[Polycarp IV]

If you folks have not read the article that started this thread yet, I think its a good idea to do so now.

I read this yesterday, and a drug rep visited my office not long after with an offer to fly me to San Antonio for a brief conference. I'd love to see San Antonio but I had just read this story, and I turned him down.

Here's some comments from Rod Dreher:

RE: MORE TERROR IN THE SKIES [Rod Dreher]

Kathryn, I'm hearing from a trusted source that the federal air marshals have thwarted quite a few domestic hijacking plots since 9/11, but haven't told the public about them, presumably (this is my interpretation, not my source's) because they don't want to unnerve the public. Frankly, I don't believe the government's story about these guys being Syrian musicians playing in a desert casino. That shouldn't be too hard to check out, though, and I hope I'm proven wrong.

This incident reminded me of something that happened near my Louisiana hometown a few weeks after 9/11. A friend of mine who flies in an ultralight aircraft club was at the club's rural "airport" (that is, a big shed and a field long enough to take off from) one Saturday in October, 2001, when they were approached by a blonde man with a foreign accent. The man drove up and asked if someone would be willing to take him up to photograph petrochemical facilities along the Mississippi. The pilots were startled, because their airstrip is fairly obscure. They played dumb, and told the foreigner to come back on Sunday, when they'd have fuel. When the man left, the pilots notified the FBI.

The next day, the foreigner returned, and the FBI took him into custody. A law enforcement official later told my father that the man was an Austrian citizen who had been on a government watch list, and had been deported. The story was never reported. I bet things like that are happening all the time.
Posted at 04:09 PM

[sockmonkey]

I read this yesterday, and a drug rep visited my office not long after with an offer to fly me to San Antonio for a brief conference. I'd love to see San Antonio but I had just read this story, and I turned him down.

If you went to Mass at Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio, you'd probably be wanting to move here. Next time you have such an opportunity, you really should come down here.

[cpforlife.org]

RE: Potential threat of Islamo-Terrorists blowing up aircraft.

Perhaps airlines should publicly and repeatedly announce that substantial amounts of PORK will be placed throughout the cabins of ALL planes?