The United States had put other nations on notice earlier this week that it would not allow certain suspicious flights into its air space without armed marshals on board.
Seven international flights have now been canceled since last Saturday after the Bush administration began an aggressive approach to defending its air space when the nation was put on orange or "high" alert on Dec. 21. Administration officials said no arrests had been made in connection with any of the more than a dozen international flights subjected to rigorous scrutiny. And officials have acknowledged that even now, they are uncertain whether they have succeeded in foiling a terrorist plot.
First they say that the only reason the flights were cancelled was that the pilots refused to fly with air marshalls on board.
The very next paragraph states that they're uncertain if they have succeeded in foiling a terrorist plot.
Government officials refuse to talk about key details of their decisions to ground the flights because they are classified.
Obviously, it's not classified that the pilots refused air marshalls. This article is full of contradictions to the claim that the reason these flights were cancelled was because some pilots refused to fly with air marshalls.
The thing that the Brits and the French have to understand is that THIS IS OUR CALL!!! If they don't play by our rules, they don't fly into our airspace, F*ING PERIOD EXPLANATION POINT!