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WASHINGTON (AP) - New intelligence indicates that British Airways flights from London to Washington and Air France flights from Paris to an unspecified U.S. city could be terrorist targets, U.S. officials said Friday. Some of the flights are the same as those that drew increased attention when the nation's terror alert was raised to orange, or high, just before Christmas. Two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity stressed there is no specific information about what might be planned, only that those flights are possible targets. There are no plans to raise the terror alert because of the latest threats,...

<p>The arrest of a Sudanese passenger carrying bullets after a trans-Atlantic flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to London this week follows a series of breaches, and an airline security analyst suspects terrorists are testing the system.</p> <p>"It would be a mistake to brush this off," said Charles Slepian of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center. "We should be more concerned with their ability to blow up a plane than to hijack one."</p>

PARIS - A passenger with a name similar to a suspected Al-Qaeda operative wanted by the United States failed to turn up for a flight from Paris to Los Angeles on Sunday for the second time in three weeks, airport officials said. The passenger was booked on the Air France flight on Sunday as 'Abdul Haye', a name which bears a phonetic resemblance to that of a man who US law enforcement officials believe is linked to Al-Qaeda and spent time training in Afghanistan. A passenger with a reservation in this name also failed to show up on Dec 24...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell singled out Paris for praise following French cooperation in stepped up security checks on airline passengers as America remains on high alert for potential terror attacks. The top US diplomat also thanked war-on-terror ally Britain for its cooperation, as well as neighboring Mexico. "With respect to airline flights, we had some information over the holiday period with respect to certain individuals with names that hit our database," Powell said. "A lot of these names have not only duplicates, triplicates, but many similar names and it takes a while to sort through...

HEBRON, Ky. - A woman with a jacket designed to heat up like an electric blanket ended up cooling her heels in Paris yesterday when jittery airport officials yanked her from her flight. The woman was bounced from a Paris-to-Cincinnati flight just before it left France because of suspicious wires poking out of her leather jacket. It turned out that the motorcycle jacket was designed with wires to heat up and keep the wearer warm, officials said. As an additional precaution, all passengers and their luggage were rescreened when Delta Flight 43 landed in Cincinnati. The Associated Press

Jan. 6— Authorities across Europe are searching for a passenger suspected of having links to al Qaeda who failed to show up for an Air France flight on Christmas Eve, ABCNEWS has learned. U.S. law enforcement officials believe the male passenger underwent terrorist training in Afghanistan. The ongoing search for the man — who was traveling with a French passport — is one of the factors contributing to the continuing security jitters about trans-Atlantic flights, officials said. French officials told ABCNEWS the man is feared to have a small bomb whose components might get past airport security. The man had...

Report: Terror Suspect To Land At CVG Details Remain Sketchy UPDATED: 2:15 PM EST January 6, 2004 CINCINNATI -- There are reports that fighter jets are escorting a jet into the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport. CONTACT INFORMATION Report suspicious activity to the FBI. Web Site FBI Tips Toll-Free Hot Line (866) 483-5137 HOMELAND SECURITY Our Homeland Security Page Preparedness Tips Five Levels Of Alert System Department Of Homeland Security Red Cross Family Crisis Plan FEMA: Are You Ready? Ready.gov The plane may have a terror suspect on board, WLWT Eyewitness News 5. The plane is a Delta flight. It left Paris...

France asks that manslaughter inquiry be opened into crash PARIS : French Justice Minister Dominique Perben asked prosecutors to open a preliminary inquiry for manslaughter following the crash of a plane in the Red Sea that killed 148 people, most of them French, his ministry said. The ministry said the request "does not prejudge in any way the causes of the catastrophe", but simply provides a legal framework for French and Egyptian investigators as they conduct their probe. Advertisement The request allows France to send investigators to the scene to work with their Egyptian counterparts to determine the cause of...

A junior French minister has indirectly confirmed that French and US fighter jets have been tracking passenger planes amid heightened security. His comments came as France accused the FBI of making mistakes over identifying "suspicious" names on passenger lists. Concerns over the passengers led to the halting of six flights between Paris and Los Angeles at Christmas. Reports said one of the US-identified "suspects" was in fact a child and another was a Welsh insurance salesman. Junior Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau confirmed reports that US fighter jets escorted two Air France flights into Los Angeles earlier this week. "Currently, the...

if you have a good scanner in So Cal, tune to 271.0, set it in AM mode and listen to Norad intercept Air France flight 68, due at LAX 515pm two F16s from AZ current refueling off Pacific

LOS ANGELES Dec. 26 — The first Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles landed safely Friday night at Los Angeles International Airport, after the carrier had canceled flights for two days because of terrorism warnings. The flight from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was delayed two hours by additional baggage and passenger screenings. It landed in Los Angeles shortly after 6:15 p.m. A second flight was scheduled to land in Los Angeles shortly before midnight and a third flight was to return to Paris from Los Angeles. Six Air France flights between Los Angeles and Paris were...

The following flights have been cancelled in addition to the London-Dulles flight: LHR-CDG Flight 318 LHR-BRU Flight 398