Foreign Airlines Checked for Terror Risks, Report Says

[missile_bender]

Reuters

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=10&u=/nm/20031224/ts_nm/security_usa_airlines_dc

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. intelligence has prompted stepped-up scrutiny into whether foreign airports and airlines pose a terror threat, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. law enforcement officials.

U.S. security officials were thoroughly checking the identities of foreign flight crews and had questioned a few people with names that appeared to be similar to those on the FBI (news - web sites)'s "watch lists" of suspected terrorists, the report said, citing Bush administration sources. Officials declined to identify the air carriers involved, the newspaper reported.

Passengers coming into at least one major U.S. international airport on Air France and flights from Mexico will be subject to more security procedures beginning on Wednesday, the report said, citing an aviation industry official and two other sources.

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Why don't they just fingerprint the planes when they come in?

http://www.unembedded.com

[mbperrin]

1. Heck, just shoot them all down on approach---

better safe than sorry, right?