WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "SCOUTING JETLINERS FOR NEW ATTACKS" by Audrey Hudson (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Flight crews and air marshals say Middle Eastern men are staking out airports, probing security measures and conducting test runs aboard airplanes for a terrorist attack.) (July 22, 2004) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "FBI WARNS AL-QAIDA MAY RECRUIT NON-ARABS" (JIHADWATCH.org SNIPPET: "I found this report less disturbing for the fact that al-Qaida is recruiting non-Arabs than for the idea that this is news. It indicates that the FBI, the media, or both have by now utterly forgotten about John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid, Jose Padilla, Jack Roche, and all the rest. Doesn't bode well for our state of readiness to have such short memories.") (July 17, 2004) (Read More...)
WSBradio.com (AP): Atlanta - "SECURITY BREACH AT HARTSFIELD-JACKSON" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Officials said 31-year-old Robert Buzzell of Warner Robins made his way to the tarmac and a Delta Air Lines hangar where mechanics called security when the man could not produce Delta indentification.") (July 21, 2004) (Read More...)
KESQ.com (AP): Los Angeles, California - "MAN CAUGHT AFTER SCALING FENCE AT AIRPORT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A man was caught on a taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport after he climbed a fence at the airport. Officials say 23-year-old Arshak Hunanyan was carrying a bag when he was caught on Sunday and said he was hoping to sneak onto a plane bound for Paris.") (July 21, 2004) (Read More...)
A Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding an AP Article via BELLEVILLE.com: Brookfield, Ill. - "JORDANIAN CHARGED WITH LYING TO OBTAIN PILOT'S LICENSE" (July 18, 2004) (Read More...)
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Politics: 23 July 2004, Friday.
Security at the Sofia subway has been boosted after Bulgaria and Poland faced a terror threat this week.
Policemen are stranding guard at every station, while their colleagues in civvies are even taking rides on the subway trains. Melting into the crowds, they make sure that nobody is taking pictures of the facilities or recording videotapes.
The capital's metro railway connects the center of the city - the Central Mall, President's office and other key edifices - with the densely populated district of Lyulin. About 80,000 people are taking daily rides.
Security was stepped up after on Wednesday an Islamic militants group threatened Bulgaria with bloodbath. The Tawhid group identified themselves as the European cell of al-Qaeda.