[FairOpinion]

Terror alert is definitely not over...

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[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I have a hard time believing any of those flights could have enough gas to go from their origin to the Valdez facilities.

Maybe the plan was to take the Aeromexico plane after it got to LA to Alaska but that's a long flight to make over many A.F. bases (something like 7-8 hours I would guess but at least as long as flying from Seattle to the East Coast) without getting shot out of the sky.

[NormsRevenge]

definitely not .. Bump

[GeronL]

panic gripping passenger flights on both sides of the Atlantic

what panic???

[kingu]

What strikes me as curious is how little attention is being put on to the international cargo agencies. I wasn't paying attention the other day when I went to make a delivery to the FedEx terminal at the airport and I drove up to the base of the plane...

I thought I was going to be shot on sight. Instead, a helpful ground crew member told me how to take a shortcut to the shipping counter.

[Tall_Texan]

British security agents were last night conducting an intense manhunt for two al-Qaida operatives they believe intended to board flight 223 wearing shoe-bombs.

So, if the plan was to crash the plane into a specific target, why the shoe bombs? To hold the passengers at bay? Don't think that's going to work this time. I think even the Frogs would try to fight them.

At least now we know what took 3 hours to deplane at Dulles. The Brits must have thought we Americans had a shoe fetish.

[Myrddin]

I have two more domestic flights scheduled in the last two weeks of January. One week in Birmingham, AL and the other in Chicago, IL. The Birmingham trip puts me at a huge coal-fired electric plant. Both locations are more interesting targets than my little town in Idaho. Both trips will be even more intrusive at the TSA counter. I'm more concerned about my "on the ground" time than the actual flights.

[Pro-Bush]

Bump!