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~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Fort Novosel, AlabamaFort Novosel (formerly Fort Rucker) is a United States Army post located primarily in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It is named in honor of Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Novosel, an Army aviator and Medal of Honor recipient. It was previously named for a Civil War officer, Confederate Colonel Edmund Rucker.The post is the primary flight training installation for U.S. Army Aviators and is home to the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence (USAACE) and the United States Army Aviation Museum.The U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence is the...

Cholo Abdi Abdullah is expected in federal court in New York later Wednesday A Kenyan man spent years training in the Philippines to conduct a 9/11-style attack against the United States, going through flight school and researching methods to get into the country and hijack a plane, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Cholo Abdi Abdullah was allegedly part of an al-Shabaab unit and taking orders directly from a commander in the African terror group -- one who was responsible for previously directing a deadly 2019 hotel attack in Nairobi, prosecutors said. "This chilling callback to the horrific attacks of September 11,...

I posted a vanity thread on the VANITY section of FR about this class and it was pulled. I hope posting it in the blogger section is appropriate. I am starting to teach a Private Pilot Course. You can participate FREE OF CHARGE online or in PERSON, when I get a classroom reserved (which I am working on) AGAIN the purpose of this thread is to discuss the class, which begins as soon as you send an email asking to join in. FReegards, David

h5>February 16, 2002 Man Tied to Hijacker Is Convicted of Lying By REUTERS HOENIX, Feb. 15 — A Saudi Arabian who lives in Arizona has been convicted in federal court of lying to the F.B.I. about his link to a hijacker who flew an airliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. The Saudi, Faisal al-Salmi, 34, was found guilty on Thursday of one count of making false statements in denying any knowledge of the hijacker, Hani Hanjour. The jury in Federal District Court here took about 90 minutes to reach the verdict after a two-day trial. Mr. Salmi faces ...