READ BELOW JIM.UNBELIEVABLE.MY POOR DEZ IS SCARED TO DEATH TO FLY TO CHICAGO TO HELP ME MOVE.
SO I WILL FLY THERE AND PICK HER UP AND FLY HER BACK TO CHICAGO AND HELP ME MOVE.
SHE IS STILL AFRAID, AND TELLS ME SHE WANTS TO DRIVE. I SAID THAT DRIVING ALL THE WAY FROM SEATTLE TO CHICAGO IS NOT ANY SAFER.
I TOLD HER NO TO BE AFRAID WHEN TAKI IS NEXT TO HER IN THE AIRPLANE.HE HE. I WISH I HAD THAT MUCH CONFIDENCE ON MY STOCK PICKS. I WOULD HAVE BEEN RICH.BUT ONCE I DID HAVE THAT MUCH CONFIDENCE ON MY STOCKS.NOW IS GONE WITH THE WIND AND DOLLARLESS POOR TAKI.
READING THE STUFF BELOW IT SEEMS THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT FLY ANYMORE, AND THREATS NOW TO OUR PRESIDENT, AND OTHERS. WHERE DID THE WORLD COME TO?
Plane Held at San Jose Airport
By COLLEEN VALLES
.c The Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - About 80 passengers were held aboard a jetliner Saturday afternoon after a man reportedly stood up in mid-flight and released a powdery substance into the air ventilation system.
Police, FBI and emergency crews were setting up a decontamination tent for the passengers of United Airlines Flight 1669 from Chicago.
``There was apparently a report of a Middle Eastern male who went to the rear of the plane and opened up an envelope. It had some powder in it and it went through the air duct system,'' said police spokesman Rubens Dalaison.
The witness and the man who was accused of dispersing the powder were taken off the plane and were being decontaminated.
Fire department personnel took air samples from inside the Airbus 319 jet to determine if any toxic agents were present, Dalaison said.
Airport spokesman Jim Peterson said someone from flight crew radioed to the San Jose tower about 2:30 p.m. and told them that a witness reported seeing a man open up an envelope and disperse an unknown substance into an air vent.
At Washington's Dulles International Airport, a spokeswoman said a powdery substance found in a restroom on a United plane from London was being tested at an Army laboratory in Maryland.
Spokeswoman Tara Hamilton said the flight was met Saturday by a hazardous materials team and FBI agents, who determined that 17 people out of 216 passengers and 14 crew members had used the bathroom.
The 17 passengers were detained and preliminary decontamination steps were taken on them, which Hamilton said consisted for most part of washing their hands.
Al-Qaida Repeats Threat of More Attacks
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A spokesman for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network has repeated threats to carry out new terror attacks and said Muslims in the United States and Britain should avoid airplanes and tall buildings. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, speaking on a videotape aired on Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite channel, also said President Bush, his father, former President Clinton and the prime ministers of Israel and Britain would not ``escape punishment'' for the deaths of Muslims. The statement was the third released by bin Laden's organization since the U.S.-led bombardment against the Taliban and al-Qaida began last Sunday, Oct. 7.
New Anthrax Exposures Reported in Florida
NEW YORK (AP) - Five more newspaper employees in Florida tested positive for exposure to anthrax, but none showed symptoms of infection. In New York, a threatening letter mailed to Tom Brokaw from New Jersey one week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks contained the anthrax that infected the NBC news anchor's assistant, authorities said today. A second NBC employee had possible symptoms of anthrax, including a low-grade fever, swollen lymph nodes and a rash, health officials said. And in Nevada, a letter sent to a Microsoft office also tested positive for the bacteria |
