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Flights From Paris to U.S. Cancelled
MSNBC
| December 24, 2003
Posted on 12/24/2003 10:41:16 AM PST by cyncooper
MSNBC just announced that three flights from Paris to the U.S. have been suddenly cancelled due to "security concerns". The first flight was scheduled to depart Paris heading for Los Angeles.
I could not find an article yet.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airfrance; erniealert; france; lax; nocheeseforyou; orangealert4; terrorism; threat; usembassy
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To: aquaculture
called the land of Lafayette "the enemy". For the record, France has some nice farmland and the sections of Med coastline that weren't despoiled by oil are known to be very nice.
But Lafayette fled France literally for his life, as any American francophile or francophobe, as the case may be, should know. The French, hmmpf!
To: mombonn
Will be praying for you. Have a good trip.Thank you so much. I have been following all the UK terror threads closely for the past 30 days and still plan to go. With all that has been going on over there, sure, I am concerned. Attacks have already been thwarted. Good bet that there will be more. But I will be aware of my surroundings at all times, I do not plan to be in downtown London on New Years (just as easy to drink warm beer elsewhere), and most of all I won't let them win.
God bless all you here in the States over the holidays! Y'all be safe too.
To: Semper911
AWWW! Same to you, Marine!
Hugs to your family!
403
posted on
12/24/2003 12:22:27 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")
To: mhking
"Everything appears to be normal in Atlanta; they aren't reporting any outbound delays presently." Thanks, Mike. Merry Christmas.
404
posted on
12/24/2003 12:22:38 PM PST
by
blam
Comment #405 Removed by Moderator
To: Steve_Seattle
But L.A. doesn't have any high-profile, symbolic targets. Of course, they might just want to kill the people on the plane. L.A. IS a high profile target. The actual target building is not terribly important in this case, so long as it kills a lot of people. Los Angeles is on the West Coast, a liberal area so far free of any major terrorist activity. It is also a very well known city, like New York, that everyone in the world will have heard of. The PR value would be enormous.
There are plenty of commercial targets downtown, hotels near Disneyland, and large massess of people to hit. AQ needs to hit California if they intend to draw us deeper into this conflict, and they know it.
406
posted on
12/24/2003 12:23:09 PM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(The Original One Man Crusading Jingoist Imperialist Capitalist Running Dog Paper Tiger himself)
To: Steve_Seattle
You can't even get up to take a pee 30 minutes to/from Reagan National. Air Marshals on all flights.
I don't think there are any int'l flights at National, because the runways aren't long enough.
Flight attendants and crews all know each other. A strange pilot would be red flag time.
To: Semper911
Sorry, I meant Guardsman.
My bad..
408
posted on
12/24/2003 12:23:24 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")
To: Freedom4US
There's no need for intel to realize that planes departing from foreign countries pose a tremendous security risk, I agree!
409
posted on
12/24/2003 12:23:54 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(Born in California 1958 - Fled to Washington 2002)
I had to skim through the posts so dodn't know if anybody made this point - wouldn't a transatlantic flight from Europe to LA have a similar amount of fuel as it entered US airspace as a transcontinental flight from NY to LA, which is what the 9/11 flights were like? (adjsuting, of course, for the flight path which wouldn't bring it over NY but may bring it in closer to Chicago).
While I am no fan of recent French politics, when I visited Normandy in April 1998 with my then-12 and 10 year old daughters, it was moving for me and for them to visit a small British cemetary about 5 miles south of Bayeux - in a corner of a farmer's field, with about 60 British graves and one free Czech soldier, all died about June 10 1944 - the grounds were immaculate and each grave had a recently-placed bouquet of paper flowers, obviously made by school kids, with "Merci" written on them - someone was teaching those kids something right. That wasn't in June on a D-day anniversary, so don't know what the occasion was. Also, the friendliness of the people towards my family and the signs in shops - not just tourist shops - written in part in English with American and British flags, "We Welcome our Liberators."
410
posted on
12/24/2003 12:23:59 PM PST
by
hadrian
To: Sunsong
Yeah "we". "We" don't like the behaviour of France. Do you? I have lived long enough to not stereotype people and nations and religions.
And there is no "we" on Free Republic.
Sure, it's good clean fun to bash. This medium works well for that. But, when the chips are down, comes a time to lay off that.
411
posted on
12/24/2003 12:24:00 PM PST
by
don-o
To: EyesWideOpen
Have a good and safe trip.
Enjoy a Plowman's Lunch with a couple of on taps at a good pub for me!
412
posted on
12/24/2003 12:25:24 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Kaddaffi, "I will do whatever the Americans want because I saw what happened in Iraq. ")
To: mhking
I don't know,I found out yesterday her plane was coming into Maryland and was to land at 11 AM this morning.She was in Iraq but I don't know where the troops fly out of.
413
posted on
12/24/2003 12:25:40 PM PST
by
fatima
(Karen is coming home Dec,24,please pray ,2 weeks leave,)
To: cyncooper
Do you think we could make this cancellation permanent?
414
posted on
12/24/2003 12:25:45 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Merry Shopping Season and a Happy Pre-Christmas Storewide Sales Event!)
To: don-o
Oh brother.
To: RandallFlagg
Thanks but not a Marine. The Semper is for Semper Paratus!
I'm a Boats, too, remember? (I guess we had that conversation a long time ago.)
416
posted on
12/24/2003 12:26:31 PM PST
by
Semper911
(For some people, bread and circus are not enough. Hence, FreeRepublic.com)
To: japaneseghost
"A strange pilot would be red flag time."
A mole would by definition not be a strange pilot, but someone who was assumed to be legit, someone who had gone through the normal training. Al Quaeda bides its time, and will prepare for years to pull off something big. As for not being allowed to take a pee within 30 minutes of DC, I don't expect terrorists to follow the rules on that or anything else. :-)
417
posted on
12/24/2003 12:26:48 PM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: fatima
I don't see anything about it on AF's website. I'm sure it's on another airline.
418
posted on
12/24/2003 12:27:54 PM PST
by
mhking
(It's in your home state...it's outside your front door...and it's going to eat YOU up!)
To: Poohbah; BlueLancer
Spooky all right.
The Viking Kittens are using their Navy SEAL "silent ZOT! technique" again.
Well, maybe. According to other sources, these were elite Mossad-trained Viking Kittens.
;-)
419
posted on
12/24/2003 12:28:10 PM PST
by
dighton
To: don-o
But, when the chips are down, comes a time to lay off that. And so it shall be! Merry Christmas!
420
posted on
12/24/2003 12:28:14 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
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