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Italy bans flights over Rome
UPI via Drudge ^
| 12-30-03
Posted on 12/30/2003 4:56:29 PM PST by Indy Pendance
ROME, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Italian authorities Tuesday banned flights over Rome until Jan. 6 as a security measure against terrorist attack, the Italian news agency Ansa reported.
This was part of a heightened state of alert in Italy, Ansa said.
On Dec. 24, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a local Milan paper that terrorists had planned to crash a hijacked plane into the Vatican on Christmas Day.
The paper published no details, and there was no attack. But Ansa said the alert continues.
In Germany, security at a Hamburg military air base was tightened following U.S. warnings that Islamic militants planned a suicide bomb attack.
The U.S. air base near Frankfurt was also on high alert, Ansa reported.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: italy; orangealert4; rome
To: Indy Pendance
The gov'ts are taking these flight warnings very seriously. I wonder why we are any less at risk after 1/6/04 ?
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posted on
12/30/2003 5:23:48 PM PST
by
VRWC_minion
(Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
To: Indy Pendance
Once THE WORLD ( particularly our European so-called friends ) wakes up from its dreamworld of peace and love , they are going to realize that we are in the midst of WW3 right now , and that the Islamofacists are out to destroy the USA , Europe and Israel . The Islamofacists must be eliminated and the sooner the better .
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posted on
12/30/2003 5:23:52 PM PST
by
sushiman
To: Indy Pendance; Aquinasfan; B Knotts; BlackElk; Campion; Chi-townChief; Cicero; Coleus; ...
On Dec. 24, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a local Milan paper that terrorists had planned to crash a hijacked plane into the Vatican on Christmas Day. As I watched Christmas mass at St. Peters, the image of such a disaster crossed my mind. The following verse gave me comfort.
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:13:19 PM PST
by
Barnacle
(Refuse to be a Useful Idiot.)
To: Barnacle
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Bumpus maximus!
To: sushiman
Well--if one walks past the hot end of my .30-06, that'll be one less.
But I haven't seen any out here in western edge of Milwaukee suburbs. Drat.
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:29:47 PM PST
by
ninenot
(So many cats, so few recipes)
To: ninenot
Don't let your guard down...They are out there like vermin. They need to be watched and then squashed like bugs, the whole lot of them.
To: Indy Pendance
This makes complete sense to me. If the U. S. is banning flights over New York, Washington D. C., Los Angeles and Las Vegas, doesn't it make sense to ban flights over the Vatican in Rome also?
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posted on
12/30/2003 7:27:34 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Napoleon Solo
.30-06 does not "squash." Much neater than that. Doesn't leave messy entrails ground into pavement.
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:54:01 AM PST
by
ninenot
(So many cats, so few recipes)
To: TonyRo76
Uh--although the celebration of 1/6 is important, it's not news that the Vatican is a target of the Muslims.
CF Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Vienna, etc., etc.
Been going on (without airplanes) for around 1400 years; there was a hiatus in the last 400 or so.
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posted on
12/31/2003 8:56:02 AM PST
by
ninenot
(So many cats, so few recipes)
To: TonyRo76
Seems an attack on the Vatican would be major at any time. Buon Natale! e Capo D'Anno!
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posted on
12/31/2003 9:01:37 AM PST
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: sushiman
They will gladly submit to their own destruction, as long as the US and Israel are destroyed as well.
They'd rather the West be destroyed than have America leading the West.
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posted on
12/31/2003 9:03:58 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: ninenot
Sometimes squashing can be good. It leaves lasting memories that other bad guys will see and in effect make them realize that they ain't goin nowhere except into insect feed!! Vermin in, vermin out!
To: Napoleon Solo
You have a point.
But did I say that I was going to remove the (nearly-intact but very dead) bodies?
Advertising comes in many forms.
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posted on
12/31/2003 11:16:33 AM PST
by
ninenot
(So many cats, so few recipes)
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