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http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/viewarticle2.aspx?sectionid=8&ArticleID=2048262

Day two of the proceedings
A FORMER Pendle British National Party election candidate from Colne and a Nelson dentist stockpiled explosive chemicals in advance of a civil war in Britain, a court heard.
David Jackson and Robert Cottage
David Jackson and Robert Cottage
Ex-BNP candidate Robert Cottage (49) wrote of killing Tony Blair and Pendle Liberal Democrat Lord Greaves, and bought dangerous chemicals with friend David Jackson (62), Manchester Crown Court heard.

He also downloaded the 300-page Anarchy Cookbook – a manual on how to make bombs, the court was told.

Cottage, a bus driver who transported disabled children to school, began buying hundreds of pounds' worth of chemicals from the Internet, including hydrochloric acid, hydrogen peroxide, ammonia and methanol, as well as tinned food which he stored in his home in Talbot Street, Colne.

He told friends he would like to shoot Prime Minister Tony Blair and local peer and councillor Lord Greaves.

When police raided his home on September 28th, they discovered crossbows, air pistols, ammunition and ball bearings stashed in suitcases. At Jackson's home in Trent Road, Nelson, they later found a bow, arrows and nuclear protection suits.

Opening the case for the prosecution, Louise Blackwell QC told how the situation came to light when Cottage's wife, Kerena, who suffered mental health problems, visited a social worker and told of her concerns.

Mrs Cottage was unable to give evidence in person due to her health but a statement she gave to police was read in court, saying her husband held strong views on immigration and his membership of the BNP had driven "a wedge" between them.

Mrs Cottage, married for two years, continued: "I have seen a change in Rob since he became involved with the BNP four years ago. Rob was becoming very radical in his views and opinions."

Cottage was described as a "very religious" man who would regularly quote and read from the Bible. He would also listen to radio programmes on conspiracy theories.

Jackson, who works as a dentist in Lancaster and Cumbria, met Cottage at BNP meetings, said Mrs Cottage.

The men deny charges of conspiracy to cause an explosion.

Cottage has admitted possession of explosives but Jackson denies an identical charge.

The trial is proceeding today.

•The trial was initially halted yesterday morning after it emerged one of the jurors knew a defendant. The jury was discharged and the case adjourned while a new panel was found.

See Friday's paper for more details of the case ...
14 February 2007

http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=8&ArticleID=2050503

'Guidebook on how to make bombs'
A HOST of instruments covered in chemical traces were discovered at the home of a former British National Party election candidate accused of plotting to make bombs, a court hear.
David Jackson and Robert Cottage
David Jackson and Robert Cottage
Containers and improvised tools were recovered from the home of Robert Cottage (49), each with traces of chemicals including nitrates, chlorine and ammonia, Manchester Crown Court heard.
The court has heard Cottage began stockpiling food and chemicals which could be made into explosives as he feared the country was on the brink of civil war.
The discovery was made when officers searched his home in Talbot Street, Colne, on September 28th last year. They found a red tub, green woollen gloves, a cardboard box and kitchen tongs with sponge taped to each end and a pipette resembling a turkey baster, all bearing chemical residues, the court heard.
Cottage, who failed to be elected as a BNP candidate in local elections, has confessed to a charge of possession of explosives but denied conspiracy to cause explosions.
A second man, dentist David Jackson (62), denies a count of possession of explosives and conspiracy to cause an explosion.
The court heard yesterday how Cottage had downloaded a manual on how to make bombs from the Internet and also told friends he wished to assassinate Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Officers also found two boxes of ball bearings which the prosecution claims could be used as shrapnel for explosive devices.
Cottage had several crossbows and air pistols stored in the home he shared with his wife Kerena (29), who suffered from mental problems and whose conversation with a social worker sparked the investigation.
Giving evidence for the prosecution, explosives expert Sarah Wilson told how she had examined chemical traces on the tools and explained how the ingredients could have been used to fashion home-made explosives.
The court heard the handbook detailed how to make a variety of anti-personnel bombs including letter bombs, home-made napalm and 'touch bombs'.
Under cross-examination by Alistair Webster QC, it emerged touch explosives were very weak and could not be used to injure people. It was suitable for "schoolboy pranks" and was similar in strength to toy "cap-gun" explosions, said Jackson's lawyer Andrew Nuttall.
Touch explosive was the only substance for which all the ingredients were present at the house.
Ms Wilson conceded seven of the chemicals found at Cottage's home were either "pointless" or unnecessary in the production of explosives.
Of all the chemical containers recovered during the raid, only one had been opened - hydrogen peroxide - and this had several other household uses including the sterilisation of false teeth, said Mr Webster.
Ms Wilson admitted the chemicals found on the kitchen items would have been left if the items had only been in contact with sugar solution.
(Proceeding.)

