Experts Warn About Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat
Monday, March 01, 2004
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
WASHINGTON — Overshadowed by the debate over passenger screening is a terrorist threat as real and elusive as a hijacking — the possibility of terrorists using shoulder-fired missiles (search) to down a commercial jet, either on the tarmac or in the air.
“We could face a grim future if we do nothing,” security expert David Forbes of BoydForbes Security (search) told an audience this week at the Cato Institute (search), which sponsored a discussion on shoulder-fired missiles, or man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs)(search).
Forbes pointed to a thwarted missile attack against an Israeli charter plane off the coast of Kenya in November 2002 — the first documented action against a commercial airliner outside of a war zone. He called the incident a “precursor” for anti-U.S. attacks in the future.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,112873,00.htmlI wonder if they will ever reopen the TWA investigation.