“U.S. security officials detained a British Airways Boeing 747 on arrival at a Washington, D.C., airport on Wednesday night and spent several hours questioning passengers, airline and security officials said.” This from Reuters. “FBI and Transportation Security Administration agents conducted ‘routine’ questioning of passengers aboard BA Flight 223 from London when it arrived at Dulles […]
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Jihad at sea
“Terror strikes from the sea could be even more catastrophic than those from the air, intelligence officials say. They fear a hijacked oil tanker could be rigged with explosives or a radioactive dirty bomb could be smuggled ashore in a shipping container.” This from AP. “But almost 5,000 ships and about four out of every […]