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To: E. Charters who wrote (76488)	9/14/2001 3:57:06 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116752

Gold goes missing on flight to US "The boxes were opened by the FBI and US Customs and they found some wood carvings and other scrap" The search is on for£1 million worth of missing gold dust. The material was being shipped to Utah on an Air France jet. When the plane that arrived at O'Hare International Airport, in Chicago the unrefined gold was not on board according to investigators from America's Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bound for a refinery in Utah, the gold was shipped in five metal boxes from the west African nation of Benin. Only three boxes were found in the Air France terminal, and those were not the same boxes used initially to ship the gold, the Chicago Police Department said. "The boxes were opened by the FBI and US Customs and they found some wood carvings and other scrap," said Chicago Police Sgt. Robert Cargie. The shippers have an invoice showing they sent five metal boxes out of Africa, but Air France has an air bill indicating it handled only three boxes from Paris. Billing records show the gold was originally shipped via Air Afrique on Oct. 23 from the coastal town of Cotonou, Benin. The flight stopped in Lagos, Nigeria before heading north to Paris. The shipment of gold - about 550 pounds - remained in Paris for two days before being loaded onto a non-stop Air France flight for Chicago, according to the FBI. No arrests have been made in the case, the FBI said. itn.co.uk

To: E. Charters who wrote (76488)	9/14/2001 7:50:40 PM
From: dave rose	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116752

<<Air marshals would stop a lot of terrorism.>> How is this for a solution to the hijacking of planes: Eliminate all security at airports. Allow anyone or everyone to carry anything they want on the plane. Place zero, one, two, or three or more non-uniform marshals on flights with concealed weapons. Now what are the chances of anyone trying to take over a plane if he thought someone may have a gun to blow his head off? What do you think?