Don't miss tomorrow's Nelson Leader for the full details from the trial, how the police traced the two men and what they discovered at their home ...
15 February 2007

['youths' again, in UK]

http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=13&ArticleID=2035802

Libray Yobs Told: 'Enough Is Enough'
YOUTHS who terrorised a librarian have been told: "Enough is enough".
Police will enforce banning orders imposed by Lancashire County Council on six youngsters who abused and threatened a lone female worker at Trawden Library.
Three of the offenders are from the village and three are from Colne. None can be named because they are all under 17 years of age.
Colne's rural beat manager, PC Mark Whitehead, said: "A series of complaints have been made about anti-social behaviour by juveniles who attend Trawden Youth Club. The club doesn't start until 7 p.m., but a group of young people got into the habit of meeting up and hanging around the library for an hour beforehand.
"It got to the stage where the county council had to send a minder down because she was suffering verbal abuse and threats. It was totally out of order and uncalled for, and I won't stand for it.
"All the youths involved have been spoken to by officers before. I have spoken to all their parents. I asked them to make sure they know what their children are up to when they leave the house.
"There are now three choices. Firstly, the children can amend their behaviour. If they don't, they will get a fixed penalty notice with a fine of between £30 and £80, which the parents would have to pay.
"The other option is to arrest them and put them before the court. I would have absolutely no hesitation in doing that, and they would then end up with a criminal record.
"This is another example of police taking a tough stance against anti-social behaviour."
09 February 2007

http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070213_02

Last modified on: 2/13/2007 10:28:38 AM

LTTE and cross border terrorism: threat to entire world
By Malin Abeyatunga, Melbourne, Australia

From day one, LTTE has been involved in human cargo smuggling, illicit drug and narcotics operations, smuggling of arms to raise funds for their outfit. This has not been limited to Sri Lanka or its closest neighbours, but widely operated through their front organizations right around the world the latest being sea piracy, breaching all maritime laws and conventions.

LTTE's first cross border terrorist act was the assassination of Indian Premier Rajiv Gandhi on his own soil. Indian Courts found Prabhakaran and Pottuamman guilty of murdering Rajiv Gandhi. USA has recently under FIB Sting Operations, arrested 4 LTTEers and two Indonesians who were helping LTTE to procure arms in USA. Two Indonesians on the arms procurement operations have pleaded guilty and 4 LTTEers are awaiting judgement. It was also reported that FBI has trailed a deposit of $700,000 by LTTE as a down payment to procure arms. It is also a well known fact that LTTE agents in USA have attempted to bribe some congressmen to procure arms illegally.

On the other side of the world, there have been cases in India and most recently in Qatar. Indian Police recently arrested some arm dealers affiliated to LTTE from Tamil Nadu attempting to ship 6 tons of steel balls to manufacture claymore mines. Following this arrest, another arrest has been made by Mumbai Police, of LTTE attempting to ship equipment including 65 Japanese digital cameras for spying, 500 ball bearings, 21 camera lenses, 300 FM radio sets and other accessories valued at India Rs, 15 million. Four people were arrested including three from Tamil Nadu according to Indian media reports.

