France terror hunt reveals little

[DBoon]

Quoting:

The French authorities say they have found little evidence of plans to use US-bound aircraft to launch attacks against US targets over Christmas.

And:

... A French judicial official added that none of the passengers on the cancelled flights - including those questioned - were known to intelligence authorities or had known links with Islamic radicals.

See:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3348041.stm

[Flagg]

1. well, who would have thought.........?

[maggrwaggr]

2. gee, what a surprise.

But people will remember this as a "threat".

[peterh]

3. Rather interesting….France and California….

Gee, what possible common denominator could there possibly be here?:think:

That rove is one wily rascal

[MrPrax]

4. The Air France thing sealed it for me...

This alert is a fake...

Think about it...the only tangible in all of this was banning 6 flights from France.

Let's face it...France is the ONLY airline Bush could possibly ban without a fuss being raised and there has been a lot of French muslim 'background' in the previous week on the networks...

This is just a way to give the Homeland 'thugs' a Christams bonus, while the unemployed sit around waiting for Congress to come back to work to see if THEY'RE benefits will be extended...
Oh yeah and potential billion that could be used for schools, health, roads, daycare or even just basic necessity protection and security that towns and states are begging for under the Homeland spending...

They're assholes...

[tedzbear]

5. US Neocons are just f--king with France for payback...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2CDA5D19-FBCE-4CC7-890B-306152BE805F.htm

Air France will have to eat the $ for canceled flights. Notice Paris-L.A. flights for United and American were not canceled or seen as terrorist threats.

[missile_bender]

6. The important thing is it justified

going to orange alert, whether it had to be made up or not.

[pinniped]

7. Little evidence?

WTF was it? Or is it a matter of national security again?

[missile_bender]

8. And once again the Washington Prosti, I mean Post, fails

to mention most of this stuff in it's articles.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29993-2003Dec25.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30985-2003Dec25.html

The jump line for one is "French Police Question Suspicious Passengers". Misleading--they were released because they weren't suspicious after all!

The jump line for the other is "Terror Threat Grounds Flights" not that the French found NO evidence of anything.

And the Whore, I mean Post, did not say that the reason the planes were grounded was because the U.S. would not let them land here! Instead, the article says " A French airline canceled six flights between Paris and Los Angeles yesterday out of fear of terrorist hijackings." Not the same thing.

And the Post mentioned that "One of those who did not appear for the Christmas Eve flight apparently is a trained pilot, one U.S. official said." But it did NOT research to find out what the Scotsman reported:

"A Tunisian national with a pilot's license who was on a US list of suspicious people was found to be still in Tunisia and had no plans to leave the country, he said. The Tunisian had no criminal record and did not belong to any Islamic radical groups."

Nevertheless, the Post still gave the US props for a fake terror victory. "U.S. government officials said they believe they might have averted a terrorist attack by arranging for the flights' cancellation." What an insult. The fact that the French found nothing is irrelevent. Those incompetent frogs can't catch terrorists.

Also, no comets hit the Earth that day, no doubt thanks to arranging for the flights' cancellation. Prove otherwise!

Anyway, they can use this fake incident to justify the Orange Alert, with the Post's help, of course.

That paper is getting worse and worse.