Officials say al-Qaida operatives may be fully trained airline pilots

MSNBC.com ^ | 12/22/03 | NBC

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Authorities raised the terrorist threat assessment over the weekend after new intelligence indicated that operatives of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network, possibly trained and licensed to fly passenger jets, may now be pilots for some foreign airlines, ideally positioning them to carry out suicide attacks, U.S. officials told NBC News on Monday.

Reinforced cockpit doors intended to thwart hijackers after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks would now protect any terrorist pilot at the controls, the officials said on condition of anonymity.

Authorities would not describe the terror threats in detail publicly, but the U.S. officials told NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski that the threat alert would remain at “orange,” or high, through the end of January, which they said was an indication of its seriousness.

[luvbach1]

There is no doubt 9/11 was a big hit within the terrorist community, not to mention the majority of muslims. So the terrorists really yearn to use planes again, somehow some way. How do I know it was a big hit with the majority of muslims? Well, virtually every muslim with whom I've had an internet exchange on the subject justified 9/11. Usually couched in these words: "I didn't approve of 9/11 but if the US changed its..." You know the rest.

[LikeLight]

Like "American Media" and "American Airlines" . . .

[gcruse]

If something like this happens we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims
stance so fast, they'll be wearing garters in Mecca.

The shame is that until something like this DOES happen,
we will continue patting down old ladies and hotties while
the sheiks sashay right on board.

[ConservativeMan55]

I'd like to see the Colts and the Pats.

I want to see the Eagles fall short.

Just out of spite.

[Metternich]

Al-Q also looking to recruit caucasian operatives from sympathetic orgranizations like ANSWER, IAC and the WWP.

[pgobrien]

Chances of a Muslim terrorist, pilot making it to the continental US are about the same as the Iraqi Air Force flying at night.....not great pilots...as history has sadly proven.

[Metternich]

Define precisely what "hit hard" means.

[rintense]

Colts and Pats not possible- they might play each other in the AFC championship though. I, too, want the Eagles to fall flat on their butts. McNabb got the pity vote for the pro bowl this year.

[ConservativeMan55]

Don't forget PETA, the ACLU, The Sierra Club, trial lawyers, etc.

[witnesstothefall]

The U.S. revokes visas of 17 pilots who fly the Caracas-Miami route for Venezuelan airline
AP ^ | Dec 19, 2003

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1043695/posts

[thoughtomator]

Another 9/11 or worse

[ConservativeMan55]

I stand corrected. The Cowboys or the Packers should beat the Eagles then.

[Ex-Dem]

Man this is Clancey type stuff and it sucks. Who do we nuke if it happens?

No one, if Clancy's to be believed. Remember "Sum of All Fears"?

[rintense]

UGH! Anybody but the COWBOYS! Oh, and the Eagles.

[Lokibob]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1043695/posts

 

The U.S. revokes visas of 17 pilots who fly the Caracas-Miami route for Venezuelan airline

[Shermy]

"Gillette Stadium. Foxboro, Mass. This coming Sunday"

Be afraid...

[ConservativeMan55]

3 or 4 months before 911 there were signs.

I read a report about President Bush's security being tightened 3 months before 911 because Al-Queda was planning on crashing remote controlled airplanes packed with explosives into a building where many national leaders would be attending.

It was some sort of economic summit. I think I might even still have the article.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'd love to see the Rams and Pats in the Super Bowl.

Nawww. We already did them good. Bring on the Packers. I want revenge for Super Bowl XXXI.

[hotpotato]

There's an article on FR about flights run by a commercial outfit from Venesuela using contractor pilots have been canceled by the US government. They are already on it.

But according to Howie, we are no safer than 9/10/01

[Hank Kerchief]

If something like this happens...

It did!

... we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims stance so fast ...

We didn't! And "we" won't next time either. If 9/11 didn't wake the sheeple up, nothing will. Those who already know the score must take their own action. If they wait for the government to do it, it won't happen. It is time to speak out, without apology.

Islam is the most repressive, violent, and backward ideology in the world, it will continue to opress its women and prevent all cultural and economic development, wherever it dominates, and threaten the world with vicious pointless violence.

Islam is the stupidist most repressive retrograde ideology on the planet. It is unkind to pretend it is anything else, and if people really cared about Arabs, and all others (most of whom are not Arabs) who have been deceived by this horrid life-destroying religion, they would be doing everything they could to see it wiped off the earth. To wish anything less for the world, and all those millions enslaved by Islam, is a hatred for humanity.

If every rational, intelligent, decent person would stop being afraid of speaking the truth, and repudiate Islam for the evil and life destroying religion it is, the terrorist threat would be over. When decent people continue to apologize for those who embrace the idiocy that is called Islam, they are working for their own enslavement and destruction.

Hank