Terror plot to attack US with BA jets

The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | 1/04/03 | Davis Leppard

[Cboldt]

I figure they had information that associated a certain name with a certain skill set, much as it's esay to look up my education and work history. The person was then a no-show for the flight, and doesn't answer at his last known address/phone etc. That is pretty strange, for the average Joe.

What's scary is that all this person needs to do is assume a false identity, and try again in maybe a year or two.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I'm jealous...A post of mine that alluded to that quite apt and very correct word to describe the shebeast was deleted by the moderator after some spoilsport reported the reference some weeks ago on another thread. Yeesh, I veiled it just as you did. ;) It was my very first -- and so far only -- comment removal, but it remains extremely difficult to restrain myself from using such language when talking about the she- and he-beast!

[Ditter]

Oh drat! Oh well, carpal tunnel made me give up knitting 30 years ago. I have made 2 plane trips in the last 2 months, both times my pepper spray got past the screeners. I could squirt the terrorists with pepper spray. That would get their attention. ;9}

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Roger that. Looks like he has been zotted anyway.

[CindyDawg]

sorry, knitting needles are not allowed on an airplane. You have to think about something else? :-)

American women of all ages are armed; purses,cell phones, a broken cd, cologne, baby bottles, kids toys, long fingernails, pencils, shoes, can cokes, canes, eyes glasses, hair spray, teeth...

[Thud]

ping

[myprecious]

hormones

[arasina]

I wonder if they think he got away to London and would've been on one of the British Airways flights to Dulles. Flight 223 detained at Dulles on New Year's Eve. From the thread entitled British Airways Flight Detained at Dulles Airport, Passengers Being Quizzed by Security:

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WJLA reporting, they were looking for 7-8 suspects. They're interviewing two passengers now, they were told there would be a delay, waited 1 1/2 hours for checks to start, then another 1 1/2 hours before these 2 (husband and wife) were cleared. Questioned middle easterner woman, FBI questioned her, where's your husband? No one knows why flight detained. One BA source said they were looking for 7-8 suspects. That's all.
298 posted on 12/31/2003 11:25:18 PM EST by angkor

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WTOP Live Report at 12:05 am EST
Did not question US Passport holders, just kept them on the plane. Questioned foreign passport holders.
Looking for 7-8 people
Still calling it a "routine rescreen of passengers"
Four agents stopped one particular woman - asked why her husband was not on board that flight
493 posted on 01/01/2004 12:08:19 AM EST by bcoffey

[CindyDawg]

Have you noticed that in America that estrogen seems to be on the rise and testosterone declining?

[doug from upland]

I wonder what they have done about food service handlers having access to the planes without always going through security.

[myprecious]

No. I live in rural Texas where both are still allowed. LOL!

[Jodi]

that sucks. everyone else calls her PIAPS, i say **nt from Chappaqua is more apropo.

[CindyDawg]

Yeah. Yall aren't extinct yet. I'm married to one and raised 3 more. Sometimes the level would get so high I would have to get out of the house awhile :')

[myprecious]

ummm, CindyDawg, I am equipped with estrogen. That is why I considered it to be a dangerous weapon. ;^)

[CindyDawg]

OHHHHHHHHHHHH (red faced)

[Mr. Mojo]

The informant said that as well as targeting Washington, New York and Los Angeles, the terrorists were planning to launch a strike on an oil terminal in Alaska.

That's one way to get the ecofreaks on their side. .....not a bad recruiting scheme.

[Damagro]

I am surprised that with all the many millions of dollars at the terrorists disposal that they haven't just bought a plane, loaded it with whatever they want, and just fly it into a target

We still don't know what happened with that 727 that disappeared in Africa last year

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I wonder if they think he got away to London and would've been on one of the British Airways flights to Dulles.

Hard to say. But if this were a hijacking plan, the entire team would have to re-deploy. Might be difficult to do, unless they had backup plans in the works. IMO, seems there may have been (and may be) a number of plans in process, including both hijackings and suicide bombings. With good intel and effort, we may be tripping them up pretty well -- Thank God.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

You perfected the phrase by adding "from Chappaqua! A very nice alliteration.

[Damagro]

Lol CD, sounds like you've defended yourself before. Thumbs up