lends any credibility) that specific airlines are being targeted, nameley Aero Mexico and Air France. Hopefully we have some Christians In Action doing the Good Work© all over the place, and this will be (one of the many) times it pays off. Pretty interesting if we know the details down to flight numbers, but I'm not ready to buy that one just yet. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2003-12-24 12:13:18 AM |