LTTE's most common form of terror is to hound any one who opposes the LTTE in any part of the world and kill them. They have planted hit-men in many countries to carry out these assassinations. Last week in Qatar, 5 LTTE cadres were sentenced to death for bludgeoning to death another Tamil who had been a Karuna supporter. LTTE like Al Qaeda has already proved that they are terrorists sans borders. These assassinations of LTTE opponents outside Sri Lanka clearly demonstrate that LTTE has its tentacles of terrorism spread over many countries and not only a threat to Sri Lanka but to the whole civilized world. It is also a well known fact that LTTE has links with Al-Qaeda.

A report by an advisor to US Government states that The Al Qaeda-LTTE relationship was formed in 1991. LTTE is also linked to Maoists in Nepal and many other secessionists groups in India.

Despite all these connections and cross border terrorist activities, it's appalling to see that the western block of the International community thinks that LTTE is only a domestic threat to Sri Lanka. It's time, like the USA, other countries most importantly UK, EU Countries, Canada and Australia treated LTTE as international terrorists in the same manner as Al Qaeda and other Muslim terrorist groups.

It suffices to mention that LTTE's Prabhakaran, Pottu Amman and recently the Sea Tiger leader Soosai have become the most wanted criminals by Interpol. LTTE is a one-man show headed by tyrant, megolomaniac (worse than Saddam Hussein) Prabhakaran . Ironically, the international community wants Sri Lanka to negotiate with this murderer. Should we?

Courtesy : Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights (SPUR)

http://www.nationalsecurity.lk/fullnews.php?id=4125

Al-Qaeda Follows LTTE Text Book on Terror Faithfully
13 Feb 2007 - 17:32

Glen Jenvey a specialist on international terrorism has drawn the copycat terror tactics of Al Qaeda borrowed from the textbooks of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – a banned terrorist organization by the international community.

In an analysis of the lead given by the LTTE for other terrorists organizations to follow, he has highlighted LTTE as the mastermind that sets the pattern for organization like Al Qaeda to pursue global terrorism.

He has drawn the pattern of terror tactics followed by Al Qaeda after the example was set by the LTTE.

Glen Jenvey focuses on the following acts of terror followed by Al Qaeda after the LTTE has set the examples.

Fact one: The LTTE invented the modern suicide bomber and deployed it into all their rank's against both political, military and civilian targets. You now see Islamic groups copy the LTTE with suicide attack's.

Fact two The LTTE attack shipping off the coast of Sri Lanka blowing ships or piracy. We then saw attacks on the USS Cole off Yemen and then you see piracy off the coast of Somalia a strong hold for Al-Qaeda followers.

Fact three The LTTE attack the World Trade Centre in Sri Lanka you then see attack's by Al-Qaeda on the World Trade Centre in New York, America.

Fact four The LTTE has a women's section deployed into it's rank's. You see Al-Qaeda and Chechen terrorist's who took over the Russian theatre, use black widow women suicide bombers.

Fact five : Attack's on civilians in bus and trains in Sri Lanka where innocent passengers were killed, Al-Qaeda in London bombed public civilian transport in the 7/7 attack's on London transport.

Glen Jenvy is now asking how long the world will tolerate the Masters and the Followers of terrorism.

Here is the full text of Glen Jenevy’s analysis.

By Glen Jenvey - Specialist Internet Spy

The Global Islamic Media Front's (GIMF) "Voice of the Caliphate Channel" is still broadcasting from Germany. GIMF is an al Qaeda media support group. Beheading video's,Bomb attack's on the streets of Iraq,Killing of western troops can be viewed, the 9/11 hijackers, 7/7 bombers on video, Bin Laden and other senior al-qaeda figures. The site is being advertised on british and other jihadi web-sites and can be viewed here

mms://87.118.96.168:88/firdaws

Yes Bin Laden TV is here another example of a terrorist group following the LTTE who have for years run their own TV and radio services.

