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To: unclewest who wrote (21427)	12/24/2003 7:05:25 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793717

My comment about the Foreign Airlines seems to be right on. "Eye on the Left" Blog You will forget about Manhattan events One of the greatest concerns this time around is new U.S. intelligence suggesting that foreign airports and airlines have been penetrated by individuals sympathetic to terrorists groups, U.S. law enforcement officials told The Washington Post. U.S. security officials have been thoroughly checking the identities of foreign flight crews before their departures from U.S. airports and upon their arrival in the United States. U.S. officials have questioned a small number of crew members in recent weeks after their names appeared to be similar to those on the FBI's "watch lists" of suspected terrorists, officials told the Post. The officials said there have been no arrests and declined to identify the air carriers involved. "At this time our Customs and Border Protection inspectors are increasing scrutiny of all international passengers coming into the United States," said Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse. - CommercialAppeal.com Meanwhile MSNBC is reporting that OBL personally approved the plan. New intelligence information indicates that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his top deputy personally approved the suspected terrorist attack plan that led the government to raise the nation's terror threat assessment this week, U.S. officials told NBC News on Tuesday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said U.S. intelligence agencies had gathered detailed information about the plan, in which they said al-Qaida operatives would hijack foreign airliners and fly them into targets in the United States. In some instances, the intelligence is so detailed as to include specific flight numbers, they said.