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AMERICAN EAGLE EYES
New York Post ^ | 1/05/04 | ADAM MILLER

Posted on 01/05/2004 1:14:40 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:18:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

January 5, 2004 -- Federal air marshals intervened in 840 cases of suspicious passenger activity during a two-year period starting the week of the 9/11 attacks. That's 40 percent of the total 2,100 incidents involving air marshals.

A congressional investigation into how the marshals are doing their job also shows there have been 28 arrests or detainments of passengers and three cases where marshals discharged their weapons.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; airmarshalls; airmarshals; airsec; airsecurity; gao; skymarshalls; skymarshals; tsa

1 posted on 01/05/2004 1:14:40 AM PST by kattracks
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"Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our
wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams -


Make your statement.


3 posted on 01/05/2004 1:39:53 AM PST by Support Free Republic (I'd rather be sleeping. Let's get this over with so I can go back to sleep!)
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To: seamole
3 case where they discharged weapons and no one reported it in the news. But we hear about them fighting with a drunk women. If anybody has links to news reports on the weapons discharging I would like to see them.
4 posted on 01/05/2004 3:23:12 AM PST by riverrunner
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