Officials say al-Qaida operatives may be fully trained airline pilots

Obviously time to implement Archie Bunker's anti-hijacking scheme.
Give out guns to all the passengers. With that many people packing
nobody would try anything.

No chance that will happen, 3 reasons:

1) It would work.
2) It'spolitically incorrect
3) It does not involve government gaining more power



--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG

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Focusing on cargo planes, they say. Force us to implement security
measures (screen all cargo?) that could bring next-day-air to a
screeching halt. Do FedEx and UPS use foreign-national pilots? Do
foreign-flag cargo operations operate in the US? Hmmm...


"When they are in fact out to get you, paranoia is a healthy state of
mind."


Mutts wrote in message . ..
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Authorities raised the terrorist threat assessment over the weekend
after new intelligence indicated that operatives of Osama bin Laden?s
al-Qaida terror network, possibly trained and licensed to fly
passenger jets, may now be pilots for some foreign airlines, ideally
positioning them to carry out suicide attacks, U.S. officials told NBC
News on Monday.

(Corrie) wrote in message . com...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=519&ncid=716

Focusing on cargo planes, they say. Force us to implement security
measures (screen all cargo?) that could bring next-day-air to a
screeching halt. Do FedEx and UPS use foreign-national pilots? Do
foreign-flag cargo operations operate in the US? Hmmm...


When I last looked at their web page it didn't require pilots be U.S.
citizens, just eligable to work in the U.S. and able to travel abroad
(i.e. a reentrant Working Visa)

(Corrie) wrote in message . com...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=519&ncid=716

Focusing on cargo planes, they say. Force us to implement security
measures (screen all cargo?) that could bring next-day-air to a
screeching halt. Do FedEx and UPS use foreign-national pilots?

No. (with one exception that I am aware of pre-merger - an Austrian
who is now a citizen by now I think.)

Do foreign-flag cargo operations operate in the US? Hmmm...



Yes. e.g., JAL Cargo (JAA), All Nippon Cargo, Cargolux, Air France
Cargo, others. Belly freight on dozens of other foreign passenger
carriers.

pacplyer

As long as we are talking about what they COULD be, we should be glad that
they are not Jedi Knights.

Mike
MU-2


"Mutts" wrote in message
...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ID/3775771/

Authorities raised the terrorist threat assessment over the weekend
after new intelligence indicated that operatives of Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaida terror network, possibly trained and licensed to fly
passenger jets, may now be pilots for some foreign airlines, ideally
positioning them to carry out suicide attacks, U.S. officials told NBC
News on Monday.