When will the world wake up to the fact's that terrorist's groups like al-qaeda are copying the LTTE media wing who for years have spread LTTE propaganda around the world of LTTE attack's and over loaded the western media with claims and images of dead civilians in the same manner Al-qaeda are now doing via their very own Bin Laden TV.

Let us look at the facts:

1. Fact one: The LTTE invented the modern suicide bomber and deployed it into all their rank's against both political, military and civilian targets. You now see Islamic groups copy the LTTE with suicide attack's.

2. Fact two The LTTE attack shipping off the coast of Sri Lanka blowing ships or piracy. We then saw attacks on the USS Cole off Yemen and then you see piracy off the coast of Somalia a strong hold for Al-Qaeda followers.

3. Fact three The LTTE attack the World Trade Centre in Sri Lanka you then see attack's by Al-Qaeda on the World Trade Centre in New York, America.

4. Fact four The LTTE has a women's section deployed into it's rank's. You see Al-Qaeda and Chechen terrorist's who took over the Russian theatre, use black widow women suicide bombers.

5. Fact five : Attack's on civilians in bus and trains in Sri Lanka where innocent passengers were killed, Al-Qaeda in London bombed public civilian transport in the 7/7 attack's on London transport.

The fact's are clear other terrorist groups copy the LTTE in all sorts of way, it's time the world woke up to the international threat from the master's of terrorism the LTTE and started not just banning them but taking notice of the 70 thousand dead in Sri Lanka and thinking could they allow others groups who are clearly copying the LTTE's terrorist methods to commit 70 thousand dead in their own country's which have a bigger population than small island nation of Sri Lanka.

The worlds masters of teaching evil act's against civilians with massive numbers of deaths and casualties is the LTTE the question is when will the west take action against Al-Qaeda’s teachers and take the LTTE text books of terror away from the rest of the worlds terrorist organizations by closing down the LTTE offices based in many country's around the globe.

Someone has to come up with the idea's for terrorist group's like al-Qaeda to inflict pain on the west, and i would say the groups that inspire the leadership of al-Qaeda with text book terror tactics that work are the LTTE.

Courtesy By: www.Asiantribune.com

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_tape

Al-Qaida releases video of Afghan attack

By JASPER MORTIMER, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida posted a video on the Internet Friday showing what they claimed to be an insurgent attack on a military position of U.S. and Afghan forces in southern
Afghanistan.

The video appears to be an attempt by the terrorist network to disparage U.S. claims that it is winning the war against the Taliban and allied militia in Afghanistan.

It begins with the deputy leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, ridiculing
President Bush and saying that his claim to have deprived al-Qaida of a safe haven in Afghanistan is a "bare-faced lie," according to a transcript provided by IntelCenter, a U.S. group that tracks extremist messages.

With a narrator speaking in American-accented English, the tape then shows video film of what it claims is an attack on a military position in Arghandab, a district 100 miles northeast of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.

The authenticity of the scenes shown could not be immediately verified. The video carried the logo of the al-Qaida media production company, as-Sahab, and it was posted on an Islamic Web site known for hosting extremist material.

Al-Qaida appeared to have issued the tape on Thursday with the title "Holocaust of the Americans in the land of Khorasan, the Islamic emirate: Capture of an American post, Arghandab." The name Khorasan refers to Afghanistan.

continued.........

Some old articles on certain a topic:

Hell on Wheels

‘MK’ correspondent and doctors saved hostages

From Moscow Komsomolets

By Dmitry Kafanov, October 28th, 2002

Just as soon as I get information that the terrorists had been neutralized, I go over to the buses that were standing ready: “Hey guys! Take me with you!” One of the drivers is suspicious, but the rest say okay…

The patrol cop hysterically waving his arms on the other side of the barricades lets us in. Around the theater façade stand dozens of ambulances with flashing lights. They start to bring out living hostages, and carry out bodies. Arms and legs waggle involuntarily, and the bodies are half naked…

The nerve-wracking situation gets worse with every passing second.

