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To: JustPiper

Thanks for the Ping JP. I was searching for more info and came across this. Not sure if it was posted yet. Haven’t had a chance to backtrack the thread.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/749666—airports-on-heightened-alert-for-terror-threat?bn=1

Airports on heightened alert

“There’s some specific information that certainly causes me concern, causes our security officials concern, and I think we’ve got to maintain heightened vigilance at this time,” said Transport Minister John Baird.

Baird said new, specific information about a potential attack led his agency to issue the warning, which comes in the wake of the thwarted Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner.......


1,279 posted on 01/13/2010 4:02:40 PM PST by jersey117
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To: jersey117

TY FFNY! Good find, connects the dots, wonder if it’s Britain too?

“There’s some specific information that certainly causes me concern, causes our security officials concern, and I think we’ve got to maintain heightened vigilance at this time,”


1,281 posted on 01/13/2010 4:05:04 PM PST by JustPiper ({{{ Burnin' down the Tent!!! }}})
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To: jersey117; Cindy; WestCoastGal; Oorang; JustPiper; ExSoldier; Velveeta; MestaMachine; blackie; ...
Al Qaeda linked to rogue aviation network

Snip: early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called "the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11."

The document warned that a growing fleet of rogue jet aircraft was regularly crisscrossing the Atlantic Ocean. On one end of the air route, it said, are cocaine-producing areas in the Andes controlled by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. On the other are some of West Africa's most unstable countries.

1,307 posted on 01/14/2010 3:31:44 PM PST by MamaDearest
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