US scours airports for missile threat

[T_i_B]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3135617.stm

The United States has disclosed that it is carrying out safety inspections at airports in some of the world's major cities in an attempt to head off what is seen as the growing threat of attack from portable missiles.

Concern was fuelled last November when terrorists thought to be members of al-Qaeda narrowly failed to hit an Israeli charter flight taking off from Mombasa in Kenya.

The man in charge of American military transport, General John Handy, has described the threat of such attacks as perhaps the greatest of all in the modern-day fight against global terrorism.

Overseas inspections by aviation safety investigators began several weeks ago, and are being carried out in Athens, Istanbul, Manila and several other foreign cities which feature on scheduled American airline routes.

[bif]

1. Gee, I wonder where the missiles came from?

We wouldn't have sold them, would we?

[DarkPhenyx]

2. Apparently GEN Handy....

Didn't get the WMD, opps wait weapons program, no, no it's the intent to produce WMD memo.

[Kolesar]

3. Another arguement for Amtrack subsidies and trains in general

Of course, it does not help for overseas or long domestic flights. Those may become a thing of the past.

[maggrwaggr]

4. Shit, what about LAX?

Every time I fly out over the water I wonder if some wacko isn't down there in a freakin' boat.

I mean, how hard would THAT be?