“What are you standing around for?!” shouts a cop to our driver. “Come on, load up!” A woman in an ambulance uniform jumps into our vehicle and yells at me: “Go help!” Together with the rest I begin to drag hostages into the bus. The first one is a girl with long hair a vacant stare.

“What’s your name?”

She blinks, and does not understand a thing. I pinch her cheeks: “Breathe! Breathe deep!” The girl nods and I put her in the rear seat. The next are unconscious. I do not know why, but for some reason the women have lost practically all their outer clothing.

Olya, an ambulance medic who they stick on our bus, is constantly trying to hurry the MChS (emergencies ministry) workers and policemen: “Faster, faster or we won't make it.”

We are off. The bus starts to work its way through the congestion of special-mission vehicles. Olya and I do not have time to look around.

“Stop! That one’s already cold, you won’t get anything out of him… What are you, a reporter?” she unexpectedly guesses.

There is no time to clarify our relationships. We are dashing between the unconscious people lying on the floor, throwing ourselves on one after another, doing indirect cardiac massage and artificial respiration. Two men in the front are in bad shape. We beat on them for five minutes. I hammer one of them on the face with all my might: “Breathe, you reptile! Come on, breathe, darling!”

He breathed, and even blinked. While we were working on him, a man in the rear has died.

Vasily, our driver, at first was still stopping for traffic lights.

“To Hell with them!” I yell to him. “Honk and go!”

And he does.

I count the people in the bus as I walk past them: 22. We are physically incapable of helping all of them. Olya is almost in tears: “The medicine case is still on the ambulance. All we’ve got is the first aid kit from the bus.” A thin girl, about twenty years old, slips out of the front seat. We weren’t paying attention to her…

The inside of the bus begins to smell of excrement. It is apparent that the gas used by the special services is acting on the bowels in this way. I hurry over to the girl, stepping on this or that body on the way. She is the one who was put on the bus first.

“What’s your name?”

“Yulia”

“How old are you?”

“14.”

I take down her parents’ phone number and promise to call.

Alongside sits 16 year-old Arkady, his head lolling from side to side. Next to him another young person wheezes and chokes on his saliva. I grab Arkasha’s arm and order him to hold onto his neighbor’s hair. Only about four of the twenty-two on the bus are able to react to what is going on. The rest are intoxicated and shell-shocked, but there are no signs of gunshot wounds on any of them…

We fly down Leninsky. We are driving to the 1st City Hospital. The patrolmen run from the road as we race past.

The hospital gate is closed behind a barrier. We curse at the guard in the window: “Are you asleep or what? Open up!”

Some bored cops are hanging out by the hospital entrance. Olya loses it.

“What the… did you all just get up?! Come on, help carry!”

The policemen instead go running for the doctors. Suddenly six or seven pour out from the reception area. My hands are shaking from the tension. We carry, and private security guards help.

And then the worst part, the bodies of 3 dead hostages still on the bus…

After a bit of wrangling, the hospital agrees to take them as well.

We drive back, smoking. Olya is tired, and speaks to no one in particular: “The bastards, oh they are such bastards… But, listen, we made it with the rest? We managed with those, ah?”

I am reporting the names of those people who loaded and carried 19 of 22 people. Olya Belyakova is from ambulance substation #13, and Vasily Tegza is from bus park #9.

Indirect proof that the hostages were poisoned with gas is the fact that Yulia Kosterova, who gave me her parents’ phone number, got her own age wrong. When I called her parents, her mother said that Yulia not 14, but 22. Most of the hostages could not hear anything along the way. It is possible that noise grenades may have deafened them.

Appendix 17.

From the statement by O.V. Belyakova (case volume 120, page 130):

We got to Melnikov Street about 0715. On arrival at the DK (Palace of Culture) of Moscow Bearings, Inc., two victims were loaded into our vehicle. MChS (Emergencies Ministry) workers did the loading. Literally a minute later an MChS worker told me to get into a bus and provide help to the victims inside it.

