Newsstand - Washington ready for al-Qaida Air Force attacks!

I guess it's a vote of no-confidence for the TSA:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air defenses around the nation's capital have been strengthened amid a heightened terrorism alert and a warning from CIA director George Tenet that al-Qaida attacks could occur as early as this week, defense officials said Wednesday.</font>

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Congress-Terrorism.html

Or this thread that does not require registration (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030212/ap_wo_en_ge/na_gen_us_terrorism_3).

Praise the Lord and pass the duct tape. As I am composing this, the flying federales are buzzing over my house.

I guess the extreme right-wing groups were right about the black heliocopters......

Actually, they were buzzing over the left wing http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Well, when the bogus alert goes back to yellow, can we duct tape CNN morning, overpaid, anchor Paula Zahn's mouth shut? Maybe then the "AM" icon on the lower right of the TV screen will stop moving. She'll look good like that. :-)

SHADO

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by snake:
I guess it's a vote of no-confidence for the TSA...</font>

No, just a fact of reality. The TSA actions at the airport are only a show, and really have no impact of terrorist activities. Just think if we took the $billions$ thrown away at airports along with billions of dollars of other economic damage and used it elsewhere, how much we could get done!

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by NoStressHere:
No, just a fact of reality. The TSA actions at the airport are only a show, and really have no impact of terrorist activities. Just think if we took the $billions$ thrown away at airports along with billions of dollars of other economic damage and used it elsewhere, how much we could get done!</font>


Well, here is one for the inspectors. They just found a man with a live hand grenade at Gatwick Airport. I guess this gives some credence to the increase in the terrorist alert

I just don't get it. What are they expecting, a fleet of MIG-29s to come flying from Afghanistan? Why so much air defense?


[This message has been edited by yevlesh2 (edited 02-13-2003).]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by yevlesh2:
What are they expecting, a fleet of MIG-29s to come flying from Afghanistan?</font>
Wouldn't that be a squadron, not a fleet? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bpauker:
Wouldn't that be a squadron, not a fleet? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif</font>

Dang swabbies are always getting that stuff wrong. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by SRQ Guy (edited 02-13-2003).]