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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neocon who wrote (518739)	1/2/2004 11:46:05 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (3) of 769667

Why are flights cancelled and being escorted if we're winning the war on anything? These restrictions are more severe than what we've seen in the last two years. What gives? Would we really shoot down a passenger plane? These are the Brits, they're not even the French (or Freedoms as we have come to call them now) voanews.com "....For the second time in 24 hours, British Airways flight 223 from London's Heathrow Airport to Washington's Dulles International has been grounded. The air carrier made the decision after it received a strong recommendation to do so from the British government just hours before the scheduled departure. Terrorism expert Paul Wilkinson from St. Andrews University says this shows that the threat is not going away and people will have to get used to heightened security measures. "I think this episode illustrates the very high level of concern among the authorities about the possibility of an attack on a civil airliner going across the Atlantic and perhaps being used in the same way that the al-Qaida used airliners on 9-11," he said. "That is to crash them into buildings and cities in the United States. And that is such an enormous danger that I think these rather exceptional measures are certainly justified, and, I think, passengers and crews do understand the need for special security at this time." Two days ago, the same British Airways flight was allowed to land in Washington, but it was escorted into the airport by two U.S. F-16 fighter planes, and passengers were questioned by officials on the ground for some three hours before being allowed to disembark...."

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