My guess is that this had something to do with al-Qaeda’s plan to hit us big on or around February 2 and that all the cancellations once again thwarted their plans.
THE "credible threat" of an attack on airliners, which led to the cancellation of 10 US-bound European flights and one domestic flight, was over, the US Department of Homeland Security said. "There was a specific information for those two days," spokeswoman Rachel Sunbarjar said. "This information has passed and we don’t have any new threat-related information." British Airways and Air France cancelled flights on Sunday and yesterday in response to concerns the terrorist group al-Qaeda was seeking to hijack jetliners to repeat the carnage of September 11, 2001. The international flights were between Britain, France and the United States. A Continental flight from Glasgow, Scotland, to Los Angeles via New York, and a domestic flight by Continental between Washington and Houston, Texas, were also cancelled. |