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The Associated Press 2/2/04 7:13 PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- Terror threats that led to cancellation of one domestic and six trans-Atlantic flights have passed, and the government has no plans to ground more planes, officials said Monday. No arrests were made nor weapons seized in relation to the cancellations, and law enforcement officials acknowledged they are unsure whether the steps taken disrupted attacks. But Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and other Bush administration officials said the cancellations were warranted because of the "specific information on when and what flights" the al-Qaida organization had planned to target. "We didn't quite have...

Fox News channel is reporting that Continental Airlines flight 1519 scheduled to depart Washington Dulles International Airport at 5:35 p.m. for G.H.W. Bush International Airport in Houston has been canceled due to terror concerns.This particular flight number turned up in electronic intercepts, but no specific info about method, target, etc. was picked up.Continental released a statement saying they could not meet heightened requirements by Homeland Security for the flight so they canceled it. Government sources told Fox News this was not related to the Super Bowl.