[FairOpinion]

"I think the threats are deadly serious and that we may never learn how many plots have been foiled."

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I am sure of that.

I am just wondering about why those flights?

If they don't find anyone on board, could it be that some AQ are hiding somewhere with a missile to shoot it down upon take-off? Or are they going to try to hide a nuke onboard? There are way too many scary possibilities -- and as you said, it must be something very serious, or they wouldn't keep canceling the flights, like this.

[onyx]

Could be any of the things you cited. I'm relieved we're dealing with the Brits and not the French.

What are "we" here in CA doing up at this hour? Day off for you tomorrow?

[BurbankKarl]

And last night was a little eerie....there was a flight ban from sometime New Years Eve to after the Rose Bowl game had finished. It is amazing how quiet it is without all those planes and helicopters flying all around. I left a party around 1am, walked outside, and the only thing I could hear was the faint roar of 2 F-16s doing a track between Chino and Manhattan Beach.