Posted on 07/21/2004 6:47:20 AM PDT by Charlesj
Terror in the Skies, Again?
By Annie Jacobsen
A WWS Exclusive Article
Note from the E-ditors: You are about to read an account of what happened during a domestic flight that one of our writers, Annie Jacobsen, took from Detroit to Los Angeles. The WWS Editorial Team debated long and hard about how to handle this information and ultimately we decided it was something that should be shared. What does it have to do with finances? Nothing, and everything. Here is Annie's story.
On June 29, 2004, at 12:28 p.m., I flew on Northwest Airlines flight #327 from Detroit to Los Angeles with my husband and our young son. Also on our flight were 14 Middle Eastern men between the ages of approximately 20 and 50 years old. What I experienced during that flight has caused me to question whether the United States of America can realistically uphold the civil liberties of every individual, even non-citizens, and protect its citizens from terrorist threats.
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The link is dead. Any way you could paraphrase what happened on her flight?
Do a search for 'Terror in the Skies, Again'. You can gather the rest from those posts.
Well, it appears the muslims were doing a "dry run" of assembling a bomb in flight. Each person brought a piece of the bomb which was not/couldn't be detected, but which together makes a bomb.
Frightening.
I just tried the link...it's fine.
Arrggh. Thank you.
And thanks tom, I'll search it.
Want to 'what' happened; but fourteen or more Muslim men on a flight would be enough for me to challenge the security of our flights; on that basis alone.
It's heart stopping ... they're doing dry runs. Read the followup as well, with comments from airline pilots who confirm this is happening.
I managed to get through about four pages and then the link went dead again. I suspect high traffic there.......it's a scary article.
I just flew from Scranton to SJO and we DID hear the announcement about lingering near the lavatories waiting for them to be vacant. I like that rule. These 14 guys would have scared the you-know-what out of me.
I hope I can get to that last page of the article.
Unfortunately, it will take thousands more dead American civilians before the ^%$#$%^ Liberals are told to "shut up and sit down!" so we can get serious about terrorism.
I liked the part where she said (this is a rough paraphrase) that political correctness will bring us to the point where we are asking ourselves "how did we let 9/11 happen again?"
PC Kills.
Donald Sensing, one of my favorite bloggers (he is an evangelical minister and a former Army officer) has been follwing this story pretty closely. He seems to think it is less than meets the eye.
His blog, One Hand Clapping, is here
www.donaldsensing.com
BTTT!
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