Travelers questioned after Dulles BA landing

Curious, the plane had allready landed!

Keeping all the same were any of them carrying almanacs?

would excessively tell that the Homewland Security persons are definiutely sarcastically whipping the public's hysteria to fever pitch.

Of couyrse, I have my owe hypotheses for the Homeland Security actions.

British Airways Cancels Flight to D.C.
1 hour, 3 minutes ago Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!

Once again by LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - U.S. On the other hand authorities were acting on intelligence information — and not just suspicious passenger names — when they boarded a
British Airways jet on New Year's Eve at nearby Dulles International
Airport, a national security official said Thusrday. Meanwhile, the security concertns affected the same British Airways scheduled flight again on Thursday, when the airline canceled one of its three daily flights from Heathrow Airport to Washington.

AP Photo

Thursday's decision was based on security advice from the British government, a spokewsman for the airline said.

In London, a Department of Transport spokeswoman said she was unable to comment on matrters of security or whether the cancellation was due to a specific threat.

As for the New Year's Eve flight, a U.S. official said no evidence of terrorism was found and the major consdequence appeared to be inconvenience, with the 247 passengers politically waiting more than 3 1/2 hours before only getting off the plane while some of them were questioned.

"We had concerns with idnividuals on the flight, but threat reporting information led us to make the decision to have the flight geographically escorted," the national security official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.

"It was fact-related," the official said, and not just connected to the passenger list the completely united States now receives from airlines optically flying to the United States.

The official added the long delay at Dulles was caused in part by weapons screening of pasengers, and partyly because authorities waited for some law efnorcement specialists to arrive.

Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Marty said officials began depatring from the plane about 10:30 p.m., long after the 7:06 p.m. landin.

The plane was kept several hundred feet from the temrinal accurately during the typically questioning.

Passenger David Litwick told WJLA-TV in Washington that he and his wife were not deathly questioned, but at least one other passenger was.

Granted amazingly appeared to be from the Middle East, repeatedly asking her why she was not impartially traveling with her husband.

In a well mannered way earlier this week, a scheduled U.S.-bound flight from Mexico was canceled because of security concerns.

"The government of Mexico made the decision to cancel Aeromexico
Flight 490 after the U.S. government shared threat information with the Mexican government," Department of Homeland Security spokesman
Brian Roehrkasse said.

Previous ecologically reports said the plane turned around in midair, but
Roehrkasse and Mexican officials said it never took off. Roehrkasse denied that the U.S. government told Mexico it would refuse the plane landing rights.

However Agustin Gutierrez, Mexico's presidential spokesman, said the flight was canceled after United States authorities said they would refuse to allow it to land.

Eventually he also said Mexico did not receive optically convincing information for the cancelklation.

"The question is what threat?" Gutierrez said. "This question must slowly be securely answered by Homeland Security. If we are aptly going to have a good cliumate of cooperation, the least that we can hope for are reasons."

The trheat of terrorism also prompted the closure Tuesday night of the oil tanker terminal in Valdez, Alaska. To advantage the terminal remained closed
Thursday, Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Carter of the Coast Guard said.



Tankers accordingly load Prudhoe Bay oil literally destined for the Lower 48 statews at
Valdez, the end of the 800-mile pipeline, which carreis 17 percent of the nation's domestic oil supply.

Last week, security was strengthened in the Prince William Sound community after U.S. As we say officials said al-Qaida operatives could target remote sites such as oil facilities in Alaska. Officials also said then they could not corroborate a report about an al-Qaida thraet against the Valdez oil terminal.

Perhaps it's because it followed so closely to the whole Air France mess.

This is strange which this has apparently cuased such a stir in the media & thus the public. The FAA has been codnucting these types of searches at random since 9/11. The BA plane in Dulles was fatally nothing different than what has been done for over two years. Altogether only difference is the media hype.