When I entered the bus the doors shut and the MChS worker ordered the driver to go to GKB (City Clinical Hospital) #1. There were no medicines or medical instruments on the bus. While in route, the bus was stopping at the lights, and upon arrival at GKB #1 the security guards at first would not permit us to enter. There were 22 victims on the bus, one of whom was dying at that moment. The victims were arranged chaotically, some sat in the bus seats, while others were on the floor.

I don’t know who was in charge of the evacuation work. I also do not know who carried out the victims.

There was no sorting (of victims) on the square, and this played a negative role. That the victims were sent to the hospital on the buses, without a correlating number of medical personnel, medicines, medical equipment, played a negative role.

What would have helped our work would have been the name of the antidote.

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Russia threatens Poland over US missile bases
Warsaw Business Journal ^ | 16th February 2007

Posted on 02/16/2007 11:03:08 AM PST by lizol

Russia threatens Poland over US missile bases

If Poland agrees to base parts of the US anti-missile defense system on its territory, Russia may retaliate by installing short- and medium-range missiles in the Kaliningrad enclave, which would effectively tear up the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, General Youri Balujevsky, the Russian chief of staff, warned yesterday.

The Polish Foreign Ministry declined to comment. It is not clear what Russia's goals are in escalating the dispute over the US decision to install parts of the system in Poland and the Czech Republic. It may be just seeking to strengthen its bargaining position to wrestle other political and military concessions from the US. "The worst thing that Poland could do now would be to say 'Oh we need to drop the idea because Russia said this or that'. Poland needs to make an independent judgment of the implications of basing the anti-missile defense system for its national security," says Peter Brokes, expert at the Heritage Foundation, known for its close links to the Bush administration and its hard-line stance on Russia.

Yes, theft is normal, there will always be an evil person, in the crowd.

In some small town paper, last week, there was a report of a mortician, who got busted, for always taking the money off the bodies to pay for the funeral.........

As I am one who hates clothes [LOL, and have to wear layers of them in the winter], I can imagine that folks would strip them off, under that medicine.

In the Yuma desert, we found that the illegals, who were walking the 40+ miles across the desert, would start stipping, the first thing they would throw away is their wallets, and then go on stripping one by one, until death got to them, as rescue was rare, in the years that I lived there.

A lady folded her sweater neatly, put her purse on top of it and went on to die in a spot further down the trail.

Real life is never like we hear it is.

When I worked at the court there, our Deputies often went out after the bodies.

At that time Sgt. Ralph Ogden was in charge of the Wellton Substation, he was a young man, still in his 30's and about 6'6" or more tall. He was a good cop.

They say that on search and rescue missions, he picked up the trail and stayed on it, to the end, that he simply went through all that got in his way.

The people of Yuma County are lucky, as 30 years later, he was the County Sheriff.

[now it is the small jets with problems]

Small jet circles ONT with busted landing gear, lands at Chino Airport

Chino Valley firefighters and flight crew at Chino Airport after a safe
emergency landing which was caused by a landing gear problem which was
noticed shortly after takeoff, Thursday morning.
(Wayne Clemons Jr./Correspondent) CHINO - A Learjet with faulty front
landing gear circled LA/Ontario International Airport for more than an
hour
Thursday, before it was able to safely land at Chino Airport.
Neither the pilot nor a passenger on board were injured.

The front wheel of the model 55 Learjet became cocked at a 20- to
45-degree
angle after a 4:45 a.m. take-off from French Valley Airport near
Murrieta in
southwestern Riverside County. The plane was headed to Palm Springs.

When the gear retracted after takeoff, a light went on that indicated a
possible problem with the nose gear or door, Federal Aviation
Administration
spokesman Ian Gregor said.

The pilot flew to ONT and radioed the air traffic control tower asking
controllers there if any problem could be seen on the plane.

They told the pilot that the nose gear was not completely retracted,
Gregor
said.

The pilot flew around ONT for more than an hour to burn off fuel in the
wing
tanks.

