France, Mexico Put Armed Guards in Flight Undercover Even Before U.S. Directive
http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=8403 PARIS Dec. 30 — Members of France's elite intervention squad are already riding undercover on some trans-Atlantic flights, while a continent away, Mexican security agents also began boarding planes before a new U.S. directive to foil foreign terrorists.
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If this is a "high risk" flight, as it was expected to be, one would think they do have armed marshall's on the flight. So then, why scramble the fighters, unless the terrorist is the pilot and the marshalls can't break through the cockpit door. There were several articles about AQ actually being foreign commercial airline pilots for foreign airlines.
News reports (today) have used the number 25, as to the (US gov.'s) estimated amount of embedded al qaeda moles, said to be potentially operating as aircrew within foreign airlines... tick tick tick