Posted on 11/09/2001 5:08:16 AM PST by NC Conservative
This is good, however, they need to check all employees too. There could be a potential hijacker planted among them.
Osama men planning to re-enact Sept 11 in Delhi
Security at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu has been tightened following information that Osama bin Laden's men are planning to hijack a plane from Nepalese airspace to hit targets in New Delhi possibly the Prime Minister's office or the residence.
"The letter written by the Civil Aviation Authority in Chennai, warns that bin Laden's men are currently in Kathmandu and there is a possiblility of hijacking of an airplane from Nepalese sky and hitting some important targets in New Delhi," according to executive secretary of the Board of Airlines Representatives Nepal (BARN) Bishnu Subedi.
The targets could be the Prime Minister's office and his residence and the US embassy in New Delhi, he said.
"The aviation authority in Chennai received the threats from some unknown people. The airport security has informed BARN about the letter and we have circulated the information to all the 13 carriers flying from Kathmandu," Subedi said.
"The threat may be real or a hoax, but we must take precautionary measures at such a sensitive time," he added.
Managing Director of the Royal Nepal Airlines Rajesh Raj Dali said the airlines has tightened its security after receiving the threat.
"In fact, we have already intensified security watch after the September 11 incident," he said, adding the Civil Aviation Authority has taken necessary steps to tighten the airport security including ladder point frisking.
The Airport Authority has been taking anti-hijacking and anti-sabotage measures, said a senior officer at the RNAC.
It may be recalled that an Indian Airlines flight originating from Kathmandu (IC-184) was hijacked by Kashmiri militants in December 1999 to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
Many people might say that this would draw more Muslim kooks into the area but lets think about that for a minute. The "mujahadeen" are now fighting in Afghanistan, in Kosovo, in Chechnya and to a lesser degree in places like Somalia.
These guys are not the Chinese army they have a limited number men and materiel to spread around. Speaking of China, I guess they could get drawn into such a war too. Yikes.
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