Posted on 11/12/2006 3:30:07 PM PST by FairOpinion
INDIA renewed a high security alert at its airports following a warning that the al-Qaeda terror network could try and hijack US-bound passenger flights.
“We sounded an alert after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) forwarded an email that spoke of the possibility of an al-Qaeda attempt to hijack US-bound flights from India,” a home ministry official said.
The official, who did not wanted to be named, said the email written by an “unknown entity” appeared to have originated from India and was received by the FBI Saturday at its headquarters in the US.
“While the 'target' was US-bound flights, the nature of threat mentioned in the email was 'hijacking”', he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
The Dems are about to resume control of Congress. I thought I was supposed to be safe now.
This related article said that a U.S. internet centre received an email warning of the planned hijacking.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13551926,00.html?f=rss
What is amazing is that there are several articles about this in the foreign press, so it's validated, but NOTHING on CNN or FoxNews. I looked through the related articles found by Google News, and even though this is an AP report, it's not on any of the US newspapers or news stations websites.
One would think people would be interested in terrorists hijacking planes headed to the US.
Just the way the plot discovered in the UK got virtually no mention in the US, it was a couple of days of news cycle, the Foley scandal was much more important to our national interest, based on the MSM coverage.
How does Pelosi plan to deal with this, sing Kumbaya with Bin Laden?
She doesn't plan to deal with it. They will let it happen and mark it up as another failure of Bush.
Grammar nazi's are one of my pet peeves. :-)
"try AND..." is one of my pet peeves as well.
Another is "may or may not." That doesnt tell me ANYTHING!!!
Actually, I did hear about it on FOX News.
Several times.
Someone posted on another thread re this threat that FOX had mentioned it yesterday. I haven't had FOX or any other news on since last Tues night. But I get FOX News Alerts emails and nothing came up. I guess Britney's divorce is better fodder for the masses.
"That's a whole nother subject."
their, there
your, you're
to, too
cant, can't
split infinitives
CAPS LOCK
no capitalization of proper nouns and acronyms
no punctuation
and generally anything else covered on this link:
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=14457200288064322170
That's because nobody cares. Really. Nobody believes the terrorist threats anymore, and many likely see it as a Rebublican plot to prop up approval ratings:
"Oh, another terrorist threat? (Yawn), Oh, ho - hum, how late is Best Buy open tonight?"
"I like to watch the races on Thursday's."
Ahhhrgh!!
Please don't forget:
then and than
Possibly the worst abuse of all!
Even on this thread. It's been hijacked by the grammar police--and other trivial pursuits.
And let's not forget that Sean Vannity wrote the book on poor grammatical usage.
ah yes, the splitting of the word "another."
but alas! (a redundancy) being from the South, I am not immune to it, as much as I know it is wrong to say...
=P
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