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Posted on 01/25/2010 11:55:00 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Two men were stopped boarding US-bound planes at Heathrow days before Britain's terror threat was raised to "severe".
News of the incidents came hours after Home Secretary Alan Johnson lifted the threat level amid fears that al-Qaeda is planning an attack.
The new level, which means an attack is reckoned "highly likely", is second only to "critical".
Security sources say an Egyptian was stopped last Saturday as he tried to board an American Airlines flight to Miami. A man from Saudi Arabia was banned from boarding a United Airlines flight to Chicago the next day and sent back to Saudi.
The incidents and the raised threat level follow the failed Christmas Day bombing on a plane over Detroit.
Anti-terror officials said the past week had seen an "unusually high" number of people on their no-fly list trying to board US-bound planes.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Exactly....multiple flights with the intent to get just one thru... call it flooding the zone trying to get a leaker thru our defenses.
Right, that’s precisely what I’m thinking too.
Also, do you think they and their bags were searched once identified that they were on the no fly list. If they were searched and no explosives were found...maybe they were coming to the US to attempt an attack from within the US or maybe they are still testing the system? So many possibilities...
Thanks to Ernest and Starwise for the pings to this thread.
Previously...
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Note: Read both pages of this article.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/female-suicide-bombers-heading-yemen/story?id=9636341
“Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen
U.S. Agents Told Women Believed Connected to Al Qaeda May Have Western Appearance and Passports”
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and BRIAN ROSS
Jan. 22, 2010
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435215/posts
“Two held with fake papers [Kochi Airport, India]”
TIMES OF INDIA ^ | 23 January 2010, 04:48am IST | Manju V
Posted on January 22, 2010 5:19:36 PM PST by Cindy
“Two held with fake papers” Manju V , TNN, 23 January 2010, 04:48am IST
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2435056/posts
“THREAT LEVELS [MI5 - UK]”
MI5.gov.co.uk ^ | Updated January 22, 2010 | n/a
Posted on January 22, 2010 2:05:44 PM PST by Cindy
Years ago, I read an article and a Pentagon official stated that the WOT would be over by 2008.
I went back to 90’ in the past few days & have compiled a wealth of resource on the issue, it will never be over when you see how the dots connect
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No word & was removed, I do think he was drunk -g-
I think the flylist is a joke IMHO
Damn!
US intelligence and London conference trigger new MI5 terror alert
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Maybe they were just extra alert...think about that....!
Although counter-terrorism agencies believe that an attack is “highly likely”, government officials have said that it is not imminent.
What I do Ernest? :(
Hey, they stole my headline! I want my royalities lol
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