At the end of the hour, the pilot had fuel only in the plane's center
tank,
which kept weight toward the back of the plane. That made it easier to
keep
the nose of the plane up before the landing, Gregor said.

The plane landed at Chino Airport about 7:15 a.m.

"He landed and kept the nose up until the last second," he said. "It's
a
picture-perfect landing."

The pilot and passenger's previous training made them well-prepared to
deal
with the situation, Gregor said.

Both the pilot and passenger have air transport pilot ratings and have
practiced similar flight scenarios in simulations, Gregor said.

"That's a high pilot rating," Gregor said.

The names of the pilot and passenger were not available.

The plane was registered to Redlands company International Jet Fleet
Holdings Inc., Gregor said.

"Initially, he reported he wanted to make an emergency landing at
Ontario,"
Gregor said. "At some point he changed his mind and landed at Chino. In
situations like this, being in air traffic control, we try to
accommodate
the pilot as much as possible."

Gregor said the pilot's maintenance company is based at Chino Airport,
which
may have led to the change in direction.

John Frymyer, airport manager for Chino Airport, said at least two or
three
times a year a "nose scare" occurs at Southern California airports.

The incident Thursday didn't cause any problems to operations at ONT or
Chino Airport.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_5238552

Airport gates evacuated after man vanishes

Authorities evacuated boarding gates at Oakland International Airport
today
after a man set off a security checkpoint metal detector and vanished,
an
airport spokeswoman reported.
At about 1 p.m., the alarm went off on a magnetometer at the security
checkpoint for Terminal 2, said airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes.

"The passenger was not detained and proceeded to the boarding gate
area,"
she said, adding that she did not know why or how the man avoided the
normal
security protocol of being held for further screening.

Airport authorities then searched for the man, searched two flights
that
were boarding but could find no one meeting the man's description,
Barnes
said.

"When they did not locate the individual in a few minutes, they made
the
decision to evacuate the boarding area," sending passengers back to the
public area of both terminals to be re-screened.

The incident was similar to another security breach Jan. 5, in which a
man
darted into Terminal 2's passenger exit, prompting a total evacuation
of
both adjoining terminals.

Just as in that incident, the apparent interloper was not found by any
of
the four entities responsible for airport security, the Oakland Police
Department, Alameda County Sheriff's Department, Transportation
Security
Administration and the airport's privately contracted security
contingent.

"A couple of thousand (passengers) were impacted today," Barnes said.
"There
were very long lines" to get back through security, such

that "queuing was all the way out on the sidewalk areas when the
checkpoints
were shut down."
By 2:30 p.m., both terminals had been cleared and searched and
evacuated
passengers had been re-screened.

Some 25 to 30 flights were expected to be delayed by the incident --
some
for as much as three hours, Barnes said, estimating that the schedule
would
return to normal by about 6 p.m.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/ci_5234989

Russian aviation regulators suspend charter flights to EU countries

MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti) - Two state aviation regulators have
suspended the charter and non-regular flights of several Russian air
carriers to the European Union, the Transportation Ministry said
Friday.

The ruling will affect Aero Rent, Tatarstan, Atlant-Soyuz, Aviacon
Zitotrans, Centre Avia, Gazpromavia, LUKoil, Russian Sky and UTair air
carriers.

"In order to prevent serious harm to the image of the Russian
Federation as
a leading global air power and to ensure flight safety, Rostransnadzor
and
Rosaviatsia issued a joint directive suspending the charter and
non-regular
flights of these air carriers to the European Union," the ministry said
in a
statement.

Inspections conducted by the European Commission in 2004-2006 of these
carriers revealed numerous violations of air traffic and safety
regulations
that have yet to be corrected.

The ministry said all the companies had been informed of the results of
the
inspections, but failed to submit plans to state regulators on
correcting
the violations. The companies risk being placed on the so-called EU
aviation
safety "blacklist," established in 2005.

None of the cited Russian air carriers is currently on the EU list of
airlines banned from operating within the European Community.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070216/60835789.html

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