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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (63834)	4/27/2009 4:13:43 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224738

Obama plane's photo-op triggers NY panic 4 hours ago NEW YORK (AFP) — New Yorkers evacuated offices in panic Monday when an unexpected overflight by one of President Barack Obama's Boeing 747s triggered fears of a new 9/11. The jumbo, escorted by low-flying fighter jets, roared over southern Manhattan and the Hudson River for about 30 minutes on what officials later described as a photo op. A livid New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he had not been warned and called the lack of notice "ridiculous and poor judgement." Stunned office workers who failed to spot the presidential markings feared facing a repeat of the September 11, 2001, attacks in which two hijacked airliners smashed into the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 people. "I saw everybody running and I ran out too. My heart is still pounding," said commodities trader Jurgens Bauer. Bauer said that his room had no window so he had not seen the plane -- which is painted white with a blue nose and blue stripe -- but that the terror was real. "I was there on 9/11, I saw thousands of people die. I don't like when I am not aware of a military photo op," he said. Police confirmed that some offices were evacuated, but did not specify how many. "I guess people panicked," a spokesman said. Officials explained the confusion after saying that the commander in chief's aircraft had merely been conducting an exercise. Obama himself was not aboard. "The presidential airlift group conducted an aerial photo in the New York city area today," said US Air Force spokesman Major Richard Johnson. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) called the maneuver a "photo op." "The Defense Department is conducting a photo op that involves deploying two F-16s and escorting a military version of the Boeing 747" close to lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty, FAA spokesman Jim Peters told AFP. "The maneuver was not an emergency and was coordinated in advance with the FAA and state and local officials," he added. But Bloomberg said no one had told him of the visitors to New York's skies. The mayor, who is running for a third term later this year, said in televised comments that he was "annoyed -- furious is a better word -- that I wasn't told." "Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo op right around the site of the World Trade Center catastrophe defies imagination," he said. "It didn't have the normal language of saying that this is sensitive information." Hijackers slammed two planes into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center in 2001, destroying the complex on the southern tip of Manhattan in what was the worst terrorist attack on American soil. A reconstruction project has been hampered by financial and planning delays, but the foundations of new towers are now rising at Ground Zero.

To: longnshort who wrote (63834)	4/27/2009 4:14:57 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224738

Low Flying Planes Spook Financial District 04/27/09 - 03:23 PM EDT Jeanine Poggi An already jittery Street was spooked this morning when an air force jet and one of President Barack Obama's official planes flew low over the Statue of Liberty shortly after the market open. More from Jeanine Poggi Travelzoo Beats Quarterly OutlookEnergizer Beats Street, Forecasts SlowdownFlu Fears Hit Travel StocksPork Producers Defend SectorPharma Firms Expect Benefit From Swine FluLaSalle Beats Street; Hotel Sector RisesDespite Beating Street, ITT Lowers OutlookLance Beats Street, Raises OutlookFormer Freddie Mac CEO ReturnsStanley Works Beats Street; Stock Surges With memories of Sept. 11 still lingering in lower Manhattan, many employees fled their buildings -- including traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange Building and employees of The Wall Street Journal. The Federal Aviation Administration said the government was conducting a photo-op involving two Air Force F-16 jets and a Defense Department version of the 747. It said it notified city law enforcement about the mission. The NYPD said the flight "was authorized by the FAA for the vicinity of the Statue of Liberty, with directives to local authorities not to disclose information about it, but to direct all inquiries to the FAA."