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To: tejek who wrote (182008)	2/2/2004 3:30:47 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575856

Continental Flight Grounded Over Security Concerns Sun February 1, 2004 08:02 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Continental Airlines canceled a flight on Sunday from Washington to Houston, site of the Super Bowl, because of security concerns although the government said there was no sign of a threat to the football championship. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the airline canceled the flight after the department recommended security measures in light of an unspecified threat. She said there was no intelligence suggesting a threat to the NFL Super Bowl. "The threat to this flight was similar to the type of information we had about the British Airways and Air France flights," the spokeswoman said, without elaborating. Continental, British Airways and Air France on Saturday canceled several transatlantic flights scheduled for Sunday and Monday, citing security concerns amid reports suggesting that al Qaeda may be planning a biological or chemical attack on an aircraft. Continental Flight 1519 had been scheduled to depart from Dulles International Airport in suburban Washington at 5:44 p.m. bound for Houston, site of the NFL Super Bowl game. "Flight 1519 was canceled because we were unable to obtain security clearance for the flight from the Department of Homeland Security," Continental spokesman David Messing said. Among the flights canceled over the weekend were Continental's Sunday flight from Glasgow to Newark and an Air France flight from Paris to Washington Sunday and Monday. Sunday's British Airways Flight 207 flight from London to Miami was also canceled, as well as a London-Washington flight grounded several times in January. © Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. reuters.com

To: tejek who wrote (182008)	2/2/2004 10:34:35 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575856

On Wednesday, for example, Bush suggested that war came because Saddam Hussein did not let inspectors into Iraq, when in fact it was the United States that called for inspections to end. "It was his choice to make, and he did not let us in," Bush said. That same day, Bush press secretary Scott McClellan said the White House never said Iraq was an "imminent" threat. But when McClellan's predecessor, Ari Fleischer, was asked whether Iraq was an imminent threat, he replied: "Absolutely." And when White House communications director Dan Bartlett was asked whether Hussein was an imminent threat to U.S. interests, he replied: "Well, of course he is." In addition, Bush aides have regularly said that they were following the advice of intelligence experts. On Thursday, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said the weapons conclusion "was the judgment of our intelligence community, the judgment of intelligence communities around the world." Yet the White House, at various times, went beyond what the CIA advised. In addition to the allegation about Hussein's nuclear purchases in Africa, which the CIA discouraged, the White House asserted, without consulting with the CIA, that Iraq "could launch a biological or chemical attack 45 minutes after the order is given." If bush didn't lie, then I don't know what it means to lie. Al