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Grounded: What’s behind the string of British Airways’ canceled flights to the US?
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Wednesday, February 4, 2004 | By Val MacQueen
Posted on 02/04/2004 7:33:47 AM CST by JohnHuang2

Grounded
By Val MacQueen
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 4, 2004

At the beginning of January, BA 223 from London to Washington was canceled two days in a row due to “security concerns”. On the third day, it was allowed to fly, but was held on the ground in DC for three hours after arrival before passengers were allowed to disembark. Air France also had flights canceled at the 11th hour – specifically to Los Angeles - probably at the demand of the American government, which had information that would have precluded allowing the flights to fly over American airspace.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1071249/posts

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"On Sunday, February 1, Americans screamed and shouted their way through a cliff hanger Super Bowl in perfect safety, thanks to the vigilance of Homeland Security as well a network of related agencies both here and abroad. Houston parties on. It could have been otherwise. And Al-Qaeda is still out there, studying flights and reckoning the chances with opportunistic, glittering, calculating eyes."

The last paragraph of that article says it all.........