We're still monitoring (via public information on the internet) these threats so, updates appreciated.
A few more details UPDATE:
Thanks to Hegemony for the ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737610/posts?page=290#290
to this article:
http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/11/india-airports-and-flights-to-us-on.html
Monday, November 13, 2006
"INDIA: AIRPORTS AND FLIGHTS TO U.S. ON HIGH ALERT"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "New Delhi, 13 Nov. (AKI/Asian Age) - America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sent a communication to India's Intelligence Bureau (IB)warning against an "imminent" terrorist threat, probably in the form of a hijack on US-bound flights from Indian airports. The FBI received an email that is believed to have originated from India, warning of terror attacks.
Following the alert that was conveyed on Saturday, the IB informed the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), which promptly despatched a communication to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which is responsible for guarding airports in India. Airports across the country and airlines operating flights to the United States have also been alerted. Security has been beefed up further."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The latest terror alert follows the one on November 9 when an anonymous letter was found at Trichy airport in Tamil Nadu, warning that AL-Qaeda would "blast Chennai airport like the airports in Thailand". The note also warned of attacks on Trichy, Madurai and Coimbatore airports, as well as airports in Kerala."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A TV report had said that an Internet centre in the US had received an email warning that a plane flying from India to a destination in Europe or the United States could be hijacked. This email was then passed on to the FBI, which in turn informed the Indian authorities, the TV report added.
(Aki/Asian Age)
posted by Marko at 11/13/2006 05:06:00 AM
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Thanks to freeperfromnj for this link (recap)
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13551926,00.html?f=rss
"Aiports On Terror Alert"
Updated: 22:56, Sunday November 12, 2006
Off Topic, but interesting.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061113-7.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 13, 2006
Message to the Senate of the United States
With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (the "Agreement"), adopted in Geneva on July 2, 1999, and signed by the United States on July 6, 1999. I also transmit, for the information of the Senate, a report of the Department of State with respect to the Agreement.
This Agreement promotes the ability of U.S. design owners to protect their industrial designs by allowing them to obtain multinational design protection through a single deposit procedure. Under the Agreement, U.S. design owners would be able to file for design registration in any number of the Contracting Parties with a single standardized application in English at either the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or at the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Similarly, renewal of a design registration in each Contracting Party may be made by filing a single request along with payment of the appropriate fees at the International Bureau of WIPO. This Agreement should make access to international protection of industrial designs more readily available to U.S. businesses.
In the event that the Senate provides its consent to ratify the Agreement, the United States would not deposit its instrument of ratification until the necessary implementing legal structure has been established domestically.
I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to this Agreement and give its advice and consent to its ratification, subject to the declarations described in the accompanying report of the Department of State.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 13, 2006.