US Posts Code-Red Alert; Bans Liquids
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... WASHINGTON Aug 10, 2006 (AP)— The Bush administration posted an unprecedented code-red alert for passenger flights from Britain to the United States and ...
WASHINGTON Aug 10, 2006 (AP)— The Bush administration posted an unprecedented code-red alert for passenger flights from Britain to the United States and banned liquids from all carry-on bags Thursday, clamping down quickly after British authorities disrupted a frightening terror plot.
The heightened restrictions triggered long lines at airports across the country, and governors in at least three states ordered National Guard troops to help provide security.
"This was a well-advanced plan," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told reporters as British authorities announced the arrests of 24 alleged plotters. "In some respects suggestive of an al-Qaida plot."
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said as many as 10 flights had been targeted.
Other officials said the plotters had hoped to bring the planes down in a cascade of horror over the Atlantic Ocean, possibly within days. They said the plan involved the use of a peroxide-based solution, flammable when sparked by innocent-appearing small electronic devices. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitive nature of the subject.
Targeted were United, American and Continental Airlines flights from Britain to major U.S. destinations, which officials said probably included New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said the suspects, whose ages ranged from 17 to the mid-30s, were looking to sneak at least some chemicals on the planes in sports drink bottles. Teams of at least two or three men were assigned to each flight, the schedules for which they had researched on the Internet, the official said.
Two other U.S. officials said British, U.S. and Pakistani investigators were trying to trace the steps of the suspects in Pakistan and were seeking to determine whether a couple of them attended terrorist training camps there.
A congressman briefed by intelligence officials, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the investigation, said U.S. intelligence had intercepted terrorist chatter and British intelligence helped thwart the plot through undercover work.
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this IS terrorism women without make-up LOL
Women travelers surrendered bottles and jars of creams and lotions from their makeup kits.
At Dulles, one passenger fished a bottle of Tequila from a carry-on bag. It joined the rest of the newly classified contraband in a trash container
!!!!! something I didnt know....
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The decision to raise the terror level for flights from Britain indicated a severe risk of terror attacks. The "code red" change requires airlines to provide the government with an advance list of passengers aboard affected flights. Previously, passengers names had to be provided within 15 minutes after takeoff.
DONT MISS THIS
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All other flights to and within the United States were put under an "orange" alert, one step below red, but an escalation from the "yellow" status that had been in effect.
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Stay safe there is more to this than we know, I have a gut feeling 'something stinks in Denmark' don't know what.
!!!!!!! barrel of oil went down today
!!!!!!! Israel pulls back from Lebanon
!!!!!!! major terrorist attack stopped
Police probe firebombing as potential terrorist act
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Font: * * * * CanWest News Service; Montreal Gazette
Published: Wednesday, August 09, 2006
MONTREAL - The Quebec provincial police is investigating whether the firebombing of a car owned by petroleum industry spokesperson Carol Montreuil was a terrorist act.
The car burst into flames Thursday around 3:15 a.m. in the driveway of Montreuil's home 30 kilometres north of Montreal in Lorraine, Que., according to police spokesperson Marc Butz.
Montreuil is eastern Canada Division vice president of the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute.
The provincial police anti-terrorism unit is to analyze the charred shell of the car to determine what caused the explosion.
"We don't know if it was a bomb or some technical malfunction," Butz said yesterday. "That could take several days, even weeks."
However, Butz said the case may be linked to a December 2004 attack on a Hydro Quebec transmission tower in the Eastern Townships.
A little-known group called the Initiative de resistance internationaliste claimed responsibility for both incidents in emails sent to some media outlets in 2004 and on Friday, he said.
On Sunday, the police seized computer files from the Journal de Montreal to trace an email the paper received, Butz said.
The email blamed oil companies for holding consumers hostage while making big profits, damaging the environment and financing wars in places such as Iraq.
In June, Montreuil, vice-president of the Canada Petroleum Products Institute, which represents oil companies, said they intend to pass along the costs, and that the $200-million-a-year carbon tax will emerge in the form of 1.5-cent increase a litre in fuel.
Montreal Gazette
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